IEM6 GC Guangzhou groups drawn

20-9-2011 01:52

The groups have been drawn for the sixth Intel Extreme Masters season's first Counter-Strike global challenge, taking place on October 2-5 in Guangzhou, China.

The event handing out $40,000 in prize money, will have the previously announced seven teams as well as XCN Gaming split into two groups of four teams where all of them will play each other in a best of one match.

Playoffs will feature the top two finishers in each group in a best of three single elimination setting. This is going to be the second big event after e-Stars Seoul 2011 to feature the recently added de_forge and de_mirage in the map pool, but due to ESL's rules of picking maps, teams are able to remove both if they wish to, due to the seven map pool.

Group A	Group B
fnatic	mousesports
Anexis	WinFakt
Immunity	TyLoo
eFuture	XCN Gaming

As usual with ESL's global challenges, the groups are played on different days to kick off the event followed up by semi finals on day three and the third place decider and grand final on the last day of the event. Due to the scheduling, it will be possible to watch almost every single match that is played at the event, as only two rounds during group stage overlap with one another.

It is so far unknown how many matches will only feature ESL TV and how many will also have HLTV.

Sunday, October 2 - Group A

04:00 Round 1 Match #1
05:15 Round 1 Match #2
06:45 Round 2 Match #1
08:00 Round 2 Match #2
09:30 Round 3

Monday, October 3 - Group B

04:00 Round 1 Match #1
05:15 Round 1 Match #2
06:45 Round 2 Match #1
08:00 Round 2 Match #2
09:30 Round 3

Tuesday, October 4 - Semi Finals

05:30 Semi Final #1
08:00 Semi Final #2

Wednesday, October 5 - Finals

04:00 Grand Final
06:50 3rd Place Match

Prize distribution for the event has also been published on ESL's website. Additionally, the top two teams qualify for the World Championship event which has been traditionally held at CeBIT in early March every year.

As there are three Global Challenges this season, that means six teams will secure their place at the World Championship this way. The remaining six spots will be handed over to teams based on various criteria, with one of them going to Na`Vi due to them being the defending champions.

Prize distribution

1. $16,000 + a spot in the World Championship
2. $8,000 + a spot in the World Championship
3. $4,500
4. $3,100
5-6. $2,200
5-6. $2,200
7-8. $2,000
7-8. $2,000

HLTV.org will be covering the event, so be sure to tune in between October 2-5 for full coverage of the IEM6 Global Challenge Guangzhou.

Please welcome lurppis to the crew :)

2011-09-20 01:52

8 replies

Nix0n dreamteam for this tournament?

2011-09-20 02:09

lurppis covers iem6 guangzhou. haha

2011-09-20 05:37

omg nixon!

2011-09-20 09:48

5 replies

nixon is 2b haha

2011-09-20 11:44

4 replies

......

2011-09-21 01:06

1 reply

......nothing to say

2011-09-21 05:55

nixon hold zhu!

2011-09-21 08:08

hold your sisiter hha

2011-09-22 04:21

Hey lurppis ;))

2011-09-20 01:53

lol, dirty days

group b :}

2011-09-20 01:54

nice

mouz vs winfakt <3

Immunity is the theam of that australian nerd that was raging about the fact that k1ck was overated and shit and that he already beated K1ck and so? Hope winfkat takes this tournament :)

2011-09-20 01:55

:D nice

welcome!

2011-09-20 01:56

1° Mouz 2° WK 3° anexis

Gratz Lurppis :) .. I love your comments :) .. Good luck in HLTV.org !

2011-09-20 01:57

Group A: fnatic, Anexis Group B: mousesports, WinFakt fnatic win this tournament with Fr1$$ :D

2011-09-20 01:58

welcome lurppis

2011-09-20 02:01

will be dreamteam ?

LURPPIS is gonna be better reporter then nixon :P

2011-09-20 02:03

lurppis showing Marc who's the boss! :D Euros going through? I think so!

He has already showed a bunch of renamed people here, who's the boss :P including FODDER :P

2011-09-20 04:34

of course fnatic win all this

2011-09-20 02:04

I think lurppis is better creating "articles", like he was doing in sk, instead of "posting" news like he was doing in sk

2 replies

WHAT?!!!

2011-09-20 02:08

ups, mistake I think lurppis is better creating "articles" like he was doing in sk instead of "posting" news*

2011-09-20 02:20

No dreamteam?

2011-09-20 02:06

gonna be amazing, love that system of playing! and yea welcome lurppis!

thought SK qualified? guess not. GL WF and TYLOO, excited to see if fnatic can perform as well!

SK qualified to IEM New York with mTw, Moscow Five and more teams..

2011-09-20 02:11

Welcome lurppis! :D

Welcome lurppis!

2011-09-20 02:23

Would be nice to have a hltv stream with lurppis :D

2011-09-20 02:24

welcome lurppis :p

2011-09-20 02:29

mouz :D

2011-09-20 02:31

There are only 8 teams and they'll need 4 days to finish the tournament. :O

2011-09-20 02:38

mouz easy

2011-09-20 02:46

O_o

2011-09-20 03:17

lol the european qualifiers on LAN would be much more interesting than this...

2011-09-20 02:54

omg too much money for eight teams... if at least these teams were FX, SK, mTw, Na'Vi, fnatic, WinFakt, mouz and TyLoo

2011-09-20 02:57

Not working for esea anymore lurppis?

2011-09-20 02:58

And guess whos gonna win ? Tyloo.

2011-09-20 03:02

Looking forward to watch Immunity play! Gl fnatic :D

2011-09-20 03:15

werd

go fnatic :D

2011-09-20 03:19

where's SK?

2011-09-20 03:31

mouz vs winfakt, classic match :D

2011-09-20 03:32

immunity love getting in those tough groups

2011-09-20 03:37

I'd say they're in the easier group of the 2

2011-09-20 05:24

watch out for peAkr4m from Immunity....he is a known feeder, HLTV.org admins you will probably have a feature length film to make of the xizt vs peakram highlights

2011-09-20 04:02

ive already made the intro :)

2011-09-20 05:42

groups are relatively fair imo

2011-09-20 04:07

TYLOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2011-09-20 04:36

12 replies

i am Chinese but i don't support tyloo because it's a commercial team

2011-09-21 06:00

11 replies

I am Chinese, too. I dont support either because it sux!

2011-09-21 09:47

10 replies

Chinese:tyloo zuijin zongshi canjia yixie wangluoyouxi de bisai wanquan shangyehua le zhongguo de cshuanjing a nothing to say

2011-09-22 04:24

9 replies

Chinese: na ni ye mei ban fa, ta men da zhi ye bu ye wei le qian ma? shi bu shi a?haha.

2011-09-22 07:58

Chinese:kan lai kao dai yan fei shi bu gou xiaofei de le, ji shi zai wei le qian ,you xi ye bu neng bian a ,zhi jie wan wangluoyouxi le,wo men mei you fen nu,zhi you bei ai a!ren jia wemadefox dou jie san ,ye mei you shuo qu wan bie de a ,zhe shangyehua de tai mingxian le !

2011-09-22 11:05

7 replies

Chinese:suo yi, zan bie ti ta men zhao ji le, ren jia zhi ye ge men dou mei zhao ji, zan ye bie zhao ji le. deng dai zhe ling yi zhi zhong guo zhan dui de jue qi ba! haha, kan kai dian.^^

2011-09-22 20:19

6 replies

Chinese:10nian8nian shi kan bu dao jueqi de zhongguo dui le ,hun ba ,dou hun ba ,xiao er bu yu!becaues this is China,shenqi de guodu!

2011-09-23 03:42

Chinese:hao ba, bie tai nan guo! yu le yu le kan kan bisai jiu wan le.haha

2011-09-23 05:03

English:what is your job types ,my friend..I'm a programmer

2011-09-23 05:24

3 replies

oh, i live in the U.S. and still going to school. what exactly do you do for programming?

2011-09-23 05:37

C sharp

2011-09-23 08:10

NOT QUITE SURE WHAT IT IS? haha you can actually add me on QQ:77362467 ^^

2011-09-23 10:57

Welcome Tomi :) HLTV.org crew, Here's a tip lurppis should stream some matches, so you can cover both HLTV AND STREAM audiences. I know a lot of people likes lurppis' casts, so... think about it :)

2011-09-20 04:43

Would be funny to see lurppis and the greatfrag commentor together :D The greatfrag commentor being hyperactive and lurppis would always have to correct him.

2011-09-20 10:49

welcome lurppis, and dreamteam for this tournament ?

2011-09-20 04:53

How was XCN picked as the 8th team? Was there a process or an invite or anything?

2011-09-20 05:07

i believe Titans from singapore were invited but declined. so i'm guessing some manner of invite/trickle down

2011-09-20 06:07

it's been a while since i've seen this indonesian team in action away from their own home country so i was surprised as to them being invited, if that was the case.

2011-09-20 08:07

GO-iM!!!!!

2011-09-20 05:11

1. mouz 2. WinFakt 3. fnatic Heard it here first.

2011-09-20 05:26

moro tomi

2011-09-20 06:03

1.WinFakt 2.mouz 3.fnatic Go WinFakt!!!!!!!

2011-09-20 06:13

2011-09-20 08:22

tyloo fnatic mouz top3

2011-09-20 07:34

csol tyloo top3 tujifengbao tyloo top3 cs1.6 tyloo ?? i don't know but it sure isn't the top3

2011-09-21 06:04

fnatic with friis will win !

2011-09-20 07:53

lurrpisss c'mon nigga

2011-09-20 08:12

I think it's going to be hard for winfakt to win against mouz and fnatic unless they manage to pull their game together before the event. their teamplay and communication haven't shined quite yet which was seen yesterday on their CT side against ESC and their game against SK. they were quite easily baited to rotate and their defense really needs improvement. just my slice of pie.

2011-09-20 08:14

+1p They played excellent t side vs SK gaming, they won CT pistol and still lost the game (altough it was vs SK.. but still) they made really stupid mistakes @ ct side, jumping to death, killing teammate in a gun round after eco when they were 5vs4 and that cost them the round..

2011-09-20 08:21

gl winfakt

2011-09-20 08:18

nooo winfakt-mouz.... :s

2011-09-20 08:48

OMG lurppis, GL :D

2011-09-20 08:50

what is this ?

2011-09-20 08:51

Oh WinFakt is always good ;)

2011-09-20 08:52

hope for fnatic

2011-09-20 09:49

nice lurppis :)

2011-09-20 09:52

mouz vs Anexis

2011-09-20 10:07

when sk and other? tylooo go top1:))

2011-09-20 10:13

go go fnatic

2011-09-20 10:14

WINFAKTTTTTTTTT!!!! Welcome lurppis <3<3

2011-09-20 10:19

good group for anexis gl :)

2011-09-20 10:44

2011-09-20 10:53

Fnatic vs winfakt Damn! cArn will take this :D

2011-09-20 11:01

What a poor tournament :(

2011-09-20 11:21

gl XCN !!

2011-09-20 11:23

threat>lurppis

2011-09-20 11:27

lol noob

2011-09-23 11:29

only 8 teams ? '.'

2011-09-20 11:34

tyloo top1

2011-09-20 11:54

8 teams and 8 prizes places? ....

2011-09-20 19:18

Nice to have you here Lurppis! ;)

2011-09-20 19:32

gl WinFakt <3

2011-09-20 19:37

tyloo >>> the rest

2011-09-20 20:21

karrigan & co. GO !

2011-09-20 21:01

mouz fighting!

2011-09-20 22:00

Welcome lurppiboy :]

2011-09-20 22:02

GL WinFakt

2011-09-20 22:11

1-fnatic 2-mouz 3-winfakt

2011-09-20 22:19

gl tyloo boys!

2011-09-21 01:08

tyloo last chance

2011-09-21 06:08

like luppis's m4a1

2011-09-21 08:14

LOL,eFuture>Immunity and Anexis ,so group a 1st fnatic 2st eFuture while group b TyLoo and mouz will get the top2, which will be the top1 of group B,depends on the map they will play,dust2\inferno\train,tyloo be top1,others,mouz get top1.whatever,the top1 of group1 may be the champion in iem,beacause,eFuture<tyloo or mouz,and fnatic can't beat both tyloo and mouz.

2011-09-21 10:13