IEM Beijing viewer's guide

5-11-2019 11:18

With IEM Beijing set to start soon, we bring you an overview of the tournament and the most important information about it from a viewer's perspective.

The $250,000 tournament in China will take place on November 7-10th, with eight teams, including the current top two in the world, set to fight for the title. Aside from the prize money, IEM Beijing will also award a point towards the Intel Grand Slam Season 3 title where Evil Geniuses, fnatic, and Liquid are currently tied with one point each.

ENCE are back in action after a month-long break

The team list for the event originally featured MOUZ and Liquid, but the former squad was unable to attend the event due to visa issues, while the latter decided to pull out, citing a dense schedule.

The eight competing teams are split into two BO3 GSL groups, from which four teams will advance to the single-elimination playoffs:

Group A

Group B

The schedule sees the group stage played over the first two days, with the playoffs taking place on Saturday and Sunday in front of a crowd at the Beijing University Students' Gymnasium.

Thursday, 7th November
05:00 Astralis vs. ViCi (BO3)
05:00 100 Thieves vs. ENCE (BO3)
08:50 Vitality vs. TYLOO (BO3)
08:50 Evil Geniuses vs. FaZe (BO3)
12:40 Group A winners' match (BO3)
12:40 Group A elimination match (BO3)

Friday, 8th November
05:00 Group B winners' match (BO3)
05:00 Group B elimination match (BO3)
08:50 Group A decider match (BO3)
12:25 Group B decider match (BO3)

Saturday, 9th November
07:00 Semi-final #1 (BO3)
10:50 Semi-final #2 (BO3)

Sunday, 10th November

08:30 Grand final (BO5)

The IEM Beijing on-air team will feature nine people, including Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer and Matthew "⁠Sadokist⁠" Trivett who will be paired up as a casting duo once more. The full talent lineup for the event is available below:

Tres "⁠stunna⁠" Saranthus - Desk host
Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill - Analyst
Jacob "⁠Pimp⁠" Winneche - Analyst
Sudhen "⁠Bleh⁠" Wahengbam - Analyst

Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer - Commentator
Matthew "⁠Sadokist⁠" Trivett - Commentator
Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole - Commentator
Anders "⁠Anders⁠" Blume - Commentator

Frankie "⁠Frankie⁠" Ward - Sideline reporter

Finally, the $250,000 prize pool will be distributed in the following way:

1. $125,000
2. $50,000
3-4. $22,000
5-6. $10,000
7-8. $5,500

Ez Astralis

2019-11-05 11:19

27 replies

Ez for Coldzera and his boys

2019-11-05 11:21

18 replies

Idk its BO3 , gonna be hard

2019-11-05 11:22

7 replies

2019-11-05 12:41

6 replies

Astralis in a group vs 3 tier 4 teams and all the others 4 teams in group B are better than Astralis' opponents! NICE IEM

2019-11-05 13:40

4 replies

So you are saying that tylol is better than 100t and ence?

2019-11-05 14:49

3 replies

Any tier 4 team beats the horrível Ence

2019-11-05 16:37

2 replies

100T can win against ence and some teams, dont underestimate faze tho, they can surprise you

2019-11-05 21:20

2019-11-05 21:40

1+, also join bois hltv.org/fantasy/27/league/65541/join?se..

2019-11-05 13:52

FaZe wins 1 event, 'ez for FaZe' lmao flukerino

2019-11-05 11:51

5 replies

+999 winning some Bo1

2019-11-05 13:31

BO3 is just 2 or 3 BO1's so your logic is fcked up FaZe played well tho

2019-11-05 14:09

"BO3 is just 2 or 3 BO1's" no

2019-11-05 20:22

Hah cry is free Just never bet on odds like 1.20 when t1 teams playing lulz

2019-11-06 06:34

1 reply

Nice arguments. I don't bet

2019-11-06 09:51

Anyone excited about HenryG and Sadokist being together again?

2019-11-05 13:25

2019-11-05 14:25

Yes

2019-11-05 23:08

faze out of group stage

2019-11-05 15:44

Is It good to watch Gaulês stream? I understand a little bit portuguese and sometimes he looks like a retard. 100x the word MANO in a minute.

2019-11-05 11:23

If you want to watch something serious no, but if you want fun yes

2019-11-05 11:33

Why the hell someone would repeat MANO so many times? It looks like a completely retard dude (100% fool). But sometimes I like his energy streaming.

2019-11-05 12:28

It's just his way of speaking my guy, we all have this annoying things we do in our own language

2019-11-05 12:42

it's normal, he doesn't cast propally, i mean professional as possible, he is with his friends talking about the game and other retarded things so its normal that his language vicious, slungs and things like that appear 'cause is an informal stream. i don't recommend if you only like professional work line.

2019-11-05 14:02

Gaules is a smart guy cuz he talks the language of people. But for who is educated, its a horror.

2019-11-05 13:13

Can't wait for Sado to have another heated gaming moment.

2019-11-05 12:36

Astralis is allergic to EG

2019-11-06 14:28

EZ EG fuck

2019-11-05 11:20

So easy for spondge

ez4ence

Lets go!!!

Ez for 100T

ez4Sadokist

No S1mple no competition

No competition for last place?

2019-11-05 15:53

lame

2019-11-05 16:28

No you

2019-11-05 16:34

Germans fighting 🤣

2019-11-06 15:48

ENCE 7th - 8th place 😎👍

2019-11-05 11:28

2019-11-05 11:30

ViCi&TYLOO for sure

2019-11-05 11:53

Don’t underestimate how shit ENCE is

2019-11-05 11:56

Made me laugh. Ty

Looking forward for this.

looking forward to some laugh threads😎

2019-11-05 15:45

EZ 4 100T

2019-11-05 13:32

2019-11-05 15:35

EZ 4 FAZE,NiKo&Cold is back

2019-11-05 11:29

2019-11-05 11:40

and ofc rain is in a good form now

2019-11-05 11:42

don't forget olof he is on fire nowadays literally

2019-11-05 11:45

yep,that is,and hope tyloo can go through to semis xd.

2019-11-06 16:58

ENCE are back in action...XD

They will try something new again

2019-11-05 11:38

Yea maybe -allu or sergej

2019-11-05 14:10

try going home without any wins

2019-11-05 15:47

Ez 4 my girl Frankie

NO ONE Will watch this shit because of time difference Bring csgo back to Europe please

2019-11-05 11:41

16 replies

i will watch it :D

2019-11-05 11:43

There are plenty of tournaments in EU, its actually good that they make it somewhere else. And people will still watch it, Chinese crowd and viewers online are huge

2019-11-05 11:47

2019-11-05 12:43

no one gives a fuck about china, we don't want them to fill our games with their cheats anyway

2019-11-06 14:29

I wake up early anyway on weekdays

There definitely be as many viewerws because the games run between 11:00pm - 5am but im sure somebody will, I will just watch the re runs because I don't stay up that late....but it will still be fun!

2019-11-05 12:03

im glad to know when i watch this tournament, people like u arent watching!

2019-11-05 12:16

2019-11-05 12:33

Will watch it

2019-11-05 12:46

3pm here bud good time for me

2019-11-05 12:48

09:30 Denmark Astralis vs. China ViCi (BO3) 09:30 Australia 100 Thieves vs. Finland ENCE (BO3) 13:20 France Vitality vs. China TYLOO (BO3) 13:20 United States Evil Geniuses vs. Europe FaZe (BO3) 17:10 Group A winners' match (BO3) 17:10 Group A elimination match (BO3) atleast no late nights for this tourney

2019-11-05 12:52

15:00 15:00 18:50 18:50 22:40 22:40 first match starts while am at work but im not at work first day so its perfect. very simlar to iem sydney times.

2019-11-05 12:54

If you are a fan, then you'll watch it no matter the time difference like everyone else does.

2019-11-05 14:36

CRY

2019-11-05 15:48

free hongkong

2019-11-05 21:37

+1000

2019-11-06 22:52

Ence era starts here, can't wait for the plastic ence fans to come back as soon as they win

No.

2019-11-05 12:12

Mad fan boy of alexsib

2019-11-05 13:12

Almost correct.

2019-11-05 13:29

0/8

2019-11-05 12:47

ez faze gg cold is back to his best it's fkn over.

Their just handing out 125,000 to EG :) 2EZ4EG!

2019-11-05 11:48

Imagine being native speaker and doing this mistake...

2019-11-05 11:54

You know you got to have no life when you refer to a person as a native speaker omegalul

2019-11-05 12:04

Fakeflagger xd

Fakeflagger spotted xaxaxaxa

2019-11-05 11:55

viewers guide: wake up at 5am to see ence lose, go back to sleep

10 replies

6am

2019-11-05 12:02

+1 but I have to go to work after that.

2019-11-05 12:13

its winter now just go for liitonpäivät!

2019-11-05 12:17

I wish I could

2019-11-05 12:18

Lmao respect for staying with ur team though

2019-11-05 12:50

Respect maybe too much. I'll be a fan of OG as soon as they announce. I'll watch ENCE games as any other games but I'm not rooting for them anymore.

well luckily im still in school and because of my lazy ass my school starts 11am on thursdays

2019-11-05 19:44

Luckily I'm a teacher and my school starts at 10 :kappa:

2019-11-05 19:45

Man ence era starts here just you wait and see

2019-11-05 13:34

Legit strat.

2019-11-05 14:28

Sadokist <3

2019-11-05 11:52

Who loses to tyloo and vici should disband

they might surprise a few teams, home support matters

I will sleep at this time so who cars mens

2019-11-05 12:07

ENCE and TYLOO 7-8

2019-11-05 12:09

EZ 4 SADOKIST

Yeah just jump to the final with Astralis and EG already

2019-11-05 12:15

ENCE vs FaZe

2019-11-05 12:19

Sadokist commentating yes.

TyLoo vs ViCi last place decider match inc

ezfor100thieves

2019-11-05 12:20

Just rolls off the tounge

2019-11-05 23:03

Flying to Beijing on Friday:) wish I can take some photos with device and niko

2019-11-05 12:24

Best commentators and Frankie <3

2019-11-05 12:26

PIMP AGAIN FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

another trophy for EG or FaZe. #bleedblue #FaZeUp

Sado is back yes

2019-11-05 12:31

KaZe > device

2019-11-05 12:34

5:00

1430 start, nice! Good luck boys #YTB

2019-11-05 12:39

nice

HenryG + Sadokist commentating togther again?

2019-11-05 12:59

love this format

2019-11-05 13:04

This event Will have like 0 viewers with these schedules

2019-11-05 13:18

It will have at least 1 viewer since the schedule is good for me.

2019-11-05 14:17

True, have to wake up an hour earlier before going to work to see Ence's first match.

2019-11-05 15:34

China = the biggest population in the world "This event Will have like 0 viewers with these schedules" Rip Logic

yes csgo have l like a lot chinese people watching cs kappa

2019-11-05 23:09

Chinese only watch cartoony weeb games like overwatch and league

2019-11-06 14:30

why does HLTV fantasy have no prizes that we can win? :/ You should make a free draft and a premium pay to play draft (1$ per user) with few prizes included in it.. @Nomad

2019-11-05 13:27

china pimp = bad tournament

2019-11-05 13:39

Maybe the Chinese government will make him "disappear."

2019-11-05 19:09

EG or 100T wins this

2019-11-05 13:45

1st. EG 2nd. 100T 3-4th. Astralis 3-4th. Faze 5-6th. Vitality 5-6th. Tyloo 7-8th. ENCE 7-8th. ViCi

2019-11-06 00:55

No NiP, located in China = boring event

2019-11-05 13:55

trash asian teams 7-8

2019-11-05 14:03

well this is absolutely unwatchable for EU people

2019-11-05 14:33

What about NA? haha so sad xD

2019-11-05 15:51

HENRYG AND SADO ARE BACK TOGETHER OMG YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

2019-11-05 14:34

grand final 10 am LULW

2019-11-05 14:37

spunj and pimp omg....

2019-11-05 15:01

Finally ENCE reappears!

2019-11-05 15:04

These schedules are horrible for like 90% of the viewers, nice

2019-11-05 15:07

Im literally able to see 10% of these matches.

2019-11-05 15:11

Faze coming off a win at Blast, Astralis under performed, Ence been having troubles, 100T first tournament, Tyloo only have Bentet, Vici will mostly struggle but can cause a upset, Vitality need everyone to show up and not just Zywoo, EG number 1 team in the world at the moment, it should be a interesting tournament

2019-11-05 15:20

I see 5 teams that have the potential to take first place. It’s a toss up.

2019-11-05 15:50

last chance for ENCE to prove that this line up can do damage. Otherwise itll only prove it was a huge mistake benching aleksib

2019-11-05 15:55

they can do damage. To themselves. Aerials shots are ready to insult and flame the next m8.

2019-11-05 17:15

Haha, I don't have faith in them either.

2019-11-05 17:21

Sudhen "Bleh" Wahengbam - Analyst WHO

2019-11-05 15:58

You will see.

2019-11-05 17:06

In this tournament Ence gets back their respect, hopefully.

2019-11-05 16:11

2019-11-05 16:29

After this they are out of top15 in the world😜

2019-11-05 19:07

so you are saying china team makes it final or something because that is only way 2 teams can pass them, their lead vs 16th place is way too good, it is not so quick for them to drop out of top 15 thanks to old results sadly :(

2019-11-05 19:15