IEM Cologne 2021

CS2 / News / 5 July 2021 — 14:43

IEM Cologne 2021 will be the first LAN tournament in the last 15 months. The championship will be held from July 8th to 18th in Cologne.

With third place in the European Road to Cologne rankings, NAVI will start their performance in the tournament from the second stage. 16 teams (8 in each group) will fight in this stage, they will determine six finalists in a Double Elimination bracket. The teams that top the group stage will go straight to the semifinals, and the teams ranked second and third, will play the playoffs from the quarter-finals.

The prize pool for IEM Cologne 2021 is $ 1,000,000 with 10,240 ESL Pro Tour points and 800 BLAST Premier points.

NAVI match schedule
Teams	Start time(CEST)	Match page
NAVI21 Renegades	Over
NAVI21 Team Vitality	Over
NAVI21 Astralis	Over
NAVI20 FaZe Clan	Over
NAVI30 G2 Esports	Over

Group stage:

— Double Elimination bracket;
— 2 groups; 8 teams each;
— all matches will be played in best of 3;
— the best team from the group stage starts the playoff stage from the semifinals;
— teams that took second and third places will start from the quarterfinals;
— the rest will have to leave the competition.