IEM Katowice 2025 Stage 1 matches to play out on old patch

First stage of the IEM Katowice 2025 tournament (Play-In) will play out on the old patch. At the same time, the matches of the group stage of the event, which kicks off on February 1, will be held on the new patch, which was released today in Counter-Strike 2.

The tournament organizers officially announced this via their X social media account. In addition, ESL revealed that ESL Challenger League and the qualifiers for IEM Dallas 2025 will take place on the new version of the game.

Note that in today's update, the CS2 developers launched Premier Season Two, replaced Vertigo with Train in the active map pool, as well as made some adjustments to the weapon balance. The full list of changes can be found via the link.

IEM Katowice 2025 will take place from January 29 to February 9 in Katowice, Poland. The competition will feature a prize pool of one million US dollars, which will be divided between 24 squads. All details about the tournament can be found in our article.

Origin: x.com