IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Kiev
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| Organizer: | ESL | |
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| Server: | Europe | |
| Event Type: | Offline | |
| Country: | Ukraine 
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| Prize pool: | $32,000 | |
| Start Date: | 2012-01-19 | |
| End Date: | 2012-01-22 | |
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The Global Challenge at CyberSport Arena in Kiev, Ukraine, is the fourth event in Season VI of the Intel Extreme Masters series and the first one in 2012. As with the Global Challenge New York it's the second time in a row for Kiev to host an Intel Extreme Masters event. This time not only Europe's best gamers will meet, but also America and Asia will send their best gamers to compete for $93,000 and World Championship slots in for StarCraft 2, League of Legends and Counter-Strike from January 19th to 22nd.
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Overview
The IEM Season VI - Global Challenge Kiev is a League of Legends tournament which takes place in Kiev, Ukraine on January 19th to 22nd. The tournament is the fourth event in the 6th season of ESL's Intel Extreme Masters series. 8 teams will complete in a $32,000 tournament and for the chance to earn an invite to the Season VI World Championship.
Qualifiers
- Ukrainian National - 1 team
- European Regional - 3 teams
- North American Regional - 3 teams
- Asian Regional - 1 team
Format
- Group Stage - Round Robin Bo1
- Top 2 qualify to Playoffs
- Playoffs - Single Elimination Bo3
Prize pool
$32,000 USD (Approximately €24,640 EUR) is spread among the teams as follows:
| Place | Prize (USD) | ≈Prize (EUR) | Riot Circuit | IEM S6 | Team |
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 1st
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$ 12,000 | € 9,240 | +400 | Seed +90 | Moscow Five |
 2nd
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$ 6,000 | € 4,620 | +200 | Seed +65 | Team SoloMid |
 3rd
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$ 3,400 | € 2,618 | +125 | +45 | Team Dignitas |
 4th
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$ 2,400 | € 1,848 | +75 | +25 | SK Gaming |
| 5th-6th | $ 2,100 | € 1,617 | +50 | +15 | against All authority |
Team Curse | |||||
| 7th-8th | $ 2,000 | € 1,540 | +10 | Team Sypher | |
White Lotus |
*Converted prizes calculated on January 19th, 2012 with a currency rate of 1 USD = 0.77 EUR provided by http://www.xe.com/.
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- 1
Moscow Five acquires
Team Empire's roster between the qualifiers and the event. - 2
mTw - aL becomes
CLG Europe between the qualifiers and the event. - 3
SK Gaming replaces
CLG Europe as CLG EU was not able to participate because of the split between mTw and Absolute Legends[1] - 4
Team Sypher replaces
Invictus Gaming as Invictus Gaming was not able to participate.[2] - 5
Team Curse replaces
APictureOfAGoose as APictureOfAGoose was not able to participate.[3]
Results
Group Stage
Group A
| Group A | |||||
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| 1. | Team SoloMid |
3-0 | |||
| 2. | SK Gaming |
2-1 | |||
| 3. | Team Curse |
1-2 | |||
| 4. | White Lotus |
0-3 | |||
| Group A Matches | |||
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| WL |
0 | 1 | SK |
| TSM |
1 | 0 | Crs |
| Crs |
1 | 0 | WL |
| TSM |
1 | 0 | SK |
| WL |
0 | 1 | TSM |
| SK |
1 | 0 | Crs |
Group B
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| 1. | Moscow Five |
3-0 | |||
| 2. | Team Dignitas |
2-1 | |||
| 3. | against All authority |
1-2 | |||
| 4. | Team Sypher |
0-3 | |||
| Group B Matches | |||
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| aAa |
1 | 0 | Sypher |
| M5 |
1 | 0 | DIG |
| M5 |
1 | 0 | Sypher |
| aAa |
0 | 1 | DIG |
| aAa |
0 | 1 | M5 |
| Sypher |
0 | 1 | DIG |
Playoffs
| SEMIFINALS | FINALS | |||||
| M5 |
2 | |||||
| SK |
0 | |||||
| M5 |
2 | |||||
| TSM |
1 | |||||
| TSM |
2 | |||||
| DIG |
0 | 3rd place match | ||||
| SK |
1 | |||||
| DIG |
2 | |||||
VODs
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| Group A | |||||
| White Lotus v. SK Gaming | Team SoloMid v. Curse Gaming | White Lotus v. Curse Gaming | |||
| Team SoloMid v. SK Gaming | SK Gaming v. Curse Gaming | White Lotus vs. Team SoloMid | |||
| Group B | |||||
| aAa v. Team Sypher | Moscow Five v. Team Dignitas | aAa v. Team Dignitas | |||
| Moscow Five v. Team Sypher | aAa v. Moscow Five | Team Sypher v. Team Dignitas | |||
| Playoffs | |
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| Semi-Finals | |
| Moscow Five vs. SK Gaming | Team SoloMid vs. Team Dignitas |
| Game 1 | Game 1 |
| Game 2 | Game 2 |
| 3rd Place | |
| SK Gaming vs. Team Dignitas | |
| Game 1 | |
| Game 2 | |
| Game 3 | |
| Finals | |
| Moscow Five vs. Team SoloMid | |
| Game 1 | |
| Game 2 | |
| Game 3 | |
Regional Distribution
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| Round of 8 |
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| Round of 4 |
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| Final |
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| Winner |
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