Event:
Online, United Kingdom
Start date: September 10, 2009
End date: August 03, 2009
Posted: 1 month 3 weeks ago - November 09, 2008 at 21:07
Page 1: Introduction

The Intel Extreme Masters season 3 visits Seoul, Korea for the Asian World of Warcraft Continental Finals as well as the Korean Counter-Strike 1.6 qualifications. Also at the event will be a so far unannounced RTS game tournament using a 1on1 format.

The Korean International Exhibition Center (Kintex) will be the site for these qualifiers, running alongside the GStar convention in central Seoul from the 13th - 16th November 2008.

THE GAMES

 The main event - the World of Warcraft Continental Finals, a minimum of 10 teams will battle it out for at least 2 spots in the Global Finals.

World of Warcraft
- Minimum of 10 teams
- At least 2 proceed to Global Finals
- Group stage followed by play-offs
- Prize fund: $30,000

Also at the event will be the South Korean Counter-Strike 1.6 qualifiers, with the top 3 teams earning themselves a place at the Continental Finals CS Asia in China.

Counter-Strike 1.6
- 8 teams
- Top 3 earn qualification
- Group stage followed by play-offs
- Prize fund: $10,000

And finally there will be a WarCraft III tournament with just 4 partcipants, with a grand total of $10,000 up for grabs.

WarCraft III
- 4 players
- Double elimination
- Prize fund: $10,000

  • Adz
    Adz November 21, 2008 at 23:16

    great coverage mate :)

  • jaAsey
    jaAsey November 23, 2008 at 15:39

    Great stuff!

  • BanKs
    BanKs November 26, 2008 at 01:37

    =D top notch work, eSTRO had it easy tbh =D