News video games 28 February 2020, 14:43

Coronavirus Turned IEM 2020 Into a Ghost Championship

Coronavirus turned IEM 2020 into a ghost competition. Gamepressure reporter is on site and sending photos of empty rooms and corridors.

The IEM 2020 held in Katowice, Poland, closed to the public at last minute, has turned into an empty ghost event. Once filled to the brim, the big e-sports event is the first major event so severely impacted by the coronavirus outbreak. One of our reporters present on the spot sent us pictures of the empty rooms and corridors of the venue, where the event takes place (thank you HANK! http://thefairwanderer.com/).

A few hours before the beginning of the event, IEM 2020 informed that the local authorities decided that the event can’t be attended by the public because of coronavirus. For now, it’s difficult to estimate the extent of losses of the organizers and partners.

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Source: http://thefairwanderer.com/ for Gamepressure.

Matthias Pawlikowski

The editor-in-chief of GRYOnline.pl, associated with the site since the end of 2016. Initially, he worked in the guides department, and later he managed it, eventually becoming the editor-in-chief of Gamepressure, an English-language project aimed at the West, before finally taking on his current role. In the past, a reviewer and literary critic, he published works on literature, culture, and even theater in many humanities journals and portals, including the monthly Znak or Popmoderna. He studied literary criticism and literature at the Jagiellonian University. Likes old games, city-builders and RPGs, including Japanese ones. Spends a huge amount of money on computer parts. Apart from work and games, he trains tennis and occasionally volunteers for the Peace Patrol of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity.

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