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Championship Katowice 2019, Poland

Part IV

Basic information
Name: Intel Extreme Masters World Championship Katowice 2018

Date and place: February 27 - March 4, 2018; Katowice, Poland

Number of participants: 16 teams

Prize pool: $ 500,000

Format of the games: group stage + cup phase

Over 173 thousand passed through the Katowice Spodek. visitors. (In 2017). And in 2016 there were over 110,000

The e-sport games saw 46 million Internet users with unique network addresses. This is an increase of 35% compared to the 2016 finals. It is worth noting that the live broadcast was conducted in as many as 19 different languages. Of course, in Polish. ESL acknowledges that it is the biggest challenge associated with broadcasting content, which they stood in during their entire operation.

Other online statistics also look interesting. For example, every minute there were an average of 100 Twitter entries relating to IEM 2017. The finals generated as many as 255 million responses in leading social media. It is also interesting that the percentage of people who consumed IEM 2017 content using VR goggles more than doubled.

Statistics leave no illusions. The IEM 2017 finals were the largest event of this type in the history of Poland and the whole of Central Europe. A great result, especially considering the fact that during the Olympics in Spodek there were not enough stage favorites - the band Virtus.pro made up of players of Polish nationality.