{"id":40403,"date":"2025-01-09T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T00:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=40403"},"modified":"2025-01-09T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T00:18:07","slug":"esl-reveals-intel-extreme-masters-katowice-2025-invites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/esl-reveals-intel-extreme-masters-katowice-2025-invites\/","title":{"rendered":"ESL reveals Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2025 invites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESL has revealed the 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"Counter-Strike 2 betting guide\">Counter-Strike 2<\/a> esports teams invited to Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2025, including eight teams who received tickets for Stage 2 and 16 squads that got placed in Stage 1.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled to take place on January 29\u2013February 9, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/iem-katowice\/cs2\/\" title=\"IEM Katowice betting guide\">IEM Katowice 2025<\/a> is the second S-Tier Counter-Strike tournament of the season, succeeding BLAST Bounty Spring 2025.<\/p>\n<p>And like <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/blast-premier-series\/\" title=\"BLAST Premier Series betting guide\">BLAST<\/a> Bounty, IEM Katowice 2025 invites have been sent out according to the Valve Global Standings rather than the ESL World Rankings used in last year&#8217;s iteration of the Polish event.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ALL 24 TEAMS INVITED TO <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IEM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IEM<\/a> KATOWICE 2025 \u2694\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>The Hall of Heroes awakens once again.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udfe1Stage 2<br \/>\ud83d\udd35Stage 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L7tq1BS1TN\">pic.twitter.com\/L7tq1BS1TN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESLCS\/status\/1877354647410614401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The top eight teams were invited straight into Stage 2 of the tournament. Those include G2 Esports, The MongolZ, Team Vitality, FaZe Clan, MOUZ, Natus Vincere, Team Falcons, and the defending champions, Team Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the top contenders will travel to Katowice with different lineups than what they fielded in 2024, as <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/team-falcons-announce-niko\/\" title=\"NiKo joins Team Falcons\">Nikola &#8220;\u2060NiKo\u2060&#8221; Kova\u010d left G2 Esports to join Team Falcons<\/a>, while FaZe Clan waved goodbye to Robin &#8220;\u2060ropz\u2060&#8221; Kool in a reported transfer to Team Vitality.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining 16 teams were placed in Stage 1, which will feature six squads from the Americas region, including MiBR, FURIA Esports, Team Liquid, paiN Gaming, Wildcard, and Complexity Gaming.<\/p>\n<p>Europe will be represented by nine teams, while Oceania will have a sole representative in FlyQuest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/electronic-sports-league\/intel-extreme-masters\/\" title=\"Intel Extreme Masters betting guide\">Intel Extreme Masters<\/a> Katowice 2025 Stage 1 will feature a female Counter-Strike roster, Imperial Female, who won two ESL Impact League titles last season and climbed to the 23rd spot on Valve&#8217;s rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Like last season, IEM Katowice 2025 will welcome 24 teams and have a US$1,000,000 prize pool; however, there are some adjustments to the format.<\/p>\n<p>The first stage (formerly Play-In) is double-elimination with all matches being best-of-three (Bo3) series. The top eight teams will advance to the second stage.<\/p>\n<p>The second stage (formerly the group stage) will divide the 16 teams into two groups of eight in a double-elimination bracket. All matches are best-of-three, with six teams (three from each group) proceeding to the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The group stage winners will receive a direct bye to the semifinals, and runners-up will advance to the quarterfinals as high seeds. Third-placed teams will enter the quarterfinals as low seeds. <\/p>\n<p>IEM Katowice 2025 playoffs will be single-elimination, with quarterfinals and semifinals played as best-of-three. 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