IEM Global Challenge groups and schedule announced

1/12/2020 - 16:54

Natus Vincere and Heroic are in group B, while Vitality and Astralis are in group A of the $500,000 tournament.

The four-team groups for IEM Global Challenge, which will take place online on December 15-20, have been drawn. Aside from the aforementioned teams, Complexity and Chaos slotted into group A, while group B was finalized by two North America-based teams, Liquid and FURIA.

The event, which was originally planned as a LAN, will be the last big tournament of the year, featuring some of the best teams from the two most prominent regions. On Monday, it was announced that Evil Geniuses will not be attending the tournament due to "COVID-19-related travel restrictions", seeing their countrymen Liquid come in as a replacement.

s1mple's NAVI take on FURIA in their opening match

IEM Global Challenge will be played out using a BO3 GSL group stage, followed by a single-elimination bracket that will conclude in a BO5 grand final. The tournament will span from Tuesday to Sunday, with the champions taking home $200,000.

The group draw is available below:

Group A

Group B

The tournament will kick off with a match between Vitality and underdogs Chaos, who earned their spot by winning IEM Beijing-Haidian 2020 North America after upsetting Evil Geniuses in the semi final.

The full schedule is as follows:

Tuesday, December 15
12:00 Vitality vs. Chaos (BO3)
15:30 Astralis vs. Complexity (BO3)
19:00 Natus Vincere vs. FURIA (BO3)

Wednesday, December 16
12:00 Heroic vs. Liquid (BO3)
15:30 Group A elimination match (BO3)
19:00 Group A winners' match (BO3)

Thursday, December 17
16:00 Group B elimination match (BO3)
19:30 Group B winners' match (BO3)

Friday, December 18
16:00 Group A decider match (BO3)
19:30 Group B decider match (BO3)

Saturday, December 19
16:00 Semi-final #1 (BO3)
19:30 Semi-final #2 (BO3)

Sunday, December 20
17:00 Grand final (BO5)

EZ for NaVi and s1mple #NAVINATION#NAVIDAVI #4AHRINYAN

2020-12-01 16:56

19 replies

no also chaos got fucked in the grouping

6 replies

#4AHRINYAN

2020-12-01 16:58

4 replies

tf is an ahrinyan

2020-12-01 17:01

3 replies

as I know, the "girlfriend" of s1mple

2020-12-01 17:05

1 reply

i see

2020-12-01 17:06

hltv.org/forums/threads/2387532/ahrinyan just saw this thread.

2020-12-01 17:49

yes also chaos got fucked in the grouping

2020-12-01 16:59

cringe bro

2020-12-01 17:17

2020-12-01 20:28

+111111111111111111 #NAVINATION #NAVIDAVI

2020-12-01 17:33

2 replies

EZ4SNUSICH AND PERFOMATOR

2020-12-01 17:35

? Actual content

2020-12-01 17:37

cringe af

2020-12-01 18:01

2020-12-01 18:07

Chokple

2020-12-01 19:51

+1 ez for the goat of csgo

2020-12-01 22:37

+1 Let's go NAVI!

2020-12-01 23:16

Ez4liquid

2020-12-01 16:55

+11111

2020-12-01 17:02

-1 as a liquid fan they are the worst team in this tournament

2020-12-01 18:46

They have a chance against heroic. Heroic kinda slumping rn.

2020-12-01 19:48

but furia... rip

2020-12-01 20:09

Let's just hope they heroic in the opening lose to navi then beat heroic again.

2020-12-01 21:01

nice

ez4jks

Oh s1mple why do you bait, To the bombsite you are often late, While your stats are always great, To wins they never translate.

2020-12-01 17:00

7 replies

oh. I see you are a man of culture

Nice one axaxaxaxaxa

2020-12-01 17:16

Jebaited

Lol no wins? In the last few S-Tier tournaments, they literally won every match in the last tournament, except 1 or 2, every match in the tournament before that except 1 or 2, every match in the tournament before that, except 1. I think you meant, "To majors" they never translate. Yeah, they have choked 3 major finals and 2 major semi-finals.

2020-12-01 17:36

Read his username

2020-12-01 18:05

Dang, I gotta start reading names and looking at the flairs/flags before writing anything, I guess :D I just used to look at the text.

2020-12-01 18:11

check my name

2020-12-01 21:05

ez furia

furia liquid same group oh god no

F Liquid

2020-12-01 20:04

EZ 4 NaVi

2020-12-01 17:34

expected

Luckyd

ez 4 FURIA

ez4marke

2020-12-01 19:23

GLHF

Liquid win the tournament easy against all these garbage teams

2020-12-01 16:57

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

2020-12-01 17:51

xaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxa

2020-12-01 18:08

EZ FOR CHAOS!,

ez4chaos

ez4col

RIP Chaos. also can liquid and furia please play in different groups for once?

why? at least one of them has the chance to qualify now

2020-12-01 17:30

lmao rekt

i dont necessarily care about that. id rather see both play more euro teams rather than each other for the 987th time.

2020-12-01 18:14

true but with 3 american teams out of 8 it had to be 2 of them in one group right? or 3 in the same but that would be even worse Liquid probably didnt want to loose against Chaos so they choose to loose against Furia :D they should have rather picked a decent EU team after EG dropped out and split Choas and Furia in 2 different groups

2020-12-01 18:21