Team Spirit withdraws from IEM Melbourne 2025

Team Spirit has withdrawn from the upcoming IEM Melbourne 2025 Counter-Strike 2 tournament, which will take place this month. The event organizers announced this via the X social media. The reason for the team's withdrawal from the competition is unknown – the club itself has not made any official statements on this matter.

The vacant spot at the event went to Complexity. At the same time, the tournament operator, based on Valve's official ranking, first approached G2, FURIA, Astralis, Wildcard, B8 and HEROIC, but only the American team accepted the invite.

IEM Melbourne 2025 will be held from April 21 to 27 in Melbourne, Australia. The total prize pool of the competition will amount to $300,000 – it will be divided among 16 squads. The full team list looks as follows:

Vitality
Natus Vincere
SAW
FaZe
The MongolZ
MOUZ
Liquid
Virtus.pro
GamerLegion
Falcons
paiN
3DMAX
MIBR
BIG
FlyQuest
Complexity