iBUYPOWER Masters viewer's guide

11-11-2016 22:36

iBUYPOWER Masters is set to start Saturday, so we present a overview of the schedule for this expanded qualifier for Intel Extreme Masters Oakland.

The event will play out over two days as the teams will do battle over a $100,000 prizepool to share besides the four spots available for the prestigious tournament in Oakland next week.

The group stage itself for iBUYPOWER Masters is straightforward GSL format, double elimination, as the initial matches along with the winners' matches will be BO1, while the elimination and decider matches will be BO3.

Notably then, the deciders will not determine semi-finals, as this tournament forgoes that stage altogether, but solely deciding who qualifies for Intel Extreme Masters Oakland, set to start November 16th. The two group winners will face each other in a BO3 final.

A reminder of how the group draw turned out below:

Group A	Group B
Cloud9	Renegades
TYLOO	FaZe
Echo Fox	Immortals
FlipSid3	TSM

And here is the full schedule for the two-day event:

Saturday, November 12th
18:00	Cloud9	vs.	FlipSid3	BO1
19:10	Echo Fox	vs.	TYLOO	BO1
20:20	Immortals	vs.	FaZe	BO1
21:30	TSM	vs.	Renegades	BO1
22:40	Group A elimination match			BO3
02:10	Group A winners' match			BO1
03:20	Group B elimination match			BO3

Sunday, November 13th
18:00	Group B winners' match			BO1
19:10	Group A decider match			BO3
22:40	Group B decider match			BO3
02:10	Grand final			BO3

The prize pool distribution is as follows:

1. $20,000, IEM Oakland qualification
2. $15,000, IEM Oakland qualification
3-4. $12,500, IEM Oakland qualification
5-8. $10,000

gl smooya

2016-11-11 22:36

FINALLY

ez c9 win

ez tyloo

2016-11-11 22:37

I'm calling FaZe to win it 1. FaZe 2. C9 3. TyLoo 4. Renegades/Immortals (Gonna be a 50/50 game if they play each other in the decider.)

2016-11-11 22:41

9 replies

braindead

2016-11-11 23:00

nt c9 will r4p3 faze

2016-11-11 23:38

7 replies

just like at eleaugue? luL Now with k1o in the lineup they are ez better.

2016-11-12 00:21

6 replies

ikr but remember they have autimatic he is on fire and have stewie and nothing always present and shroud if he play lie he plays in RankS gonna be ez 4 c9

2016-11-12 00:24

5 replies

Rain < autimatic aizy < Stewie2k allu >> Skadoodle k1o = shroud karrigan < n0thing even teams, ez for tyloo maybe as well

2016-11-12 00:27

4 replies

agree with u its been a while that i don't watch tyloo games idk how they are playing...

2016-11-12 00:30

Rain > autimatic? I aren't think that But even if they are better off on 1 player comparisons, they have no strats and peek 1 by 1

2016-11-12 01:08

2 replies

lol not with karrigan, like many casters, pros, and analysts say, faze plays a wayy better tactical and team base game than what they use to and c9? they have tactics? luL

2016-11-12 01:42

1 reply

C9 has good teamwork. Their strats are Puggy but karrigan was kicked for a reason. He's slowly becoming a Pronax with how bot he is Faze is getting better though. -Jkaem will help

2016-11-12 05:56

inb4 echo fox wins thanks to new anticheat

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2016-11-11 23:29

20k for winners ELEGIGGLE

2016-11-11 22:49

fucking hen1 screaming again probably. hope faze rapes them. i bet faze will lose this tournament tho lol bo1 can go either way. lose both pistols so thats 6 rounds.

2016-11-11 22:57

hen1 is surprising everyone, included me. Nice job for him at this tournment. If he keeps on in this form, IMT will have chances to be at 3/4th in Oakland.

2016-11-14 20:07

Looks like a free qual for C9 and Faze, maybe even Tyloo.

2016-11-11 23:02

GO TYLOO

2016-11-11 23:03

5-8 get 10k 1st get 20k wtf

2016-11-11 23:07

its basically just a qualifier soo..

2016-11-11 23:20

he's right though, the distribution is off usually 2nd place gets 50% of 1st place and so on

2016-11-11 23:25

FaZe is good at BO1 and immortals might have fucked themselves by picking up steel. I'll give steel a little more time to prove that he deserves to be on IMT. So far, he doesn't look too promising. He frags awful vs t2 and t3 NA teams, even when IMT wins. IMT picked recognition over a new talent, so we have nothing but to see how this story unfolds.

2016-11-11 23:33