IEM Season 9 San Jose
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IEM Season IX - San Jose
League Information
| Organizer | ESL Intel |
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| Sponsor | HyperX GIGABYTE BenQ ROCCAT |
| Event Type | Offline |
| Country | USA  |
| Prize Pool | USD 50,000 |
| Start Date | 2014-12-06 |
| End Date | 2014-12-07 |
| Streams |  ESL Twitch.tv Stream Twitch.tv Stream |
Social Media
IEM Season IX - San Jose is the third event of IEM Season IX (second with LoL involved), organized by ESL. It took place at the SAP Center, San Jose.
The event was cast by Brandon "Saintvicious" DiMarco, Leigh "Deman" Smith, Joe Miller, Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles, Sam "Kobe" Hartman-Kenzler, Joshua "Jatt" Leesman, and Stephen "Snoopeh" Ellis. Eefje "sjokz" Deporteere was the stage host and Rivington "Rivington" Bruce Bisland III was the desk host.[1]
Format
Pro Tournament
- Six teams:
- 2 EU Teams (1 invited + 1 fanvote)
- 2 NA Teams (1 invited + 1 fanvote)
- 1 Brazilian team from qualifier
- Riot Latin America Cup 2014 - Grand Final Winner
- Single Elimination
- Quarterfinals and Semifinals are Best-of-three
- Finals are Best-of-five
- Matches are Played on Patch 4.20[2] with
Kalista disabled and 
Azir enabled[3]
Showmatch
- Single match Celebrity ARAM
- Either team drawing
Soraka or 
Sona will result in a re-game - When players are dead, they are allowed to walk to the desks of the enemy team and "mess with them"
- Winning team gets $10,000
Participants
Rosters
Pro Tournament
Showmatch
Prize Pool
Pro Tournament
| Place | Prize (USD) | ≈Prize (EUR) | Team |
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 | $ 25,000 | € 20,348.38 |  Cloud9 |
 | $ 11,000 | € 8,953.29 |  Unicorns Of Love |
 | $ 5,000 | € 4,069.68 |  Alliance |
 Team SoloMid | |||
| 5-6th | $ 2,000 | € 1,627.87 |  paiN Gaming |
 Lyon Gaming (2013) |
- Conversion Date: 2014-12-07
Showmatch
| Place | Prize (USD) | ≈Prize (EUR) | Team |
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| | $ 10,000 | € 8,139.35 |  Chicks Dig Elo |
| | - | - | Old but Good |
- Conversion Date: 2014-12-07
Results
Pro Tournament
Showmatch
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Regional Distribution
| Europe | Brazil | Latin America | North America | |||||
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Schedule & VODs
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| Round | Match | Date | PST | EST | CET | KST | Countdown | VoDs/Stream | Highlights | Discussion | |
| Quarterfinal | UOL vs.   LYN
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2014-12-06 | 12:00 | 15:00 | 21:00 | 05:00 | 123 | -- | |||
| Quarterfinal | C9 vs.   PNG
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2014-12-06 | 15:00 | 18:00 | 00:00 | 08:00 | 123 | -- | |||
| Semifinal | TSM vs.  UOL
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2014-12-06 | 18:00 | 21:00 | 03:00 | 11:00 | 123 | -- | |||
| Semifinal | A vs.  C9
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2014-12-07 | 12:00 | 15:00 | 21:00 | 05:00 | 123 | -- | |||
| Celebrity ARAM | HSGG vs.  SV
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2014-12-07 | 15:00 | 18:00 | 00:00 | 08:00 | 1 | -- | |||
| Grand Final | C9 vs. UOL
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2014-12-07 | 16:00 | 19:00 | 01:00 | 09:00 | 12345 | -- | |||
Media
- Articles
- Interviews
- Other Contents
- November 21st, Everything you need to know about IEM San Jose from LoL Esports
- December 3rd, Riot unlocks Azir for IEM San Jose—only 4 days before games begin from DailyDot
- December 4th, Patch 4.20 – IEM San Jose Pick Predictions from Azubu
- December 5th, IEM San Jose Team Profile: paiN Gaming from Paravine
- December 6th, 9 story-lines for IEM IX San Jose from Gold per 10
- December 9th, Five Big Questions From IEM San Jose from LoL Esports
- December 9th, Power of Love: How UoL Gamed Champion Select from Tinhk Piece
- December 9th, Analysing Picks and Bans of Game 2 in Cloud 9 vs. Unicorns of Love from Gold per 10
- December 9th, How Team SoloMid lost in Picks and Bans against Unicorns of Love from Gold per 10
- December 11th, IEM San Jose: Retrospective from Azubu
- December 12th, Infographic Recap - IEM San Jose from Azubu
- December 12th, Wildcard: Unicorns Of Love's Twisted Fate Jungle from LoL Esports
- December 12th, Fun Facts from IEM San Jose from Gold per 10
- November 18th, "I think we can take back first place": an interview with William "Meteos" Hartman with ESL
- November 20th, "I was a way different, less happy person 18 months ago": an interview with Soren "Bjergsen" Bjerg with ESL
- November 24th, "Rekkles was the perfect piece to finish our puzzle": Mike "Wickd" Petersen talks San Jose with ESL
- November 25th, "We really want to bring the people a good show": an interview with Unicorns of Love with ESL
- November 28th, "I know that Brazil will be rooting for us": an interview with paiN Gaming with ESL
- December 6th, Alliance's Nyph Interview - "Feels good to have Rekkles back" with ESL
- December 6th, Alliance's Rekkles Interview - Competing in his first tournament with ESL
- December 6th, Hai Interview - "Can't go into it being intimidated" with ESL
- December 6th, PowerOfEvil Interview - "The support from the fans is insane" with ESL
- December 6th, Travis catches up with Chauster and Benny as they get ready to ARAM at IEM San Jose with onGamers
- December 7th, PowerOfEvil on playing against meta at IEM San Jose with OnGamers
- December 7th, Meteos on patch 4.20 jungling and competing at IEM San Jose with OnGamers
- December 7th, Saintvicious Interview - "How do you practice for an ARAM?!" with ESL
- December 7th, Shook on Rekkles, the new patch, and why dragon is now critical with TheDailyDot
- December 7th, Kikis hopes Unicorns of Love will be a top 3 team by the end of 2015 with TheDailyDot
- December 7th, Vizicsacsi from Unicorns of Love with SK Gaming
- December 7th, Chaox "I'm making my comeback to the competitive scene" with SK Gaming
- December 7th, League of Legends - Cloud9 in the Finals with ESL
- December 7th, Meteos Interview - "Thanks to the fans this event!" with ESL
- December 8th, Travis and Sneaky on IEM San Jose, Corki OP, and Sneaky's "big play" with OnGamers
- December 8th, Travis and Wickd on Rekkles and Krepo at IEM San Jose with OnGamers
- December 8th, Cloud9 still the team to beat in the West with IEM San Jose win with TheDailyDot
- December 8th, IEM San Jose: Maplestreet "NA greatest region of all" with SK Gaming
- December 9th, Bigfatjiji on playing on the stage again and a cat update with OnGamers
- December 9th, IEM San Jose: TheOddOne "one ARAM, $10.000 USD, what can I lose?" with SK Gaming
- December 9th, IEM San Jose: Dodo8 "Reddit helped a lot" [to keep CaliforniaTrlolz] with SK Gaming
- December 9th, IEM San Jose: Locodoco "PowerOfEvil played exceptionally well" with SK Gaming
- December 10th, IEM San Jose: Hai on Cloud9’s Secret to Success with SK Gaming
- December 10th, IEM San Jose: Balls and LemonNation after C9 victory with SK Gaming
- December 11th, IEM San Jose: Chauster "trying to transition back to school" with SK Gaming
- December 11th, IEM San Jose: bigfatlp on ARAM, 4.20 and Future Plans with SK Gaming
- December 11th, MonteCristo: by the time Worlds rolls around, Korea will still be the strongest region with SK Gaming
See Also
References
- ↑ Check out the League of Legends talent lineup for Intel Extreme Masters San Jose! en.intelextrememasters.com
- ↑ IEM San Jose first major competition on new League of Legends 4.20 patch eslgaming.com
- ↑ LoL Esports' Twitter post twitter.com
