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ESL Intel Extreme Masters in Cologne, $15,000 prize pool

Submitted by Buddhist on Fri, 08/06/2010 - 04:15

A major tournament of the best western SC2 players, to be held in Cologne, Germany, and commentated by Day[9]!

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Six players already qualified for Intel Extreme Masters' first StarCraft II tournament via two ESL GO4SC2 Cups. Now it's time to present the ten remaining ones, who were directly invited. These sixteen gosus will compete for a total prize purse of $15,000 in about two weeks live at gamescom, Germany.

Among the Global Challenge gamescom participants you find some of the best Western SC:BW actors such as the American Zerg IdrA, Warcraft 3 legends such as MaDFroG from Sweden or new faces, who entered the international spotlight of eSports for the first time with the StarCraft II Beta such as Germany's random-hero TheLittleOne.

Qualified via ESL Go4SC2 Cup #24

    Dmytry 'dimaga' Filipchuk
    Pierre 'Sarens' Guivarch
    Pedro 'LucifroN7' Moreno Durán

Qualified via ESL Go4SC2 Cup #25

    Carlo 'ClouD' Giannacco
    Johan 'Naniwa' Lucchesi
    Tomasz 'Tarson' Boroń

Invited to Global Challenge gamescom

    Oleksii 'White-Ra' Krupnyk
    Benjamin 'DeMusliM' Baker
    Gregory 'IdrA' Fields
    Dario 'TheLittleOne' Wünsch
    Chris 'HuK' Laranger
    Eugen 'Strelok' Oparyshev
    Dan 'Artosis' Stemkoski
    Pavel 'roxkisBratOK' Kuznetsov
    Dennis 'HasuObs' Schneider
    Fredrik 'MaDFroG' Johansson