Yesterday the ESL drawed the groups of the upcoming Extreme Masters main round.



A total of 24 players will be participating in the Extreme Masters. Twelve of them were directly invited by the ESL while the other twelve had to qualify. These 24 players are the lucky ones to fight for a total of $47,000 in cash prizes. Next to this, every player who wins a match gets a bonus of $125 per victory. As you can see, playing in the Extreme Masters can definately pay off.

The 24 players has been divided into three seeding pools, the high-, middle- and low-pool. Two players of each pool were drawed into one group of six players.

Unfortunately the Human legend Insomnia cancelled his participation and therefore a last chance qualifier will take place before the Extreme Masters start. Every player that failed to qualify in the qualifier round two will have the chance to qualify for the open spot. At the WC3L finals it was said that it might be Insomnia's last big tournament, and with cancelling the participation in the Extreme Masters it does pretty much look like this becomes true. Will Insomnia go inactive? We will keep you up to date.

Back to the Extreme Masters! The groups look quite strong, but one might be considered as the group of death: Group C. The two 4K players Grubby and LiiLD.C got matched against their former clanmate ToD as well as Rob and Fire. The sixth spot will be filled with the player who qualified by winning the last chance qualifier. Grubby and ToD for sure are two of the favourites in the Masters and Rob aswell as LiiLD.C are able to suprise aswell.

But not only group C looks strong, also group A will become very exciting. The players mostly seem to be on a quite even level of play.

Extreme Masters Season II Groups
Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D
elfittaja Satiini ToD Happy
XyLigan SaSe Grubby HoT
NightWOlf Kemper LiilD.C miou
HasuObs Protois Rob Paladyn
Knoff Ciara Fire_de ZeuS
elqua TRH Insomnia DieSeL
DowaQ

Update: Insomnia will play, DowaQ still qualified


The Last Chance Qualifier was held due to Insomnia cancelling his participation in the Extreme Masters. However, he now changed his decision and will take part, nontheless DowaQ will be able to participate aswell. This means the tournament will consist of 25 instead of the planned 24 players, and group C will have seven instead of six players.
DowaQ was able to win the Last Chance Qualifier against opponents like RotterdaM and ThomasG and therefore qualified for the Main Round.