Team Spirit – first finalist of IEM Cologne 2025

Team Spirit became the first finalist of the IEM Cologne 2025 Counter-Strike 2 tournament. In the semi-final of the competition bracket, Leonid "chopper" Vishnyakov's squad defeated NAVI with a scoreline of 2:1 (13:11 on Mirage, 9:13 on Nuke, 13:6 on Ancient).

The Aleksi "Aleksib" Virolainen-led roster finished the event in 3rd-4th place and earned $80,000 in prize money. Team Spirit, in turn, will face the winner of the Vitality – MOUZ matchup tomorrow, which will play out later today.

Note that IEM Cologne 2025 is taking place from July 23 to August 3, 2025 in Cologne, Germany. The total prize pool of the competition is one million US dollars – it will be divided among 24 teams. The detailed information about the tournament can be found in our article.

Current play-off bracket looks as follows:

The full schedule and live broadcasts of IEM Cologne 2025 matches are available on the tournament's page via this link.