Intel Grand Slam Season 3 announced with updated rules

16-7-2019 17:32

ESL has announced that the Intel Grand Slam (IGS) is receiving a third season, which will feature a stricter set of rules.

Teams will still claim the $1 million prize if they win four IGS-eligible tournaments hosted by ESL and DreamHack inside a span of ten events as long as at least one of those trophies came at a designated Masters level competition (for 2020 these tournaments will be IEM Katowice, ESL One Cologne and any potential Major run by either company). Otherwise, teams will require six tournament victories during a window of ten events to collect the cheque.

The changes come after a season which lasted just 144 days after Liquid won four events in a row, breaking Astralis' record from season one by 379 days.

Liquid won the Intel Grand Slam Season 2 at ESL One Cologne

If the new set of rules had been in place since the beginning, Astralis would have had to wait for their IEM Katowice Major victory to claim their $1 million cheque. Liquid, on the other hand, would have still won the prize when they did, at ESL One Cologne.

The third Intel Grand Slam season will kick off on Thursday at IEM Chicago, where Liquid will be looking to extend their hot streak and win their sixth Big Event trophy in a row. Three more IGS events have already been announced for 2019, none of which of a designated Masters level, and a potential fourth one, IEM Beijing, was teased by ESL in a recent promotional video.

The event schedule for the third Intel Grand Slam season currently looks as follows:

IEM Chicago - July 18-21
ESL One New York - September 26-29
DreamHack Masters Malmö - October 1-6
IEM Beijing - November (still unconfirmed)
ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals - December 3-8

Interesting. Good changes imo. RIP Liquid fluke is over now

2019-07-16 17:34

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2019-07-16 17:33

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Another ez Grand Slam for TL.

2019-07-16 17:44

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so 6 tournaments in a row? wtf is this hard shit

2019-07-16 17:45

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Not if you win a major, iem katowice or esl one cologne

2019-07-16 17:50

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Intel niggas are broke 🤣🤣🤣

2019-07-17 03:33

Major is StarLadder's tournament, not ESL's

2019-07-21 10:59

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Yes but any major is still considered as a top event for the Intel grand slam

2019-07-21 15:42

garbage fnatic with dennis did it

2019-07-16 17:55

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North is next

2019-07-16 18:15

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Would be nice tho I hope they Rock the major

2019-07-16 18:34

That was an awesome joke I spit my coffee everywhere!

2019-07-16 19:12

Half of it were t2 to t3 and one even t4

2019-07-16 18:31

the greatest team in history of csgo yeah garbage

2019-07-16 19:19

6 out of 10, or 4 out of 10 if one of those 4 is either a major, IEM Katowice, or ESL One Cologne. Unfortunately, I dont think the Starladder Major is included in this grand slam scheme because it's run by starladder, not an intel sponsored series.

2019-07-16 18:14

IEM Chicago is honestly full of trash teams. Vitality have no chance to beat liquid and ENCE .. well they succ lately (after the major fluke and then 1 or 2 more decent events). SHOULD NOT COUNT at all... its like Astralis / NaVI playing Good Game League

2019-07-17 01:18

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It’s not there fault teams aren’t showing up so that point is invalid they don’t choose what teams show up to tournaments they just show up

2019-07-17 14:50

Vitality can beat ence ez, how can you say all their tournements have just been flukes, thats impossible, your telling me that cs_summit was a fluke? ecs was a fluke? cologne final was a fluke? Thats alot of flukes bro, you're just saying that because they threw at esea, TL and ence are not shit, G2 aren't favorites winning agaisnt TL, ence or vitality but they will still put up a good fight, ive got to agree the rest of the teams aren't that great, but this will still be a really decent tournement to watch i geuss you're just salty because astralis isn't playing

2019-07-17 16:58

cs_summit was a 100% fluke ( ALEX said it himself ). About Ence vs Vitality , thats my bad. I had to use comma as i meant "Vitality cant beat TL , ence are struggling to perform good as well (ence succ)."

2019-07-17 23:52

Ence have fallen off a bit but they aren't shit, although i geuss is they said it them selfes cs_summit must of been luck although they have been really strong and in my opinion do earn their number 2 spot

2019-07-18 00:16

It doesn't have to be in a row, just 4 or 6 wins out of 10 consecutive tournaments, but not consecutive wins, right?

2019-07-16 20:32

yeah

2019-07-16 23:39

EZ for Jewie6mil

2019-07-16 22:17

Agreed

2019-07-16 17:39

Quote: "Liquid, on the other hand, would have still won the prize when they did, at ESL One Cologne." are u retarded or just bait?

I mean, it's HLTV, most users are retarded, so who knows

2019-07-16 17:42

Fluke? Winning 5 event in a row is a fluke?

0/8

2019-07-16 17:41

Another ez GS for TL tbh

See ya another $1,000,000 from now

2019-07-16 17:46

Intel (A failing semiconductor company that makes overpriced CPUs with security flaws) is struggling with their 10 nm fab and is being decimated by AMD. $1m is probably too much for them to pay out right now but still want to stay relevant so they change the rules. AMD Grand Slam soon #Ryzen

2019-07-16 17:53

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they made it easier with this rule lol

0/8 wat

2019-07-16 19:59

My bad, read it wrong the first time xd

2019-07-17 14:48

lol

2019-07-16 22:32

exactly what i was thinking

2019-07-16 17:56

rip London, now Vexed

2019-07-16 18:01

I mean, were they ever alive?

2019-07-16 19:47

Lol intel chips are far better than Ryzen crap. What are u smoking on? I want some!

2019-07-16 19:13

2019-07-16 19:16

10% slower in gaming but more cores per dollar and NO SECURITY VULNERABILITY

2019-07-16 22:36

Ye, I mean a company with a $220 billion market cap cannot be afford to be wasting $1m on marketing to one of it’s key target audiences...

2019-07-16 20:03

Market cap means nothing if they are selling at a loss (which will be the case this year) and burning money in R&D with no success

2019-07-16 22:35

Are you retarded? Your IQ is below amount of replies under your trash comment.

2019-07-16 22:49

My IQ is 150, FaZe fanchild obviously too dumb to do maths

2019-07-17 15:27

Ayy

2019-07-17 01:59

How tf do you always get #1

2019-07-16 18:00

He’s hacking

2019-07-16 18:33

Probably he wrote a script that immediately posts, or it's an alt of an admin

2019-07-17 12:08

2019-07-16 18:18

Cry

2019-07-16 18:22

You must be joking right? Lmao

2019-07-17 00:57

God help you retards

2019-07-17 12:49

Ez4c9

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plastic fans switching back to c9 get ready for HLTV to be full of idiots again 0/8

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Am I a plastic?

+1 also plastic here. Fan since the likes of Jordan, Hiko, freak and the like. Happy we're getting back on track so the haters can cry more.

2019-07-16 18:25

another plastic fan over here, liking the team when they get players I like on it & not liking the team when I don't like the players they have on it, super plastic

2019-07-16 20:10

I haven’t changed my favorite team from Cloud9 since I started using hltv. I’m not a bandwagon.

2019-07-16 23:27

Flair checks out.

2019-07-17 01:12

The only NA org that matters is TSM

2019-07-17 18:09

what?

Mibr next winner

2019-07-16 17:36

HAHA

2019-07-16 17:37

Kappa

2019-07-16 17:40

VP next winner*

2019-07-16 19:29

nt m16r is soooo bad without baitzera

2019-07-16 19:58

Better than nothing I guess, 6/10 is pretty damn hard tho

2019-07-16 17:35

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Daaammnn haaarrdd... from now winning the Grand Slam should cement an era for the team

So liquid has era now? Even with the new ruleset liquid would have won it.

Astralis too, just a bit later.

2019-07-17 01:13

I appreciate the liquid compliment, it is an era indeed

2019-07-16 18:08

Indeed mens

2019-07-16 20:57

You still only need 4/10 if you win one of the most competitive tournaments of the year in the majors, ESL One cologne or other huge tournaments

2019-07-16 18:11

No you need to win 4 of me most of the competitive games or at least 1 of the most competitive games and 5 more

Nevermind I'm retarded

No, they said Liquid would have won the prize even with the new ruleset. You need one of ESL One Cologne, IEM Katowice or major by ESL and three other ESL/Dreamhack events

2019-07-16 18:23

Okay

Mibr

So teams have to win 6 LAN out of 10 but only 4 if one of them is Katowice or Cologne ?

Correct. Katowice, Cologne or a Major

Oh okay. Thanks for the reply

But only if the major is organised by either dreamhack or ESL

2019-07-16 18:03

ofc why would esl give credit to other event orgs

2019-07-16 18:44

Intel is not ESL. Intel has made a deal with both ESL and Dreamhack

2019-07-16 19:02

intel is basically esl by now played on esl's stream and shit

No one will ever win again lul

Tbh no one should have been able to win in the first place

Intel thought the same

Ik lmao

PogChamp

lmao, unfair

Still Ez for liquid!

coldzera with mibr will win the next one lets go vamos mibr somos mibr que ota

Coldzera without mibr*** xD

2019-07-17 00:00

ENCE it is

Well esl still have money

This seems to be better even though they should include every major

2019-07-16 17:38

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Thats upto Valve..

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No I mean they should also include the Starladder Major even though its no ESL/DH event

no other TO will do thing with esl and intel. why should they play in esl's cards?

2019-07-16 17:58

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The TO's would even benefit from it. (if it's not a major) IGS is seen as a extra attraction to compete in the featured events in order to maximize their chances of winning it

2019-07-16 18:07

But Yeah it will not happen most likely

a major is prestigous enough. when starladder cooperate with this IGS they would make advertisements for ESL basically. wouldnt be great for them imo

Yeah I know, but I feel like IGS is like a competition over the year which should be claimed by the best team. And if (for example) Team A wins Cologne and 3 other Events and Team B wins 5 (none Master Level) Events by esl and 2 Majors that are not held by esl, Team A still claims the prize if you know what I mean.

2019-07-16 18:12

Well first of all a major wont count unless its ESL hosted Second winning 5 tournaments + a major is usually going to be more impressive than a team winning 3 events + cologne. So I really dont see the issue in your example. The team with more success gets the reward.

2019-07-16 21:52

Read again man, you didn't understand what I meant.

2019-07-17 03:26

I did, the team that does it first should win

2019-07-17 04:24

"Team A wins Cologne and 3 other Events and Team B wins 5 (none Master Level) Events by esl and 2 Majors that are not held by esl" Team A wins the IGS because they need only 4 tournaments for it since they win Cologne, meanwhile Team B doesn't because they don't win a master level tournament but 5 of the small ones (they need 6 to win the IGS). Team B also wins 2/2 Majors in a year, but none of them is by ESL/Dreamhack, so people would say Team B had the more impressive performance over the year, but Team A still claims the grand slam.

2019-07-17 12:09

(((esl)))

make katowice and cologne more important than before, love that change

Unofficial Majors

yeah, really cool, i'm sure that 100% of the top10 would be at this 2 events

Both majors should be Cologne and Katowice, with Sydney thrown in to replace one of them at the choice of valve. Top 3 cities for crowd turnout, best crowds in CS

2019-07-16 17:48

making these tournemants a major is not good imo. they are very very good tournemants by itself. I see no better tournemant than cologne, EXCEPT a major. so we have 4 nice tournemants a year for sure and not only 2, I hope you understand me :D

2019-07-16 20:17

so it would be all the time esl, dislike it

2019-07-16 19:48

EZ VP

Imo should just be 5 wins without designated masters win. Granted, whoever wins the next season will likely win one of the designated masters, winning 6 out of 10 other ones seems a bit outrageous. I know this is supposed to be incredibly difficult to win, but season 1 took forever for even 4 wins, and season 2 just lined up schedule wise for liquid to have so many in a row during their rise to the peak. I can see someone winning if they do get a designated win, but I really can't see someone win by getting 6 out of 10 non designated wins. Just my guess though

Liquid too Stronk

Actually very good change Also give more value to katowice, cologne and esl majors

2019-07-16 17:43

Record that will never be broken.

Only team with 0 majors to ever win a grand slam. Sick record indeed!

2019-07-17 00:25

True that’s another record. Pretty crazy they had to change the rules because of how good liquid is.

2019-07-17 10:11

ez vp

gamerlegion next winners

yes mens))) gamerlegion will be too stronk for any top20 teams

2019-07-16 17:49

so ez for Virtus.pro?

2019-07-16 17:54

Expected ez for NaVi and goat s1mple

s1mple will never win a major

NaVi will win the next Major and s1mple will be MVP. as far as not winning a major is concerned retirement clan will never win one.

boombI4 will not carry Na’Vi to a major, and neither will s1mple/electronic duo

+1, 2tosic noob

Neither will Liquid

But liquid > Navi

2019-07-17 08:07

LIQUID 2ND IGS INCOMING

Yeah so they ran out of money...

2019-07-16 17:51

or just dont want to give away free money ^^?

lmao already afraid of bleeding money

Intel in 2k19 Omegalul

Expected that they will make it harder, nobody will win it anymore

do i understand this correctly. to win the Grand Slam in 4 event you need to win either 4 IEM, ESL one. Dreamhack masters or Pro league, and if you will win in 6, it dont matter what 6 event you win?

you have to win 6 iem,esl, dh masters or pro league OR you win 3 of them PLUS ESL major, iem katowice or esl one cologne so that makes those 3 events more prestigous..

thanks alot, now i understand it.

Intel running out of money so they have to make it harder to achieve

is "starladder major" will be considered as designated masters level event ?

No. Those have to be Majors run by either ESL or DreamHack.

2019-07-16 18:19

Too advanced english for me :(

2019-07-16 18:09

now you have to win 6 IGS tournemants OR 4 of them, when you win Cologne or Katowice or a future ESL major

thank you :D

2019-07-16 18:53

So glad they announced another season so soon! Can't wait to see who wins the next ine, if anyone!

anybody tell me what is the changes xD

Either winning four tournaments but one has to be the major or cologne. Or winning 6 out of 10 tourneys

2019-07-16 18:26

major, cologne or katowice

2019-07-16 18:46

#98

2019-07-16 18:40

Money don't grow in trees

2019-07-16 18:38

The what do u call bananas, and weed?

2019-07-17 00:44

Intel Grand Slam has no hype at all, imo. I'm sure there is a better way

intel grand slam winner = best team of year

2019-07-16 18:57

Katowice & Cologne > Majors Confirmed

2019-07-16 19:05

Good way to make all of the top teams attend Katowice and Cologne, I like it.

lmao these greedy intel shit made the rule stricter cuz they were losing money too quickly

2019-07-16 19:25

Expected

2019-07-16 19:35

2019-07-16 19:31

ESL losing too much money these greedy bitches thought nobody would do the grand slam but now 2 teams have done it in 1 year they have to change rules to make it harder :>

2019-07-16 19:42

But If it is Harder then it is an even better achievement If You get it

2019-07-17 08:09

This is too hard, no one will win this.

2019-07-16 20:01

Astralis and Liquid both would have won it even with the new rules

2019-07-17 00:42

Every year they make new rules lol

2019-07-16 20:15

maybe to make IGS more competitive and reduce domination from 1 team

2019-07-17 01:04

Valve needs to bump up major prize pool so this IGS crap becomes irrelevant

2019-07-16 21:00

They broke the game

2019-07-16 21:45

They really had to nerf liquid huh

2019-07-16 22:08

hey guys see you in Beijin

2019-07-16 23:35

Another 1M for Liquid. EZ.

2019-07-17 00:39

Should be 5 without the designated tournament/major. I like the change for Kato and Cologne though.

2019-07-17 00:46

good changes from esl

2019-07-17 01:03

rip money

2019-07-17 06:36

Bet they didn't expect to pay out 2 million dollars this soon already hahaha Maybe Amd can make a more human and interesting challenge now that intel has sealed their bank account

2019-07-18 12:16