Only four weeks left until the
ESL Intel Extreme Masters World Championships will take place in
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Hannover, Germany. Twelve Quake Live players from all over the world (6 from Europe, 4(1) from Americas, 2 from Asia) will fight over
$20,000 prize money. The World Championships will be played in two groups of six players each, the top three of each group will advance to the playoffs. In the playoffs the second placed will face off against the third placed, while the first placed players will get a bye into the semi finals.
Group A
Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson
Chance 'chance' Lacina
Maciej 'Av3k' Krzykowski
Anton 'Cooller' Singov
Alessandro 'stermy' Avallone
One Player from the Asian Championships
Group B
Tim 'DaHanG' Fogarty
Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager
Alexey 'Cypher' Yanushevsky
Kévin 'strenx' Baéza
Magnus 'Fox' Ollson
One Player from the Asian Championships
The World Championship Finals will take place from 2. March until 6. March and a detailed schedule about the event will be released soon. Next Friday the
Asian Championships will start in Taipei with players like
proZaC,
Jibo and
uNleashed. Full coverage will be posted later this week.
Source: ESL Announcement