IEM Katowice 2017 groups drawn

Intel Extreme Masters S11 World Championship will be held 1-5 March 2017 in the Polish city of Katowice, in which 12 teams will take part. Eight participants received a direct invitation from the organizers, and the remaining 4 quotas have been played in public qualifications. The venue of the 11 th World Championship Series tournament will be SCC Spodek, able to accommodate about 11,500 spectators, and the prize pool will be traditional for this event $ 250,000.

Teams participating will play at LAN-finals two groups Round-robin BO1 format, which determine the six strongest team that will share the lion's share of $ 250,000 in the grid playoffs.

Sowing of the participants in the group stage:

Group A

Heroic
Natus Vincere
Cloud9
North
Virtus.pro
SK

Group B

Immortals
fnatic
NiP
FaZe
OpTic
Astralis