FaZe Clan misses out on a huge win at one of the world's biggest tournaments

IEM Katowice 2024 is one of the biggest events for Counter-Strike and StarCraft 2.

It sold out within hours as fans were eager to get a seat at this legendary venue, Spodek Arena, which has become a symbol in CS culture.

With over 4,500 employees organizing the three-day event, the scale of the show is as big as it gets when it comes to esports.

The CS2 Tournament Playoffs started with a battle between the final two winners, G2 vs. FaZe Clan.

FaZe dominated on both maps and secured a spot in the semi-finals, where they faced German powerhouse MOUZ.

However, MOUZ did not show his true strength and ultimately lost to FaZe.

On the other side of the line, the first match between ENCE and Team Falcons will go down as the loudest and most emotional match in recent years.

ENCE consists of four Polish players and the audience in Katowice made it clear who their favorites were.

For the first time in our lives we saw an entire sector of the stands jumping up and down shouting for their team, similar to the hype in a football stadium.

The match was the most exciting yet and ended with the last possible round going to Team Falcons.

However, the semi-finals were not as successful for Team Falcons as Russian powerhouse Team Spirit destroyed them to secure a spot in the finals.

Team Spirit continued to show their strength in the finals where they crushed FaZe Clan.

Notably, Russian prodigy Danil 'donk' Kryshkovets won the event's MVP with an all-time best positive record of 1.70.

As for StarCraft 2, Joona “Serral” Sotala won his second IEM Katowice title after his previous victory in 2022.

If you want to read more about the event, check out our impressions of IEM Katowice 2024.

Written by Georgina Young and Marin Angelov on behalf of GLHF.

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