IEM American Championship Finals preview - Introduction

Posted by Liam crow Crowley on 2009-12-10 18:45:02

Tags: IEM, rapha, dahang, DKT

Eight players descend on the West Edmonton Mall this weekend to fight for the prestigious title of North America's best QuakeLive player. Hot favourite Shane "rapha" Hendrixson returns to action following his Dreamhack no-show and will be met once more by the best that EG and compLexity can throw at him. $8,000 and three coveted spot at the global finals are on offer and nobody wants to miss out!

TEK9 will be your home for IEM North American coverage throughout the weekend, kicking off here with an in-depth look at all the qualified players and a few predictions as to how they might fare.

First let's run down the details of the weekend's action.

Name: IEM North American Finals
Location: Edmonton, Canada
Date: 11th to 13th December
Homepage: esl-world.net
Live Stream: tv.esl.eu

Live Scores
(coming soon)

Prize Money

$3,500

$1,500

$1,000
4th $700
5/6th $400
7/8th $250

Map List
DM6 - Campgrounds Redux
DM13 - Lost World
T7 - Furious Heights
T9 - House of Decay
ZTN - Blood run

Group A
United States

Shane "rapha" Hendrixson
United States

Tim "DaHanG" Fogarty
Canada

Andrew "gellehsak" Ryder
United States

Justin "sparks" Sparks

Group B
United States

Brian "dkt" Flander
Canada

Thomas "griffin" Wall
United States

Chance "Chance" Lacina
Netherlands

Sander "vo0" Kaasjager

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10 comments

#1 S2P SENSEZ 28 months ago +0 thumbs
	nice read :D gonna be cool to watch :)

#2 supreme 28 months ago +0 thumbs
	Rapha vs DaHanG should be an interesting final tbh =] gl all and ofc Sander <3

#3 MERild z1n0 28 months ago +0 thumbs
	word on the street is that rapha is sick :o

#4 xpero39 28 months ago +0 thumbs
	VooooooooooooOOOooO!

#5 Insan3 28 months ago +0 thumbs
	predictions will fail... badly.

#6 pp.Sentix 28 months ago +0 thumbs
	THE DUTCHIES TO CONQUER THE WORDL

#1 S2P SENSEZ 28 months ago +0 thumbs
	YES GO ON CONQUER ALL THE "WORDL"

#7 Shaun 28 months ago +0 thumbs
	www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5gdapYeRMk&feature=channel nice interview with rapha and dahang in the channel

#1 hi :)SaggyMidgetBooty 28 months ago +0 thumbs
	ty :D

#8 LIQUiDQUiCK 28 months ago +0 thumbs
	how come americans can become good at quake but nothing else...:(

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