IEM gamescom viewer's guide

Six teams will gather in Cologne during the traditional gamescom festival from August 5-8 for the first Intel Extreme Masters stop for CS:GO, which features a rather untraditional format.

As explained before, teams will be assigned four lives before the event starts and with every loss, a team will lose a life. That means we will get to see between 20-23 best-of-one matches before five teams are eliminated and a champion is crowned.

On top of that, a team that wins will get to decide which two teams play in the next match-up, and the community decides on maps played. IEM gamescom will be a winner-takes-all-type tournament, as the bulk of $85,000 will go to the last team standing.

TSM	EnVyUs
Renegades	CLG
mousesports	SK Gaming

To avoid unnecessary repetition of matches, ESL have enforced a rule for winners to pick one of the teams in the next match out of those who played the least. Also, no team can play twice in a row unless it's unavoidable.

Times shown below are only an estimate, as usual with ESL's events, next matches will start as soon as possible after previous ones end:

The event will naturally be streamed by ESL TV by a part of the usual cast crew and a couple of guests, although the whole list is yet to be revealed by the organizers.