IEM VI GC Kyiv groups drawn

The groups for the IEM VI Global Challenge Kyiv have been drawn. The event will take place from the 19th-22nd of January in Kyiv, Ukraine. It will be the second to last stop for SC2, with Brazil following in February, and chance for players to qualify for the IEM VI World Championship.

The biggest name in the field is GSL October and GSL Blizzard Cup champion KRSeong Won ‘MMA’ Mun, who finds himself facing two Protoss and a Zerg in his group. Home soil players UAMihail ‘Kas’ Hayda and UADmytro ‘DIMAGA’ Filipchuk found themselves placed in groups with identical race numbers: two Terrans, one protoss and one Zerg in each. South Korea is the country represented by the most players, with three: MMA, Zenio and HerO.

Each group for the tournament contains one Zerg player only and all groups but one have two Protoss in them.

IEM VI Global Challenge Groups

Group A
RSAleksandar ‘Beastyqt’ Krstic (T)
CLPipe ‘KiLLeR’ Zuñiga (Z)
SEJohan ‘NaNiwa’ Lucchesi (P)
RUOleg ‘TitaN’ Kuptsov (P)

Group B
PLMarcin ‘DieStar’ Wieczorek (T)
NLManuel ‘Grubby’ Schenkhuizen (P)
UAMihail ‘Kas’ Hayda (T)
KRJung-Min ‘Zenio’ Choi (Z)

Group C
DEDennis ‘HasuObs’ Schneider (P)
KRSeong Won ‘MMA’ Mun (T)
RUSergey ‘Pomi’ Rodionov (P)
NOKristoffer ‘TargA’ Marthinsen (Z)

Group D
UADmytro ‘DIMAGA’ Filipchuk (Z)
BEJérémy ‘Feast’ Vansnick (P)
KRSong Hyun ‘HerO’ Deok (P)
USKevin ‘qxc’ Riley (T)

Racial distribution

Protoss: 7
Terran: 5
Zerg: 4

KiLLeR was one of the surprises of IEM VI New York, finishing 3rd overall. He defeated SjoW and elfi along the way.

HasuObs finished 4th at IEM VI Guangzhou, beating DIMAGA in five maps and losing to Elfi in five.

Source: ESL