FURIA, Virtus.pro, and Astralis through to IEM Katowice 2025 group stage

Third and final day of the first stage of IEM Katowice 2025 has ended, determining the final participants of the tournament's group stage.

In the upper bracket, FURIA defeated Wildcard (4:13 on Inferno, 13:5 on Dust2, 16:13 on Nuke). In the lower bracket, Liquid knocked Complexity out of the event (13:8 on Inferno, 13:11 on Ancient), after which they bested Wildcard (16:12 on Inferno, 13:0 on Anubis). In addition, HEROIC lost to BIG (2:13 on Nuke, 4:13 on Ancient), MIBR fell to Virtus.pro (4:13 on Anubis, 10:13 on Ancient), and paiN got defeated by Astralis (7:13 on Inferno, 9:13 on Dust2).

The winners advanced to the group stage. The losing teams got relegated from the competition. The squads that did not win a single match in Play-In (Complexity, FlyQuest, SAW and Imperial fe) shared 21st-24th places and received $2,500 each; the rosters that reached the second round of the lower bracket (Wildcard, paiN, MIBR, HEROIC) secured 17th-20st places and won $4,500 each.

Current Play-In bracket looks as follows:

Group A bracket looks as follows:

Group B bracket looks as follows:

The full schedule and live broadcast of IEM Katowice 2025 can be found on the tournament page via this link.