Competition started Monday at the $300,000 Intel Extreme Masters Chengdu 25 tournament in China.
Sixteen Counter-Strike 2 teams are competing in this week’s competition for a top prize of $125,000.
The double-elimination group stage began Monday with two groups of eight teams, with all matches best-of-three. The group winners advance to the playoff semifinals, with the group runners-up entering the quarterfinals as high seeds and the third-place teams entering the quarterfinals as low seeds.
The single-elimination playoffs start Friday with all matches best-of-three until Sunday’s best-of-five grand final.
In Group A’s upper-bracket quarterfinals Monday, Team Falcons swept TYLOO and Team Spirit swept paiN Gaming. The MongolZ defeated HEROIC and Astralis beat Natus Vincere, both by 2-1 scores.
In Group B’s upper-bracket quarterfinals, FURIA swept Lynn Vision Gaming, G2 Esports swept 3DMAX and MOUZ swept FaZe Clan. Team Vitality rallied for a 2-1 win against Virtus.pro.
The tournament continues Tuesday with eight more matches:
Group A upper-bracket semifinals:
–The MongolZ vs. Astralis
–Team Falcons vs. Team Spirit
Group A lower-bracket quarterfinals:
–HEROIC vs. Natus Vincere
–TYLOO vs. paiN Gaming
Group B upper-bracket semifinals:
–FURIA vs. G2 Esports
–MOUZ vs. Team Vitality
Group B lower-bracket quarterfinals:
–Lynn Vision Gaming vs. 3DMAX
–FaZe Clan vs. Virtus.pro
IEM Chengdu prize pool:
1. $125,000
2. $50,000
3. $30,000
4. $20,000
5-6. $12,500
7-8. $7,000
9-12. $5,000
13-16. $4,000
–Field Level Media
