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Intel Extreme Masters Season VIII — World Championship
Intel Extreme Masters Season VIII's World Championship brought League of Legends and StarCraft II to Katowice in March 2014. KT Rolster Bullets won the League of Legends tournament, defeating Fnatic in the final.
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Updated October 28, 2026Competition snapshot
Host and dates
Spodek Arena, Katowice, Poland · Mar 14–16, 2014[1]
Champion
League of Legends: KT Rolster Bullets; StarCraft II: sOs[2][5]
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ESL FACEIT GroupCommercial note
Organizer under the ESL name · Recorded in the 2014 edition.[1]
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IntelCommercial note
Event title sponsor · Recorded in the 2014 edition.[3]
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BenQCommercial note
Event sponsor · Recorded in the 2014 edition.[3]
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HyperXCommercial note
Event sponsor · Recorded in the 2014 edition.[3]
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TwitchCommercial note
Event sponsor · Recorded in the 2014 edition.[3]
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Event sponsor · Recorded in the 2014 edition.[3]
PTG Database Analysis
The League of Legends tournament ran alongside the StarCraft II World Championship at Spodek Arena in Katowice, Poland. The LoL field comprised eight teams from five regions: KT Rolster Bullets beat Fnatic in the final, while Cloud9 and Gambit Gaming reached the semifinals.[1][2][4]
The LoL format used two double-elimination, best-of-one groups, with each group’s top two advancing to a single-elimination playoff bracket. The semifinals were best-of-three and the final was best-of-five.[4]
The event ran March 14–16, 2014, and offered a combined USD 250,000 prize pool across League of Legends and StarCraft II: USD 150,000 for LoL and a USD 100,000 winner-take-all StarCraft II prize won by sOs. This record excludes EMS One Katowice’s separate Counter-Strike competition.[1][5]
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- [1]Intel Extreme Masters Season 8 Championship concludes in Katowice, Poland — Riot Games
- [2]A look back at the World Championships in Katowice 2014 — ESL
- [3]IEM Season 8 World Championship — Leaguepedia
- [4]IEM Season VIII — World Championship — Liquipedia League of Legends Wiki
- [5]IEM Season VIII — World Championship — Liquipedia StarCraft II Wiki
- [6]A look back at the World Championships in Katowice 2014 — ESL Photos archive via ESL
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