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Here’s all you need to know about IEM Katowice 2023.

Every year, thousands of CS:GO fans from all over the world gather at Katowice in Poland to watch the world’s best teams in action. What started out as a risky bet for ESL, has turned into one of the biggest esports events. IEM Katowice returns for 2023 with 24 teams in action and competing for a $1 million prize pool. Here is all you need to know about IEM Katowice 2023 including teams, format, prize pool, and where to watch.

IEM Katowice 2023 live results

Here are the live updated results for IEM Katowice 2023.

Grand Finals

Team 1	Team 2	Map 1	Map 2	Map 3	Map 4	Map 5	Score
G2	Heroic	Nuke (16-12)	Mirage (16-13)	Inferno (11-16)	Ancient (16-7)	Vertigo	3-1

Playoffs

Stage	Team 1	Team 2	Map 1	Map 2	Map 3	Score
QF	Team Vitality	Team Liquid	Overpass (17-19)	Nuke (16-7)	Mirage (12-16)	1-2
QF	Natus Vincere	Outsiders	Overpass (16-13)	Inferno (16-12)	~~Mirage~~	2-0
SF	G2 esports	Team Liquid	Anubis (16-10)	Inferno (16-11)	~~Ancient~~	2-0
SF	Natus Vincere	Heroic	Inferno (16-8)	Mirage (16-8)	~~Nuke~~	2-0

IEM Katowice Play-In Stage

Day 1

Stage	Team 1	Team 2	Map	Score
Upper Bracket	ENCE	paiN Gaming	Vertigo	16-7
Upper Bracket	Cloud9	IHC Gaming	Mirage	16-5
Upper Bracket	Team Spirit	Grayhound	Nuke	16-6
Upper Bracket	MIBR	NiP	Nuke	13-16
Upper Bracket	Fnatic	Evil Geniuses	Inferno	16-8
Upper Bracket	Sprout	OG	Inferno	16-19
Upper Bracket	FURIA	Permitta Esports	Mirage	16-4
Upper Bracket	BIG	Complexity	Anubis	16-12

All upper bracket matches take place on Day 1 - Feb 1

Stage	Team 1	Team 2	Map 1	Map 2	Map 3	Score
UB Round 2	Team Spirit	NiP	Nuke (16-7)	Mirage (8-16)	~~Vertigo~~	0-2
UB Round 2	ENCE	Cloud9	Anubis (10-16)	Inferno (16-8)	Vertigo (13-16)	1-2
UB Round 2	FURIA	BIG	Anubis (16-11)	Mirage (9-16)	Ancient (9-16)	1-2
UB Round 2	Fnatic	OG	Overpass(16-11)	Mirage (6-16)	Inferno (8-16)	1-2

All upper bracket matches take place on Day 1 - Feb 1

Day 2

Stage	Team 1	Team 2	Map 1	Map 2	Map 3	Score
LB Round 1	Permitta Esports	Complexity	Nuke (8-16)	Overpass (7-16)	~~Ancient~~	0-2
LB Round 1	Evil Geniuses	Sprout	Ancient (14-16)	Mirage (13-16)	~~Inferno~~	0-2
LB Round 1	Grayhound	MIBR	Inferno (13-16)	Anubis (16-14)	Vertigo (2-16)	1-2
LB Round 1	paiN Gaming	IHC esports	Inferno (12-16)	Nuke (11-16)	Overpass	0-2

All lower bracket R1 matches take place on Day 1 - Feb 1

Day 3

Stage	Team 1	Team 2	Map 1	Map 2	Map 3	Score
LB Round 2	ENCE	Complexity	Anubis (13-16)	Vertigo (16-11)	Inferno (8-16)	1-2
LB Round 2	Team Spirit	Sprout	Overpass (16-14)	Vertigo (5-12)	Anubis (16-10)	2-1
LB Round 2	Fnatic	MIBR (16-11)	Vertigo (16-9)	Overpass	~~Inferno~~	2-0
LB Round 2	FURIA	IHC	Nuke (14-16)	Mirage(19-16)	Anubis (10-16)	1-1

All lower bracket R2 matches take place on Day 1 - Feb 1

How to watch IEM Katowice matches?

All matches will be streamed live on Twitch. You can also visit esports.gg to catch the latest CS:GO action with the embedded stream.

For the group stages, there will also be additional streams that will broadcast some of the matches at the same time. The additional streams can be found as ESLCSGOb and ESLCSGOc.

Katowice 2023 format

There are three stages to IEM Katowice 2023 - the play-in Stage, the group stage, and the playoffs.

Play-In stage (February 1-3)

The play-in stage will feature a double-elimination bracket. 16 teams start the play-in stage but only eight teams will advance to the group stage. Only the initial matches are all best-of-one series while the remaining matches, including the elimination ones, are BO3.

Group stage (February 4-7)

The group stage will once have 16 teams, eight from the Play-In stage and eight directly-qualified teams. In this stage, however, the teams form two groups of eight teams each. The groups follow a GSL format where all matches are Bo3.

The group stage will seed three teams each to the playoffs. The top team in each group advances directly to the semifinals. These two teams will have to play one less match, so the reward is quite high to top the group stage. The next two teams will advance to the quarterfinal, the group runners-up as the High Seed and the 3rd place team as the lower seed.

Playoffs (February 10-12)

Finally, the IEM Katowice playoffs will see only six teams in the competition. The group winners from the group stage will have advanced to the semifinals. Meanwhile, the remaining four teams will compete in the quarterfinals. All matches, except for the Grand finals, will be best-of-three series. The Grand Finals will be a best-of-five series.

IEM Katowice Teams

The IEM Katowice Play-In stage teams.

The IEM Katowice 2023 Group stage Direct invites. (Screengrab via ESL)

Here are all 24 teams and their CS:GO rosters.

Play-In Teams

Ninjas in Pyjamas
- Fredrik "REZ" Sterner
- Ludvig "Brollan" Brolin
- Aleksi "Aleksib" Virolainen
- Danyyl "headtr1ck" Valitov
- Kristian "k0nfig" Wienecke
Team Spirit
- Leonid "chopper" Vishnyakov
- Boris "magixx" Vorobyev
- Robert "Patsi" Isyanov
- Pavel "s1ren" Ogloblin
- Ihor "w0nderful" Zhdanov
Cloud9
- Vladislav "nafany" Gorshkov
- Dmitriy "sh1ro" Sokolov
- Dmitriy "sh1ro" Sokolov
- Abai "HObbit" Hasenov
- Timur "buster" Tulepov
Complexity Gaming
- Ioannis 'Johnny' "JT" Theodosiou
- Justin "FaNg" Coakley
- Ricky "floppy" Kemery
- Michael "Grim" Wince
- Håkon "hallzerk" Fjærli
FURIA Esports
- Yuri "yuurih" Boian
- Andrei "arT" Piovezan
- Kaike "KSCERATO" Cerato
- André "drop" Abreu
- Rafael "saffee" Costa
MIBR
- Raphael "exit" Lacerda
- Matheus "Tuurtle" Anhaia
- Breno "brnz4n" Poletto
- Henrique "HEN1" Teles
- Felipe "insani" Yuji
IHC esports
- Garidmagnai "bLitz" Byambasuren
- Sodbayar "Techno4K" Munkhbold
- Baatarkhuu "Bart4k" Batbold
- Tengis "sk0R" Batjargal
- Tuvshintugs "ANNIHILATION" Nyamdorj
Grayhound Gaming
- Simon "Sico" Williams
- Alistair "aliStair" Johnston
- Jay "Liazz" Tregillgas
- Declan "Vexite" Portelli
- Declan "Vexite" Portelli
OG
- Shahar "flameZ" Shushan
- Nemanja "nexa" Isaković
- Adam "NEOFRAG" Zouhar
- Maciej "F1KU" Miklas
- Abdulkhalik "degster" Gasanov
ENCE
- Marco "Snappi" Pfeiffer
- Paweł "dycha" Dycha
- Pavle "maden" Bošković
- Alvaro "SunPayus" Garcia
- Valdemar "valde" Vangså
BIG
- Johannes "tabseN" Wodarz
- Florian "syrsoN" Rische
- Josef "faveN" Baumann
- Karim "Krimbo" Moussa
- Nils "k1to" Gruhne
Sprout
- Victor "Staehr" Staehr
- Laurențiu "lauNX" Țârlea
- Rasmus "Zyphon" Nordfoss
- Ismail "refrezh" Ali
- Adrian "XELLOW" Guță
paiN Gaming
- Vinícios "PKL" Coelho
- Rodrigo "biguzera" Bittencourt
- Wesley "hardzao" Lopes
- Romeu "zevy" Rocco
- Felipe "skullz" Medeiros
Evil Geniuses
- Vincent "Brehze" Cayonte
- Timothy "autimatic" Ta
- Jadan "HexT" Postma
- Sanzhar "neaLaN" Iskhakov
- Jerric "wiz" Jiang
Fnatic
- Freddy "KRIMZ" Johansson
- William "mezii" Merriman
- Nico "nicoodoz" Tamjidi
- Fredrik "roeJ" Jørgensen
- Dion "FASHR" Derksen
Permitta Esports
- Patryk "OLIMP" Woźniak
- Rafał "sNx" Snopek
- Dawid "Layner" Falczyński
- Rafał "iso" Tync
- Mariusz "casey" Jarząb

Group stage teams

(Image Credit: ESLCS)

FaZe Clan
- Håvard "rain" Nygaard
- Helvijs "broky" Saukants
- Russel "Twistzz" Van Dulken
- Finn "karrigan" Andersen
- Robin "ropz" Kool
Team Vitality
- Dan "apEX" Madesclaire
- Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut
- Peter "dupreeh" Rasmussen
- Emil "Magisk" Reif
- Lotan "Spinx" Giladi
Outsiders
- Aleksei "Qikert" Golubev
- Dzhami "Jame" Ali
- Evgeniy "FL1T" Lebedev
- Pyotr "fame" Bolyshev
- Aleksandr "KaiR0N-" Anashkin
Heroic
- Martin "stavn" Lund
- Casper "cadiaN" Møller
- René "TeSeS" Madsen
- Rasmus "sjuush" Beck
- Jakob "Jabbi" Nygaard
Team Liquid
- Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski
- Keith "NAF" Markovic
- Joshua "oSee" Ohm
- Nicholas "nitr0" Cannella
- Mareks "YEKINDAR" Gaļinskis
Natus Vincere
- Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev
- Denis "electroNic" Sharipov
- Ilya "Perfecto" Zalutskiy
- Valerii "b1t" Vakhovskyi
- Andrii "npl" Kukharskyi
G2 esports
- Nemanja "huNter-" Kovač
- Nikola "NiKo" Kovač
- Ilya "m0NESY" Osipov
- Justin "jks" Savage
- Rasmus "HooXi" Nielsen
MOUZ
- David "frozen" Čerňanský
- Christopher "dexter" Nong
- Ádám "torzsi" Torzsás
- Jon "JDC" de Castro
- Dorian "xertioN" Berman

Results and prize pool distribution

IEM Katowice 2023 has a $1 million prize pool. The tournament's prize pool distribution and final results are as follows:

Placement	Team	Prize Money
1		$400,000
2		$180,000
3-4		$80,000
3-4		$80,000
5-6		$40,000
5-6		$40,000
7-8		$24,000
7-8		$24,000
9-12		$16,000
9-12		$16,000
9-12		$16,000
9-12		$16,000
13-16		$10,000
13-16		$10,000
13-16		$10,000
13-16		$10,000
17-20		$4,500
17-20		$4,500
17-20		$4,500
17-20		$4,500
21-24		$2,500
21-24		$2,500
21-24		$2,500
21-24		$2,500

The IEM Katowice 2023 final results

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