Updated IEM6 rankings for WC
Time: 2012-01-26 22:35

Now that the final IEM6 Global Challenge for Counter-Strike has finished, IEM has published the updated season rankings that will determine teams for the World Championship.

First three spots are given to the top placing American, Asian and European teams, in this case (assuming they all accept their spots and can afford going) SK Gaming, Ultimax Gaming USA and eFuture.

Next up the top two placing teams from each global challenge are invited, which adds on fnatic, mousesports, WinFakt and Natus Vincere for a total of seven teams. SK Gaming placed top two in New York and Kiev but already receive a spot by being the top ranked European team.

As explained in our previous post, the rest of the teams will be invited based on their points in the season ranking to round up the total of twelve teams that will be competing in Hannover on March 6-10.

Here is what the ranking looks like post IEM6 Global Challenge Kiev:

# Team Region Qualified? Points
1st SK Gaming
Europe #1 Europe 155
2nd WinFakt Europe New York
125
3rd fnatic Europe Guangzhou
115
4th Natus Vincere Europe Kiev 90
5th mousesports Europe Guangzhou
75
6th Moscow Five Europe Points 45
7th mTw Europe Points 45
8th Ultimax Gaming USA America #1 America 25
9th eFuture Asia #1 Asia 25
10th Lions
Europe Points 15
11th EG America Points 15
11th Check Six America Points 15
13th Anexis Europe
15
13th TyLoo
Asia
15
15th DTS Europe
10
16th Black & Yellow America   10
16th semXorah America   10
18th Immunity Asia   10
18th XcN Asia   10

The remaining five spots will go to the teams with the highest total of points, so once again assuming everyone would attend on the list, they would be Moscow Five, mTw, Lions, Evil Geniuses and Check Six.

However, as we all now, mTw and Evil Geniuses have disbanded (although they could still go should three of their players wish to attend together) and some of the other teams might not be able to make the trip either, so in that case the spots will be offered to teams further down the list.

ESL will announce the groups for IEM6 World Championship next week which is when the teams should be confirmed. HLTV.org will be on-site at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany on March 6-10 when the season six IEM World Champions will be crowned. 


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omg ffs nice :S
2012-01-26 22:36:31
*-* sk \o/
2012-01-26 22:37:05
:I
2012-01-26 22:37:06
no ESC :(
2012-01-26 22:38:20
by: qu1k.
#5
Ultimax are ex-EG? LU pls!
2012-01-26 22:42:02
ultimax are UMX
2012-01-26 23:06:44
Where is ESC?
2012-01-26 22:43:49
There are 18 teams in the rankings... I wonder who will be able to afford the trip to Germany from this list... I think this number will be less than 12, so we can expect ESC coming through an invite
2012-01-26 22:45:23
Since ESC and other european teams couldn't make it to Global Challenges, i guess there will be open qualifier for Europe.
2012-01-26 22:48:11
I think they announced that the ranking will go way back to the online qualifiers...but considering that ESC qualified for Guangzhou(maybe I'm wrong) they'll probably be the top ranked team never to attend a GC
2012-01-26 23:08:18
they didnt
2012-01-26 23:12:19
my bad :D but I think they are high in that ranking since they dropped out in the last stage at Kiev
2012-01-26 23:16:01
No ESC no party =/
2012-01-26 22:46:24
HAHA +1
2012-01-27 03:03:33
SK The Best xdd, go go go SK
2012-01-26 22:47:24
mTw ^_^
2012-01-26 22:49:04
no ESC but ... they really don't deserved to attend this... they lost 2 quals to GC, its online..no one from top teams likes online qualifiers..
2012-01-26 22:50:57
they lost ny quals to vedimak in first round costs them a potential spot for that event.
2012-01-26 22:55:29
I think they should be qualified due to cheating from vedimak...
2012-01-26 23:36:36
+1
2012-01-27 06:39:20
Meh... ESC is my favorite team, even since im from Sweden acctualy I really like polish guys the most... A tournament without them is really bad (IEM6 Kiev wasn't that excited imo)
2012-01-27 20:46:32
-mTw
-UMX.us (dunno, maybe they'l find money for long trip)
-eFuture
-EG
-CheckSix

+Anexis
+DTS
+3 from EU: ESC, eSahara, KerchNET/Alternate
2012-01-26 22:51:29
how many teams will attend WC overall? I guess SK,Na`Vi,fnatic,WinFakt,m5,mouz,lions,dts will be there for sure
2012-01-26 22:58:56
Previously there were 12 teams - 2 groups.
2012-01-26 23:00:32
So, if mTw, UMX, eFuture, EG, Check Six, Black & Yellow, semXorah, Immunity, XcN will not attend ESC has a chance?
2012-01-26 23:03:43
yeah, but i'am pretty shure 90% of this teams won't attend.

Post edited 2012-01-26 23:09:33
2012-01-26 23:08:56
UMX will attend, EG, x6,B&Y, Immunity probably won't....XcN and eFuture and sX may have enough funds to attend but we'll see
2012-01-26 23:10:17
by: ibtJ
#83
why people judge xcn is underdog team? it's really sad because xcn power is comeback like 2003 and 2006 and you can see the fact that xcn in WCG 2011 sometimes rapped SK in de_inferno and the final score is 20-10 and i think this is really good result coz xcn were training a lot
2012-01-27 14:13:35
eFuture , Asia Number One!!! okay?
2012-01-27 10:35:01
eFuture is able to beat any team in the world!!!
2012-01-27 10:37:10
Tyloo raped DTS in many times , and eFuture >>> Tyloo
2012-01-27 10:39:09
So what does it change? As i remember korean team with solo, bail etc was the only asian team who attended EM Global Finals.
2012-01-27 11:14:14
nais lions!!!
2012-01-26 22:59:44
Immunity is not from Asia :P
2012-01-26 23:05:32
Asia-Pacific
2012-01-27 04:07:32
yeah, but they should oceania not asia :p
2012-01-27 14:17:57
This will be a disaster if ESC can't attend eventually.
2012-01-26 23:05:33
no ESC, no party : ((
2012-01-26 23:06:17
by: TLY
#27
where is the best team in the world golden5??+? oww i forgot they cant even go through qualifier
2012-01-26 23:08:06
Does your butt hurt when you go to sleep?
2012-01-27 03:28:20
XcN > ESC hahahaha :D
2012-01-26 23:10:15
by: ibtJ
#85
hahahhahaa I completely agree with you :)
2012-01-27 14:16:59
by: mah9
#32
only top team that is gonna be missing is ESC i guess. sucks!
2012-01-26 23:11:33
SK
WinFakt
fnatic
Natus Vincere
mousesports
M5
UMX
LIONS
Anexis
DTS

the above 10 will attend for sure
tyloo, efuture, sX might also attend but you never know with these teams

I hope that ESC gets a spot too, but looking at the list I doubt it
2012-01-26 23:13:25
Why UMX for sure?
2012-01-27 09:22:32
because UMX is a rich orga, and their latest addition proves that they are serious to go on the international scene (no EG, no competition in the US for them)
2012-01-27 14:16:13
You might be right :)
2012-01-28 10:27:28
by: weg
#37
ccomm iem without esc is not funny
2012-01-26 23:18:35
looks good :)
2012-01-26 23:26:58
+ESC and we have great tournament :)
2012-01-26 23:34:21
-mTw
+ESC
2012-01-26 23:37:49
Hope to see ESC and eSahara :D
2012-01-26 23:59:01
-sX
+GamerHouse
2012-01-27 00:16:16
+1
2012-01-27 02:35:19
*edited

...only 10 teams, that sucks

Post edited 2012-01-27 00:33:26
2012-01-27 00:32:27
Yeah, SK #1 =)
2012-01-27 00:55:56
EG & mTw aren't going to attend, so anexis & Tyloo are in.. right?
2012-01-27 01:12:00
by: Nix0n - HLTV.org
#50
mTw and EG can, in theory, attend if they want to (just have to use three members of the original team).
2012-01-27 01:41:23
trace zonic arcadioN friis nix0n
2012-01-27 02:07:38
Friis is playing for fnatic.
2012-01-27 04:11:54
zonic playing for mouz
2012-01-27 08:51:32
Rather trace, minet, ArcadioN, x and x. Should be possible :)
2012-01-27 09:23:56
I would like to see n0thing in a "last tournament" for him, :')
2012-01-27 10:13:27
LOL ESC
2012-01-27 01:27:00
am i the only who wish to see a portuguese team like k1ck (the only that can prove something)?
2012-01-27 02:04:32
Sorry to say it, but they got no business there.
2012-01-27 02:50:40
yes, you are the only one bro
2012-01-27 09:13:16
yeah youre the only one

Post edited 2012-01-27 16:45:30
2012-01-27 16:45:16
you are being mean xD
but seriously, i would like, but not going to happen :(
2012-01-27 23:07:28
+ESC invite by IEM, ex-frag executors second and IEM World 2011 vs Na'Vi grand final.
2012-01-27 06:16:19
and your point was? NaVi wasnt invited either though they won IEM 2011
2012-01-27 06:44:34
It doesn't matter even if they were 2nd in season one year ago
2012-01-27 12:07:09
again no ESC... that's sad :(
2012-01-27 06:37:42
i would like to see alternate attax
2012-01-27 06:43:39
Moscow Five go)
2012-01-27 09:40:16
Are you sure that there should be at least three players of ex-mTw? As far as I remember two is enough
2012-01-27 09:47:39
really hope checksix attend this tournament so i can watch frod still dominate at the highest level ^-^
2012-01-27 10:15:28
LOl Black and Yellow, ESEA- open team among the best, although they are ESEA-I its highly possible that they will not attend.
2012-01-27 10:28:37
lol mTw
2012-01-27 11:02:55
any chance for esc instead of mtw ?
2012-01-27 11:03:41
Hopefully ESC will become part of the tournament instead of mTw
2012-01-27 12:07:57
wtf! where esc???
2012-01-27 13:02:53
i agree

Post edited 2012-01-27 13:36:13
2012-01-27 13:36:04
I wanna see ESC! 8|
2012-01-27 14:48:43
K1CK PARA O ANO SOMOS NÓS OS 16º
2012-01-27 16:30:51
is tehre anyway for ESC to play or qualify since teams are nt attending ?
2012-01-27 16:43:42
i dont know if they have any points, if they do they will get the invite no doubt
2012-01-28 00:33:38
dont think XCequtioNers or semXorah will be attending it.. and immunity maybe...
so if 16 teams are attending, shdnt fx get a chance!!

P.S : mTw and EG disbanded too right...




or the invite is only point oriented ?
2012-01-28 09:12:58
People wake up please.

ESC have only one chance of attending. They have failed to qualify for any of the 3 Global Challenges, thus gaining no points for this ranking.

Out of Moscow Five, mTw, Lions, Evil Geniuses and Check Six, you know mTw and EG are not coming, and Check Six is still doubtable.
Furthermore its still unsure if UMX and eFuture are going to attend.

Lets say 5 spots open up. Next in line would be Anexis TyLoo DTS Black&Yellow semXorah. Out of those 5 I only see Anexis and DTS coming. Leaves 3 spots open. Immunity and XcN are also highly unlikely to attend in my eyes.

Which leaves you with 3 open spots to be filled. Its up to ESL what they are going to do, but I feel that in this case ESC should get a spot.

Post edited 2012-01-28 13:19:46
2012-01-28 13:14:39
very cool!

Post edited 2012-01-29 08:33:29
2012-01-29 08:32:57
who will instead of mTw? I think they should sell the spot for esc and all top teams will be there

Post edited 2012-01-31 18:51:33
2012-01-31 18:43:42

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