Intel Extreme Masters

Overview

The Intel Extreme Masters is ESL's flagship competition sponsored by Intel. IEM is a huge tournament series spanning many months and individual competitions culminating in the Global Championships. Each year the games which are played change, the first season to incorporate League of Legends was Season V with a four team invitational and due to its huge success it was picked up again in Season VI. Tournaments involved in the IEM range from small online qualifiers with $100 prizes to huge live events giving away upwards of five figure cash prizes to the winners of major events. It should be noted that not every event includes League of Legends but for this article, we will only be talking about the League of Legends portion of the events.

Tournaments

List of Intel Extreme Masters

IEM Season V
	Event	Date	Winner	Runner-Up
	Hanover Invitational	2011 (2010.03.04)	myRevenge	against All authority
IEM Season VI
	Event	Date	Winner	Runner-Up
	Global Challenge Cologne	2011 (2011.08.17-2011.08.21)	CLG Prime	Team SoloMid
	Global Challenge Guangzhou	2011 (2011.10.01-2011.10.05)	Team WE	Counter Logic Gaming
	Global Challenge New York	2011 (2011.10.13-2011.10.16)	Fnatic	SK Gaming
	Global Challenge Kiev	2012 (2012.01.19-2012.01.22)	Moscow Five	Team SoloMid
	Global Challenge Sao Paulo	2012 (2012.02.07)	Noob da Net	WWW
	World Championship	2012 (2012.03.06-2012.03.10)	Moscow Five	Dignitas
IEM Season VII
	Event	Date	Winner	Runner-Up
	Global Challenge Guangzhou	2012 (2012.09.30-2011.10.04)	Cancelled
	Global Challenge Singapore	2012 (2012.11.22-2012.11.25)	MeetYourMakers	Absolute Legends NA
	Global Challenge Cologne	2012 (2012.12.14-2012.12.16)	SK Telecom T1	Fnatic
	Global Challenge Katowice	2013 (2013.01.18-2013.01.20)	Gambit Gaming	Azubu Blaze
	Global Challenge Sao Paulo	2013 (2013.01.28-2013.02.03)	Incredible Miracle	Anexis eSports
	World Championship	2013 (2013.03.06-2013.03.09)	CJ Entus Blaze	CJ Entus Frost
IEM Season VIII
	Event	Date	Winner	Runner-Up
	Shanghai	2013 (2013.07.25-2013.07.28)	Team WE	Invictus Gaming
	Cologne	2013 (2013.11.23-2013.11.24)	Gambit Gaming	Fnatic
	Singapore	2013 (2013.11.28-2013.12.01)	Invictus Gaming	CJ Entus Frost
	Sao Paulo	2014 (2014.01.28-2014.01.29)	Millenium	paiN Gaming
	World Championship	2014 (2014.03.14-2014.03.16)	KT Rolster Bullets	Fnatic
IEM Season IX
	Event	Date	Winner	Runner-Up
	Shenzhen	2014 (2014.07.20)	Team WE	EDward Gaming
	San Jose	2014 (2014.12.06-2014.12.07)	Cloud9	Unicorns Of Love
	Cologne	2014 (2014.12.18-2014.12.21)	Gambit Gaming	Counter Logic Gaming
	Taipei	2015 (2015.01.28-2015.02.01)	yoe Flash Wolves	Taipei Assassins
	World Championship	2015 (2015.03.13-2015.03.15)	Team SoloMid	Team WE
IEM Season X
	Event	Date	Winner	Runner-Up
	San Jose	2015 (2015.11.21-2015.11.22)	Origen	Counter Logic Gaming
	Cologne	2015 (2015.12.18-2015.12.20)	ESC Ever	Qiao Gu Reapers
	World Championship	2016 (2016.03.04-2016.03.06)	SK Telecom T1	Fnatic
IEM Season 11
	Event	Date	Winner	Runner-Up
	Oakland	2016 (2016.11.19-2016.11.20)	Unicorns Of Love	Flash Wolves
	Gyeonggi	2016 (2016.12.14-2016.12.18)	Samsung Galaxy	Kongdoo Monster
	World Championship	2017 (2017.02.22-2017.02.26)	Flash Wolves	G2 Esports

= Global Event

= World Championship

Trivia

Medals won per Region

R					Total
EU	7	9	8	10	34
NA	3	7	5	8	23
KR	7	4	0	7	18
CN	4	4	2	4	14
LMS	2	2	3	0	7
CIS	4	0	1	1	6
BR	1	2	2	1	6
SEA	0	0	1	3	4

Medals won per Team

R	Team					Total
EU	⁠⁠Fnatic	1	4	1	2	8
NA	⁠⁠Counter Logic Gaming	1	3	1	2	7
NA	⁠⁠TSM	1	2		4	7
EU	⁠⁠Gambit Gaming	3			2	5
CN	⁠⁠Team WE	3	1			4
LMS	⁠⁠yoe Flash Wolves	2	1		1	4
EU	⁠⁠SK Gaming		1	2	1	4
NA	⁠⁠Dignitas		1	1	2	4
KR	⁠⁠SK Telecom T1	2			1	3
CN	⁠⁠Invictus Gaming	1	1		1	3
EU	⁠⁠MeetYourMakers	1		1	1	3
NA	⁠⁠Cloud9	1			2	3
EU	⁠⁠Millenium	1			2	3
CIS	⁠⁠Moscow Five	2				2
EU	⁠⁠Unicorns of Love	1	1			2
KR	⁠⁠CJ Entus Frost		2			2
BR	⁠⁠paiN Gaming		1	1		2
EU	⁠⁠against All authority		1		1	2
CN	⁠⁠Oh My God				2	2
SEA	⁠⁠Saigon Jokers				2	2
EU	⁠⁠H2k-Gaming				2	2
KR	⁠⁠CJ Entus Blaze	1				1
KR	⁠⁠Incredible Miracle	1				1
KR	⁠⁠KT Rolster Bullets	1				1
EU	⁠⁠myRevenge	1				1
BR	⁠⁠Noob da Net	1				1
EU	⁠⁠Origen	1				1
KR	⁠⁠ESC Ever	1				1
KR	⁠⁠Samsung Galaxy	1				1
NA	⁠⁠Absolute Legends NA		1			1
EU	⁠⁠Anexis eSports		1			1
KR	⁠⁠Azubu Blaze		1			1
CN	⁠⁠EDward Gaming		1			1
LMS	⁠⁠Taipei Assassins		1			1
BR	⁠⁠World Wide Wipers		1			1
CN	⁠⁠Qiao Gu Reapers		1			1
KR	⁠⁠Kongdoo Monster		1			1
EU	⁠⁠G2 Esports		1			1
SEA	⁠⁠Kuala Lumpur Hunters			1		1
EU	⁠⁠Team Sypher			1		1
LMS	⁠⁠ahq eSports Club				1	1
EU	⁠⁠Alliance				1	1
BR	⁠⁠Awake				1	1
KR	⁠⁠Azubu Frost				1	1
KR	⁠⁠CJ Entus				1	1
CN	⁠⁠EHOME				1	1
KR	⁠⁠GE Tigers				1	1
SEA	⁠⁠itadakimasu				1	1
EU	⁠⁠oceloteWorld				1	1
CN	⁠⁠Royal Club				1	1
BR	⁠⁠Seven Wars e-Sports				1	1
LMS	⁠⁠Taipei Snipers				1	1
EU	⁠⁠Team ROCCAT				1	1
KR	⁠⁠Jin Air Green Wings				1	1
CN	⁠⁠Royal Never Give Up				1	1
KR	⁠⁠Longzhu Gaming				1	1
NA	⁠⁠Immortals				1	1
NA	⁠⁠Team Liquid				1	1
KR	⁠⁠ROX Tigers				1	1