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The global league of eSports champions, the Intel Extreme Masters, is entering its fourth season. At the Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge, Europe’s best computer gamers will compete in Counter-Strike 1.6 and World of Warcraft for US$20,000 in prize money. The venue is the world’s largest games trade fair, gamescom 2009, held in Cologne from August 19 to 23.
The Intel Extreme Masters event in Cologne includes a World of Warcraft Global Challenge endowed with US$10,000 and the US$10,000 Counter-Strike Supercup.
Participants in the Intel Extreme Masters Counter-Strike Supercup are Swedish world champion fnatic, European champion mTw.dk from Denmark, German representative and winner of the second IEM season mousesports from Berlin, and Sweden’s SK Gaming.
Quake Live offers eSports for everyone. Visitors to the ESL Arena will compete in the Quake Live Intel Extreme Masters Pro/Am Challenge for US$1,000 in prize money.
The Intel Extreme Masters provide a platform for the world’s best computer gamers from more than 35 countries and five continents. They will compete for the world championship title and total prize money of US$500,000. The fourth season includes two Global Challenges and three Continental Finals in Asia, Europe and America. The season’s highlight is the Global Finals at CeBIT 2010, in which only the victorious players and teams from the Continental Finals will participate.
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