Global Challenge Guangzhou revealed

26-7-2011 15:50

The ESL has announced that the second Global Challenge of the Intel Extreme Masters season six will take place in Guangzhou, China.

Season six of the Intel Extreme Masters will kick off with its first event next month, with the Global Challenge Cologne, which will be staged at the gamescom expo. The event will however not feature Counter-Strike, as it will clash with e-Stars Seoul.

Today the ESL revealed the second Global Challenge, which is going to take place in Guangzhou, China. The Global Challenge will be featured at the Ani-Com & Games expo and will run October 1-5. The Global Challenge will also feature all three of the IEM game titles: Counter-Strike, StarCraft II and League of Legends.

This will be the first appearance of Counter-Strike in season six and the Global Challenge will feature $40,000 in prizes for the popular FPS game, as well as two spots for the World Championship for the first place and runner-up. Qualifiers for the Global Challenge will be announced very soon.

On the IEM website the splash screen still has four events to be announced: North America, Europe, South America and World. World is expected to be the World Championship, which is expected to once again take place at CeBIT in Hannover, March 2012.

Stay tuned to find out more about the Global Challenge in Guangzhou, as well as qualifiers, and the remaining Global Challenges.

nice

2011-07-26 15:51

GREAT NEWS FOR FUCK SAKE

2011-07-26 15:52

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2011-07-26 19:41

2011-07-26 23:03

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why+6

2011-07-27 04:59

Global Challenge Nottingham cmon!

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2011-07-26 19:49

if that happen I will be there 100% ((:

2011-07-26 20:18

2011-07-26 15:53

great, this'll be another occasion to watch asian gamestyle, i just love watching asians teams playing :)

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asian teams ? tyloo was pretty boring to watch imo , only team i liked was we made fox on inferno :)))

2011-07-26 15:58

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You realize tyloo and Wemade FOX have almost an identical playstyle. You can see them stealing each other strats all the time. The only difference is that WMF guys sprayed more, while the Chinese tap a little more. Other than that they are almost identicle to watch.

2011-07-26 16:30

i think only on inferno the koreans are nice to watch for the rest there boring as hell imo

2011-07-26 16:52

WMF boring on nuke?

2011-07-26 20:50

wNv's fast approach and aggressive CT strats are largely responsible for how the game has developed over the last 3/4 years.

2011-07-26 16:33

well i didn't see them play in a while did u ? o.O

He meant wNv of 2005-2006, which style is bringing the game up to the next lvl.

2011-07-27 00:39

basically, allmost all asian teams play with a very agressive style, as CT & T. the thing is wmf showed more aimskills than tyloo lately, but chinese can hit their shots too, and they're incredible to watch when they're onfire, that's what i meant to say.

2011-07-26 16:58

i dnno why mate i mean they are pretty agressive i just don't like to see them there aim is so far off sometimes imo i think i'd rather see a bad forest then a good tyloo or wnv or korean team ... only my opinion though :)

2011-07-26 17:03

cool

Awesome, IEM really holding CS up i'd say.

lags hltv ftw

2011-07-26 15:54

When are the qualifiers for the event?

2011-07-26 15:55

To be announced, just like written in the news.

Plz read the news instead trying to be 1st to comment.

2011-07-26 16:14

Omg.

2011-07-26 15:56

CS is dying FOSHO!

2011-07-26 15:59

Nix0n , you know about any upcomming event in August ?

2011-07-26 16:00

e-Stars Seoul is the only big one, then there's WCG qualis and the start of EPS Germany.

2011-07-26 16:05

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And what about ASUS Summer, will take place in August right?

2011-07-26 16:32

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yes 13-14 august

2011-07-26 16:37

That too.

2011-07-26 16:48

Thanks everyone , if you know about some small event too tell me , searching for event to fly with my team .

2011-07-26 16:57

Good Luck guys ;)

2011-07-26 20:36

there is china WCG final qualifier kick off in august . will you cover it then ?

2011-07-27 02:50

Maybe

2011-07-27 14:42

oO'

any news regarding unpaid prize money?

2011-07-26 16:08

Would like to see there this 16 teams: Na`Vi, SK, fnatic, mTw, FX, ESC, M5, eSahara, Mouz, Lions, TCM, paistit / DTS TyLoo, Project_kr EG, Firegamers

2011-07-26 16:09

More asians teams sure

2011-07-26 16:45

since it's China's turn to be the host, more Chinese teams will be seen on the cs scene, i am sick and tired of watching u guys mention the Tyloo this or that, i actually don't give a fat ass shit about that team, may JZBA attract ur guys elbows att huh, mb it's just a hope \o\ v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjg5OTE3NDg=_rss... 2008 northeasten of China's wcg cs final- it's dim a little bit :p this team still exists nowadays also advanced to the 2011 wcg China final, may u guys who interested in China cs got more views on China's other teams !

2011-07-26 16:49

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after goodrifle & alex retirement there is only one team who can achieve something at international level - TyLoo.

2011-07-26 17:49

that's kidding, after these two guys retirement, only one big international event invited Tyloo but unfortunately kz got a visa prob. and couldn't go abroad, so they didn't go to iem5 wc, estar is his nest opportunity but it's mainly based on its fame and old history achievements, i'am sad that our province team doesn't own both compared to Tyloo, but judging from the two events Tyloo attends, we team ain't get an oppurtunity even to compete for, but wcg 2011 cs China final, we team get a chance and u guys could be refreshed of the mind who is at the peak on China cs arena hahaha v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjcxMjQ3MzUy.html plz look at this , look at this ....... holy sickkkkkkk!

2011-07-27 02:21

JZBA is a good team but far (maybe) from TYLOO . JZBA only can compare to some middle team like TNFU , team-tw , GANK etc

2011-07-27 02:56

please, dont post YouKu ,you cna try Youtube

2011-07-27 05:01

More competition is better, that way they can leveled up faster :D

2011-07-27 00:43

finally IEM with Joe Miller... I hate that streaming guy from greatfrag, such a douchbag :s

2011-07-26 16:10

w8ing for project_kr with termi ^.^

2011-07-26 16:11

Meh

2011-07-26 16:13

And ppl says cs is dying.

u crazy?

What was your first clue ?

2011-07-26 16:15

dying is a process

2011-07-26 17:01

You think cs is gonna die in a year or 2 ?

2011-07-26 17:41

it will

2011-07-27 08:24

CS will not die.StarCraft has been replaced with StarCraft so imo CS will be replaced with CS2. StartCraft was released in 2000 and StarCraft 2 in 2010,cs 1.6 was realesed 2003 so i guess CS2 will come out in 2013/14. :D

2011-07-26 19:25

Hahahahaha ja, if it was so well :D

2011-07-26 19:52

At least it seems dying in china,how to bring some fresh air in CS in China. sad.

2011-07-26 22:35

Nix0n will you travel to these next events?

Hopefully.

2011-07-26 16:22

I depends on how many times will we click on google ads?;d

2011-07-26 20:40

Haha, that too I guess, we'll see.

2011-07-26 20:51

chinese timezone :@ :[ but ok..

2011-07-26 16:16

It will be nice to see mTw again =D

2011-07-26 16:17

welcome to china "amazing" place

2011-07-26 16:20

"amazing" lol

actully he means "awesome" or " wonderful" :D

2011-07-27 03:01

SK-Gaming will win

nice to see more events this year

2011-07-26 16:23

With every new edition of IEM, the name is getting harder to pronounce >.<

2011-07-26 16:25

+1 hahaha

2011-07-26 17:02

2011-07-26 17:52

just say "gong-joe" that's close enough for any chinese to understand.

2011-07-26 18:46

And SEC starts Oct 6... Wonder if anyones gonna attend this considering IEM hasnt payed out price money since 2009.

2011-07-26 16:29

I really love events on China, with really good places to visit and a lot of fans.

2011-07-26 16:38

and alot of people especially :D

2011-07-26 18:20

NICEEEEE !

2011-07-26 16:54

40000 dollars pricemoney for cs!

2011-07-26 17:11

2011-07-26 17:27

Ok I'll be going to this one. I will try and interview some players and put it up on HLTV... Because of the language barrier I often find that interviewing Chinese CS players doesn't seem to occur much, or becomes boring because it needs to go through three translators, but I should be able to do this one myself!

lol. one thing i want to tell you,these translators in China aren't that good,I wish they have some professional translators who understand games,I watch IEM chengdu and also some major events in China,they didnt do a good job on translating part,but they are very friendly,just need to be more professional.

2011-07-26 22:39

GO K1CK

2011-07-26 17:56

SK will win, because NaVi will save strats, right?

hahahahahhaaha n1

2011-07-26 19:21

They save strats only in groupstage and myabe in some playoff matches, so you're trolling.

not sure who's gonna be there,hope all the top clans can show up.

2011-07-26 22:40

We want Global Challenge Mar del Plata! :P Great news!!!

2011-07-26 18:03

Oh very nice!

2011-07-26 18:17

hell yeah ;D

2011-07-26 18:32

CS 1.6: $ 40,000 LoL: $ 32,000 StarCraft II: 21,000

Notice that StarCraft is only one player,and CS&LoL 5 players.

2011-07-26 19:27

So about $10,000 go for first place, nice.

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaa !!! :D

2011-07-26 18:52

go go go fnatic!!!!!!!!!!

2011-07-26 19:19

Great, Ghuangzhou is really nice.

2011-07-26 19:43

Two Chinese teams Guangzhou Station

2011-07-26 20:01

yeah qualy in SA waiting for PA-PAiN-fG-wildi and others team fighting for the 1st place!

2011-07-26 20:13

omgg , its so hot in guangzhou :(

great news:) hopefully cs can grab at least 50% of the purse, but im doubting it :/

2011-07-26 21:01

The total purse is $93,000.

2011-07-26 21:31

close enough for me then!

2011-07-26 23:39

great news:)

2011-07-26 22:03

: ))

2011-07-26 22:58

SK Gaming!!

2011-07-26 23:01

nice"!

2011-07-27 14:50

good luck players

2011-07-27 15:18

Actually guangzhou is a rubbish city, but Shenzhen is really good, the World University Sport will be opened in Shenzhen next month, it should be hold in shenzhen,i believe.

2011-07-27 17:22