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Intel Extreme Masters Season IX — World Championship

Intel Extreme Masters Season IX's World Championship brought League of Legends and StarCraft II to Katowice in March 2015. TSM won the League of Legends title after defeating Team WE 3–0 in the final.

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Intel Extreme Masters Season IX — World Championship
TSM lift the League of Legends trophy at IEM Katowice 2015. · Photo by ESL Photos; official ESL photo gallery, ‘The top 25 photos of League of Legends at Intel Extreme Masters Katowice’ ·
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Updated October 28, 2026

Competition snapshot

Champion

League of Legends: TSM; StarCraft II: Zest[1]

Combined prize pool

More than USD 200,000 in event prizing was announced before the event; the source does not provide a final combined total[2]

Participant scale

8 League of Legends teams; 16 StarCraft II players[1][3]

Category

Organizer

Commercial note

Organizer under the ESL name · Recorded in the 2015 edition.[2]

Category

Sponsor

Partner

Intel

Commercial note

Event title partner · Recorded in the 2015 edition.[2]

PTG Database Analysis

The League of Legends competition ran March 13–15 within Intel Extreme Masters Season IX’s March 12–15 World Championship. TSM defeated Team WE 3–0 in the final to win the LoL title and the USD 108,414 champion’s prize. Eight teams took part in the League of Legends field.[1][2]

Teams played a double-elimination, best-of-one group stage before a single-elimination playoff bracket; the final was best-of-five.[6]

The World Championship paired the League of Legends and StarCraft II competitions at Spodek Arena in Katowice, with the event announced by ESL and Intel. The parallel ESL One Katowice Counter-Strike tournament was a separately branded competition, so it is not included in this edition’s game list.[2][3]

References6
  1. [1]IEM Season 9 World Championship — Leaguepedia
  2. [2]ESL and Intel Extreme Masters announce season nine's final stops in Cologne, Taipei and Katowice — ESL
  3. [3]IEM Season IX — World Championship — Liquipedia StarCraft II Wiki
  4. [4]The top 25 photos of League of Legends at Intel Extreme Masters Katowice — ESL
  5. [5]TSM lifts the IEM Katowice trophy — ESL Photos
  6. [6]Intel Extreme Masters Season IX — World Championship — Liquipedia League of Legends Wiki

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Event title partner

ESL announced the Season IX final stops together with Intel.[2]

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