IEM Cologne 2024 viewer's guide

Prestigious LAN tournament IEM Cologne 2024 with a prize pool of one million US dollars will take place in Cologne, Germany from August 7th to 18th. The final stage of the event will play out at the LANXESS arena.

IEM Cologne 2024 will kick off with the Play-In stage, in which sixteen rosters will participate. They will fight for eight tickets to the group stage of the competition in a Double Elimination bracket format.

The group stage of the event will be held from August 10th to 13th in a Double Elimination format. Three strongest squads from each group will advance to the playoffs, with the winners going straight to the semi-finals, while the teams placing 2nd and 3rd places going to the quarter-finals.

The IEM Cologne 2024 playoffs will be held from August 16 to 18 in a Single Elimination format. All matches of the event, except the final, will be BO3, the final – BO5.

The Play-In stage participants are:

 Complexity (EliGE, JT, floppy, hallzerk, Grim)
 ALTERNATE aTTaX (PerX, awzek, FreeZe, hyped, ArroW)
 Eternal Fire (MAJ3R, XANTARES, woxic, Calyx, Wicadia)
 Falcons (Snappi, dupreeh, Magisk, Maden, SunPayus)
 HEROIC (NertZ, TeSeS, sjuush, degster, kyxsan)
 MIBR (exit, saffee, drop, brnz4n, insani)
 3DMAX (Maka, Lucky, Djoko, Ex3rcice, Graviti)
 9z (max, dgt, buda. MartinezSa. HUASOPEEK)
 FURIA (FalleN, chelo, yuurih, KSCERATO, skullz)
 Imperial (try, felps, VINI, decenty, noway)
 Liquid (jks, NAF, Twistzz, YEKINDAR, ultimate)
 paiN (biguzera, nqz. kauez, snow, lux)
 BIG (tabseN, syrsoN, JDC, Krimbo, rigoN)
 FlyQuest (dexter, Liazz, aliStair, INS, Vexite)
 The MongolZ (bLitz, Techno, Senzu, mzinho, 910)
 SAW (MUTiRiS, roman, story, ewjerkz, arrozdoce)

Play-In seeding looks as follows:

The direct invitees to the group stage are:

Group A

 NAVI (Aleksib, iM, b1t, jL, w0nderful)
 Astralis (device, stavn, br0, jabbi. Staehr)
 G2 (NiKo, huNter-, Snax, malbsMd, m0NESY)
 Team Spirit (chopper, sh1ro, magixx, zont1x, donk)

Group B

 MOUZ (frozen, torzsi, xertioN, siuhy, Jimpphat)
 Virtus.pro (electroNic, FL1T, Jame, n0rb3r7, fame)
 FaZe (karrigan, rain, frozen, ropz, broky)
 Vitality (apEX, ZywOo, flameZ, Spinx, mezii)

The prize money distribution:

1. $400,000 + invites to IEM Katowice 2025 & BLAST Premier World Final 2024
2. $180,000
3-4. $80,000
5-6. $40,000
7-8. $24,000
9-12. $16,000
13-16. $10,000
17-20. $4,500
21-24. $2,500

The full schedule and live broadcasts of IEM Cologne 2024 matches are available on the tournament's page via this link.