IEM4 Cologne Seeds and Schedule

ESL made the seeds and schedules known for the IEM4 EU championship at Cologne, Germany.

Now, while I usually don’t post about seeds in general as I find it less interesting as it’s just a prelude to the drawn groups that actually have a meaning, the 4 groups of seeds for the IEM4 EU championship already raise alot of discussion and speculation of “what if” and “suppose that” regarding which players will be drawn together.

 
Due to some qualified players not making the IEM offline happening, spots have opened for zsx (for fooki), Z4muZ (for qrebo) and dem0n (for Guard). Good luck to them!

But the schedule is of course important as people need to start clearing their agenda to make time for watching all the goodies being streamed on ESL TV from Thursday, 21st of January up to Sunday, 24th, as not only the winner of that weekend will go home with a nice pocket of gold, but also the top 6 will qualify for the World Championships in March 2010 during Cebit at Hannover, Germany.

Thursday, 21st

14:00 CET – Groupstage: Group A

18:20 CET – Groupstage: Group B

Friday, 22nd

14:00 CET – Groupstage: Group C

18:20 CET – Groupstage: Group D

Saturday, 23rd

13:00 CET – Quarter Finals

17:00 CET – Playdown Match #1

18:00 CET – Playdown Match #2

19:00 CET – Games for 5th and 7th place

Sunday, 24th

12:00 CET – Semi Final #1

12:40 CET – Semi Final #2

13:50 CET – Game for 3rd place

14:50 CET – Grand Final

More:

• ESL announcement
• ESR newspost