Showing posts with label Extreme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Extreme. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

IEM and Seth Oakley both go the SAP Center...



...and only one of them leaves alive.

It was, of course, Seth Oakley who came out alive, since Intel Extreme Masters is an event, not a living organism.  That had a lot to do with it.  

IEM is a tournament and trade show type event for Intel to showcase its products to a crowd of eSports enthusiasts.  They occupy a convention center somewhere around the world, moving from Shenzhen to Toronto to San Jose, then to Cologne and Taipei and ending up in the championship in Katowice.  This past weekend was the San Jose weekend, so I grabbed three friends Scott Joe and Greg and went down to watch League of Legends team Cloud9 clean up on Sunday.  Oh, yeah, spoiler warning.  We came into the games after Unicorns of Love had a tremendous showing the previous day and upset the home country favorite, TeamSoloMid.  TSM was a quarter-finalist at the World Championship, and have a huge fan base in the US, even when traveling abroad - TSM chants are quite common during matches.