IEM Sydney revealed

6-3-2017 23:40

ESL has announced that the Intel Extreme Masters will have a stop in Sydney, Australia this year, with the ~$200,000 tournament set to take place in May.

IEM Sydney will kick off the 12th season of IEM and will be held on May 6-7 at the Qudos Bank Arena, which has the capacity of 18,000.

Along with the general information, two invited teams have been announced—the Brazilians of SK and Renegades, who will be back to Australia to play a premier tournament for the first time since the Crown Invitational in 2015.

jks will be back to playing CS on their home soil in May

According to an article from Fox Sports Australia, ESL is "expected" to send invites to four more international teams to attend the $260,000AUD tournament, while the remaining spots will be filled with local "hopefuls" although it was not specified if "local" meant the inclusion of the entirety of the Asia-Pacific region or just Oceania.

The following teams have been invited to IEM Sydney:

Renegades

Professeur writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter.

nice

2017-03-06 23:40

55 replies

The game days will start at night & will end at around 8-10AM in the morning in Europe time. Nice one ESL! Fucking EU over once again =D

2017-03-06 23:58

54 replies

stop being a whiny little bitch

2017-03-07 00:06

29 replies

stfu

2017-03-07 00:13

21 replies

rip rest of the world schedule

2017-03-07 01:01

19 replies

Half of the worlds population lives within that timezone(China/India), gg greece education

2017-03-07 01:38

18 replies

No one cares about CSGO in Asia..

2017-03-07 02:07

14 replies

No one cares about Greece

2017-03-07 02:31

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2017-03-14 13:46

i do and im from SEA lol

2017-03-07 03:51

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7TH WORLD

2017-03-07 08:34

while more or less true, we want them to care, right? the more that do care the better. and the best way of getting them to care is to host great events in their area. that said. I'm obviously all for more EU events and less NA/Asian, but that's just my biased ego speaking.

2017-03-07 10:24

1 reply

Yeah, at least I've seen a lot of my Indian friends awake all night to watch events helf in US :/ And then probably sleep in class or office. xD

2017-03-07 13:25

think again now, the intresst of what nations who mostly view counterstrike is the european and CIS region. Thats where dota and cs is biggest and have most viewers from. This the timezone is pretty awful, the swedish timezones adapt our events are late to let other countries be able to watch it at the same time. for some odd reason other events does not do this, i get that you cannot please all countries and timezones perfect but atleast dreamhack are doing a great job, thinking of other timezones compared to ESL, ESL is pretty horrible at this job.

2017-03-07 17:07

well 70% of the worlds population who watches CSGO lives in EU

2017-03-07 20:37

1 reply

Yes right now... Which means EU is not such a great market my friend. The potential of creating new fans is elsewhere. I would say china is the greatest

2017-03-17 23:56

U stfu

2017-03-07 10:33

well hes not wrong. but i guess its not a big deal. there will be dozens of aussies to watch that shit, DOZENS i tell ya.

2017-03-07 00:15

3 replies

lol

2017-03-07 00:18

you mean them kangaroos

2017-03-07 00:27

lmao

2017-03-07 00:50

2017-03-07 00:27

1 reply

hi! dw, nobody has seen the skype logs xD

2017-03-07 00:30

2017-03-07 01:53

shut the fuck up, like 80% of cs matches and tournaments are hosted in eu then once the other regions get good times you just start bitching.

2017-03-07 00:26

3 replies

its not 2015 anymore.

2017-03-07 00:34

1 reply

Its a global game, expect to see a tournament in Australia/Asia every now and then

2017-03-07 01:32

80% lol not true

2017-03-07 03:00

stop crying moron, NA and AU both get cucked on EU events

2017-03-07 00:53

It's on the other side of the world you fucking retard

2017-03-07 01:03

Get a fucking life. @wH1TEcs

2017-03-07 01:31

We get this all the time deal with it cunt

2017-03-07 02:43

As an Asian, I'm happy :D Now you know that feel

2017-03-07 03:02

Now you guys get to experience what it's like for Australians watching EU or NA CS tourneys

2017-03-07 03:07

Every na event already starts at night and ends at 8 am for me anyways..

2017-03-07 03:15

lmao before there were majors in NA the finals would be at like 7am and groups were at like 4am

2017-03-07 04:10

That is every EU tournament for us

2017-03-07 04:25

It's an AU event, idiot.

2017-03-07 06:03

You realise this is what it's like for Australians at literally every event

2017-03-07 06:05

stop complaing man a majority of tourneys happen in eu, i never complain about timezones and im american... plus Australia is usually ALWAYS fucked, and ive never seen a whinny aussie on here so gtfo

2017-03-07 06:48

who cares about EU. yall on americas dick anyways

2017-03-07 08:06

shit for both NA & EU. way to pick locations ESL

2017-03-07 11:53

Do you have any idea how many tournaments in europe and na happen us australians have to stay up till 2am to see a fucking grand final for the major let alone online matchs in eu are like 2-3am for us its bullshit but finally i won't have to stay up to 2 in the fucking morning to actually watch tier 1 teams play

2017-03-07 13:11

EU is not the whole word. Just deal with it.

2017-03-07 13:52

Did you notice the title, its "IEM Sydney", not "IEM Butthurt Moron"

2017-03-09 04:02

try being Australian and having every game from 2-6AM. +1 to tarziii

2017-03-09 12:00

u fucking realise all of us OCEANIA guys stay up all night to watch games in NA and EU, you statement is so fucking invalid

2017-03-09 14:40

its one event stop being a little bitch, watch the replays or stay up.... its simple

2017-03-14 03:21

good post

2017-03-06 23:40

waw

2017-03-06 23:40

LUL who wants to travel down to southern china

2017-03-06 23:41

4 replies

yea its a bit of a walk

2017-03-07 00:14

rofl

2017-03-07 00:17

nice to see norway's education as strong as ever

2017-03-07 08:05

1 reply

Nt old sealand

2017-03-07 10:17

AUSSIE TIME

2017-03-06 23:40

0-16

2017-03-06 23:41

2 replies

You mean, 32-0, on lan (both teams playing without stand-ins)? hltv.org/match/2302769-renegades-luminos.. hltv.org/match/2299251-luminosity-renega.. Yeah.

2017-03-07 00:37

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stay free.

2017-03-08 03:25

Let's go BRAZIL, we can do it! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL <3 Kreygasm

2017-03-06 23:41

GMT+11 hahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahha FUCK!

2017-03-06 23:41

4 replies

haha true. Rip Europe

2017-03-06 23:46

3 replies

SUFFER OUR PAIN!!!

2017-03-07 00:14

2 replies

Euro's are being pussies in this thread so far World isn't as centred around you lot as it was 100 years ago, sorry.

2017-03-07 01:04

Finally i dont have to wait till 2 am

2017-03-07 01:52

Well finals will be in the mornin with a bit of luck :>

2017-03-06 23:42

2 wasted spots. renegades become complete trash..and SK will throw again. gg

2017-03-06 23:43

GMT +11 Cx IEM Katowice 360k viewers, IEM Sydney 90k, Matt2121 confirmed.

2017-03-06 23:43

3 replies

Viewers in China and India: 2.5 billion.. Twitch will crash

2017-03-07 00:11

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CN users don't use twitch. And most Indian users play the game, but don't follow the competitive scene. So no.

2017-03-07 03:37

+1 It's gonna happen, we've already seen it in other tournaments there and in some NA events...

2017-03-07 10:34

>brazilian team >gmt +11 Fuck esl

2017-03-06 23:44

7 replies

yeah they should organize events around one team LUL no

2017-03-06 23:46

3 replies

The time of Sidney fucks NA and SA

2017-03-06 23:49

2 replies

What about > RNG?

2017-03-06 23:53

EU also

2017-03-07 07:43

Brazilians thinking the world revolves around them...

2017-03-06 23:55

2 replies

You just resume europe... My russian friendu

2017-03-07 00:18

I've dont want to say that

2017-03-07 00:17

YES Thank you IEM, can't wait!

2017-03-06 23:44

Finally I don't have to stay up until 4am to watch a tournament.

2017-03-06 23:44

8 replies

finally I have to stay up to 4 am for a tournament!

2017-03-06 23:48

5 replies

lol true. Same for me when tournies are in NA.

2017-03-06 23:53

Its abt time, dnt u think?

2017-03-07 01:54

3 replies

No, because Australian cs is trash.

2017-03-07 02:34

2 replies

Name checks

2017-03-07 03:41

1 reply

math checks out.

2017-03-08 03:26

finally bad time zone tournament

2017-03-06 23:53

2017-03-06 23:55

I can't wait :)

2017-03-06 23:45

RNG wtf

2017-03-06 23:45

Nice.

2017-03-06 23:46

nice one

2017-03-06 23:48

+vp +astralis +faze +cloud9(for NA fans LUL)

2017-03-06 23:48

1 reply

VP & Astralis most likely decided not to go

2017-03-07 09:05

sounds good

2017-03-06 23:48

gl with the viewers

2017-03-06 23:49

ez event for RNG

2017-03-06 23:50

rip timezones

2017-03-06 23:51

SoundsGood fnatic definetely will take it!

2017-03-06 23:52

1 reply

Lol they wont even get invite

2017-03-07 09:05

Big tournament in AU? Sounds good. But please stay away from spiders and all kinds of nature there, we can't lose pro players

2017-03-06 23:52

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i wouldnt mind losing the SK players forever

2017-03-07 00:02

2k2 Kappa

2017-03-06 23:56

RiP pro players, gonna get eaten by giant spoders and KO'ed by 'roos.

2017-03-06 23:56

LOL Renegades v Sk 16-0 Spunj Wtf this world. I'm I dreaming?

2017-03-06 23:57

fucking worst timezone for euros

2017-03-06 23:58

1 reply

feel our struggle <3

2017-03-07 03:46

why sydney

2017-03-07 00:00

1 reply

most popularity i guess?

2017-03-07 00:16

AUSTRALIANS ALL LET US REJOICE

2017-03-07 00:01

some aussie friend can help me?

2017-03-07 00:02

1 reply

Is there a esports shop in Australia?

2017-03-07 00:32

people mad cuz rng invite.... of course they need to be invited, would you do a tournament in Malmo and not invite Nip or fnatic?

2017-03-07 00:04

They should invite a actual good brazilian team like Merciless Gaming or DaiDai, not SK bots

2017-03-07 00:05

If they start at 11am like Katowice and finish arround 22pm local time later on, gonna be a pain the ass. I dont even understand the players, who is willing to flight to Australia? From EU its what, 20 hours, 24 with a bit of Stranding in Singapore? Same goes for NA. Sorry Aussies, but there is a reason your country was just a big ass prison colony.

2017-03-07 00:05

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at least I'm more proud of my country than you are of yours since you don't even want to show it...

2017-03-07 00:20

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+11111 Australia 2stronk

2017-03-07 06:21

oh this is simply harsh XD.

2017-03-07 17:56

SK is willing to flight to Australia.

2017-03-07 03:40

Australia is a great country though you idiot

2017-03-07 10:54

Renegades 2017

2017-03-07 00:05

+ C9

2017-03-07 00:09

If I was a pro I would go there at least a week early to adjust to the climate and sleeping schedule tbh

2017-03-07 00:12

1 reply

2017-03-07 00:16

Cool. Will be amazing a tournament in Australia.

2017-03-07 00:14

xD Hope the crowd will be better than Dreamhack LasVegas, Plz renegarinos :)

2017-03-07 00:15

GO SK <3

2017-03-07 00:18

Sounds like a good time. Seems like it's been a while since the last Asia Pacific/Oceania event.

2017-03-07 00:18

Sounds good. Unfortunately the AUS community of CSGO is terrible. I'm Brazilian and I'll support SK! RUNSKG.

2017-03-07 00:27

3 replies

lmfao vp said the australian crowd at crown was the best they'd ever had. I don't know what you're talking about

2017-03-07 04:13

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Full of toxic and racist and newbs who think they are the best players of the world because they play MM and faceit...

2017-03-07 04:36

they say that to every crowd you idiot

2017-03-07 08:07

Keen to see who the other invited teams are

2017-03-07 00:29

Very nice! Rich country with a crowd that I expect to be very big!

2017-03-07 00:34

cmon invite G2 AND ENVY

2017-03-07 00:37

2 replies

show your french flag, or surrender

2017-03-07 04:13

twitter.com/G2NBK/status/838887782776963.. :(

2017-03-07 15:12

OMG NICE!!!!!!!!!!

2017-03-07 00:40

i get up at 2 am anyways so i can watch some before school

2017-03-07 00:46

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you are too young to get up that early,even for cs.

2017-03-07 18:00

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I go to bed between 6-8 pm

2017-03-07 21:40

Awesome, I'll be going to this one. Kinda disappointing that Renegades was invited, rather them go through a qualifier with other AU teams, especially seeing that some of them have potential for upsets. On top of that, would love to see an asian qualifier (that includes Australian teams), I feel that its to centered around EU and it wouldn't hurt for tournaments like this to at least let one or two teams from other countries play.

2017-03-07 00:53

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Need the Tainted and Chiefs boys there for sure

2017-03-07 01:05

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Not so sure about Chiefs, but def Tainted. Chiefs are onliners.

2017-03-07 01:06

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lol

2017-03-07 02:13

Tainted #1 AU with a coin toss between iM and Chiefs for second place. Chiefs more offline results than old iM lineup iirc (the gazr and destiny one) plus new iM roster is unproven offline.

2017-03-07 11:53

Theres 8 aus teams qualifying for one available spot. This includes chiefs, tainted minds and immunity..

2017-03-16 06:02

Horny

2017-03-07 00:59

I live 5 min away from this so it should be good:)

2017-03-07 01:02

3 replies

EVENT SAVED!

2017-03-07 01:02

Can i come stay?

2017-03-07 02:38

1 reply

how horny are you!

2017-03-07 18:01

rng gonna get 16-0'd by vega squadron

2017-03-07 01:07

RNG is such a sad team atm, I remember back before they moved to the US Aussies thought Renegades would dominate the American teams. Oh how wrong they were.

2017-03-07 01:10

2 replies

Money ruined them.

2017-03-07 05:33

Back then it looked quite likely. Brazil hadn't risen to dominance, top NA teams sucked even harder and RNG's stars were in insanely good form.

2017-03-07 11:54

about bloody time a good tournament is coming to sydney COME ON RENEGADES! REPRESENT AUSTRALIA <3

2017-03-07 01:36

16x0 never forget

2017-03-07 01:58

ez for chelleos and stacked like pancakes bl favela!

2017-03-07 02:23

2 replies

Snakeysnakes to win it all. THANKSFLUSHA come in a close second place. Jamba comes out of retirement to double team Coldzera with mousepads (with Marben's help ofc)

2017-03-07 11:56

1 reply

chelleos cheat crew ez

2017-03-07 20:02

Dont let the Brazilians win on Australian soil pls

2017-03-07 02:34

4 replies

too late, SK will estabilish an era right after starladder

2017-03-07 03:05

1 reply

SK in 2k1x KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

2017-03-07 14:28

why not?

2017-03-07 03:08

1 reply

Because I'm sick of foreigners beating us at everything.

2017-03-07 11:55

brillant

2017-03-07 02:46

Yay

2017-03-07 03:21

Yay

2017-03-07 03:36

Not nice

2017-03-07 03:37

AU CS 4Head but nice for them

2017-03-07 03:38

16-0 renegades against sk incoming

2017-03-07 03:53

You flogs having a whinge about the time schedule, just don't watch it. You'll soon see our crowd will > any of your crowds you've had this year.

2017-03-07 04:20

YAY RIP Perth no one likes us

2017-03-07 04:22

1 reply

Also for the people crying about timezone there are literally tournaments every couple of weeks can't u just wait for ANOTHER EU tournament?

2017-03-07 04:27

The one event that's going to happen in somewhat of a reasonable time for me is when I'm vacationing in Europe. God fucking damn it!

2017-03-07 04:27

1 reply

haha

2017-03-07 04:37

Renegades gonna win it all Kappa

2017-03-07 04:46

next IEM on International Space Station please

2017-03-07 05:18

1 reply

you real genius!!! haha

2017-03-07 18:01

expected tbh

2017-03-07 05:24

wooooooooooooo

2017-03-07 05:45

renegades LUL

2017-03-07 06:17

Aussies "cheating" in knife rounds coming up, youtube.com/watch?v=iQrLPtr_ikE PS: Aside of flam3z bombing the interviews ::)

2017-03-07 06:21

3 replies

wow jono y u do dis please :D

2017-03-07 10:42

1 reply

Just a little challenge for you to prove me wrong. Should be easy ;P

2017-03-09 08:29

the tf2 sniper after retirement

2017-03-07 14:21

Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi

2017-03-07 06:40

Shitney of all places and renegades invited LUL. Fact their are 4 more invites only, I pray there are no NA teams. I want to watch tier 1 cs, not dog shit.

2017-03-07 06:48

Nike

2017-03-07 06:58

1 reply

Nice*

2017-03-07 07:00

HYPPEEE LETS GO Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi!

2017-03-07 06:59

AU crowd <3<3<3

2017-03-07 07:00

Who's Aussie? Why are you cheering for her, is she a female cs pro or something?

2017-03-07 07:01

GOOD DAY FOR AUCS

2017-03-07 07:02

FUCK YEAH FINALLY !@!!

2017-03-07 07:04

nice, aussies deserve an event

2017-03-07 07:36

Kangaroo prepped and ready for trip!

2017-03-07 07:55

Anyone got any info, rumour or 'spider senses' on who the other 4 invites might be? Not going to waste my money and time if SK is the main draw card. Rather play some backyard cricket with the lads and smash a few frothies!

2017-03-07 08:00

3 replies

Hoping for Astralis maybe faze

2017-03-07 08:19

dont worry mate, probably just some t2-t3 teams like mouz, envyus to make the competition somewhat possible for the aussie teams :>

2017-03-07 16:10

1 reply

I couldn't give a fuck how the Aussie teams go. I'll support them no matter what. I want the invited teams to be actually half decent and be a draw card. Not some fucking horse shit OpTiC or EnVyUs and make it seem like some tier 1 shit.

2017-03-08 07:26

100% vp and navi

2017-03-07 08:14

A tier 1 tournament in AU? YESSSSS plzzz, it's a shame I'm a melbournian. :/

2017-03-07 08:15

Sound pretty nice and i understand that AUS team get invite but why give SK a free invite?

2017-03-07 08:23

+FaZe +fnatic +Na'Vi +G2 plsss Astralis can win some other tournament and VP complain about travelling anyway

2017-03-07 08:51

I want to see fnatic and VP in here, or its gonna suck

2017-03-07 09:06

LEM sidney

2017-03-07 09:26

pls can we get astralis that would be sick

2017-03-07 10:10

So easy for Australian teams as its on their home soil! So easy!

2017-03-07 10:14

FaZe, Astralis, NaVi and VP would be sweet. Alot of different reperesentation and we're multicultural as fuck. Doens't matter either way, I'll be drinking myself retarded! Go Renegades! derp! What DJ should we get d00ds? lawl

2017-03-07 10:19

1 reply

Will Sparks or Timmy Trumpet to be affordable and to pander towards the home crowd lol

2017-03-07 12:12

"Renegades, who will be back to Australia to play a premier tournament for the first time since the Crown Invitational in 2015." Wow, time flies... And here I am still living the same shit life(((

2017-03-07 10:16

+LDLC +G2 +nV Kappa jk +Heroic

2017-03-07 10:43

I mean shitty viewer count incoming. It's gonna happen, we already saw it in 2015... But I guess it's good just for the sake of the game in the region so people there don't think they forgot about them...

2017-03-07 10:44

STRAYA AYYY

2017-03-07 12:10

20.000 grand final viewers incoming

2017-03-07 12:15

8 hours drive melbourne sydney?? lul straya is fucking huge

2017-03-07 12:23

I'm planning to go!! Im in!!!! GO SK!!!!!

2017-03-07 12:40

hope it will help AU scene to grow I dont understand why are you complaining about timezone. There are a lot events u can watch. One event wont kill you.

2017-03-07 12:45

1 reply

>One event wont kill you. Famous last words.

2017-03-07 14:16

Invited teams leak: - nV - G2 - NiP - Fnatic - Vp - Faze

2017-03-07 12:46

1 reply

- Astralis - VP - Immortals - G2

2017-03-07 13:27

Rest of the invites: NIP, G2, C9, Liquid :)

2017-03-07 12:48

Wow 2k viewers inc (whole aus csgo community)

2017-03-07 13:26

VP will denied!

2017-03-07 13:28

Australian tournament, still gotta drive like 10 hours just to go.... why the fuck is my country so big.

2017-03-07 14:09

5 replies

lul

2017-03-07 14:27

Brisbane? If so, it's just as expensive to drive down as it is to fly if you book early enough. I'm flying down Friday afternoon and flying back Sunday night so I don't skip uni lel

2017-03-08 10:26

3 replies

Yeah true, but i work weekends most of the time and have hardly any money because those are the only hours i get. also gold coast not brisbane

2017-03-08 10:59

2 replies

Fly to Newcastle and I'll pick you up :3

2017-03-16 06:07

1 reply

Legit i would if I didn't need to work haha

2017-03-17 01:57

Danish teams won't go - You can literally die from every living creature down there!!

2017-03-07 14:47

Is this going to be considered a big event even with "only" USD ~200k prize purse? afaik big event must be above 250k... Why don't they make ti just like IEM Kato with exactly 250k up for grabs?

2017-03-07 14:52

crowd will be like in las vegas

2017-03-07 15:07

3 replies

nah , the crowd will be good .for sure its sydney not alice springs. but viewership will be low

2017-03-07 15:30

2 replies

whats the reason then to do in shitholes like australia if the viewership will be low

2017-03-07 16:13

1 reply

you are retarded my friend.

2017-03-07 16:15

fuck ESL and putting tournies in 3rd world shitholes GMT+11 40k viewers hltv confirmed

2017-03-07 15:47

1 reply

BabyRage BabyRage BabyRage BabyRage BabyRage BabyRage BabyRage BabyRage BabyRage BabyRage BabyRage

2017-03-08 16:12

straya timezone lul fk you cunts

2017-03-07 15:49

how they want to fill up whole stadium while the prize pull is only 200k dollarions.

2017-03-07 16:03

1 reply

We use dollarydoos not dollarions.

2017-03-08 10:25

AU CS

2017-03-07 17:10

16-0

2017-03-07 17:12

1. Australia has no scene 2. Timezone

2017-03-07 17:24

I don't know if the players feels good at visiting a new country or frustrated for a long travel.

2017-03-07 18:00

To you idiots saying time difference we are forced to watch games well into mornings.. just gone bo5 started 1:30am perth time, 3:30am sydney time get over we been doing it for years.

2017-03-07 18:27

1 reply

2017-03-07 23:49

Renegades of funk.

2017-03-07 20:04