# Intel Extreme Masters Season XIII – World Championship

The Intel Extreme Masters Season XIII – World Championship or IEM Katowice 2019 was the world championship for the thirteenth season of the Intel Extreme Masters. It was held at the Spodek in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland from February 13–March 3, 2019. The event featured tournaments for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, StarCraft II, and Fortnite: Battle Royale. In addition, the Counter-Strike tournament was the game's fourteenth Major Championship.

## Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Valve awarded ESL a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship for the first time in nearly two and a half years. This tournament featured twenty-four teams from around the world, fourteen of which were directly invited from their top fourteen placements from the last Major and another ten teams qualifying from their respective regional qualifiers.

### Major Playoffs

| Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Finals | Finals | Finals |
| 3 | Natus Vincere | 2 | | | | | | |
| 6 | FaZe Clan | 0 | | | | | | |
| 6 | FaZe Clan | 0 | 3 | Natus Vincere | 1 | | | |
| | | | 7 | ENCE eSports | 2 | | | |
| 2 | Team Liquid | 0 | 7 | ENCE eSports | 2 | | | |
| 7 | ENCE eSports | 2 | | | | | | |
| 7 | ENCE eSports | 2 | | | | 7 | ENCE eSports | 0 |
| | | | | | | 1 | Astralis | 2 |
| 4 | MIBR | 2 | | | | | | | 1 | Astralis | 2 |
| 5 | Renegades | 0 | | | | | | |
| 5 | Renegades | 0 | 4 | MIBR | 0 | | | |
| | | | 1 | Astralis | 2 | | | |
| 1 | Astralis | 2 | 1 | Astralis | 2 | | | |
| 8 | Ninjas in Pyjamas | 0 | | | | | | |

### Intel Challenge

This tournament also featured the Intel Challenge Katowice 2019, an eight team tournament consisted of female teams.

#### Group stage

Group A
| Pos | Team | W | L | RF | RA | RD |
| 1 | Assassins | 2 | 0 | 32 | 18 | +14 |
| 2 | Dignitas Female | 2 | 1 | 59 | 31 | +28 |
| 3 | paiN Girls | 1 | 2 | 60 | 86 | -26 |
| 4 | Orgless Female | 0 | 2 | 46 | 62 | -16 |
Group B
| Pos | Team | W | L | RF | RA | RD |
| 1 | Beşiktaş Esports | 2 | 0 | 32 | 21 | +11 |
| 2 | Counter Logic Gaming Red | 2 | 1 | 57 | 42 | +15 |
| 3 | Crowns Female | 1 | 2 | 58 | 69 | -11 |
| 4 | Carnage Esports Female | 0 | 2 | 33 | 48 | -29 |

#### Intel Challenge playoffs

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Finals | Finals | Finals |
| A1 | Assassins | 1 | | | |
| B2 | CLG Red | 2 | | | |
| B2 | CLG Red | 2 | B2 | CLG Red | 0 |
| | | | A2 | Dignitas Female | 2 |
| B1 | Beşiktaş Esports | 1 | A2 | Dignitas Female | 2 |
| A2 | Dignitas Female | 2 | Third place | Third place | Third place |
| | | | A1 | Assassins | 1 |
| | | | B1 | Beşiktaş Esports | 2 |

## Dota 2

Dota 2's tournament was called ESL One Katowice 2019 rather than IEM Katowice 2019 as ESL deemed it to be part of its Dota ESL One series.

### Teams
#### Direct Invitees

* Alliance
* Chaos Esports Club
* Fnatic
* Forward Gaming
* Ninjas in Pyjamas
* OG
* Team Aster
* Team Secret

#### Qualifiers

* compLexity Gaming (North America)
* For The Dream (China)
* Gambit Esports (Europe)
* Mineski (Southeast Asia)

### Group stage
#### Group A

| Pos | Team | W-L | |
| 1 | Team Secret | 9-1 | Advance to upper bracket |
| 2 | Gambit Esports | 7-3 | Advance to upper bracket |
| 3 | OG | 6-4 | Advance to lower bracket |
| 4 | Mineski | 4-6 | Advance to lower bracket |
| 5 | Forward Gaming | 3-7 | Eliminated |
| 6 | For The Dream | 1-9 | Eliminated |
Results :
| | Secret | Gambit | FTD | OG | Forward | Mineski |
| Secret | | 2-0 | 2-0 | 1-1 | 2-0 | 2-0 |
| Gambit | 0-2 | | 2-0 | 2-0 | 1-1 | 2-0 |
| FTD | 0-2 | 0-2 | | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-2 |
| OG | 1-1 | 0-2 | 2-0 | | 1-1 | 2-0 |
| Forward | 0-2 | 1-1 | 1-1 | 1-1 | | 0-2 |
| Mineski | 0-2 | 0-2 | 2-0 | 0-2 | 2-0 | |

#### Group B

| Pos | Team | W-L | |
| 1 | Fnatic | 8-2 | Advance to upper bracket |
| 2 | Ninjas in Pyjamas | 6-4 | Advance to upper bracket |
| 3 | Chaos Esports Club | 6-4 | Advance to lower bracket |
| 4 | Team Aster | 5-5 | Advance to lower bracket |
| 5 | compLexity Gaming | 3-7 | Eliminated |
| 6 | Alliance | 2-8 | Eliminated |
Results :
| | NiP | coL | Fnatic | [A] | Chaos | Aster |
| NiP | | 1-1 | 1-1 | 2-0 | 1-1 | 1-1 |
| coL | 1-1 | | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0-2 |
| Fnatic | 1-1 | 1-1 | | 2-0 | 2-0 | 2-0 |
| [A] | 0-2 | 1-1 | 0-2 | | 1-1 | 0-2 |
| Chaos | 1-1 | 2-0 | 0-2 | 1-1 | | 2-0 |
| Aster | 1-1 | 2-0 | 0-2 | 2-0 | 0-2 | |

### Playoffs
#### Upper bracket

| Upper bracket semifinals | Upper bracket semifinals | Upper bracket semifinals | Upper bracket finals | Upper bracket finals | Upper bracket finals |
| A1 | Team Secret | 2 | | | |
| B2 | Ninjas in Pyjamas | 0 | | | |
| B2 | Ninjas in Pyjamas | 0 | A1 | Team Secret | 2 |
| | | | A2 | Gambit Esports | 0 |
| B1 | Fnatic | 1 | A2 | Gambit Esports | 0 |
| A2 | Gambit Esports | 2 | | | |

#### Lower bracket

| Lower bracket round 1 | Lower bracket round 1 | Lower bracket round 1 | Lower bracket round 2 | Lower bracket round 2 | Lower bracket round 2 | Lower bracket semifinals | Lower bracket semifinals | Lower bracket semifinals |
| | | | B2 | Ninjas in Pyjamas | 1 | | | |
| A3 | OG | 2 | A3 | OG | 2 | | | |
| B4 | Team Aster | 0 | | | | A3 | OG | 2 |
| | | | | | | B1 | Fnatic | 0 |
| | | | B1 | Fnatic | 2 | | | |
| B3 | Chaos Esports Club | 1 | A4 | Mineski | 1 | | | |
| A4 | Mineski | 2 | | | | | | |

#### Top 3

| Lower bracket finals | Lower bracket finals | Lower bracket finals | Finals | Finals | Finals |
| | | | A1 | Team Secret | 3 |
| A2 | Gambit Esports | 2 | A2 | Gambit Esports | 0 |
| A3 | OG | 0 | | | |

## StarCraft II
### Participants

| Protoss (8) | Terran (7) | Zerg (9) |
| 2018 WCS Global Finals (1) |||
| - | - | Serral (ENCE eSports) |
| Server Qualifiers (11) |||
| Neeb (Ting) | Bunny (Team Blacer) | Dark (The Gosu Crew) |
| Patience | INnoVation (Team Reprecocity) | Rogue (Green Wings) |
| Zest | Maru (Green Wings) | - |
| - | SpeCial (XTEN Esports) | - |
| - | TY (Splyce) | - |
| - | uThermal (Team Liquid) | - |
| Offline qualifiers (12) |||
| Creator (Green Wings) | GuMiho (PSISTORM) | Lambo (QLASH) |
| Dear (Newbee) | - | Leenock |
| herO (TSGaming) | - | RaganaroK (PSISTORM) |
| Stats (Splyce) | - | Scarlett (Newbee) |
| Trap (Green Wings) | - | Solar (TSGaming) |
| - | - | soO (Chivo SC) |

### Group stage

Group A :
| P | Player | W-L | Map W-L | MD |
| 1 | Stats | 5-0 | 10-2 | +8 |
| 2 | Zest | 4-1 | 9-4 | +5 |
| 3 | herO | 3-2 | 6-5 | +1 |
| 4 | SpeCial | 2-3 | 6-7 | -1 |
| 5 | Patience | 1-4 | 3-8 | -5 |
| 6 | Creator | 0-5 | 2-10 | -8 |
Group B :
| P | Player | W-L | Map W-L | MD |
| 1 | Dark | 4-1 | 8-3 | +5 |
| 2 | Trap | 3-2 | 6-5 | +1 |
| 3 | Neeb | 3-2 | 6-6 | 0 |
| 4 | Maru | 2-3 | 6-6 | 0 |
| 5 | Leenock | 2-3 | 6-8 | -1 |
| 6 | Lambo | 1-4 | 4-8 | -4 |
Group C :
| P | Player | W-L | Map W-L | MD |
| 1 | Serral | 4-1 | 9-5 | +4 |
| 2 | RagnaroK | 3-2 | 8-5 | +3 |
| 3 | Solar | 3-2 | 7-7 | 0 |
| 4 | GuMiho | 2-3 | 6-6 | 0 |
| 5 | Rogue | 2-3 | 5-7 | -2 |
| 6 | INnoVation | 1-4 | 4-9 | -5 |
Group D :
| P | Player | W-L | Map W-L | MD |
| 1 | Dear | 4-1 | 8-2 | +6 |
| 2 | TY | 3-2 | 6-6 | 0 |
| 3 | soO | 2-3 | 6-6 | 0 |
| 4 | Bunny | 2-3 | 6-7 | -1 |
| 5 | uThermal | 2-3 | 5-7 | -2 |
| 6 | Scarlett | 2-3 | 4-7 | -3 |

### Playoffs

| First round | First round | First round | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final | Final |
| | | | Dear | Dear | 0 | | | | | | |
| herO | herO | 3 | herO | herO | 3 | | | | | | |
| Trap | Trap | 0 | | | | herO | herO | 1 | | | |
| | | | | | | soO | soO | 3 | | | |
| | | | Serral | Serral | 2 | | | | | | |
| Zest | Zest | 0 | soO | soO | 3 | | | | | | |
| soO | soO | 3 | | | | | | | soO | soO | 4 |
| | | | | | | | | | Stats | Stats | 2 |
| | | | Stats | Stats | 3 | | | | | | |
| Neeb | Neeb | 3 | Neeb | Neeb | 0 | | | | | | |
| RagnaroK | RagnaroK | 0 | | | | Stats | Stats | 3 | | | |
| | | | | | | Dark | Dark | 1 | | | |
| | | | Dark | Dark | 3 | | | | | | |
| TY | TY | 0 | Solar | Solar | 1 | | | | | | |
| Solar | Solar | 3 | | | | | | | | | |

## Fortnite: Battle Royale
### Duos

* hrs - Chap
* 7ssk7 - Jamside
* Bizzle - Dmo
* Boyerxd - Crippa
* Domentos - Fwexy
* Hoopek - Sk1x
* Issa - Kamo
* Kinstaar - Hunter
* Magin - Juganza
* Mirwana - Inclyde
* Mitr0 - Khuna
* Motor - ErycTriceps
* Nate Hill - FunkBomb
* RazZzero0o - x8
* Saf - Zayt
* Sak0ner - Skram
* Skite - Vato
* Taiovsky - Nero
* Teeqzy - Mushway
* Tfue - Cloak
* TheVic - Blaxou
* Vivid - Poach
* ZexRow - Vinny1x