ESL: Intel® Extreme Masters Goes into Anniversary Season with Counter-Strike®: Global Offensive
June 02 2015 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
The world’s most prestigious tournament series
to host standalone arena events in San Jose’s SAP Center and
Katowice’s Spodek
ESL, the world’s largest esports company, and Intel today
announced the tenth season of the longest running global esports
tournament series, the Intel Extreme Masters. The elite pro gaming
tour is set to bring together professional computer game players in
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, StarCraft® II and League of
Legends for several events across three different continents.
A decade of the Intel Extreme Masters elite pro gaming tour
marks the return of Counter-Strike, which was a staple of the
global competition series up until its sixth season. Michal
Blicharz, Managing Director of Pro Gaming at ESL, said the
following of the game’s return: “The success and the legacy of the
Intel Extreme Masters was partly built on Counter-Strike and it’s a
great feeling to go into the tenth season of the circuit with CS:GO
back in it. Adding a third game makes this IEM season the largest
in years!”
This year’s Intel Extreme Masters will also feature Blizzard
Entertainment’s StarCraft II, returning for the sixth year.
Blizzard’s games have been a part of the Intel Extreme Masters
tournament series for all 10 seasons, beginning with Warcraft® III
competition during its inaugural season. Publisher and developer
Riot Games' MOBA League of Legends will also feature in season ten
of the elite pro gaming tour. A vital component of the action since
its debut in August 2011, the game celebrates its fifth year as
part of the Intel Extreme Masters.
This year’s Intel Extreme Masters stops will include:
- IEM Shenzhen, China (July 16-20) at the
Shenzhen Cartoon Animation Festival
- IEM Cologne, Germany (August 5-9) at
gamescom
- IEM San Jose, USA (November 21-22) at
the SAP Center
- IEM Cologne, Germany (December 2015) at
the ESL Arena
- IEM Asia stop, event details to be
announced at a later date
- IEM Katowice World Championship in
Poland (March 2016) at Spodek
All of the stops in the tenth Intel Extreme Masters season will
take place in familiar territories. The season will open in China
for the third consecutive year at the Shenzhen Cartoon Animation
Festival (July 16-20). Following that, the IEM will come back to
gamescom in Cologne (August 5-9) for the third IEM event ever at
the world’s largest gaming show. November will see the tournament
series return to the SAP Center in San Jose (November 21-22), the
venue of the most successful North American IEM event ever. The
event will be the eighth IEM event in the US since the tour began
in 2006, with San Jose to be followed by an event at the ESL Arena
at the ESL studios in Cologne (December 2015).
The last two events of the season will take place in 2016. One
of them will be held at a still-to-be-announced IEM stop in South
East Asia. The final event will be the Intel Extreme Masters World
Championship in Katowice, Poland. This will be IEM’s third World
Championship and a fourth event overall in Katowice. The 2015 event
was the world’s most-watched esports event of all time on Twitch.
The final of the tenth season will be expanded even further to make
it the largest event in ESL history.
For more information, please visit www.intelextrememasters.com
or www.eslgaming.com.
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ESL is the world's largest esports company, leading the
industry across various games with numerous online and offline
competitions. It operates high profile, branded international and
national leagues and tournaments such as the Intel® Extreme
Masters, ESL One, ESL Pro Series, StarCraft® II World Championship
Series, as well as grassroots amateur cups, leagues and matchmaking
systems. ESL covers a broad field of services in gaming technology,
event management, advertising and TV production, fully catering to
the needs of the esport’s ecosystem. With offices in Germany,
Russia, France, Poland, Spain, China, North America and partners in
many other countries, it has a truly global footprint.
www.eslgaming.com
Intel® Extreme Masters is the longest running global pro
gaming tour in the world. Started in 2006 by ESL, the competition
features Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, StarCraft II and League
of Legends tournaments across multiple continents. ESL’s online
broadcast of the Intel Extreme Masters reaches over 20 million
viewers on Twitch each season (www.intelextrememasters.com).
Intel® Corporation - Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world
leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the
essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s
computing devices. www.intel.com
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. - Best known for blockbuster
hits including World of Warcraft® and the Warcraft®, StarCraft®,
and Diablo® franchises, Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
(www.blizzard.com), a division of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:
ATVI), is a premier developer and publisher of entertainment
software renowned for creating some of the industry’s most
critically acclaimed games. Blizzard Entertainment’s track record
includes nineteen #1 games* and multiple Game of the Year awards.
The company’s online-gaming service, Battle.net®, is one of the
largest in the world, with millions of active players.
*Based on internal company records and/or reports from key
distribution partners.
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