Intel Extreme Masters Season XI World Championship Report (Completed)

The next important championship will start on March 1. The organizers of the event are one of the best in esports tournament management. Intel Extreme Masters Season XI World Championship is scheduled on March 1 – 5. The championship will take place in Katowice, Poland. Spodek Arena will host the event. Recently, it also hosted IEM XI World Championship по League of Legends. The prize pool of IEM Season XI World Championship in CS:GO discipline is $250,000. The organizers of the event decided to modify the traditional format of such events. 12 teams will participate here. The tournament will be played in 2 stages: group stage and play-off. The group stage will be played in Round Robin system, and the matches of group stage will be played in best-of-one (bo1) format. The teams will be divided into 2 groups with 6 players in each. After the end of the group stage, 3 best teams of each group will move to play-off stage which will be played in Single Elimination format. The teams that will take 2 and 3 places in groups will move to the quarterfinal. All play-off matches are best-of-three (bo3). Group seeding

Rosters

In Group A, the main favorites to move to the play-off is Astralis. Other teams are of the same level, so each of them will try to pass to the play-off stage. FaZe Clan deserves a special attention. It has bought NiKo for $500,000 from mousesports. This will be the first serious challenge for Nikola Kovac as a member of FaZe Clan. It will be interesting to watch over the European mix. In Group B, Virtus.pro, SK Gaming and Natus Vincere have the best chances to pass to the play-off. In this group, Virtus.pro will demonstrate what they are capable of and perhaps they will become the champions of the second big tournament in a row. Natus Vincere passed the group stage for several times, but left tournaments in quarterfinal. It will be more difficult for them to pass the group stage IEM Season XI World Championship, as they have a rather tough schedule. However, their fans and the players themselves have missed the championship titles in the big tournaments. The success of SK Gaming is under a question. fer told in his Twitter that he trapped to the hospital with backpain.

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