Of the sixteen players that made it to the group stage, eight are through to the playoff stage of the competition. Jung "Rain" Yoon Jong, Song "HerO" Hyeon Deok, Jo "Patience" Ji Hyun and Jung "jjakji" Ji Hoon qualified through Groups A&B on Thursday 14th February. They were joined a day later by the likes of Choi "Polt" Seong Hun, Kim "Classic" Doh Woo, Lee "Jaedong" Jae Dong and Lee "INnoVation" Shin Hyung from Groups C&D.
As the three Terrans, one Zerg and four Protoss face off, which two players will make it into the Final to secure a ticket to the US$100,000 Winner-Takes-All IEM World Championship in Katowice, Poland later this year?
Follow all the action live through the official Intel Extreme Masters twitter account. - Don't forget to get involved by sending in your tweets using "#IEM".
Playoff Bracket at Intel Extreme Masters Cologne
Catch all the StarCraft II action live over on ESL TV when we go live with the playoffs at 12:00 CET (Sunday 16th). As always, more information (including a full schedule) is available on through the official Intel Extreme Masters media channels (see links below).
