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Intel Extreme Masters Season VI Global Challenge Cologne

ESL's IEM Season VI Global Challenge Cologne brought League of Legends and StarCraft II to Gamescom from August 17–21, 2011. Counter Logic Gaming won the League of Legends tournament.

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Intel Extreme Masters Season VI Global Challenge Cologne
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Updated October 29, 2026

Competition snapshot

Combined prize pool

USD 53,000 across League of Legends and StarCraft II[1][3]

Participant scale

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

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Organizer

Commercial note

ESL tournament organizer; current parent organization · Recorded in the 2011 edition.[4]

PTG Database Analysis

ESL held the first Global Challenge of IEM Season VI at the Energie³ ESL Arena in Hall 9 of Gamescom at Cologne Exhibition Centre from August 17–21, 2011. League of Legends and StarCraft II were played; the event’s season announcement explicitly excluded Counter-Strike. The League of Legends competition featured eight teams and a USD 32,000 pool, while the StarCraft II competition featured 16 players and a separately recorded USD 21,000 pool. Counter Logic Gaming defeated TSM to win League of Legends. The combined USD 53,000 snapshot sums the two verified game-level pools.[1][3][4][5]

The League of Legends format used round-robin groups with best-of-one matches, followed by single-elimination best-of-three playoffs. All eight listed League of Legends teams now resolve to canonical PTG Team or Club profiles, including myRevenge, Team ALTERNATE and Frag eXecutors. The overall participant field remains partial because the 16-player StarCraft II competition has not been reconciled to canonical PTG profiles.[1][2]

References7
  1. [1]IEM Season 6 Cologne — Leaguepedia — Leaguepedia
  2. [2]Intel Extreme Masters Season VI - Cologne — Liquipedia League of Legends Wiki — Liquipedia
  3. [3]IEM Season VI Global Challenge Cologne — Liquipedia StarCraft II Wiki — Liquipedia
  4. [4]ESL announce IEM season 6 format — HLTV.org
  5. [5]eSports draw record viewership numbers at Gamescom — Engadget, reproducing an ESL press release
  6. [6]IEM Season VI Global Challenge Cologne photo archive audit — ESL via Flickr; Team aAa
  7. [7]IEM v2019 logo.svg — ESL, via Wikimedia Commons

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