Six teams remain as IEM Katowice reaches playoffs

The competition will end on March 1 with a best-of-five grand final.

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IEM Katowice has already provided some of the greatest CS:GO matches in 2020 and the competition will continue tomorrow at the Spodek Arena.

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Unfortunately, the Spodek will be empty and the matches will be played without an audience due to coronavirus concerns, ESL announced this afternoon. But there is no reason for you at home miss any of the action.

The last six teams of IEM Katowice will play a single-elimination bracket with best-of-three series, except for the grand finals, which will be a best-of-five decider.

So far, the best teams of IEM Katowice have been Astralis and G2. The Danish recovered from their disastrous performance at BLAST Premier Spring Series, where they failed to reach the finals, and haven’t dropped a single map in IEM Katowice so far. They defeated Cloud9, Vitality, and Fnatic.

G2, on the other hand, defeated 100 Thieves, mousesports, and Team Liquid. They only lost a map to mousesports and are still undefeated in 2020 after six best-of-three series played this year so far.

Here are all of the IEM Katowice playoff teams and the tournament schedule.

Friday, Feb. 28

  • 8am CT: Fnatic vs. 100 Thieves
  • 11:55am CT: Na`Vi vs. Liquid

Saturday, Feb. 29

  • 8am CT: G2 vs. Fnatic/100 Thieves winner
  • 11:55am CT: Astralis vs. Na`Vi/Liquid winer

Sunday, March 1

  • 10am CT: Grand finals
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Leonardo Biazzi
Staff writer and CS:GO lead. Leonardo has been passionate about games since he was a kid and graduated in Journalism in 2018. Before Leonardo joined Dot Esports in 2019, he worked for Brazilian outlet Globo Esporte. Leonardo also worked for HLTV.org between 2020 and 2021 as a senior writer, until he returned to Dot Esports and became part of the staff team.