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Hey there you sexy sexy Sc2seaians!!! I bring wonderful news of joy and joyness!
IEM is back! And it is my pleasure to announce it here on Sc2Sea!
If you or someone you know (maybe a team mate ) might be good enough to tackle some of the worlds best then please sign up for the qualifiers and bring your A game. For these qualifiers a total of 4 SEA players will go up against 4 of the best from China in a battle for 2 spots to IEM Gamescom Cologne. This means potentially 2 of our lovely SEA players can make an appearance and show our power to the rest of the world!
Here is the official announcement which will also be on TL:

The Intel Extreme Masters are coming back to gamescom (held in Cologne, Germany from August 15th to 19th ) to kick off season 7 and it is time to announce the South East Asia Qualification process! This time, up to TWO SEA players can qualify!!!

Qualification Format :

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2 Players will be directly invited to the the China & SEA Grand Finals
2 SEA qualifiers will feature one slot for the China & SEA Grand Finals

Invited Players :

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NvmOOnGLaDe (waiting for confirmation)
ttPiG (waiting for confirmation)

(Invites are based on the current results within the SEA Scene and the past results at IEM events)

Qualifier #1

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Date: 11th of July 2012 starting at 20:00 AEST
URL: Sign-Up
Winner qualify for China & SEA Grand Finals:

Qualifier #2

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Date: 13th of July 2012 starting at 20:00 AEST
URL: Sign-Up
Winner qualify for China & SEA Grand Finals:

Streams : To be casted by iMSystem!

China & SEA Grand Finals
The Grand Finals will feature 8 players (4 from China and 4 from SEA) that will battle on Saturday 14th July on a Double Elimination bracket (Bo3). More information will be announced soon on the dedicated thread for this event.

Gamescom open bracket (if you fail to qualify and want to visit Europe in August)

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Every StarCraft II tournament in the new season of the Intel Extreme Masters will feature 24 players. 16 of those will qualify online and 8 will qualify through an open bracket tournament played on the first day of gamescom.

How can I participate in the Open Bracket?
There will be 32 spots in the open bracket. The open bracket is reserved for players that were unable to participate in the event qualifier or got knocked out early. 16 spots will be available for booking for known SC2 professionals.

The other 16 spots will be distributed between players that sign up in person one day before the event on a first come - first serve basis. This is aimed to make sure both top pros and aspiring local players still have a chance to compete in the main event.

Open bracket spots will be made available after the conclusion of the Intel Extreme Masters online qualifiers so that players that have not qualified online could still compete at the event. Further details about the open bracket will be released at a later stage.

How will it be played out?
The open bracket tournament will be divided into 4 double elimination brackets of 8 players each. The winners of the upper bracket and the lower bracket will be seeded into the main event with a high and low seed, respectively. The double elimination bracket finals will not be played out.

How do the open bracket players fit into the main event?
The main event will have 24 players with 4 groups of 6 players. It will start only after the open bracket has concluded and the 8 main event participants from the open bracket are known.

Each group will consist of 4 players qualified online, 1 high seed open bracket player and 1 low seed open bracket player (from a different open bracket).

A total of 12 players, top 3 from each group, will advance to the playoffs, with group winners getting a free win in the 1st round. It is the same system as the one used at the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship.

Quick Comments

nirvAnA:

So many tournaments!! yay!!!!!