IEM Katowice 2020. Viewer's guide

IEM Katowice 2020 will take place from February 24th to March 1st at the Spodek Arena in Katowice, Poland. The tournament will start with a group stage in Double Elimination BO3 format, with six finalists competing in Single Elimination BO3+BO5 for the lion's share of the $500,000 prize pool.

 Group stage seeding:

Group A

 fnatic (flusha, JW, KRIMZ, Golden, Brollan)
 Astralis (Xyp9x, dupreeh, gla1ve, device, Magisk)
 mousesports (karrigan, chrisJ, woxic, frozen, ropz)
 100 Thieves (jks, AZR, jkaem, Gratisfaction, Liazz)
 Evil Geniuses (stanislaw, tarik, Brehze, Ethan, CeRq)
 Liquid (nitr0, NAF, EliGE, Stewie2K, Twistzz)
 Natus Vincere (flamie, s1mple, electronic, Boombl4, Perfecto)
 NiP (twist, Lekr0, REZ, nawwk, Plopski)

Group В

 Virtus.pro (AdreN, SANJI, buster, qikert, Jame)
 Vitality (shox, RpK, apEX, ALEX, ZywOo)
 G2 (JaCkz, huNter-, kennyS, AmaNEk, nexa)
 FaZe (olofmeister, NiKo, rain, coldzera, broky)
 Cloud9 (Sonic, JT, floppy, motm, oSee)
 MAD Lions (HUNDEN, Bubzkji, acoR, sjuush, roeJ)
 Renegades (Sico, dexter, INS, Hatz, malta)
 TYLOO (Summer, Attacker, somebody, Freeman, xeta)

Groupstage bracket

Tournament schedule:

February 24

12:00  Astralis vs.  Cloud9 BO3
12:00  NiP vs.  Vitality BO3
15:30  Natus Vincere vs.  FaZe BO3
15:30  Renegades vs.  fnatic BO3
19:00  mousesports vs.  TYLOO BO3
19:00  100 Thieves vs.  G2 BO3

25 February

12:00  Liquid vs.  Virtus.pro BO3
12:00  MAD Lions vs.  Evil Geniuses BO3
15:30 Group А – First round of upper bracket #1 BO3
15:30 Group А – First round of lower bracket Матч #1 ВО3
19:00 Group А – Semifinal of upper bracket #2 BO3
19:00 Group А – Semifinal of lower bracket #2 ВО3

February 26

14:00 Group B - First round of the lower bracket Match #1 ВО3
14:00 Group B - First round of the lower bracket Match #2 BO3
17:30 Group B - Semifinal of the upper bracket #1 BO3
17:30 Group A - Second round of the lower bracket Match #1 ВО3
21:00 Group B - Semifinal of the upper bracket #2 BO3
21:00 Group A - Second round of the lower bracket Match #2 ВО3

27 February

12:00 Group B - Second round of the lower bracket Match #1 ВО3
12:00 Group B - Second round of the lower bracket Match #2 ВО3
15:30 Group A - Upper bracket Final BO3
15:30 Group A - Lower bracket Final BO3
19:00 Group B - Upper bracket Final BO3
19:00 Group B - Lower bracket Final BO3

February 28

15:00 Quarter Final #1 BO3
18:25 quarterfinal #2 BO3

29 February

15:00 Semifinal #1 BO3
18:25 Semifinal #2 BO3

March 1

17:00 Grand Final BO5

Distribution of the prize fund:

1. $250,000
2. $100,000
3-4. $40,000
5-6. $15,000
7-8. $7,000
9-12. $4,000
13-16. $2,500

Official broadcasts::

 RU – twitch.tv/csgomc_ru & twitch.tv/csgomc_ru2
 EN – twitch.tv/esl_csgo & twitch.tv/esl_csgob


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