The best photos from IEM Cologne

7-8-2023 19:43

Explore the best shots taken during IEM Cologne 2023, which ended last weekend with G2 being crowned champions.

ESL's premier summer event ended on Sunday as G2 were crowned champions in Lanxess Arena after 11 days of action in Germany. You can now relieve the action from the first big event of the fall season with the photos captured by HLTV's Josip "⁠brcho⁠" Brtan and Radosław "⁠MAKKU⁠" Makuch.

G2 triumphed in what is likely to be the last big trophy in CS:GO and they achieved their victory despite criticism aimed at their recent results and lack of roster changes during the off-season. Rasmus "⁠HooXi⁠" Nielsen led his team to success in one of the most iconic tournament series in the game's history, securing the double with their previous win at IEM Katowice earlier this year.

The first Big Event of the fall season also saw the debut of several new squads built during the summer, including Cloud9's Russian superteam with Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov and Ilya "⁠Perfecto⁠" Zalutskiy as well as Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo's FURIA.

Grayhound were eliminated in the Play-In, but not before they rattled Imperial on Mirage

Monte showed they could still punch above their weight without BOROS

It was dexter's first event with fnatic

FalleN's FURIA were eliminated in the first stage by TheMongolz

k0nfig was in fine form during NIP's elimination match against Imperial

HEN1 tried his best to keep Imperial alive on Nuke's CT side

Bleh looks over as TheMongolz carry the torch of Asian Counter-Strike

G2 took down Astralis, FaZe, and Vitality on their way to a top finish in Group B

Meanwhile, Cloud9 squeezed past the first stage while missing Ax1le due to visa issues

40 MVP medals are represented in this photo

NertZ joined Professeur, Striker, and SPUNJ on the live HLTV Confirmed show

Swani and peca from G2 also made an appearance

sh1ro and Cloud9 were finally reinforced by Ax1le for the playoffs...

...but it wasn't enough to stop apEX and company

Astralis were ecstatic after coming out on top from the Danskerbrag

SunPayus won over the crowd with a stellar performance against Vitality

The Lanxess Arena hosted was is likely to be the last big CS:GO event

The venue was packed on Sunday for the final between ENCE and G2

G2 claimed their second trophy of the year after taking down ENCE 3-1

jks can now add an IEM Cologne trophy next to his two IEM Katowice ones

NiKo claimed his first MVP award on LAN since 2019

Check out the full galleries below:

Play-In Day 1
Play-In Day 2
Play-In Day 3
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
HLTV Confirmed live
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7

POG

2023-08-07 19:44

2023-08-07 19:46

why no photo of MVP Niko.

2023-08-07 19:47

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last one

2023-08-07 20:53

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They edit the post, nice addition.

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oh, cool!

2023-08-07 20:54

"HEN1 tried his best to keep Imperial alive on Nuke's CT side" not like this 💀

man what is that username i was dont know this details

2023-08-07 20:10

it was a joke cause mut was always getting wallbangs and kills through smokes, but hltv disabled changing nickname feature so now I'm stuck with it :(

2023-08-07 20:24

unfortunate that Mongolz was so close to knocking Heroic down to the losers bracket, guess it wasn't meant to be. Could've been 2-0 too but alas. "Bleh looks over as TheMongolz carry the torch of Asian Counter-Strike" Many of us were 😔

2023-08-07 19:50