Intel Extreme Masters Season XII - Oakland

Intel Extreme Masters Season XII - Oakland
Disciplines	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive , PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
winner	Ninjas in pajamas , against All authority
organizer	Intel Extreme Masters
venue	ESL Studios, Burbank , California Oracle Arena , Oakland , California
Beginning	November 14, 2017
final	19th November 2017
Prize pool	$ 300,000 (CS: GO) $ 200,000 (PUBG)
Homepage	Official website

The Intel Extreme Masters XII - Oakland (short: IEM XII - Oakland ) was an E-Sport -Veranstaltung which from 14 to 19 November 2017 the California cities Burbank and Oakland took place. There was one tournament each in the disciplines Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds .

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Attendees

Twelve teams took part in the tournament in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive , nine of which were invited. They were divided into two groups of six teams each:

Group A	Group B
Ninjas in pajamas (invited, defending champion)	FaZe Clan (invited)
Astralis (invited)	G2 Esports (invited)
Cloud 9 (invited)	Gambit Gaming (invited)
SK Gaming (invited)	Renegades (invited)
Team EnVyUs (European qualification)	Team Liquid (invited)
The MongolZ (Asian qualification)	OpTic Gaming (American Qualification)

The teams played against each other in the group stage in a round-robin tournament in Burbank . For wins without extra time there were three points, for wins with extra time two points, for defeats with extra time there was one point and for losses without extra time there was no point for the respective team. The playoffs were played in the knockout system . While the quarter-finals and the semi-finals were held in best-of-3 mode, it took three map victories in the final for the decisive tournament win. The semi-finals and the final were played in front of an audience in Oakland .

Group A

rank	team	Sp.	S.	OTS	OTN	N	Round	Points
01.	Ninjas in pajamas	5	4th	0	0	1	77:47	12
02.	Cloud 9	5	3	0	0	2	60:54	9
03.	SK Gaming	5	2	1	1	1	82:80	9
04th	Astralis	5	2	1	0	2	74:70	8th
05.	Team EnVyUs	5	2	0	1	2	74:74	7th
06th	The MongolZ	5	0	0	0	5	38:80	0
Legend:  Qualification for the semifinals  Participation in the quarter-finals			Abbreviations: Sp = games, S = wins, OTS = wins after extra time, OTN = losses after extra time, N = defeats

Group B

rank	team	Sp.	S.	OTS	OTN	N	Round	Points
01.	FaZe Clan	5	4th	0	0	1	67:51	12
02.	OpTic Gaming	5	3	0	0	2	57:63	9
03.	Gambit Gaming	5	2	0	2	1	74:69	8th
04th	Renegades	5	2	0	1	2	71:66	7th
05.	G2 esports	5	1	1	0	3	65:76	5
06th	Team Liquid	5	0	2	0	3	62:81	4th
Legend:  Qualification for the semifinals  Participation in the quarter-finals			Abbreviations: Sp = games, S = wins, OTS = wins after extra time, OTN = losses after extra time, N = defeats

Playoffs

	Quarter finals							Semifinals							final
									Ninjas in pajamas	16	8th	16
		OpTic Gaming	2	12					SK Gaming	9	16	11
		SK Gaming	16	16												Ninjas in pajamas	16	7th	16	6th	16
																FaZe Clan	10	16	10	16	10
									FaZe Clan	16	16
		Cloud 9	16	16	16				Cloud 9	8th	6th
		Gambit Gaming	19th	11	11

Prize money distribution

Each team received a base prize pool and an additional $ 1,000 for each group stage win.

space	clan	Prize money (in US dollars )
1.	Ninjas in pajamas	129,000
2.	FaZe Clan	054,000
3rd - 4th	Cloud 9	028,000
	SK Gaming	028,000
5th - 6th	OpTic Gaming	015,000
	Gambit Gaming	014,000
7th - 8th	Astralis	008,000
	Renegades	007,000
9-10	G2 esports	005,500
	Team EnVyUs	005,500
11th - 12th	Team Liquid	004,000
	The MongolZ	002,000

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

In the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds tournament, 20 teams with four players each played a total of 8 matches. All games took place in Oakland . The teams received points in each match through their final placement and kills, which were added together at the end and thus decided on the final placement shown in the following table.

Final result after 8 games:

rank	team	Points	Kills	Prize money in US dollars
01.	against All Authority	1620	35	60,000
02.	Tempo Storm	1385	28	45,000
03.	Ghost gaming	1375	31	30,000
04th	FaZe Clan	1355	39	20,000
05.	Digital chaos	1300	35	15,000
06th	Team SoloMid	1285	31	12,000
07th	Method	1195	38	10,000
08th.	Cloud 9	1195	31	08,000
09.	Noble	1175	39	-
10.	Team Liquid	1145	31	-
11.	Ronin Esports	1055	24	-
12.	Corn Shuckers	935	25th	-
13.	Luminosity Gaming	935	23	-
14th	Crimson Esports	925	28	-
15th	Wind and rain	875	29	-
16.	Ninjas in pajamas	845	17th	-
17th	Penta Sports	815	29	-
18th	Alliance	815	21st	-
19th	Miami flamingos	785	27	-
20th	Evil Geniuses	685	10	-

Television broadcast

The TV broadcaster ProSieben reported on the tournament in German-speaking countries on November 19, 2017 from 11:15 p.m. The program was followed by 230,000 viewers. This corresponded to a market share of 3%. Among the 14 to 49 year olds, the transmission reached 6.2% of the television viewers.

Web links

• Official website
• Information about the CS: GO tournament on Liquipedia
• Information about the PUBG tournament on Liquipedia

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daniel Duque: IEM Oakland viewer's guide. hltv.org, November 13, 2017, accessed November 19, 2017 . 
2. ↑ The main PUBG teams in Oakland. IEM OAKLAND 2017 - PUBG. readmore.de, November 16, 2017, accessed on November 19, 2017 . 
3. ↑ eSports: "Counter-Strike" final live for the first time on ProSieben. Digitalfernsehen.de, November 18, 2017, accessed on November 19, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Sidney Schering: “Counter-Strike live” anything but a direct hit. quotenmeter.de, November 20, 2017, accessed November 20, 2017 .