Hamburg to host EM Finals

8-9-2008 16:57

Germany's Hamburg will be home to this year's Intel Extreme Masters Finals.

It was recently announced that this year's ESL Continental Extreme Masters Finals would be held in Hamburg, Germany at the Congress Center of Hamburg. The venue will be able to host 1000 visitors during the event which will be held between 13th and 15th February 2009.

It is foreseen that this is going to be among the biggest happenings in the Intel Extreme Masters history so far as the Hamburg audience has proved to be worthy in earlier stops such as the Intel Friday Night Games, where everyone (players, visitors and crew) had a real blast and witnessed a great atmosphere.

In the Counter-Strike tournament, 12 teams will progress to these offline Finals. The Extreme Masters III European qualifiers are being played as we speak, currently in Qualifying Round 1. Teams will play a second qualification round before moving into a main round and relegation. The top two teams from each group in this main round will automatically advance to the Continental Finals while the 3rd and 4th places will play the respective 4th and 3rd of the other group.

The total prize purse for the CS competition amounts to 50,000 USD which will be divided as such:

1st: $ 25,000
2nd: $ 10,000
3rd: $ 6,000
4th: $ 4,000
5th: $ 2,500
6th: $ 2,500

The top two teams will also earn places in the Extreme Masters Grand Finals.

The ESL have released a trailer from last year's Finals to celebrate this news, here it is:

Stay tuned to HLTV.org for more updates and remember you can keep up with the tournament progess with us via our coverage pages.

25k euro? coolioz :D I wanna participate too! I'm broke!

2008-09-08 17:59

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lol

2008-09-08 18:55

lol its 25.000 USD Dollar,its like 21.000/22.000 Euro :P

2008-09-09 07:42

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oh damn, my mistake :D but same shit :D I would be happy if I won 100 euros :O

2008-09-09 14:31

$$$$$$$

Nice

2008-09-08 19:05

$.$

2008-09-08 19:56

Wow nice cash :D

2008-09-08 20:50

Nice Nice* $$

2008-09-08 21:05

looks like i have to visit my home country soon :P

2008-09-08 21:09

Exactly, dudes $$ - but not enough, they still need extra job.

2008-09-08 21:17

nice... 1st: $ 25,000 2nd: $ 10,000 3rd: $ 6,000

2008-09-08 22:46

I wanna be 1st and win 25,000 $ :D

2008-09-08 22:56

But u have to share with ur teammates :(

omfg n1 :D

2008-09-08 23:00

they play every time in germany, EPS it's the same .. but EM it's other competition why germany again? why not france, england, spain. Im not gonna say USA because the eswc was there

2008-09-09 00:40

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ESL got their roots in Germany, Germany is pretty central for most European countries, why risk breaking something they already have running on track?

2008-09-09 00:59