The Intel Extreme Masters Season XIII – World Championship or IEM Katowice 2019 was the world championship for the thirteenth season of the Intel Extreme Masters. It was held at the Spodek in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland from February 13–March 3, 2019. The event featured tournaments for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, StarCraft II, and Fortnite: Battle Royale. In addition, the Counter-Strike tournament was the game's fourteenth Major Championship.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Valve awarded ESL a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship for the first time in nearly two and a half years. This tournament featured twenty-four teams from around the world, fourteen of which were directly invited from their top fourteen placements from the last Major and another ten teams qualifying from their respective regional qualifiers.

Major Playoffs

Intel Challenge This tournament also featured the Intel Challenge Katowice 2019, an eight team tournament consisted of female teams.

Group stage

Group A PosTeamWLRFRARD 1Assassins 2 0 32 18 +14 2Dignitas Female 2 1 59 31 +28 3paiN Girls 1 2 60 86 -26 4Orgless Female 0 2 46 62 -16

Group B PosTeamWLRFRARD 1Beşiktaş Esports 2 0 32 21 +11 2Counter Logic Gaming Red 2 1 57 42 +15 3Crowns Female 1 2 58 69 -11 4Carnage Esports Female 0 2 33 48 -29

Intel Challenge playoffs

Dota 2 Dota 2's tournament was called ESL One Katowice 2019 rather than IEM Katowice 2019 as ESL deemed it to be part of its Dota ESL One series.

Teams Direct Invitees

Alliance Chaos Esports Club Fnatic Forward Gaming Ninjas in Pyjamas OG Team Aster Team Secret

Qualifiers

compLexity Gaming (North America) For The Dream (China) Gambit Esports (Europe) Mineski (Southeast Asia)

Group stage Group A PosTeamW-L 1 Team Secret 9-1 Advance to upper bracket 2 Gambit Esports 7-3 Advance to upper bracket 3 OG 6-4 Advance to lower bracket 4 Mineski 4-6 Advance to lower bracket 5 Forward Gaming 3-7 Eliminated 6 For The Dream 1-9 Eliminated

Results Secret Gambit FTD OG Forward Mineski Secret 2-0 2-0 1-1 2-0 2-0 Gambit 0-2 2-0 2-0 1-1 2-0 FTD 0-2 0-2 0-2 1-1 0-2 OG 1-1 0-2 2-0 1-1 2-0 Forward 0-2 1-1 1-1 1-1 0-2 Mineski 0-2 0-2 2-0 0-2 2-0

Group B PosTeamW-L 1 Fnatic 8-2 Advance to upper bracket 2 Ninjas in Pyjamas 6-4 Advance to upper bracket 3 Chaos Esports Club 6-4 Advance to lower bracket 4 Team Aster 5-5 Advance to lower bracket 5 compLexity Gaming 3-7 Eliminated 6 Alliance 2-8 Eliminated

Results NiP coL Fnatic [A] Chaos Aster NiP 1-1 1-1 2-0 1-1 1-1 coL 1-1 1-1 1-1 0-2 0-2 Fnatic 1-1 1-1 2-0 2-0 2-0 [A] 0-2 1-1 0-2 1-1 0-2 Chaos 1-1 2-0 0-2 1-1 2-0 Aster 1-1 2-0 0-2 2-0 0-2

Playoffs Upper bracket

Lower bracket

Top 3

StarCraft II Participants Protoss (8) Terran (7) Zerg (9) 2018 WCS Global Finals (1) - - Serral(ENCE eSports) Server Qualifiers (11) Neeb(Ting) Bunny(Team Blacer) Dark(The Gosu Crew) Patience INnoVation(Team Reprecocity) Rogue(Green Wings) Zest Maru(Green Wings) - - SpeCial(XTEN Esports) - - TY(Splyce) - - uThermal(Team Liquid) - Offline qualifiers (12) Creator(Green Wings) GuMiho(PSISTORM) Lambo(QLASH) Dear(Newbee) - Leenock herO(TSGaming) - RaganaroK(PSISTORM) Stats(Splyce) - Scarlett(Newbee) Trap(Green Wings) - Solar(TSGaming) - - soO(Chivo SC)

Group stage Group A P Player W-L Map W-L MD 1 Stats 5-0 10-2 +8 2 Zest 4-1 9-4 +5 3 herO 3-2 6-5 +1 4 SpeCial 2-3 6-7 -1 5 Patience 1-4 3-8 -5 6 Creator 0-5 2-10 -8

Group B P Player W-L Map W-L MD 1 Dark 4-1 8-3 +5 2 Trap 3-2 6-5 +1 3 Neeb 3-2 6-6 0 4 Maru 2-3 6-6 0 5 Leenock 2-3 6-8 -1 6 Lambo 1-4 4-8 -4

Group C P Player W-L Map W-L MD 1 Serral 4-1 9-5 +4 2 RagnaroK 3-2 8-5 +3 3 Solar 3-2 7-7 0 4 GuMiho 2-3 6-6 0 5 Rogue 2-3 5-7 -2 6 INnoVation 1-4 4-9 -5

Group D P Player W-L Map W-L MD 1 Dear 4-1 8-2 +6 2 TY 3-2 6-6 0 3 soO 2-3 6-6 0 4 Bunny 2-3 6-7 -1 5 uThermal 2-3 5-7 -2 6 Scarlett 2-3 4-7 -3

Playoffs

Fortnite: Battle Royale Duos

hrs - Chap 7ssk7 - Jamside Bizzle - Dmo Boyerxd - Crippa Domentos - Fwexy Hoopek - Sk1x Issa - Kamo Kinstaar - Hunter Magin - Juganza Mirwana - Inclyde Mitr0 - Khuna Motor - ErycTriceps Nate Hill - FunkBomb RazZzero0o - x8 Saf - Zayt Sak0ner - Skram Skite - Vato Taiovsky - Nero Teeqzy - Mushway Tfue - Cloak TheVic - Blaxou Vivid - Poach ZexRow - Vinny1x

References