Intel Extreme Masters Season XVI - IEM Cologne 2021
IEM Cologne 2021 (Intel Extreme Masters Season XVI - Cologne) is one of the most prestigious championships organized in the competitive Counter-Strike by the company ESL. In 2021, the tournament will be hosted in the IEM (instead of ESL One) and Intel Grand Gram series. The prize pool will be traditionally equal to $1,000,000.
Twenty-four teams will take part in IEM Cologne 2021. The teams will have to go through different ways to the tournament: direct invitations to the championship will be given to six best teams at Road to Cologne in Europe and two best teams at Road to Cologne in North America.
Tree more teams from Europe will make it to Play-In, as well as two teams from North America, and three more from South America, Oceania and Asia. The other eight slots will be taken by the winners of 6 Wild Card stages and the champions of NC Global Playoff and ESL Meisterschaft.
The championship will be taking place in several stages: play-in, a group stage and playoff. The winner of the championship will receive $400,000, 1800 Pro Tour points and 3200 BLAST Premier points.
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About the tournament
IEM Cologne 2021 is a offline tournament in Counter-Strike (CS2), that will be held on 08.07.2021 - 18.07.2021 in Germany, Cologne.
So far, 0 have confirmed their participation in IEM Cologne 2021 and are ready to compete for the prize pool in $972,000.
The structure of IEM Cologne 2021
IEM Cologne 2021 will be divided into 1 stages:
Stage | Start date | Date of completion | Number of participating teams |
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Play-In | 06.07.2021 | 07.07.2021 | unknown |
Predictions and forecasts
The EGamersWorld team has collected 76 predictions for tournament matches. Of these, 76, have already been closed, as the matches have ended. Of the closed predictions, 33 turned out to be positive.
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