IEM Katowice, the conclusion of IEM Season 11, will take area over two weekends at last in the events history, ESL announced on Wednesday.
Typically the League of Legends suprême will run from Feb .. 25-26 at the Spodek Area, while the CSGO and SOUTH CAROLINA II competitions will be presented from March 3-5 with both the Spodek Arena plus the nearby International Convention Facility. The event will feature a $600, 000 prize pool, however prize distribution has still to be announced.
In a affirmation, Michal Blicharz, VP of professional Gaming at ESL, explained the decision to extend the IEM Katowice over two breaks came about because they could not develop a second indoor arena.
"Last March we thought many of us needed two arenas to essentially satisfy the number of people that planned to the world's best avid gamers compete at Intel Serious Masters, " Blicharz explained. "We were obviously can not construct a second indoor area, so we've expanded the globe Championship to take place CSGO Skins over a pair of major esports weekends. very well
Season X of IEM concluded in March, using Polt, SK Telecom T1 and Fnatic winning typically the SC II, LoL along with CSGO events respectively.