SK & Liquid to IEM Oakland

15-7-2016 19:02

ESL have announced that the first two confirmed teams to attend IEM Oakland will be the two Major finalists from ESL One Cologne 2016: SK and Liquid.

Back in May ESL announced that the first stop in Season 11 of the Intel Extreme Masters series to feature CS:GO would be IEM Oakland, from November 19-20.

The event will take place inside the Oracle Arena, which is most famously known for being home to the Golden State Warriors in the NBA, and also feature a League of Legends tournament, in a similar fashion to last year's IEM San Jose.

Both SK and Liquid will compete at IEM Oakland

ESL have now announced the first two teams confirmed for the twelve team event, and they have billed the first two invites as a rematch of the Major grand finals as they are SK and Liquid.

SK of course took down Liquid 2-0 in the ESL One Cologne Major but by the time IEM Oakland comes around, the latter team will be coming into the event with their permanent new fifth Jacob "⁠Pimp⁠" Winneche in lieu of Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev.

ESL have also revealed the format of IEM Oakland which will be the exact same as IEM Katowice: twelve teams divided into two groups with the top three teams in each group moving on to the playoffs (and the group winners receiving a Bye in the quarter-finals).

The IEM Oakland format

It will be the playoff games that will take place inside of the Oracle Arena, with the group stage matches presumably taking place on-site but without a live audience. Group stage matches will be best-of-one round robin while playoff matches will be best-of-three.

Fans who wish to attend IEM Oakland can purchase tickets here.

stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter

nice!

2016-07-15 19:02

5 replies

Pimp LUL

2016-07-15 19:03

im first again. Get on my lvl plebs

2016-07-15 19:08

I get it! xD cause they used lieu instead of instead hahahaaha

2016-07-15 20:02

Pray for Nice

2016-07-15 20:05

My first fragmovie: youtube.com/watch?v=Qk7Vi88TLrA

2016-07-15 20:18

2nd, but sick

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good job mate.. btw is gonna be a sick major?

2016-07-16 05:08

3rd, but sick

4th, but sick. Oh wait

2016-07-15 19:22

2 replies

You must've picked up a 10x multiplier somewhere

2016-07-15 19:27

Top meme

2016-07-15 20:00

You mean 3nd?

2016-07-15 22:05

3ND******************

2016-07-16 02:37

ayy

Ayyyy

LUL

ttrt

gg ez

rip

EXPECTED

NICE

ez brazil to money

4 replies

rip englando LUL

2016-07-15 19:35

3 replies

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK NICE ENGLANDO MATE

2016-07-15 19:50

Wrong reply ;(

2016-07-15 19:55

my inglando is very otimo

2016-07-16 00:17

good stuff

Malakoi

Devasso

2016-07-15 19:04

Maokai? Yea, i like him as a jungler.

2016-07-15 21:32

Liquid without s1mple is just a NA shit team...

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sk without hacks is just a shit version of winout

2016-07-15 19:09

Now that's probably the most retarded reply I've ever seen in HLTV, and I've seen plenty.

2016-07-15 19:15

NA with NA is just a shit (0 achievements)

2016-07-15 23:29

liquid are shit without s1mple

2016-07-16 03:48

+1 P1mp gonna struggle to fill S1mple's shoes

2016-07-15 19:10

lul, s1mple bottom fragged in the final. yes s1mple is an explosive player, but pimp should bring more stability to the team in the form of a role player

2016-07-15 19:16

s1mple won them Cobble vs Na'vi

2016-07-15 20:10

s1mple top fragging in other matches, except grand final. so stfu

2016-07-15 20:44

XD s1mple didnt top frag in every match. nt tho

2016-07-16 03:00

Because SK is the most powerful team right now to counter that kind of players. You can't play just alone against them, you need a very good teamplay in my opinion. S1mple + Na'Vi would be so perfect...

2016-07-16 00:31

he bottomfragged because he was nervous. If they played with pimp this major thy propably go out in the groups

2016-07-16 03:49

adren and koosta were the problem s1mple's really good but this liquid will be 100x better than when they had shitty adren and koosta

2016-07-15 19:25

Retarde le le le

EZ SK CHEATERS

stfu fake favela xD

nice

Who?

Expected, thank you IEM! We appreciate that! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL!

2016-07-15 19:13

We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Brazil have the best people in the WORLD

The best 2 teams in the world are already confirmed. Great.

now expect immortals and other tier 2 NA teams xD

2016-07-15 19:17

TSM, Splyce, Clg, and C9 What a shame to have this teams called "professionals"

2016-07-16 00:12

TSM are starting to step up. Hopefully, they'll prove themselves again

2016-07-16 03:16

es oakland raiders

2016-07-15 19:21

ez for ence WE smart WE loyal WE friendly WE are from brazil

Were dumb, were scumbags, we toxic, we are from FAVELA!

ez terrorist win vs france lul

2016-07-15 19:43

Dude... Too soon.

2016-07-15 22:23

w8 rio olympics, terrorists get rekt

2016-07-15 22:24

u just prove he's point dude...

2016-07-15 22:59

2016-07-16 01:09

No S1mple FeelsBadMan

2016-07-15 19:42

ez cobble drop

2016-07-15 19:47

inb4 petition replaces SK for c9

no s1mple no win

true, they can't win a single map without simple

2016-07-16 00:10

s1mple comeback.. plox

2016-07-18 20:11

Ez money to SK, Nobody can stop them

2016-07-15 19:53

Tell this to Eleague =)

2016-07-16 00:11

LOL, really... only way to stop a good team

Let's sign a petition against SK Gaming

2016-07-15 19:58

no s1mple no party

Go sk! probably if sk win again foreigners will come to cry again talking about cheat

"foreigners" ? You think that HLTV is Brazil territory?

2016-07-15 20:19

yes it is.

3nd Place? english is such a hard language...

2016-07-15 20:17

Oak logs keppo

2016-07-15 20:25

So fking sad s1mple wont be there with Liquid. I know pimp is going to be good but s1mple brings that magic hype.

s1mple brings that magic hype: "u mad? cuz im not"

2016-07-15 20:29

well another s1mple money making tournament .. this by far will be ez because no s1mple no win ((((

2016-07-15 20:27

no s1mple no win confirmed.

2016-07-15 20:43

no s1mple, no more second place confirmed

2016-07-15 20:45

yes, now they will be 4th of 4 in group stage. (or even not invited). +1

Pimp in lieu of s1mple EZ for P1mple

2016-07-15 20:49

ez title for SK hehehe

2016-07-15 20:53

Finally an event in bay area with good teams

2016-07-15 21:13

For real. I can finally drive to a lan now

2016-07-15 21:44

First big tournament in New Zeland

s1mple + p1mple = gods

2016-07-15 21:27

SK Liquid fnatic Astralis Na'Vi G2 VP NiP Immortals FaZe mouz dignitas

Oakland = NA so bye Immortals, hello c9 byy dignitas hello CLG bye mouz, hello TSM bye FaZe, hello Optic they can throw nip too to put another shit NA team

2016-07-16 00:05

Oakland BABY. A's & RAAAAAAIDERS. This event is around my birthday too so I'm fucking hyped

2016-07-15 21:45

eww pls remove sk from event

2016-07-15 22:34

Another NA guy crying to put bronzilians out, what a shame

2016-07-16 00:09

2016-07-16 03:18

Neat.

2016-07-15 23:13

WHAT THE FUCK AGAIN? WHY S1MPLE LEAVE AGAIN ?

2016-07-16 00:37

he was just a stand-in for Major. he left Liquid more time before, bcuz of home sickness.

2016-07-16 11:10

oh right , thats why pimp join on roaster , dude when i received the notice i asking me , why he contract pimp and they have the fucking 5 members completed

2016-07-19 18:31