IEM Chengdu team list announced

26-8-2025 13:35

The 16 teams set to fly to China in November are now known.

ESL has announced the 16 direct invites for IEM Chengdu, set to be played from November 3-9.

All the top names are set to be in attendance in China, as the four current highest-ranked teams have all accepted invites. That also gives an outline of the PGL Bucharest team list, with the Romanian event set to end one day before IEM Chengdu gets underway.

GamerLegion and Aurora are the only teams to have declined invitations, meaning Virtus.pro and HEROIC sneak into the team list as the next two teams in line via the Global VRS standings.

IEM Chengdu is set to start on November 3 and award a $1,000,000 prize pool. It will feature a double-elimination best-of-three group stage before the six-team playoffs get underway on November 7.

The full team list is as follows:

torzsi in chengdu xD

2025-08-26 13:36

3 replies

my chinese king

2025-08-26 13:42

Can't wait to see that XD

2025-08-27 09:47

Match made heaven.nothing will go wrong.

2025-08-28 09:23

Yay

ez for the mongolz vs TYLOO final

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Mongolian chess master vs icecream man

2025-08-27 02:12

No REZ no party

Congratulations to FaZe for winning IEM Chengdu back to back! And amazing MVP from jcobbb

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Back to back broky MVP

2025-08-26 13:43

manifesting

2025-08-26 16:57

i will be there

2025-08-26 13:37

Aurora declined ? LOL

Nobody asked

2025-08-26 14:46

S1mple

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where

2025-08-26 13:38

In my heart

2025-08-26 13:39

2025-08-26 14:20

Showmatch probably if BC.Game didnt have any matches

2025-08-28 06:53

Aurora skiping 94838 real tournaments

after attending most of the events back to back?

2025-08-26 14:21

but Chengdu is in 70days xd

2025-08-26 14:43

ez for mongolz

that's true

2025-08-26 18:27

setting the invites 70 days before doesn't make much sense

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true, they should instead send them 2 weeks prior to the event so that 4 teams drop out due to visa issues

2025-08-26 13:45

And how about not being 70 days but also not 15 days before?... something more reasonable not all teams are like Bestia

2025-08-26 13:48

look champ i dont want steel helmet to play again just to lose 0-26

2025-08-26 14:09

less time means usually not enough time to get a visa, 4-8 weeks is the avg time around the world

2025-08-26 16:51

you are too privileged with your passport to numerous visa-free destination

2025-08-26 19:21

Aurora skipping means this is real tier 1 tournament

True. Chengdu's tier better than krakow or katowice

2025-08-26 15:14

Brother that is not a polish flag XDDD

2025-08-30 12:41

bodyy and maka ready to farm

where is BC.Game???

2025-08-26 13:40

In cct

bcgame where ?

at home as always?

2025-08-26 13:56

Bucharest tier 2 farm tournament other than Aurora tier 1 den

2025-08-26 13:44

NA EXTINCT

2025-08-26 13:47

Nothing new. Boring always this teams

2025-08-26 13:51

you want z10 and ence or what

2025-08-26 13:59

It is Italian, he's waiting for something weird as Metzisports

2025-08-26 14:31

unlike the arabs, the chinese wont rigged or have paid crowd in the arena

2025-08-26 13:57

Tickets of any events in China are expensive and theres always people willing to pay for it

2025-08-30 10:33

Always same teams, boring

No more zont1x in china (

2025-08-26 14:24

easy for navi, this win gives them confidence to win major. november is NAVI ERA

2025-08-26 14:02

Congratulations Vitality 🎉

2025-08-26 14:03

Aurora very nice job on prioritising events, skip major as well please.

2025-08-26 14:06

they tend to skip real events to grind mickey mouse trophies, how noble

2025-08-26 14:34

i won't be sad if they could actually be able to grind mickey mouse trophies. Literally no trophies after many years xD

2025-08-26 14:39

stop waiting, they'll never win anything

2025-08-26 15:08

who said anything about any expectations from them i rather join you waiting for scream's return

2025-08-26 15:54

Funny how everyone complained about the partner system that we got the same teams over and over just to end up in the same situation. Only exception being smaller tournaments that some teams skip now

2025-08-26 14:14

and of course people also complain when a big team skip that smaller tournament

2025-08-26 17:06

why is mongolz getting asia vrs invite while lvg gets global vrs?? why does iem china always boycott other mongolian teams except mongolz

2025-08-26 14:28

wtf are you saying Asia VRS invites are sent out first to the highest ranked teams (MongolZ & TYLOO) so other Asian teams have to qualify through Global VRS. Thank ESL for that

2025-08-26 14:38

because other mongolz team vrs point is too low

2025-08-26 16:58

nt ATOX

2025-08-28 09:32

Prefer Betox

2025-08-29 09:35

regarded or baiting? pls be bait. how are you using ESL flaw to the whole region to pivoting it to victim blaming your own?

2025-08-28 16:28

wait this clashes with 2025 worlds (final in chengdu btw)

2025-08-26 14:33

Doesn’t matter,Chinese LOL fans finally aware that it’s extremely hard to beat Koreans with our aged and weak rosters.

2025-08-26 15:37

lol :)

2025-08-26 16:18

yeah one man parented the entire country two years in a row

2025-08-26 16:25

Exactly

2025-08-27 01:27

MONGOLZ CHAMPIONS AGAIN?!? NEW ERA?

Mongolz should win this

2025-08-26 15:12

lets go tyloo get that playoffs spot

2025-08-26 15:39

Aurora are either being selective with events because of VRS, planning to change something big, or simply avoiding burnout like before by making tactical adjustments.

2025-08-26 15:46

they want to win the PGL studio event so they can finally win something for once. all the good teams in Chengdu and a day after that is bucharest S2 so many top teams will skip it

2025-08-29 15:04