The tournament is over, what great matches! 2 players and 2 teams are now qualified for the Finals in March. A big shout out to Intel for making this tournament possible, to all the players that have come to L.A. and to all viewers and eSports fans who enjoyed this first step of ESL on American soil.

#1 - fnatic - $25,000
#2 - SK Gaming - $10,000
#3 - Team Roccat - $5,000
#4 - Made in Brazil - $3,000, qualified for Finals
#5 - e-STRO - $2,000, qualified for Finals
#6 - eMazing Gaming
#7/8 - Meet Your Makers
#7/8 - MeetYourMakers.pl

#1 - Lyn - $12,000, qualified for Finals
#2 - Lucifer - $5,000, qualified for Finals
#3 - FoCuS - $1,500
#4 - Susiria - $1,000
#5 - hanf - $500
#6 - nilk
#7/8 - miou
#7/8 - KiWiKaKi

VoDs
Livestream

Counter-Strike Main Round Bracket
Counter-Strike Local Pre Qualifier Bracket (Matches)

Warcraft 3 Main Round Bracket
Warcraft 3 Local Pre Qualifier Bracket

"I'm considering a move to L.A."
(Article with first L.A. impressions from the ESL crew)

More info about the tournament:

L.A. event micro site
What's the Global Challenge?
The Schedule
The Location

Livecoverage:

GIGA 2 Freestream
HLTV (blank-TV, HLTV.org, Gotfrag TV, NiceZ.com)
IRC (Quakenet: #masters.live, #masters.live1 - 3)
WaaaghTV!

We are now live in Los Angeles. The registration to the open qualifier for the main event has started. The full brackets for this qualifier will be announced at around 3pm (midnight in Europe) with the games starting half an hour after.

In the meantime we can already present you plenty of content.

First of all, Carmac finished his first L.A. videoblog.

Then we have the first impressions from the ESL crew in the blog entry "I'm considering a move to L.A.".

Also check out the latest pictures in our photo gallery.

We proudly present the Intel® Extreme Masters Los Angeles! From 18th to 21st of October, Intel® Extreme Masters Season II is coming to Los Angeles, CA. At the trade fair E for All (former E3), the world's best Counter-Strike teams and Warcraft 3 players will compete for 65,000 US-Dollar prize money. The best two non-European teams and players will win a slot for the Intel Extreme Masters Season II finals in March.