G2 Esports will start defending the Katowice title from Group B, where their rivals will be teams like Vitality, MOUZ and Monte, among others.
ESL has revealed the distribution of the eight direct participants in the main stage of IEM Katowice 2024, as well as the pairings of the first round of the play-in stage of the competition.
All the teams that have already secured participation will meet the play-in teams in the first round, and if G2 and Vitality win, we will see a new big derby between them already in the second round of the tournament.
As we already mentioned, next to them in group A will be MOUZ and Monte, while in group B there are FaZe Clan, Falcons, Na'Vi and Complexity.
Here is how the pairings of the first round of the play-in phase look like:
Cloud9 - Rebels Gaming
Eternal Fire - BetBoom Team
Heroic - Astralis
ENCE - BIG
FURIA - The MongolZ
Team Spirit - Apex
GamerLegion - M80
Rooster - Virtus.pro
Just like last year, the teams will advance with two wins, that is, they will be eliminated with two losses.
