Event: IEM4
The Intel Extreme Masters IV will see its very last event, the World Championship Finals, played at the CeBIT 2010 in Hannover. The Quakelive tournament will start at 04:30 CST, 3 March 2010 with the first Group A matches. A few group matches and all playoff matches will be casted on ESL TV by 2GD and Joe. Additional streams will be available from ESL TV and ESL Radio during the Group Stage and relegation matches.Here is a statement from Carmac about this first day of the Quakelive tournament:
Dear Quake Fans,
The Intel Extreme Masters World Championship has experienced delays in the schedule due to technical difficulties with the Quake Live LAN server. The remaining Group A matches are moved to Thursday and will be finished after the Group B matches.
The players have been experiencing high pings (50+) on the LAN servers. The ESL IT staff have found no problems with the network (the server was also connected directly into the switch the Quake Live section was on, which did not help). There also seems to be nothing wrong with the server software that would cause this problem.
To address the issues we delayed the tournament matches and restarted it online later in agreement with the players (the ping to Frankfurt servers is less than 10). Later on, due to DDoS attacks on our network and one player's technical difficulties (which no player was able to solve), a decision was made to continue the tournament on Thursday.
At the moment id Software is working with the ESL IT to build another server in order to make sure that the game will be played on LAN for the remainder of the event. We are doing our best to address the situation.
I am very sorry that we were not able to deliver the optimal spectating experience today. I would like to sincerely apologise for the situation. We will do our very best and more to deliver the kind of experience that we have been delivering so far this season on three of the remaining days of the tournament.
Michal "Carmac" Blicharz
Wednesday 3rd Match - Group A
04:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R1 - Cooller vs Jibo - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
04:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R1 - stermy vs av3k - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
04:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R1 - rapha vs chance (bet / details)
05:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R2 - Cooller vs stermy - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
05:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R2 - rapha vs av3k - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
05:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R2 - Jibo vs chance (bet / details)
06:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R3 - stermy vs rapha - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
06:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R3 - Cooller vs chance - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
06:30 CST, 3 March 2010: R3 - av3k vs Jibo - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
07:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R4 - Cooller vs rapha - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
07:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R4 - av3k vs chance - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
07:10 CST, 3 March 2010: R4 - stermy vs Jibo - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
07:50 CST, 3 March 2010: R5 - Cooller vs av3k - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
07:50 CST, 3 March 2010: R5 - stermy vs chance - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
07:50 CST, 3 March 2010: R5 - rapha vs Jibo - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
Thursday 4th Match - Group B
03:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R1 - DaHanG vs griffin - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
03:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R1 - fox vs strenx - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
03:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R1 - cypher vs dkt (bet / details)
03:40 CST, 4 March 2010: R2 - DaHanG vs fox - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
03:40 CST, 4 March 2010: R2 - strenx vs cypher - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
03:40 CST, 4 March 2010: R2 - dkt vs griffin (bet / details)
05:25 CST, 4 March 2010: R3 - fox vs cypher - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
05:25 CST, 4 March 2010: R3 - DaHanG vs dkt - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
05:25 CST, 4 March 2010: R3 - strenx vs griffin - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
06:05 CST, 4 March 2010: R4 - DaHanG vs cypher - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
06:05 CST, 4 March 2010: R4 - strenx vs dkt - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
06:05 CST, 4 March 2010: R4 - fox vs griffin - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
07:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R5 - DaHanG vs strenx - on ESL TV A (bet / details)
07:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R5 - fox vs dkt - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
07:00 CST, 4 March 2010: R5 - cypher vs griffin - on ESL Radio (bet / details)
Friday 5th Match - Relegation
08:00 CST, 5 March 2010: Relegation 1 - rapha vs DaHanG - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
09:00 CST, 5 March 2010: Relegation 2 - av3k vs fox - on ESL TV B (bet / details)
Saturday 6th Match - Playoff
03:00 CST, 6 March 2010: Semi Final 1 - on ESL TV A
04:10 CST, 6 March 2010: Semi Final 2 - on ESL TV A
05:10 CST, 6 March 2010: Bronze Final - on ESL TV A
06:40 CST, 6 March 2010: Final - on ESL TV A
From Global Challenge Dubai
1st - Shane "SK-rapha" Hendrixson
From American Championship Finals
1st - Tim "EG|DaHanG" Fogarty
3rd - Chance "EG|Chance" Lacina
5-6th - Thomas "EG|griffin" Wall
7-8th - Brian "coL-dkt" Flander
From European Championship Finals
1st - Alexey "srs/rzr/cypher" Yanushevsky
2nd - Maciej "srs/rzr/av3k" Krzykowski
3rd - Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov
4th - Kévin "fnaticMSIstrenx" Baéza
5th - Magnus "mouz.fox" Olsson
6th - Alessandro "stermy" Avallone
From Asian Championship Finals
1st - Fan "4K^Jibo" Zhibo
You can also have a look at their practice times!
Group A
Shane "SK-rapha" Hendrixson
Maciej "srs/rzr/av3k" Krzykowski
Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov
Alessandro "stermy" Avallone
Fan "4K^Jibo" Zhibo
Chance "EG|Chance" Lacina
Group B
Alexey "srs/rzr/cypher" Yanushevsky
Tim "EG|DaHanG" Fogarty
Kévin "fnaticMSIstrenx" Baéza
Magnus "mouz.fox" Olsson
Thomas "EG|griffin" Wall
Brian "coL-dkt" Flander
- Twelve players participate, six in each group
- Group stage will be played in Best-of-3
- Relegation and Playoffs will be played in Best-of-5 and Single Elimination
- First player of each group directly advance to playoffs
- Second and third play a relegation, winners advance to playoffs
- Mappool: qzdm6, qzdm13, qztourney7, qztourney9 & ztntourney1
Quake Live ($20,000)
1st. $10,000
2nd. $4,000
3rd. $1,600
4th. $800
5/6th. $600
7-12th. $400
ESL TV A: Free / Premium / Alternative host / linux: -url:ESL.oph350
ESL TV B: Free / Premium / Alternative host / linux: -url:tetv.cebit1 - no commentaries!
ESL Radio: Livestream
Links: Group stage, Relegation + Brackets, #masters.live, Carmac, IEMtv
Coverage: ESL, myEG, Fnatic, TEK9, SK-Gaming
Coverage (not English): Fragster, readmore.de, quake.net.pl, cybersport.pl, Fx, FFF, ESFR, mediavida.com
Galleries / Videos: IEM@yt, ESL Gallery
Interviews: All interviews' links on 4SG
ESL TV B: Free / Premium / Alternative host / linux: -url:tetv.cebit1 - no commentaries!
ESL Radio: Livestream
Links: Group stage, Relegation + Brackets, #masters.live, Carmac, IEMtv
Coverage: ESL, myEG, Fnatic, TEK9, SK-Gaming
Coverage (not English): Fragster, readmore.de, quake.net.pl, cybersport.pl, Fx, FFF, ESFR, mediavida.com
Galleries / Videos: IEM@yt, ESL Gallery
Interviews: All interviews' links on 4SG
Edited by xou at 13:28 CST, 4 March 2010 - 388132 Hits
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