IEM Kiev Begins

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The first major eSports tournament of the year, the Intel Extreme Masters VI, held in Ukraine Kiev, Ukraine, got underway today. The event is live from the CyberSport Arena from January 19th - 22nd. After a hugely successful tournament calender last year, the ESL competition returns in again 2012 to bring us more intense gaming in the most popular games, casted by the most popular shoutcasters and with plenty of high quality live-streams to follow all of the action on. The event is holding three top competitions:

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Group A
Sweden NaNiwa
Ukraine White-Ra
Ukraine Strelok
Russia TitaN

Group B
United States of America Kas
Romania NightEnD
Netherlands Grubby
Korea, Republic of Zenio

Group C
Germany HasuObs
Russia Pomi
Korea, Republic of MMA
Denmark TargA

Group D
Ukraine DIMAGA
Korea, Republic of HerO
Germany Feast
United States of America qxc

The first days play has already got underway and at the time of writing, in Group A, both Sweden NaNiwa and Ukraine White-Ra are set to progress. Earlier in the day though, Sweden NaNiwa had threatened to forfeit the tournament after having some technical issues in his first match. After his behavior at the last event of the MLG Pro Circuit, it's hard to support the Swede this time round, regardless of his impressive play.

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Group A
Sweden SK-Gaming
Ukraine Na'Vi
Sweden Lions swe
Ukraine DTS

Group B
Sweden fnatic
Germany Mousesports
Finland WinFakt
Russia Moscow Five

After the first day, Sweden SK-Gaming won Group A 3:0 and were followed in second by Ukraine Na'Vi. Group B matches will be played tomorrow, starting at midday local time.

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Group A
Sweden SK-Gaming
Ukraine White Lotus
United States of America Team SoloMid
United States of America Team Curse

Group B
France Against All Authority
Russia Moscow Five
France Team Sypher
United States of America Team Dignitas

Casters
Joe Miller
Leigh "Deman" Smith
Daniel "Zenon" Klein
David "Phreak" Turley

Pre-tournament favourites United States of America Team SoloMid crushed Sweden SK-Gaming and United States of America Team Curse to put them through to the knockout phase of the competition.

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Comments
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Nice read, go Kas !

edit: you failed at the korean flags :P
I WANT QL
Yeah, what is this shit. Is the league of warcraft pay-to-play?
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is that arab streaming these games?
final ranking in group A:

1. TSM 3/0/0
2. SK 2/0/1
3. Curse 1/0/2
4. White Lotus 0/0/3
Awesome!
I thought there was going to happen ET-LAN... But again shit news, why don't we set-up a LAN? I think that alot of people would attend to it if there is more prizemoney (;
From my view, a event like a LAN might give a "new life" to ET again.. The good old times which i haven't faced with.

e; I know setting up a LAN is hard, but still could noone do this?
How about stepping forward and getting some people together and do the first steps? I'm sure Seanza/Tosspot/'sorry new school don't know more people that organised LANs' would help you out with the questions you have
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It's really bad that ET depends on Seanza/Tosspot.. Imo someone has to take the first step organizing it, but who the fuck could do that?

And when i saw "intel" i was like, LETS GET STARTED.. but then i read the news post :/
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It doesn't add all? And it's not what I pointed out. As far as I know both Seanza and TosspoT are willing to answer questions with difficulties you have and maybe if you ask nice they will help you out more than you could imagine.

Noone is stopping you from doing it on your own. but Let's stop this discussion here. own journal/pm/collum/irc would be a better place.
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A column, you say...?
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'K zal is een PM sturen naar Tosspot!
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Am I the only who saw the intel banner and hope so much for cic8?
where is quakelive
its dead since ages
Parent
I cant see it dying
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you are blind then
Parent
What is this shit

no QL
TSM rolling again
Did winfakt beat fnatic in the end???!?!? (CS now)
no, winfakt got rape like 16-6. fnatic and m5 are the one going to playoff
Parent
well winfakt were 8-2 up on T side of inferno... Looked like they were doing so well :D
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oh they lost 16-12, its m5 who won like 16-8 against winfakt
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