Tournament Information
IEM Season IX - San Jose is the third event of IEM Season IX, organized by ESL and held at SAP Center. It marks the seventh IEM event in the United States of America since 2006. It is also the first IEM standalone event in North America.[1]
With the changes made by Blizzard to the 2015 StarCraft II World Championship Series, ESL announced on November 26 that IEM San Jose would be a Tier 2 WCS Event and offer 4,000 WCS points for the 2015 season, even though it was not originally planned.
The event features 3 separate stages
-Open Bracket
- Groupstage
- Playoffs
Two players from each open bracket will make it to the group stage.
The top 2 players from each group will make it to the playoffs.
The quarterfinals and semifinals will be Best-Of-5, the finals Best-Of-7
Players
Groups
Open Brackets
Prize Pool
[Stream]
Chupasangres
-Casters que cobran como el triple del prize pool del propio torneo
-Uno de ellos es Day[9]
-Que aun nos preguntemos por qué está muerto el juego