IEM Katowice playoff bracket set

NAVI and Vitality will start from the semi-finals on opposite sides of the bracket.

IEM Katowice has reached playoffs, where Spirit will have a chance to defend their title in the Spodek after moving past surprise challenger GamerLegion in Group B's lower bracket final.

Six teams will fight for the trophy and notch in the Intel Grand Slam race from February 7-9, consisting of five out of the top eight-ranked sides — with G2, FaZe, and MOUZ missing out — and a resurgent Virtus.pro under Denis "⁠electroNic⁠" Sharipov's leadership.

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Natus Vincere and Vitality will start their playoff campaigns from the semi-finals after they made quick work of The MongolZ and Virtus.pro, respectively, in their upper bracket final matches.

Garidmagnai "⁠bLitz⁠" Byambasuren's men will face Eternal Fire for the first time since IEM Rio 2024, where The MongolZ emerged victorious 2-1 with two one-sided map wins.

The Mongolian team had a 3-1 series record (3-2 including a best-of-one loss at the Copenhagen Major) against the Turks last year but will face a new challenge with the team revitalized with Samet "⁠jottAAA⁠" Köklü.

Spirit and Virtus.pro will face off on the opposite side of the bracket for only the second time since the former added Dmitry "⁠sh1ro⁠" Sokolov and the latter brought in electroNic.

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The winner of that match will take on Natus Vincere, setting up the possibility of a rematch of the group stage nailbiter between the reigning Katowice champions and the team they hold a 7-2 series record for a spot in the final.

The full playoff schedule can be found below:

Date Matches
IEM Katowice 2025
07/02/2025
15:45
Match
07/02/2025
19:20
Match
08/02/2025
15:45
Match
08/02/2025
19:00
Match
09/02/2025
17:00
Match
Mongolia Garidmagnai 'bLitz' Byambasuren
Garidmagnai 'bLitz' Byambasuren
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.06
Maps played:
654
KPR:
0.73
DPR:
0.67
Russia Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov
Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov
Age:
26
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.07
Maps played:
1692
KPR:
0.73
DPR:
0.66
Russia Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov
Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.22
Maps played:
1257
KPR:
0.77
DPR:
0.54
Turkey Samet 'jottAAA' Köklü
Samet 'jottAAA' Köklü
Age:
22
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.04
Maps played:
280
KPR:
0.73
DPR:
0.68
where fantasy
2025-02-04 22:14
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it was mentionned that the group stage and playoff will be in the same fantasy??
2025-02-04 22:16
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#5
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Poland l1m4k
Separate
2025-02-04 22:17
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EZ FOR G2
2025-02-04 22:16
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2 replies
oh wait
2025-02-04 22:16
100
1 reply
>:] you got me
2025-02-06 14:24
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navi win unless they meat vita in final then its cinema
2025-02-04 22:18
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Spirit vs Vitality Grand Finals.
2025-02-04 22:27
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#9
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Latvia Ryzmii
nt it will be mongolz vs VP
2025-02-04 22:31
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fair
2025-02-04 22:35
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Hey I like underdogs winning too, but Mongolz will choke sadly. They are still too young.
2025-02-04 22:35
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#16
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United States hypn0_
Vitality gotta face their Kryptonite - EF. We might get back to back Spirit vs EF Grand Final
2025-02-04 23:04
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spirit vs ef---WE WILL BE THERE
2025-02-04 22:30
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#12
Faceit level 5  | 
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Bulgaria GeorgeAleksov
Semi final will be better than the final
2025-02-04 22:37
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#17
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United States hypn0_
If EF clear MongolZ then you've most likely got EF vs Vitality - usually very closed - and Spirit vs Navi which is a great matchup. If Vitality beat EF though then Vitality vs Navi or Spirit will be a phenomenal final
2025-02-04 23:09
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#19
Faceit level 9  | 
Jesus | 
Kazakhstan yTuHbIe_ucTopuu
bro acts like EF in finals wont be phenomenal as well with their form
2025-02-05 00:21
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#20
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United States hypn0_
EF finally has some BO5 experience under their belt so I could be wrong - but I think if they face Spirit it won't look good. If they face NaVi I think it will be a closer matchup.
2025-02-05 00:25
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#13
Faceit premium user  | 
frozen | 
Australia Bkdroi
Navi has to play spirit again? Wtf are these seedings, vitality get the dream run.
2025-02-04 22:45
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Well obviously if it was the other way around they would have to play mongolz who they just played for seeding. In an ideal world navi would be 3 in valve ranking and mongolz on 6 and that would mean spirit and navi only play in upper bracket final not semi final therefore they can only play again in the finals
2025-02-04 23:32
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#14
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Australia hoangii
anybody want to bet me that sh1ro will have the least amount of deaths in spirits next game?
2025-02-04 22:54
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#28
Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Finland KuiQula
Only a fool would make that bet
2025-02-05 08:23
0
CIS bracket lol. Should be ez for Eternal Fire.
2025-02-04 22:59
0
Poor navi have to play Spirit twice just because they won everything lmao Very bad format should be vp/Spirit vs vit and mongolz/ef vs navi
2025-02-05 00:32
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Typical Vitality luck strikes again, it's already boring.
2025-02-05 00:33
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#23
Faceit level 8  | 
DZ | 
Algeria SilverQuick
Hype 🔥
2025-02-05 00:54
0
This format is awful, just bring back 1/4 finals. Nevertheless, easy bracket for Vitality, but Spirit v Navi is the real final.
2025-02-05 02:39
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vitality cant be reach the final :D
2025-02-05 06:51
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i just started pretending the lower-bracket finals and upper-bracket finals in groups were extensions of playoffs
2025-02-05 10:02
0
spirit - navi early final again
2025-02-05 05:21
1
I need a rematch of Cologne Final!!! Vita v Navi LETS GO
2025-02-05 06:26
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Shouldn't Navi be going to the Mongolz vs EF bracket and Vitality to VP and Spirit. Ideally teams that have the same group should not face each other except Finals
2025-02-05 10:42
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#31
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Belgium EyKa
Eternal Fire vs Navi will be the final.
2025-02-05 15:00
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#32
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Turkey Chexcs
vitality okey for us but mongolz kinda feel like play like faceit lvl10 players and beat us also happy with spirit vp matchup im sick of these
2025-02-05 15:13
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where g2
2025-02-05 15:26
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2 replies
they didnt qualify
2025-02-05 15:32
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1 reply
No choko and no G2 in playoffs. Feels great man.
2025-02-05 18:17
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#35
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Turkey iyovi
QUARTER FINAL @1mongolz < @eternalfirecs2 @virtuspro < @Team__Spirit SEMI FINAL @TeamVitalityCS < @eternalfirecs2 @natusvincere > @Team__Spirit GRAND FINAL @natusvincere < @eternalfirecs2
2025-02-05 15:51
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2 replies
Bro wrote this comment like it something special
2025-02-05 22:08
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#43
b1t | 
India n1ckson
flag
2025-02-06 14:42
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#36
NiKo | 
Brazil Nero7
Where's G2 and NiKo?? They're always on playoffs
2025-02-05 16:25
0
1 reply
Oil money revealed how bad he was at the game.
2025-02-05 23:09
1
Donk humbled omegaLUL
2025-02-06 14:23
0
No hltv playoffs pickems this time? Or am I just impatient
2025-02-06 14:24
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1 reply
Took so long I got preoccupied and forgot/missed it, welp unluko
2025-02-07 16:33
0
Wait, Blitz is the IGL of The Mongolz? Not Mzinho?
2025-02-06 21:09
1
Ok
2025-02-09 02:18
0
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