IEM Chicago Recap: Top 6 Storylines From IEM Chicago 2019

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3 min readJul 23, 2019

Team Liquid continues its flawless run. MIBR shock the world. ENCE reach a Grand Final again.

This is DreamTeam’s IEM Chicago Recap. Let’s go!

1) Another title for Team Liquid

Team Liquid were crowned the IEM Chicago 2019 champions after beating ENCE 3:0 in the Grand Final bo5 series.

In a prematch clip, we saw Aleksib and Stewie2k talking about what they each thought would happen in the Grand Final, and from what they said, it was easy to see that they both wanted the title badly.

Aleksib’s speech made it sound like there was a possibility of beating TL rather than one full of total confidence.

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Stewie’s “…we feel like we’ll beat them easily” sounded confident, bordering on arrogant.

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It’s not cocky if you can back it up though, and that’s exactly what happened.

Team Liquid breezed past ENCE on Overpass and Nuke (16:2 and 16:3, respectively).

Down 0:2, the Finns tried to fight back on Inferno, but 14 rounds was the best they could do.

This victory was the latest of Team Liquid’s incredible results this summer.

Looks more than impressive. Congratulations!

2) The Intel Grand Slam Season 3 race started!

Outstanding performances during the tournament and a flawless victory in the Grand Final not only earned TL an IEM Chicago title and $125,000, they also picked up the first win in the Intel Grand Slam Season 3.

Due to recent updates to the IGS rules, TL will need to win 5 more regular ESL/DH tournaments or 3 regular ESL/DH tournaments including the StarLadder Berlin Major or ESL One: Cologne to win Season 3.

Well, looking at Team Liquid’s recent results, that doesn’t sound too difficult for them, does it?

3) Another MVP for EliGe

It seems that we’ve got to make some changes to our Team Liquid Quiz as Johnathan “EliGe” Jablonowski just hauled in his third MVP award this year.

Outshining NAF, Stewie2k, and Twistzz is EliGe’s M.O. in 2019. :)

Team Liquid’s victory in Chicago was always the most likely outcome. The team is at its peak, Na’Vi and Astralis weren’t there to contest, and they had the support from the home crowd on their home soil.

4) Team Vitality in the group stage

Yeah, the Group B favorites did make it to the playoffs. But, they added some drama to their run.

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