IEM San Jose: Event Preview

We are less than 24 hours away from the beginning of IEM San Jose 2015, to be played at the SAP Center arena.

The Format

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The tournament will be played in a best-of-three, single elimination bracket format.

The first matches to be played are as follows:

• G2.Kinguin vs. Counter Logic Gaming
• Cloud9 vs. Team SoloMid
• Natus Vincere vs. Luminosity Gaming
• Team Liquid vs. Virtus.pro

The Prize Pool

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The tournament prize pool was originally placed at $100,000, but an extra $25,000 was added by the official retail sponsor, Amazon.com. With that being said, people still have the opportunity to up the prize pool through crowdfunding.

The Talent Team

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IEM San Jose will feature an 11-man talent team that will be providing you, the viewer, with some of the best commentary, analysis and interviews.

Your talent team is as follows:

O.J. Borg – Stage host

Alex “Machine” Richardson – Desk host

Mathieu “Maniac” Quiquerez – Desk Analyst

Joe Miller – Commentator

Anders Blume – Commentator

Auguste “Semmler” Massonnat – Commentator

Jason “moses” O’Toole – Commentator

Henry “HenryG” Greer – Commentator

Lauren “Pansy” Scott – Commentator

Janko “YNk” Paunovi? – Observer

Heather “sapphiRe” Mumm – Observer

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