{"id":8008,"date":"2019-08-23T00:37:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T00:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=8008"},"modified":"2020-10-05T22:04:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T02:04:05","slug":"team-liquid-and-astralis-confirmed-for-iem-beijing-haidian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/team-liquid-and-astralis-confirmed-for-iem-beijing-haidian\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Liquid and Astralis confirmed for IEM Beijing-Haidian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESL has announced details about the $250,000 <a href=\"\/electronic-sports-league\/intel-extreme-masters\/\" title=\"IEM esports events\">Intel Extreme Masters<\/a> Beijing-Haidian event, which is set to kick off on November 7, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Talk of the event first surfaced in mid-July <a href=\"\/new-rules-for-intel-grand-slam-to-kick-in-at-iem-chicago\/\" title=\"New rules for IGS to kick in at IEM Chicago\">when a new set of rules was announced for the Intel Grand Slam<\/a> in order to prevent yet another short-lived season.<\/p>\n<p>While there were no promises about IEM Beijing-Haidian on that day, ESL made an official announcement on Thursday, August 22, that IEM is returning to the Chinese capital to celebrate IEM&#8217;s 10-year anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>A total of eight teams will participate at the tournament, with Team Liquid and Astralis already confirming their appearance. <\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">?? We&#39;re back and bigger than ever! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamLiquid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TeamLiquid<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/astralisgg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@astralisgg<\/a> will join us at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IEM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IEM<\/a> Beijing-Haidian on November 9-10 as we bring the full ESL experience to China for the fist time.<\/p>\n<p>? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yoQqfiCxgb\">https:\/\/t.co\/yoQqfiCxgb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rQH6VY3Yhd\">pic.twitter.com\/rQH6VY3Yhd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Intel\u00aeExtremeMasters (@IEM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IEM\/status\/1164477390170591233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Three of the remaining spots are reserved for invitees, with the last three going to the respective winners of the GG.Bet Beijing Invitational, Chinese qualifiers and Asian qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>While the lineup is nowhere near finalized, the 2019 event looks to be much more stacked compared to last year&#8217;s IEM Shanghai, where the only top-10 team in the field (NRG) won the title and $125,000 in prize money.<\/p>\n<p>ESL also announced the format of the tournament, which will feature a group stage (November 7-8) and playoffs (November 9-10).<\/p>\n<p>The group stage will split the eight teams into two double-elimination GSL groups based on their ESL <a href=\"\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"CS:GO esports betting\">CS:GO esports<\/a> world rankings. All matches will be played in best-of-three series (Bo3).<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams from each group will then advance into the playoffs, where a single-elimination bracket will be used for all fixtures. Bo3 series will be used for both semi-finals fixtures, whereas best-of-five (Bo5) series will be used for the grand finals.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the schedule, format and the teams, it was revealed IEM Beijing 2019 will count towards the third season of Intel Grand Slam, meaning it is a must win for Team Liquid as they look to defend their IGS title.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" title=\"Latest CS:GO news\">MORE ESPORTS NEWS<\/a><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESL has announced details about the $250,000 Intel Extreme Masters Beijing-Haidian event, which is set to kick off on November 7 this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":8010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,508,626,22,4,751,46],"class_list":["post-8008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cn","tag-counter-strike","tag-cs-go","tag-esl","tag-featured","tag-iem-beijing","tag-intel-extreme-masters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8008"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14184,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008\/revisions\/14184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}