Scheduled: 07:00 CDT, 18 October 2009 to 13:15 CDT, 18 October 2009Schedule: Passed
The second
Intel Extreme Masters 4 Global Challenge to feature a Quakelive competition, after the
Pro/Am Challenge of Cologne, will take place in
Dubai during the
Gitex Shopper & Consumer Electronics Expo. A plethora of fine duelers including
rapha,
noctis,
spart1e,
DaHanG,
Cooller and many more will battle for the $6,500!
Many games will be covered by
2GD,
Joe and their friends on
ESL TV with
single and free 700kbps streaming. All the group matches will be played as best-of-3, then the top2 players from each group will advance to the playoff, played as best-of-5.
The
day 2 matches covering Groups A and C are now over and saw the qualification of rapha, fox, Cooller and DaHanG. A new post will cover
Day #3 as well as the brackets announcement from
Lo3.
- noctis 2-1 smoke 
- t9 12:6, dm6 3:12, ztn 18:3 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- 
stermy 2-0 fazz - t7 9:2, ztn 5:0 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- 
strenx 0-2 madix - t9 4:5 (OT), t7 8:12 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- 
cypher 2-0 Chance - ztn 8:4, t7 6:4 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- fazz 2-1 smoke - t9 12:13, ztn 10:5, t7 5:3 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- noctis 1-2 stermy - ztn 6:7, t9 13:6, dm6 0:13 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- Chance 2-1 madix - t9 12:3, ztn 3:5, dm13 12:2 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- cypher 2-0 strenx - dm6 5:4, t9, t7 10:9 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- stermy 2-0 smoke - dm6 10:2, t9 10:0 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- noctis 2-1 fazz - dm13 4:5, t9 11:7, dm6 5:4 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- strenx 2-0 Chance - t9 15:8, t7 8:2 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- cypher 2-0 madix - ztn 12:1, t7 22:4 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- 07:30 CDT: fox 2-0 Jibo 
- ztn 10:6, t7 22:2 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- 07:30 CDT: DaHanG 2-0 spammah - ztn 21:0, t9 31:7 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- 08:15 CDT: rapha 2-0 l1nkje - ztn 10:3, t9 20:4 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- 09:00 CDT: spart1e 1-2 Cooller - dm13 8:7, t9 5:9, dm6 4:6 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- 09:45 CDT: Jibo 0-2 l1nkje - ztn 5:9, dm13 5:11 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- 09:45 CDT: rapha 1-2 fox - ztn 6:9, t7 8:2, dm13 2:5 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- 10:30 CDT: Cooller 2-0 spammah - ztn 21:1, dm13 21:1 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- 10:30 CDT: spart1e 1-2 DaHanG - dm13 17:4, t7 0:24, ztn 2:13 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- 11:15 CDT: fox 1-2 l1nkje - ztn 3:9, dm13 9:1, t9 6:8 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- 11:15 CDT: rapha 2-0 Jibo - dm6 8:5, t9 35:6 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- 12:00 CDT: DaHanG 1-2 Cooller - ztn 3:9, t9 15:7, dm6 5:14 (Bet / Match details + demo)
- 12:00 CDT: spart1e 2-0 spammah - dm6 29:-2, t9 35:7 (Bet / Match details + demo)
Group A
Shane "SK|rapha" Hendrixson (2 wins, 1 loss, maps 5:2)
Magnus "mouz.fox" Olsson (2 wins, 1 loss, maps 5:3)
Zhibo "RazerJibo" Fan (0 win, 3 losses)
Pierre-Emeric "fnatic\l1nkje" Portier (2 wins, 1 loss, maps 4:3)
Group B
Richard "vtL/noctis" Gansterer (2 wins, 1 loss)
Alessandro "fnatic\stermy" Avallone (3 wins, 0 loss)
Pelle "xlo-fazz" Söderman (1 win, 2 losses)
Felix "mTw|smoke" Pafel (0 win, 3 losses)
Group C
Sebastian "fnatic\spart1e" Siira (1 win, 2 losses)
Tim "EG|DaHanG" Fogarty (2 wins, 1 loss)
Anton "mouz.Cooller" Singov (3 wins, 0 loss)
Anas "spammah" Ilyas (0 win, 3 losses)
Group D
Alexey "srs/rzr/cypher" Yanushevsky (3 wins, 0 loss)
Kévin "fnatic\strenx" Baeza (1 win, 2 losses, maps 2:4)
Chance "EG|Chance" Lacina (1 win, 2 losses, maps 2:5)
Michael "xlo-madix" Hindersson (1 win, 2 losses, maps 3:4)
1st place: $3,000
2nd place: $1,500
3rd place: $800
4th place: $400
5th to 8th place: $200
Maplist: qzdm6 (Campgrounds), qzdm13 (Lost World), qztourney7 (Furious Heights), qztourney9 (House of Decay), ztntourney1 (Blood Run)
During the group stage (bo3):
1. The player who lost the coin toss has to remove a map from the map pool
2. The player who won the coin toss has to remove a second map from the map pool
3. The player who lost the coin toss has to pick his map from the last three maps
4. The player who won the coin toss has to pick his map from the last two maps
5. The map not vetoed nor chosen will be the third map played if needed
6. The first map to be played will be the pick of the coin toss loser, second map the pick of the winner
During the playoffs (bo5):
1. The player which lost the coin toss picks his first map from the map pool
2. The player which won the coin toss picks his first map from the map pool
3. The player which lost the coin toss picks his second map from the last three maps
4. The player which won the coin toss picks his second map from the last two maps
5. The map not vetoed nor chosen will be the fifth map played if needed
6. The first map to be played will be the pick of the coin toss loser, second map the pick of the winner and so
on
IEM4 Dubai: Home page, Group Stage / Brackets - 
#masters.live
Streaming: ESL-TV - Alt. Host
Streaming for linux users: /OctoshapeClient -url:ESL.oph350 (mplayer required)
VODs: ESL TV / Demo VODs: own3d
Coverage links: Day #1, TEK9, Fnatic, SK
Non-English Coverage links: Fragster, derQuaker, Esfr, 
CyberSports, Cubesports
Interviews: rapha, Chance, DaHanG, fox (mousesports & SK), Cooller & Stermy
Galleries: ESL, stripy, SK
Please leave a post in the comments for any other interesting link.
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tonight we dine in DUBAI! +S :D
linkin is very similar with cypher
