Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2025 — Counter-Strike 2

finished

Won by Team Spirit, runner-up MOUZ.

game: Counter-Strike 2
dates: Jul 23 – Aug 3 2025
tier: 1
location: Cologne, Germany
teams: 24

Against the season

2 of 4

favourites in top four

table’s top four: Team Vitality — 3–4, Team Spirit — 1, Team Falcons — 9–12, FURIA — 5–6

10.2

average season-table rank of Team Spirit’s opponents

the 6th hardest path of 40 season events; 5 of 5 series against table clubs

table favourite Team Vitality (1st): finished 3–4

FaZe Clan: 16th in the field by the table, finished 7–8

biggest climb of 22 field clubs

−6

Team Falcons: 3rd in the field by the table, but finished 9–12

biggest drop of 22 field clubs

Season-table ranks of 22 of 24 field clubs, of 50median 20.5

The thick mark is Team Spirit, 2nd in the table.

Record places

4th

of 80 by prize pool, shared by 13

8th

of 59 by winner’s prize, shared by 2

Placements and prize money

places and prize money

1 Team Spirit $460,000

2 MOUZ $216,000

3-4 Natus Vincere $108,000

3-4 Team Vitality $108,000

5-6 FURIA $61,000

5-6 The MongolZ $61,000

7-8 FaZe Clan $38,000

7-8 G2 Esports $38,000

9-12 3DMAX $23,000

9-12 Aurora Gaming $23,000

9-12 Ninjas in Pyjamas $23,000

9-12 Team Falcons $23,000

13-16 Astralis $10,000

13-16 GamerLegion $10,000

13-16 HEROIC $10,000

13-16 Team Liquid $10,000

17-20 FlyQuest $4,500

17-20 PaiN Gaming $4,500

17-20 TYLOO $4,500

17-20 Virtus.pro $4,500

21-24 B8 $2,500

21-24 BIG $2,500

21-24 Complexity $2,500

21-24 MIBR $2,500

what this means

Team names follow the form used across the site: paiN Gaming → PaiN Gaming.

Champion

Team Spirit

$460,000

first-place prize

11–2

Team Spirit maps in our data, won–lost

series 5–0; 84.6% of maps here, 65.1% over the season

15.3% of Team Spirit’s season prize money: its 3rd-largest payout of 20; bigger: Esports World Cup 2026 ($600,000) and PGL Astana 2026 ($512,000)

On the roster at the start: chopper, donk, hally, magixx, sh1ro, zont1x

How the pool is split

the pool is allocated by place in full

36.8%

first place

$460,000 of the $1,250,000 allocated

94.6%

top half of the rows

top 12 rows of 24 · $1,182,000

×2.1

first place to second

$460,000 against $216,000

Against the season: a larger first-place share than 34 of 69 events; median 36.8%.

what this means

The same pool is announced for 12 other events this season, so all 13 share rank 4.

Nearby in the season

neighbours by start date

Calendar

beforeFISSURE Playground #1
afterExort The Proving Grounds Season 3

Facts and records

titles this season for Team Spirit; this is the 1st

This began Team Spirit’s run of 5 titles this season: the next came at BLAST Bounty Fall 2025, the latest so far at BLAST Open Fall 2026; only Team Vitality has more (10). Before the final, the club and MOUZ were level at 1–1 in their series this season, including earlier at this event; the final put the winner ahead. In our season table of 50 clubs with at least 40 maps in our data, it ranks 2nd by share of maps won; from this field only Team Vitality ranks higher, and it finished 3rd–4th here.

Matches played

CS2 match feed

matches

114

maps

24 of 24

placement-table teams in these matches

31.3%

bo3 to a third map: 15 of 48

more than 6 of 61 season events; median 44.4%

maps of this tournament — the number beside each map is how many times it was played at this tournament Inferno · 23Ancient · 20Nuke · 20Mirage · 19Dust II · 15Train · 10Overpass · 7

date teams score maps

Aug 3 MOUZ Team Spirit 0:3 bo5Mirage, Ancient, Nuke

Aug 2 Team Vitality MOUZ 0:2 bo3Mirage, Train

Aug 2 Team Spirit Natus Vincere 2:1 bo3Mirage, Nuke, Ancient

Aug 1 MOUZ FURIA 2:1 bo3Train, Mirage, Inferno

Aug 1 The MongolZ Natus Vincere 0:2 bo3Inferno, Ancient

Jul 29 Aurora Gaming FaZe Clan 0:2 bo3Nuke, Mirage

Jul 29 Natus Vincere Ninjas in Pyjamas 2:1 bo3Nuke, Inferno, Train

Jul 29 MOUZ Team Spirit 1:2 bo3Ancient, Mirage, Overpass

Jul 29 FaZe Clan Natus Vincere 0:2 bo3Ancient, Inferno

Jul 29 Team Vitality The MongolZ 2:0 bo3Mirage, Inferno

The 10 latest of 49 series are shown.

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IEM Cologne 2025 opened Team Spirit’s run of five titles this season, and it beat MOUZ twice on the way: 2–1 on July 29 on Ancient, Mirage and Overpass, then 3–0 in the final on August 3 on Mirage, Ancient and Nuke. In all it went 5–0 in series and lost two maps.

MOUZ reached that final by knocking out FURIA 2–1 and then Team Vitality, the leader of our season table, 2–0 on Mirage and Train. Team Falcons, third of the field by the table, went out in ninth to 12th.

Series here were rarely close: only 15 of 48 best-of-threes reached a third map, fewer than at all but six events of the CS2 season. The $460,000 for first place is Spirit’s third-largest payout of the season, behind the Esports World Cup 2026 and PGL Astana 2026.