IEM Melbourne 2025 viewer's guide

From April 21 to 27, one more big LAN tournament called IEM Melbourne 2025 will be held in Melbourne, Australia. The event will feature 16 teams competing for $300,000 in prizes.

The group stage of the competition will take place in a GSL format (two groups of eight squads). The three strongest rosters from each group will advance to the playoffs, which will play out in a Single Elimination format. The group winners will go straight to the semi-finals.

All matches of the tournament, except for the final, will be BO3, while the final – BO5.

The group stage seeding looks as follows:

Group A

 MOUZ (Brollan, siuhy, torzsi, Jimpphat, xertioN)
 BIG (tabseN, JDC, Krimbo, kyuubii, hyped)
 GamerLegion (REZ, ztr, Tauson, sl3nd, PR)
 3DMAX (Maka, Lucky, bodyy, Ex3rcice, Graviti)
 FaZe (karrigan, rain, EliGE, frozen, broky)
 paiN (dav1deuS, nqz, deemO, snow, rikz)
 Complexity (JT, hallzerk, Grim, cxzi, nicx)
 The MongolZ (bLitz, Techno, Senzu, mzinho, 910)

Group A bracket

Group В

 Vitality (apEX, ropz, ZywOo, flameZ, mezii)
 FlyQuest (nettik, Liazz, INS, Vexite, regali)
 Virtus.pro (electroNic, FL1T, fame, FL4MUS, ICY)
 Liquid (jks, NAF, NertZ, Twistzz, ultimate)
 Falcons (NiKo, Magisk, TeSeS, m0NESY, kyxsan)
 SAW (MUTiRiS, story, Ag1l, AZUWU, cej0t)
 MIBR (exit, Lucaozy, saffee, brnz4n, insani)
 NAVI (Aleksib, iM, b1t, jL, w0nderful)

Group B bracket

The prize pool distribution is:

1. $125,000
2. $50,000
3-4. $25,000
5-6. $12,500
7-8. $7,000
9-12. $5,000
13-16. $4,000

The full schedule and live broadcasts of IEM Melbourne 2025 can be found on the tournament page on our website via this link.