







IEM Season VIII - World Championship is the final event of the Intel Extreme Masters Season 8. It takes place in the Spodek Arena in Katowice, Poland.

Tournament Information [ edit ]

Format [ edit ]

10 spots are reserved for the winners and runners-up of the five events of the Intel Extreme Masters Season 8:[1]

The seven remaining places will be decided as follows:[3]

Main Tournament [ edit ]

Single-elimination bracket of sixteen players.

Matches are best of 5, Grand Finals is played in best of 7.

Map Pool [ edit ]

Prize Pool [ edit ]

$100,000 and 7,000 WCS Points[4] are awarded as seen below. The purse will be winner-takes-all, but the rest of the top 16 will receive WCS Points:

* Players must advance one round in order to claim WCS points for that placement. Being seeded through qualifiers counts as advancing one round. IEM Shanghai, IEM New York, IEM Singapore, IEM Sao Paulo and IEM Cologne do NOT count as qualifiers as shown on the WCS portal. http://wcs.battle.net/sc2/en [5]

Participants [ edit ]

* herO was already qualified after winning IEM Season VIII - Singapore, so his seed from IEM Season VIII - Sao Paulo is replaced by an additional seed in the Open Bracket Qualifier.[2]

Results [ edit ]

Round of 16 (Bo5) herO 3 HyuN 2 San 3 MC 1 Polt 1 NaNiwa 0 Dear 3 HerO 1 Revival 2 jjakji 3 Oz 1 sOs 3 TaeJa 3 StarDust 2 Rogue 1 Life 3 Quarterfinals (Bo5) herO 3 San 1 Polt 3 Dear 2 jjakji 0 sOs 3 TaeJa 3 Life 1 Semifinals (Bo5) herO 3 Polt 2 sOs 3 TaeJa 1 Finals (Bo7) herO 1 sOs 4 Inside the Spodek Arena during the Ro16 match between Dear and HerO

Distribution [ edit ]

Race

WCS Region

Show All Protoss Terran Zerg Round of 16 9 3 4 Quarterfinals 4 3 1 Semifinals 2 2 Finals 2 Champion 1 Americas Europe Korea Other Round of 16 6 5 5 Quarterfinals 2 2 4 Semifinals 2 2 Finals 2 Champion 1

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