IEM Katowice Major team list finalised

27-1-2019 20:57

All 24 teams for the IEM Katowice 2019 Major have been determined following the end of the Minors and of the Play-in qualification tournament.

ViCi booked the final spot at IEM Katowice after defeating North 2-0 in the Minor-Play tournament, joining Winstrike and the top two sides of the four Minor regional championships in qualifying for the first Major of 2019.

These ten sides plus the teams who finished 9th through to 14th at the FACEIT Major will be squaring off in the Challengers Stage, the first of two Swiss stages to feature a best-of-three format in all progression (2-0 and 2-1 pools) and elimination matches.

Twenty-four teams will compete at the first Major of 2019

Prior to the start of the tournament, the 16 teams involved in the Challengers Stage will be asked to create their own ranking of the opposing sides. After all these player-selected rankings are in, the scores will be added up to create the final seeding, which will determine the first-round match-ups.

The complete team list for the Challengers Stage looks as follows:

The top eight sides of this initial stage will progress to the Legends stage, joining the leading sides of the previous Major, including defending champions Astralis. This lot features the following teams:

Below you can find the schedule for the three different stages of the Major:

Challengers Stage (ESL Studio) - February 13-17
Legends Stage (ICC Katowice) - February 20-24
Champions Stage (Spodek Arena) - February 28 - March 3

Will go further: C9 NRG fnatic Vitality NIP ENCE G2 Renegods

2019-01-27 21:00

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FREEMAN STICKER :D

2019-01-27 20:58

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Idisbalance stic oh wait...

2019-01-27 20:59

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FURIA will qualify. Anyone willing to bet with me leave a PM and we’ll do it.

2019-01-27 23:36

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2019-01-28 05:48

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this year a chinese team will make the legends :DDD

2019-01-28 13:29

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I think ViCi have the best chance

2019-01-29 04:19

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2019-02-05 03:14

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Playoff list: FaZe Liquid MIBR FNATIC NAVI BIG C9 Vitality

2019-02-05 03:16

Sorry babe, you were saying?

2019-02-18 03:04

who cares dead game

2019-02-18 03:11

They are looking quite solid tbh

2019-01-28 07:04

DickStacy sticker!

12 replies

Imagine he draws a peepee and write Stacy next to It (never accepted by Valve but funny)

2019-01-27 21:06

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True, would be funny!

2019-01-27 21:13

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WILL MIBR CORE remain as the only legendary core who was never eliminated on group stages?

2019-01-27 23:41

2019-01-29 15:27

Why not my fat boy?

2019-01-31 02:41

You may be surprised m8 ;)

Well i dont see Valve accepting this, but they could

2019-01-27 21:15

Quote from the D himself during an interview "Well I sent the worst one in first and haven't gotten an email back, so we're looking good!"

2019-01-27 21:17

if there is one like this I buy it just because the sticker is funny

2019-01-27 21:18

nice

2019-01-27 22:49

nice prediction lmao

2019-02-03 19:54

I would buy it for the sell.

2019-02-05 03:17

Only sticker in getting

2019-01-27 21:02

Now all we need is A Gordon Sticker, and a Community Lambda Sticker, and then I'll be sticking Half-Life Stuff all over my Skins!

MSL was the problem....

2019-01-27 23:34

Kkkkkkkkkkkk I already can see the final Furia x mibr Cold 3 majors mvp

and then you wake up

2019-01-27 21:01

LUL

2019-01-27 21:05

ahahahahahahah

LUL REKT THIS BR BOT

Savage lul

2019-01-27 21:08

FCKN BURIED HIM

2019-01-27 21:12

Then the alcohol stops

2019-01-27 21:16

2019-01-27 22:07

Hahhahahahahaha

2019-01-28 23:09

Cloud 9, NRG , ENCE, AVANGAR, NIP also have potential!

2019-01-27 22:02

Who belong this dream?

2019-01-28 04:00

hahaha +11

2019-01-27 22:57

G2 in 2k19 LUL

Have not played a single map.

2019-01-27 21:36

G2 will do some good stuff. You will see

2019-01-27 23:17

Ez4ENCE

Sleeping on avangar they can upset I think

2019-01-27 21:03

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For sure! I was thinking about switching them with Renegades.

Idk I'm happy that new teams are getting represented but I just hope C9 grayhound and renegades do good

2019-01-27 21:09

I saw AM minor - RNG is trash... GHound better

2019-01-28 15:20

lol nt

2019-02-18 03:26

lol g2 ? ez for vitality

2019-01-27 21:04

-Vitality +ViCi

sorry vi.. who? how about tyloo with new roster then? they could make some bang in this major

2019-01-28 09:40

Dunno, last match they lost to sharks and vici just beat North so l have more hope on them If both make it to the next stage would be even better

2019-01-28 11:30

But north is pure garbage

2019-01-28 14:20

Better than sharks

2019-01-28 14:36

maybe vici would be an upset,almost every EU/NA/CIS team r aware aginst tyloo. but idk if vici, maybe some of them would said they had a luck by win against north on bo3

2019-02-01 16:59

what about cis region? Avangar, Vega, Spirit or Winstrike? Maybe you hate cis?

c9? rng? g2? :DDD i think u didnt see how Vega played on the last 2 majors :))

Feel like C9 looking pretty good with this roster tbf, they could make it. But yeah G2 and RNG LUL

2019-01-27 23:46

vega ;)

2019-01-27 21:39

You really don’t like the CIS region lul

2019-01-27 21:42

-renegades + winstrike

2019-01-27 21:49

Agree

- anyone + furia

2019-01-27 21:54

C9, with all roster changes... are you baiting, retarded or flusha fan?

Tbf they are looking decent rn, even with Zellsis

FURIAAAAAAA!

2019-01-27 22:23

-vitality -renegades +avangar +Vega There's no major without Cis teams being underestimated

2019-01-27 22:24

FurIa is better than G2. Only the truth

2019-01-27 22:32

ENCE and FURIA will get legend status

2019-01-28 00:07

ez 4 emaibiar

2019-01-28 00:16

G2 no. Avangar have chance and vega too.

2019-01-28 02:49

I would not count on c9 to advance, i think i will put tyloo in their spot insted, they have a stronger roster now than they did in faceit major

2019-01-28 07:41

2019-01-28 15:35

-fnatic -g2 -renegades (no Havoc no gods!) + Spirit + FURIA + Avangar

2019-01-29 12:37

fnatic xD

2019-02-17 18:44

lol no mouz no north ez for Vitality

N1ce

Ez c9

EZ G2

Not so fast lol there are good teams and upsets in BO1 matches are common

there is a lot more bo3s tho, so honestly idko who will win

All eliminations games are BO3 if i remember well

2019-01-27 21:07

yeah, and once it hits 2-0 stage, every game bo3

2019-01-27 21:10

3-0 Ence

Kapp

2019-01-28 16:12

N♿RTH COMING THROUGH

N♿RTH

#stoptoxicity :(

2019-01-27 23:09

"Fan of North"

2019-01-28 02:14

ez furia

who cars

ENCE is basically qualified lul

AHAHAH VICI?

Ez4ence

4 NA Teams let's get it

north kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Have waited this since 2016 and we finally see two Chinese teams in major qualifier....

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ofc it sounds strange for EU fans, but this victory really means much for us.

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Two 0-3 trash teams CNCS=joke

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ni ma bei wo en zhu gao le ni hai bu hui jia kankan?

hai bu shuo hua ne? mang zhe gen mu zhu pei zhong ma?

fake chinese lol

Ni ma jin wan bi si zai wo shen xia

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bie gen wo qiang haha

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Jie zhe Gao chao Ye xiao le

2019-01-27 21:21

aiyo lai guonei shequ a, song bi lian guojia dou bu gan hui o ?

2019-01-27 21:22

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Sb, yeye wan Max de shi hou ni Jiu shi ge di di. ZhiNa bo li xin bu Yao Gao chao le, hui ni de gou wo ba.

2019-01-27 21:26

haha guo ran shi ge du gou, bie hui fu wo le,wo jiu kan bu qi dugou

2019-01-27 21:27

Ye Xiao le, jie zhe YY.

2019-01-27 21:29

wo qiu ni le, lie deng ren jiu bie huifu wo le hao ma?

2019-01-27 21:30

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Jian Chu jiu cai jiu bie yy le Jie zhe tian ni die 8.

2019-01-27 21:34

ching chong lalalala

2019-01-27 22:00

lol

2019-01-27 22:15

lol :D

2019-01-27 22:22

Speaks for all people on hltv reading the conversation

2019-01-27 23:11

BRUTAL

2019-01-27 23:25

Da ben dan

2019-02-01 09:59

Betting against TYLOO is not an Option, considering their Strength on Mirage over other weaker EU teams.

2019-01-27 21:23

Freeman and kaze Will be in Tyloo

they should try kaze and freeman, and benched summer and xcc

2019-01-28 09:42

congrats!

I would be also happy for china team, but china is known for not being sportmanlike and i heard throwing there is a big problem. In dota f.e take a look for every chinese TI finalist attitude. "Enemies suck, we are gonna smash them 3:0" and end up losing and crying.

2019-01-29 12:53

I couldn’t believe VG just won North three times... OMEGALUL

Zhong guo Di yi!!!!!, Zu guo wan sui!!!

well played by vici, they deserved it, north is very strong

china no 1

Mibr 3 - 0 ez

Kscerato sticker

Nice, Good Luck NRG!

N ♿ RTH OMEGALUL

Now stickers plz

BigPhish WE ARE VICI BigPhish OUR STRATS ARE BEASTY BigPhish THEY SAID NORTH WAS HARD BigPhish BUT THIS IS SO EASY BigPhish

CHINA 2 TEAMS AT MAJOR LETS GO!!!

N OMEGALUL RTH

vici ~~~~ up up

ez for vitality

Ez for cis teams.

5 CIS 2 Australian 2 Chinese 2 Brazilian don't think we ever saw that variety of teams from different continents

inb4 Most of these Teams are able to surpass the NA/EU teams

Valiance > North & Vici

Tier 3/4 major Kappa

I guess you are one of those who are stuck to 2 years past scene and when new and fresh teams emerge you just say they are tier 999 even though they r proving otherwise.

KAPPA KAPPA KAPPA KAPPA KAPPA im just loving it man i like the new teams.

I didn't see the Kappa there. My bad man Kappa

Mouz, north where are you?

EZ 2 months VACation Kappa

wow I didn't notice Mouz weren't in this Major until you mentioned it.

2019-01-27 23:00

Dick Stacy sticker is here !!!!!!!

Dick and freeman stickers! China numba 1!

The Freeman is Here!

my cock is so hard right now

Fnatic C9 G2 Renegades Vitality NRG NIP ENCE

No cis omeglul Avangar, Vega, spirit > c9, g2, renegades

2019-01-28 11:49

Dickstacy stickers Poggers Vitality Stickers Winstrike stickers n0rb3r7 stickers POGGERS ENCE STICKERS HOLY FUCK!

+1 so many fucking good stickers :D

EZ4ENCE

ayy ViCi got them stickerss

Where is mouz?

In top5 hltv.org

2019-01-27 21:44

Not after the major lul

2019-01-28 10:32

NRG 3-0 fnatic 3-0 NiP 3-1 ENCE 3-1 C9 3-1 AVANGAR 3-2 Vitality 3-2 Renegades 3-2 --------------------- g2 2-3 Spirit 2-3 Grayhound 2-3 winstrike 1-3 ViCi 1-3 vega 1-3 TYLOO 0-3 FURIA 0-3

-renegades +vega imo

g2 can be replaced by avangar, other than that solid list

thanks mr. hockey

2019-01-27 21:11

you can now "steel" my AK Redline, 'cuz there will be 1 missing mousesports sticker (i'm adding them since oskar joined)

Tyloo has been better than Renegades

TyLoo 0-3? wut

i did not even see the new roster playing yet

2019-01-27 21:40

attacker > DD summer > Mo. So better than last major's lineup.

2019-01-27 22:04

of course, because they were doing a bootcamp. if u haven't seen any shit from tyloo with their new roster, then shut the hell up. your opinions would be right and correct but they could change everything too lol

2019-01-28 09:47

lol mad, because i wrote my personal opinion? grow up bud

2019-01-28 13:15

aug&sg major katowice 2019 A new interesting era.

yeah :D

Liquid got this then. Aug/sg nerf after major confirmed

2019-01-28 10:34

ez 4 NiP and Furia

Run Na'Vi <3 Run FaZe <3 Run HR <3 Run Winstrike <3 Run AVANGAR <3 Run ENCE <3

Where is Flash?

? they disbanded long time ago and when they were on major they lost 0-3

2019-01-27 21:35

WHERE ARE THE DANISH TEAMS? LMAO

in legend stage already, why?

2019-01-27 23:19

Where are the Japanese teams?

2019-01-28 04:47

hltv.org/team/8613/hwml

2019-01-28 09:36

THEY WERE ALREADY LEGENDS LMAO BECAUSE THEY WAS #1 LMAO WHERE R THE JAPANESE TEAM? LMAO

2019-01-28 09:48

Poorland CS in 2019 kek

2019-01-28 18:30

CN>DANMARK? wtf was going on

Denmark 2 majors China has not even made it to legends once

2019-01-28 07:44

How bout movistar riders? Anything good lately?

2019-01-28 09:39

Qualified for MDL EU by winning the advanced season and they've recently beaten Valiance. Progress is being made

2019-01-28 11:15

Nice

2019-01-28 13:48

Where is N♿RTH

2019-01-27 21:14

Clear Favourites for The Major: C9, NiP, Renegades, NRG, ENCE, Vitality, G2, Grayhound. Upset Potential: Vega Squadron, AVANGAR, Spirit, TYLOO, FURIA. Less than 20% chance: WinStrike, ViCi In My Opinion.

winstrike and vici actually are better

In the above List, C9, G2 and Grayhound are slightly weaker than the others. For my Money, I'll bet on AVANGAR and TYLOO to maybe surpass them.

2019-01-27 21:20

G2, Renegades, Grayhound and Ence are favourites, but fnatic isn’t. Really?

Aaah, I completely missed Fnatic! You can add it to the top list, and shift Grayhound to the Upset Teams

ESL should hire you as a desk analyst

2019-01-28 10:38

This looks like it's actually gonna be a good group. There's alot of of upset potential. But I'm feeling C9, Fnatic, NRG, Ence, Vega, Vitality, NiP, Renegades. G2 and Tyloo are my top two upset picks.

New stickers and underdogs HYPE

LETS GO WITH PREDICTIONS 17-24: Vega Squadron AVANGAR Spirit Renegades G2 TYLOO Grayhound FURIA 9-16: Cloud9 Winstrike ViCi Nip FaZe HellRaisers MIBR compLexity BIG 1-8: Natus Vincere Liquid Astralis FaZe ENCE Vitality NRG fnatic 1-4: Navi Astralis ENCE fnatic 3-4 Navi Fnatic 2. Astralis 1. ENCE Northern lights flash in the sky. A blizzard blows, pelting on its way those too weak to withstand the fury of winter at its fullest. From the permafrost strikes a massive hand; the mythical giant once deemed dead off the coast of Italy now rises to life, regenerated, from Lappish soil. The time is due. Around the world, the word spreads. In Sweden, the best of the best cower in fear and lock themselves in the nearest IKEA retail store. The Brazilians run into the safety of the jungle, the Danes play dead in Legoland and the Slavs sprint crying to babushka’s warm embrace. Enceladus’s augurs are unleashed upon the scene. Aleksi “allu” Jalli hails from his journey spent in international teams. A man may leave Finland, but Finland never leaves a man. Once again, he picks up the green rifle, this time not for money or fame, but to smite all opposition in the name of Enceladus. Aleksi “aleksib” Virolainen leaves the fabled squad of HAVU to lead what we can finally describe as a Finnish superteam. Under his leadership shall the northern guns spit death and destruction upon foes who wail in their weakness. Jani “aerial” Jussila joins after the biggest transfer of the Finnish e-sport scene from his former team SuperJymy. No longer will he be the only stand-out player of his team, but instead, a vital ingredient of a chaotic cocktail made up of Finland’s finest. Jere “sergej” Salo thwarts all rumors of desperate Internet trolls trying to tell they know his parents who told him to stop playing. Oh, the humanity! Backed up by the forces at home, bursting from motivation like a wolf thirsting for blood, he returns to ravage everything in his path. Where skill rises to speak, experience sits silent and disciplined. Sami “xseveN” Laasanen fills the ranks from iGame, for what would the team be if they wouldn’t buy the best player from every other Finnish team? Vigilantly standing, supporting his teammates be the cause what it pleases to be, he will be the shield and sword his comrades need to achieve the ultimate. The warning has been given. The sky screams, the ground shakes and the oceans boil. ENCE is coming. #EZ4ENCE EZ4ENCEEZ4ENCE-------EZ4ENCEEZ4ENCEEZ4ENCE EZ4ENCEEZ4ENCE-------EZ4ENCEEZ4ENCEEZ4ENCE EZ4ENCE---------------------------------------------EZ4ENCE EZ4ENCEEZ4ENCE--------------------------EZ4ENCE EZ4ENCEEZ4ENCE-------------------EZ4ENCE EZ4ENCE---------------------------EZ4ENCE EZ4ENCEEZ4ENCE-------EZ4ENCEEZ4ENCEEZ4ENCE EZ4ENCEEZ4ENCE—----EZ4ENCEEZ4ENCEEZ4ENCE

Its the Battle of Nature vs Sheer Science. -ENCE +Astralis. Science will always find a Way to beat Nature, even if Nature tries to engulf it all.

lmao

2019-01-27 23:16

It actually made me laugh

2019-01-28 07:46

MOUZ WHERE ARE YOU? HELLO?

how col is legends stage ? they are fuckin bad

Joke of a system that's why + BO1 heroes... Glad that we won't have it at this major and you can't qualify without winning at least one BO3 :)

2019-01-27 21:25

huh.. thats good!

2019-01-27 22:10

Freeman Dick***** signature will be pretty dope in my guns 😂

Cloud9,NIP,NRG,Vitality,ENCE,Fnatic,Team Spirit to upper, 0-3 Grayhound ez pickem

GO FURIA

2019-01-27 21:28

ENCE STICKERS!!!!!!!!@1!!!11

ENCE or even NRG >> those "Legend" stage shitters HR and coL

2019-01-27 21:31

HR are still pretty decent and has always been an upset team, but coL is absolute trash tier rn. Gonna get 0-3'd this major for sure.

Cheers mate!

2019-01-27 21:37

Kjaerbye left Astralis for North. Astralis becomes best team and Kjaerbye will watch the Majors at home regretting his decision :)

Astralis wouldn't be #1 without magisk. He was the missing piece.

2019-01-28 10:57

Nrg, c9, fnatic, ence, vitality are picks I feel confident about getting through. The rest are a toss up imo but I could go with Vega, tyloo, and g2 maybe

2019-01-27 21:45

C9 NIP NRG ENCE VITALITY FNATIC G2 TYLOO

2019-01-27 21:53

weakest major ever

2019-01-27 21:59

2019-01-27 23:05

WTF it's the most stacked major evzr , look at this main qualifier #7 #8 #9 #10 #12 #14 #17 #18 #19 #23 #29. And top 3 , #5 #6 #13 #16 are already on major

2019-01-27 23:22

Vitality FURIA ENCE fnatic NRG Winstrike Cloud9 NiP

Ez for g2 and vitality

2019-01-27 22:16

Vitality C9 Nip Fnatic Ence NRG Furia G2

2019-01-27 22:21

NiP Cloud9 fnatic ENCE NRG Winstrike AVANGAR Vitality ViCi

Vici winning north, wtf

a lot of new stickers

losestrike wasted spot

2019-01-27 22:26

2019-01-27 22:30

too easy for FURIA

2019-01-27 22:33

ENCE Vitality Cloud9 NiP NRG FURIA Renegades fnatic

2019-01-27 22:39

ez4furia

2019-01-27 22:44

D.Stacy

2019-01-27 22:58

ez4mibr

Cloud9, NiP, Renegades, NRG, fnatic, ENCE, Vitality, FURIA and then GRAND FINAL: FURIA x MIBR

2019-01-27 23:26

Cloud9, NiP, Spirit, NRG, WinStrike, Fnatic, ENCE, FURIA

2019-01-27 23:31

Ez for furia

Liquid major

2019-01-27 23:40

Lets go LG !!! nops

2019-01-27 23:42

lul 2 BR teams 4 NA teams

2019-01-27 23:59

Worst composition of teams at a major ever. So much below top 30 garbage. At least ence is there so it evens out 70% of the teams will not be heard of at all outside the major

2019-01-28 00:05

+1 those 70% are basically FlipSid3

2019-01-28 03:59

Rip north

2019-01-28 00:13

If NiP qualify to main major im happy and worth watching

2019-01-28 00:15

Vega will qualify to top 16 .

2019-01-28 00:28

compLexity eZ n0thinG

2019-01-28 01:58

The guys from NRG play very well, I'm going to risk it and in the picks I'm going to put 3-0, I also think that they can even earn a place in the legends of the next major

2019-01-28 03:23