Returning to Katowice for the 7th time, this CS:GO tournament will feature the world’s strongest teams competing together from February 24 to March 1.

Did you miss what happened in CS:GO earlier this year, or did you only follow the big tournaments?

Katowice 2020 – Say no to Bo1

The luck in bo1 series and the advantage it gives dark horse teams over top teams is always a matter of debate, and many tournaments in recent times have switched to Bo3 only competitions.

However, this problem will be completely resolved this year when at IEM Katowice 2020 (and ESL One Cologne 2020), bo1 matches will be completely eliminated, all matches will be bo3 and finals.

The presence of all teams in the top 10

IEM Katowice 2020 is not only the biggest LAN tournament in the early part of the year, but also an event with the participation of all the teams currently ranked in the top 10 on the HLTV rankings.

Not only is there the presence of top 10 teams, the competition at the tournament is still extremely fierce: all participating teams are in the top 30, and must mention names like MAD Lions, NiP or

Only three names have ever lifted the Katowice trophy

It is a tournament with a long history in CS:GO, but up to now there are only 3 names that have ever lifted the prestigious Katowice Cup, which are: Virtus.pro (2014), fnatic (2015).

All three of these names will attend IEM Katowice 2020, even though Virtus.pro has a different lineup, and to see if history will repeat or a new name will lift this prestigious trophy this year.

Captain Zeus was chosen to carry the Katowice 2020 trophy to the stage

Captain Zeus, the once legendary captain of Na`Vi, will be honored to be chosen to bring out the IEM Katowice 2020 trophy at the opening ceremony of this tournament.

Mouz is continuously appearing in the finals

For viewers who only watch the biggest tournaments, they witnessed mousesports defeat Astralis and Fnatic to win the ESL Pro League Season 10 championship at the end of last year, but they may not have paid attention to the achievements.

4 championships (CS:GO Asia Championship, ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals, cs_summit 5, ICE Challenge) and one runner-up (EPICENTER 2019) marked mousesports’ achievement of 5 consecutive events reaching the finals

Although not all of the above mentioned tournaments are major LAN tournaments, mousesports’ stability during a time when many other teams are having problems is helping them nearly topple Astralis on the rankings.

Mousesports’ achievements in the last 5 tournaments:

– CS:GO Asia Championships – 1st (November)

– ESL Pro League S10 Finals – 1st (December)

– cs_summit 5 – 1st (December)

– EPICENTER 2019 – 2nd (December)

– ICE Challenge – 1st (February)

FaZe trusts the AWPer position to broky

The young Latvian talent joined FaZe after the summer break last year as the best free transfer contract FaZe could find, after the organization had to spend too much to take coldzera from

In 2019, only 5% of broky’s kills were made with an AWP (ranked 4th in FaZe), despite his position on the old team being 2nd AWPer.

In the 6 maps played at BLAST, 36.7% of broky’s kills were with AWP and gave broky a rating of 1.38 – a very impressive number.

HUNDEN attended a major tournament for the first time since 2014

HUNDEN has done that.

But even in 2018, when he was tired of being a prey to the big teams in Denmark, HUNDEN still did not give up.

Going through a long and thorny road, the criticism and ridicule he had to endure for years, plus the fact that his promising players always left him – all made for his success today.

Winning the V4 Future Sports championship is the first step, followed by joining an organization with good financial potential, MAD Lions, and finally surpassing Heroic and North on the rankings to become the number one CS:GO team.

Some of HUNDEN’s former teammates:

NiP no longer has the team’s key players

Starting from Filllaren, then friberg, Xizt, GeT_RiGhT and finally f0rest, one after another, these legends left to reunite with the 87-0 lineup today under the Dignitas shirt.

Coming to IEM Katowice, the oldest players in NiP’s shirt are… REZ and Lekro.

All the values left by their predecessors are now gone, and the current lineup has not yet reached its full potential, NiP is having a harder time than ever not only on the path to finding success, but also having to overcome it.

IEM Katowice 2020 will start from February 24, 2020 to March 1, 2020, and will be commented in Vietnamese on 500Bros’s YouTube channel.