Except for two offseasons a year, CS tournaments are almost constant. No, the BLAST Spring Group Stage has just ended, and IEM Katowice kicked off on January 31.
IEM Katowice
From January 31 to February 11, IEM Katowice competed in Poland with 24 teams competing for a total prize pool of $1 million. Moreover, the tournament is also part of the Intel Grand Slam series, and in the current new round of Grand Slam competition, Vitality, Faze, G2, Ence, and MOUZ each have 1 championship.
Katowice Champion & MVP:
FormatPlay-in Stage: January 31 – February 2
Double-elimination system, the first round is BO1, the rest of the matches are BO3, and the top 8 teams in the 16 teams advance.
Main Stage: February 3-6
A double-elimination tournament with all games played in Bo3. There are a total of 16 teams from 8 teams + 8 directly invited teams that have been promoted to the play-in round, divided into two groups. The top 3 teams in each group advance to the knockout round, the 1st in the group advances to the semifinals, and the 2nd and 3rd teams in the group advance to the 1 4 finals.
Knockout stage: February 9-11
Single-elimination system, 1 4 finals and semi-finals are Bo3, and the final is Bo5 to determine the final champion.
Play-in Tournament schedule today
Tonight will be the first day of the play-in tournament 8 games BO1 and 2 games BO3, the first round of BO1 schedule is as shown in the picture, the first game is the grudge between Team A and Heroic, but according to the recent performance, the gap between the two teams is not small, welcome to watch it then.
Live streaming platformBetta, tiger tooth, bilibili
The Copenhagen Major Asia RMR team has been confirmed
All eight teams from the Asian RRR were finally finalized, with Jijiehao (a non-Chinese squad) and 15 **Erage Gang joining forces to make it out of the Middle East Closed Qualifiers. The eight teams participating in the Asian RMR will compete for two tickets to the Copenhagen Major in Shanghai, China, from February 26 to 28.
China Promotion: LVG, Tyloo
Oceania Promotion: Grayhound
East Asia Promotion: Themongolz, ATOX
Southeast Asia Promotion: Troublemakers
Middle East: Jijiehao, 15 **Erage Gang
CS Team Rankings
Team Rankings as of January 30, 2024: Vitality and Faze remain in the top two spots in the top 10, while N**I, VP, Col, C9 and Furia all move up one place. Mouz and Monte slipped two places due to long absences from major events. In the 11-30 places, Astrali rose six places to 13th with his BLAST spring group stage performance, and Liquid jumped 24 places to 23rd despite not qualifying; Many other teams have risen slightly.
For China, LVG slipped two spots to No. 27, Tyloo slipped four spots to No. 40, Newhappy slipped two spots to No. 104, RA slipped two spots to No. 120, and Steel Helmet slipped 20 places to No. 136.
Okay, that's all for today, we'll see you next time