Coverage: ESL Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2016

Herein you shall find everything you need to know concerning the $250,000+ CS:GO tournament taking place from March 2-5 at IEM Katowice.

From March 2-5 in Katowice, Poland, the final Intel Extreme Masters stopover of the season will include a $250,000+ CS:GO tournament with 12 teams in attendance.

There are two groups with six teams each and the tournament kicks off with a best-of-one round-robin group stage that will take place during the first two days and be inaccessible to the public.

The group winners will automatically advance to the semifinals whereas the second and third place finishers in each group will play quarter-finals to determine the final two teams to make the top four of the event.

Every match from the quarter-finals onward will take place inside the Spodek Arena proper. The quarter and semifinals will be best-of-three games whereas the grand final will be a best-of-five.

You can catch the action over at ESL's CS:GO channel as always:

The official groups for IEM Katowice 2016 are once again:

Group А	Group B
Fnatic	EnVyUs
Natus Vincere	Astralis
Luminosity	Virtus.Pro
mousesports	FaZe
NiP	E-Frag.net
TheMongolz	Tempo Storm

RESULTS

Group stage

Group A
1.	Luminosity	4-1	77-59	+18	12p
2.	Fnatic	4-1	79-61	+18	12p
3.	Natus Vincere	3-2	69-57	+12	9p
4.	mousesports	2-3	69-66	+3	6p
5.	NiP	2-3	67-66	+1	6p
6.	The Mongolz	0-5	28-80	-52	0p

Group B
1.	Astralis	5-0	80-39	+41	15p
2.	Tempo Storm	3-2	76-64	+12	9p
3.	FaZe	3-2	63-68	-5	9p
4.	EnVyUs	2-3	65-69	-4	6p
5.	Virtus.Pro	1-4	54-83	-29	3p
6.	E-Frag	1-4	67-82	-15	3p

SCHEDULE

Wednesday, March 2nd

13:20 

Fnatic vs. 

Natus Vincere - [1:0] (news)
13:20 

mousesports vs. 

NiP - [1:0]
14:40 

Luminosity vs. 

Natus Vincere - [1:0]
14:40 

mousesports vs. 

TheMongolZ - [1:0] (news)
16:00 

Fnatic vs. 

Luminosity - [0:1]
16:00 

NiP vs. 

TheMongolZ - [1:0]
17:20 

Fnatic vs. 

NiP - [1:0]
17:20 

mousesports vs. 

Natus Vincere - [0:1]
18:40 

Luminosity vs. 

TheMongolZ - [1:0]
18:40 

NiP vs. 

Natus Vincere - [0:1]
20:00 

mousesports vs. 

Luminosity - [0:1]
20:00 

Fnatic vs. 

TheMongolZ - [1:0]
21:20 

Natus Vincere vs. 

TheMongolZ - [1:0]
21:20 

Luminosity vs. 

NiP - [0:1]
21:20 

Fnatic vs. 

mousesports - [1:0]

Thursday, March 3rd

12:20 

EnVyUs vs. 

Astralis - [0:1]
12:20 

E-frag vs. 

FaZe - [0:1]
13:40 

Virtus.pro vs. 

Astralis - [0:1]
13:40 

E-frag vs. 

Tempo Storm - [0:1]
15:00 

EnVyUs vs. 

Virtus.pro - [0:1]
15:00 

FaZe vs. 

Tempo Storm - [1:0]
16:20 

EnVyUs vs. 

FaZe - [1:0]
16:20 

E-frag vs. 

Astralis - [0:1]
17:40 

Virtus.pro vs. 

Tempo Storm - [0:1]
17:40 

FaZe vs. 

Astralis - [0:1]
19:00 

E-frag vs. 

Virtus.pro - [0:1]
19:00 

EnVyUs vs. 

Tempo Storm - [0:1]
20:20 

Astralis vs. 

Tempo Storm - [1:0]
20:20 

Virtus.pro vs. 

FaZe - [1:0]
20:20 

EnVyUs vs. 

E-frag - [0:1]

PLAYOFF

Friday, March 4th

12:30 Quarter-final #1 -

Natus Vincere vs.

Tempo Storm - [2:1]
15:50 Quarter-final #2 -

Fnatic vs.

Virtus.pro - [2:0]
19:10 Semi-final #1 -

Luminosity vs.

Natus Vincere - [2:0]
22:30 Semi-final #2 -

Astralis vs.

Fnatic - [1:2]

Saturday, March 5th

18:00 Grand final -

Luminosity vs.

Fnatic - [0:3]

The IEM Katowice 2016 final standings:

1. 

Fnatic ($104,000)
2. 

Luminosity ($44,000)
3-4. 

Astralis ($25,000)
3-4. 

Natus Vincere ($23,000)
5-6. 

Tempo Storm ($13,000)
5-6. 

Virtus.pro ($13,000)
7-8. 

FaZe ($7,000)
7-8. 

mousesports ($7,000)
9-10. 

NiP ($5,000)
9-10. 

E-frag ($4,000)
11-12. 

EnVyUs ($3,000)
11-12. 

TheMongolZ ($2,000)

The talent list for IEM Katowice draws on most of the most renowned corners of the current CS:GO scene and is as follows:

 Will "Chobra" Cho - Host

 O. J. Borg - Sideline reporter

 Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett - Analyst desk host

 Janko "YNk" Paunović - Analyst

 Lauren "Pansy" Scott - Commentator

 Alex "Machine" Richardson - Commentator

 Anders Blume - Commentator

 Auguste "Semmler" Massonat - Commentator

 Henry "HenryG" Greer - Commentator

 Jason "moses" O'Toole - Commentator

 Heather "sapphiRe" Garozzo - Observer

 Alex Rush - Observer 

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