iem – ESL https://esl.com/pl Feel the passion for esports Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:45:06 +0000 pl-PL hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://esl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/ESL-Favicon-green-512-150x150.png iem – ESL https://esl.com/pl 32 32 Mouz Enter Intel Grand Slam Race https://esl.com/pl/article/mouz-enter-intel-grand-slam-race/ Mon, 09 Dec 2019 11:46:15 +0000 https://intelgrandslam.eslgaming.com/?p=882 The ESL Pro League Season 10 has brought a brand new team into the Intel Grand Slam season 3 rankings. Mousesports dominated FNATIC 3-0 in the grand final to win their first Masters level tournament since ESL One New York 2018.

The European mixed team beat a total of three teams on the Intel Grand Slam scoreboard with a 2-0 against Evil Geniuses in the first round of playoffs and a 2-1 against Astralis in the semi final.

Ever since Team Liquid won the second Intel Grand Slam no team has managed to win two Masters level tournaments. Liquid won Intel Extreme Masters Chicago, EG won ESL One New York, FNATIC won DreamHack Masters Malmoe and Astralis won IEM Beijing. All of the above teams are still in contention for the $1,000,000 prize.

A team needs to win four Masters level tournaments if one of them was a Championship ESL Pro Tour event. Otherwise a team needs to win six Masters tournaments to complete the Intel Grand Slam.

Team Liquid have the most narrow window to complete their Intel Grand Slam as they have five tournaments left. If they win IEM Katowice (a Masters Championship) in March 2020, they will need a further two Masters titles to do it.

]]> Liquid Take Lead for 2nd Intel Grand Slam https://esl.com/pl/article/liquid-take-lead-for-2nd-intel-grand-slam/ Tue, 07 May 2019 07:16:36 +0000 https://intelgrandslam.eslgaming.com/?p=697 Liquid have won the Intel Extreme Masters Sydney championship and are now in the race to the Intel Grand Slam. The world’s #2 ranked team is now level with Astralis for the number of eligible trophies and has more time to win their 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

The North American lineup defeated Fnatic in a long, drawn out grand final in Australia, beating the Swedes 3-2. In spite of being ranked #2 for months, Liquid have not won a big trophy with their current team, securing a number of second places in 2018.

The IEM Sydney champions are now looking to make use of Astralis’ absence from a number of announced events to go ahead of the Danes in the race. The next eligible championship will be DreamHack Masters Dallas in June, Astralis won’t be in attendance.

If Liquid win on their home soil in Dallas, Astralis will be a trophy behind at the ESL Pro League finals in France. The race is starting to heat up.

]]> Astralis remain invincible in Katowice https://esl.com/pl/article/iem-13-katowice-major/ Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:00:20 +0000 https://intelgrandslam.eslgaming.com/?p=688 Defeating the Finns from ENCE 2-0 in the grand final of the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice Major, Astralis have won the first Intel Grand Slam eligible event of the new season and overall their third IGS-eligible event overall.

Across the tournament in Poland, the Danes beat compLexity, Cloud9, Renegades, Ninjas in Pyjamas and Made in Brazil before outclassing the Finnish underdogs.

In the current form Astralis is in, the question seems not if but when they complete their second Intel Grand Slam.

No true contender seems to be out there looking like they could challenge Astralis in the race. FaZe Clan have not improved after replacing Finn “Karrigan” Andersen. TeamLiquid were supposed to be the team to do challenge, but in Katowice they lost to ENCE in the first round of the playoffs. Natus Vincere remain dangerous with Sasha “s1mple” Kostyliev, but not nearly consistent enough. Both of those teams were knocked out by ENCE.

Looking at Katowice results, only Made in Brazil showed signs of progress. With the same core lineup that brought them their previous peak, the Brazilians might be the first team to try to dethrone Astralis, but still not many would bet on it today.

After winning in Katowice, the Danes have nine more events to win their second, third and four eligible title. The earliest it could happen would be on July 7th, 2019, if the Danes win IEM Sydney, DreamHack Masters Dallas and ESL One Cologne.

The next stop is Intel Extreme Masters Sydney on May 3-5, 2019. Don’t miss it!

]]> NRG take the spoils at Intel® Extreme Masters Shanghai 2018 https://esl.com/pl/article/nrg-take-the-spoils-at-intel-extreme-masters-shanghai-2018/ https://esl.com/pl/article/nrg-take-the-spoils-at-intel-extreme-masters-shanghai-2018/#respond Mon, 10 Dec 2018 13:23:32 +0000 https://esl.com/blog/2018/12/nrg-take-the-spoils-at-intel-extreme-masters-shanghai-2018/ Full tournament results, recap and highlights of IEM Shanghai 2018!

]]> The Intel Extreme Masters Shanghai 2018 captivated the audience in attendance at the ChinaJoy gaming exhibition (the largest in China and Asia) courtesy of NRG’s flawless gameplay en route to the title and the heroics of local outfit TyLoo.

TyLoo’s Chinese/Indonesian comp had a nail-biter of a semi-final against the experienced Virtus.pro, but managed to come out on top after a dramatic double overtime finish. Champions NRG were dominant throughout the event, only losing one match in the whole tournament and will now turn their attention to ESL One New York 2018, where they will face some of the best CS:GO teams on Earth.

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NRG will try to take their Shanghai momentum into ESL One New York powered by Intel in September. They will also try their hardest to represent the NA region in our December ESL Pro League Season 8 Finals in Odense.

]]> https://esl.com/pl/article/nrg-take-the-spoils-at-intel-extreme-masters-shanghai-2018/feed/ 0 Announcing Intel Extreme Masters Season 10! https://esl.com/pl/article/announcing-intel-extreme-masters-season-10/ Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:57:06 +0000 https://esl.com/blog/2015/06/announcing-intel-extreme-masters-season-10/ Intel Extreme Masters returns with Season 10 to bring you more unforgettable esports moments!

]]> ESL and Intel are thrilled to announce the tenth season of the world’s longest running global esports tournament series. Intel Extreme Masters Season 10 will bring together professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League of Legends and StarCraft II players, who will all compete in multiple events across three different continents.

The tenth season of Intel Extreme Masters will also mark the return of Counter Strike, which was a fundamental part of the tournament series up until Season 6.

Michal Blicharz, managing director of pro gaming at ESL, said the following of the game’s return:

“The success and the legacy of the Intel Extreme Masters was built on Counter-Strike, and it’s a great feeling to go into the tenth season of the circuit with CS:GO back in it. Adding a third game makes this IEM season the largest in years!”

This year’s Intel Extreme Masters will also include esports staples StarCraft II and League of Legends. Blizzard’s games have been part of Intel Extreme Masters since its very first season with Warcraft III, and while StarCraft II is returning for its sixth season, Riot Games’ League of Legends is celebrating its fifth years as a part of the tournament series.

The tenth season of Intel Extreme Masters will include the following stops:

  • IEM Shenzhen, China (July 16th to 20th) at the Shenzhen Cartoon and Animation Festival

  • IEM Cologne, Germany (August 5th to 9th) at gamescom

  • IEM San Jose, USA (November 21st  to 22nd) at the SAP Center

  • IEM Cologne, Germany (December 2015) at the ESL arena

  • IEM Asia stop, event details to be announced at a later date

  • IEM Katowice World Championship in Poland (March 2016) at Spodek

All of the stops are familiar territory for Intel Extreme Masters. For the third consecutive year, the elite pro gaming tour will begin at the Shenzhen Cartoon and Animation Festival in China. Shenzhen will be followed by Cologne, where Intel Extreme Masters will take place at gamescom, the world’s largest gaming show, for the third time.

Following the most successful Intel Extreme Masters event in North America, Season 10 will return to the SAP Center in San Jose, USA. After that, the event will return to Cologne once more, this time the ESL arena. The last Intel Extreme Masters event before the final will take place at the still to be announced stop in South East Asia.

The final event of Season 10 will be the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship in Katowice, Poland, where it will be the third Intel Extreme Masters World Championship as well as the fourth event to be held in Katowice overall. Last year’s Katowice finals shattered several viewing records, making it the world’s most-watched esports event of all time on Twitch. However, the Season 10 final is going to be the biggest in ESL history!

Check out our interactive infographic on one decade of IEM!

For more information about Intel Extreme Masters, be sure to visit the official website as well as follow IEM on Twitter and Facebook.

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