2020 will be the 5th year that the CS:GO IEM tournament returns to the city of Katowice, Poland.
Last year, IEM Katowice was selected as one of the two Majors of the year and at the Spodek Arena, we witnessed ENCE’s magical fairy tale as they went from the Minor round to the finals.
With a huge total prize money and the participation of all the teams currently in the top 10 on the prestigious HLTV rankings, this promises to be an extremely high-quality tournament in both expertise and epic scale.
List of 16 teams that will participate at IEM Katowice 2020:
1. Astralis
The strongest candidate for the championship cup will definitely be Astralis, the pride of the Danes.
Although there are times when their performance goes down and allows other opponents to rise, Astralis always comes back extremely strong and regains its throne.
2020 did not start smoothly for Astralis members.
Falling to the loser’s bracket, they thought they would easily defeat Na`vi, a favorite prey of the Danes when the last time Na`vi defeated Astralis in a bo3 match was at ESL One Cologne 2018.
Entering IEM Katowice as the defending champions, Astralis is determined to prove that the BLAST Premier Spring Series was just an oversight and the strength of one of the greatest CS teams.
2. Mousesports
The months of 2019 have witnessed the extremely strong rise of `Electronic Mice`.
Next, Karrigan and his teammates won the cs_summit 5 championship cup, the runner-up position at EPICENTER 2019 and most recently the ICE Challenge 2020 championship after defeating Na`vi 3-1 in the grand final.
Mousesports owns extremely excellent individuals: karrigan is one of the best IGLs at the moment, a young rifler duo with extremely big hands like ropz – frozen, along with woxic, one of the
5 consecutive times reaching the finals of the LAN tournaments they attended and 4 championship cups have confirmed how dangerous Mousesports is at this time and they will definitely be an extremely strong candidate for the championship.
Although Ropz is still very young, he is already an important factor contributing to the success of Mousesports
3. Team Liquid
2019 was the most successful year in North American CS history in general and Team Liquid history in particular.
Team Liquid is like a tank, blowing away every opponent that stands in their way to the championship cups.
However, after the summer break, Liquid members lost their confidence and could no longer maintain their dominant form like before.
At BLAST Premier Spring Series, Team Liquid won a ticket to the Final round that will take place next June, but fans still cannot rest assured when they lost twice to FaZe Clan and had to cede first place.
(To be continued…)
