Intel Extreme Masters Chengdu 2025 — Counter-Strike 2
finishedWon by FURIA, runner-up Team Vitality.
- game
Counter-Strike 2- dates
- Nov 3 – Nov 9 2025
- tier
- 1
- location
- Chengdu, China
- teams
- 16
Against the season
3 of 4
favourites in top four
table’s top four: Team Vitality — 2, Team Spirit — 7–8, Team Falcons — 3, FURIA — 1
13.5
average season-table rank of FURIA’s opponents
the 13th hardest path of 40 season events; 6 of 6 series against table clubs
table favourite Team Vitality (1st): finished 2
+7
Virtus.pro: 16th in the field by the table, finished 9–12
biggest climb of 16 field clubs
−7
Natus Vincere: 6th in the field by the table, but finished 13–16
biggest drop of 16 field clubs
Season-table ranks of 16 of 16 field clubs, of 50median 14.5
The thick mark is FURIA, 4th in the table.
Placements and prize money
places and prize money
Team names follow the form used across the site: paiN Gaming → PaiN Gaming.
Champion
$285,000
first-place prize
12–2
FURIA maps in our data, won–lost
series 5–1; 85.7% of maps here, 59.1% over the season
10.6% of FURIA’s season prize money: its 3rd-largest payout of 25; bigger: Thunderpick World Championship 2025 ($500,000) and FISSURE Playground #2 ($360,000)
How the pool is split
the pool is allocated by place in full
28.5%
first place
$285,000 of the $1,000,000 allocated
88.4%
top half of the rows
top 8 rows of 16 · $884,000
×1.9
first place to second
$285,000 against $150,000
Against the season: a larger first-place share than 14 of 69 events; median 36.8%.
The same pool is announced for 13 other events this season, so all 14 share rank 19.
Nearby in the season
neighbours by start date
- beforePGL Masters Bucharest 2025
- afterBLAST Rivals Fall 2025
Facts and records
4
titles this season for FURIA; this is the 3rd
This was FURIA’s 3rd of 4 titles this season and its 2nd in a row; the next came at BLAST Rivals Fall 2025. In our season table of 50 clubs with at least 40 maps in our data, it ranks 4th by share of maps won; from this field only Team Vitality, Team Spirit and Team Falcons rank higher, and they finished 2nd, 7th–8th and 3rd here. In our data the club lost only one series here, to MOUZ.
Matches played
30
matches
76
maps
16 of 16
placement-table teams in these matches
51.7%
bo3 to a third map: 15 of 29
more than 47 of 61 season events; median 44.4%
The 10 latest of 30 series are shown.
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FURIA won IEM Chengdu 2025 by sweeping the table leader in the final: 3–0 over Team Vitality on November 9, on Ancient, Inferno and Overpass. From November 7 on it did not drop a map, beating The MongolZ and Team Falcons 2–0 each before the final, and over the whole event it lost a single series, to MOUZ.
It was FURIA’s second title in a row, after Thunderpick World Championship 2025, and the third of its four this season. The $285,000 first prize is its third-largest payout of the season, behind Thunderpick and FISSURE Playground #2.
Natus Vincere had the worst event relative to our table, sixth of the field and out in 13th to 16th, while Virtus.pro, 16th of the field, climbed to ninth to 12th.