Intel Extreme Masters Season IX

Intel Extreme Masters Season IX was the ninth season of Intel Extreme Masters competitions organized by Electronic Sports League, and took place between July 2014 and March 2015. The season included five stops in different cities around the world acting as qualifiers before culminating in the World Championship in Katowice, Poland. The featured games were League of Legends by Riot Games and StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, as well as one competition of Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, both by Blizzard Entertainment.

Intel Extreme Masters Season IX
DateJuly 16, 2014 (2014-07-16)–March 15, 2015 (2015-03-15)
LocationKatowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
TypeEsports
ThemeTournament
Patron(s)Intel, BenQ, Kingston HyperX, GIGABYTE, ROCCAT
Organised byElectronic Sports League
Total prize moneyc. US$545,000
Official game titlesHearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
League of Legends
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm
ChampionsLoL: Team SoloMid
SC2: Joo "Zest" Sung-wook
WebsiteOfficial website
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Shenzhen

Intel Extreme Masters Shenzhen was the opening event of Season IX, and took place between July 16–20 at the Shenzhen Cartoon and Animation Festival in Shenzhen, China. The event featured three games: StarCraft II, League of Legends, and Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft in its sole Intel Extreme Masters appearance of the season. The prize pools consisted of US$25,000, US$5,000 and US$10,000 respectively, as well as 4,000 StarCraft II World Championship Series (WCS) points spread among the participants based on their placing.

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Place Player Prize money
1st Amaz $4,000
2nd Azeri $2,000
3rd–4th Jeanno $1,000
RDU
5–8th JackyChan $500
MaSsan
StrifeCro
XiaoSoul

League of Legends
Place Team Prize money
1st Team WE $3,500
2nd EDward Gaming $1,500

StarCraft II
Place Player Prize money
1st TaeJa $10,000
2nd Solar $4,000
3rd–4th Jaedong $2,000
Jim
5–8th INnoVation $1,000
San
Snute
Zest

Source: Intel Extreme Masters

Toronto

StarCraft II
Place Player Prize money
1st Flash $10,000
2nd Zest $4,000
3rd–4th Life $2,000
TaeJa
5–8th First $1,000
Snute
viOLet
YoDa

Source: Intel Extreme Masters

San Jose

League of Legends
Place Team Prize money[1]
1st Cloud9 $25,000
2nd Unicorns of Love $11,000
3rd–4th Alliance $5,000
Team SoloMid
5–6th Lyon Gaming $2,000
paiN Gaming

StarCraft II
Place Player Prize money
1st herO $10,000
2nd Rain $4,000
3rd–4th Bomber $2,000
Jaedong
5–8th ForGG $1,000
GuMiho
Revival
Snute

Source: Intel Extreme Masters

Cologne

League of Legends
Place Team Prize money[2]
1st Gambit Gaming $12,500
2nd Counter Logic Gaming $6,500
3rd–4th Team Dignitas $3,500
Team ROCCAT
5–6th Aces High $2,000
Dolphins of Wall Street

Source: Intel Extreme Masters

Taipei

League of Legends
Place Team Prize money
1st yoe Flash Wolves $25,000
2nd Taipei Assassins $11,000
3rd–4th ahq e-Sports Club $5,000
Saigon Jokers
5–6th Avant Garde $2,000
Bangkok Titans

StarCraft II
Place Player Prize money
1st Life $10,000
2nd Maru $4,000
3rd–4th PartinG $2,000
Soulkey
5–8th Classic $1,000
herO
HyuN
Rain

Source: Intel Extreme Masters

World Championship – Katowice

League of Legends
Place Team Prize money[3]
1st Team SoloMid $108,414
2nd Team WE $30,000
3rd–4th GE Tigers $15,000
yoe Flash Wolves
5–6th CJ Entus $5,000
SK Gaming
7–8th Cloud9 $2,500
Gambit Gaming

StarCraft II
Place Player Prize money[3]
1st Zest $66,707
2nd Trap $15,000
3rd–4th BByong $7,500
Dark
5–8th FanTaSy $3,000
herO
INnoVation
Maru
9–16th Cure $1,000
Flash
Hydra
Life
Patience
Rain
Solar
TaeJa

Source: Intel Extreme Masters

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gollark: > charged particle
gollark: > Cherenkov radiation (/tʃəˈrɛŋkɒf/;[1] Russian: Черенков) is electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle (such as an electron) passes through a dielectric medium at a speed greater than the phase velocity of light in that medium. A classic example of Cherenkov radiation is the characteristic blue glow of an underwater nuclear reactor. The phenomenon is named for Soviet physicist Pavel Cherenkov, who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics for its discovery. (praise wikipedia, etc)
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gollark: Neutrinos are not charged.

References
  1. "IEM San Jose". GoodGame.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  2. "IEM Saison IX Cologne". Millenium (in French). Gameo Consulting. December 21, 2014. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
  3. "Check out the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice prize money distribution". Intel Extreme Masters. Turtle Entertainment. February 20, 2015. Retrieved November 29, 2015.
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