Team Spirit swept the best-of-five grand final series over FaZe Clan to win the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2024 event on Sunday in Poland.
Team Spirit had beaten FaZe Clan 2-0 in a best-of-three in the Group A upper-bracket final when both teams qualified for the tournament’s playoffs.
It was more of the same on Sunday, with Team Spirit winning 13-9 on Nuke, 13-11 on Mirage and 13-3 on Overpass for the sweep.
Russian Danil “donk” Kryshkovets led Team Spirit with match highs of 82 kills and a plus-42 kills-to-deaths ratio. Teammate Dmitry “sh1ro” Sokolov of Russia posted 53 kills and a plus-23 K-D.
For FaZe Clan, Robin “ropz” Kool of Estonia was the only member of the team in the positive, notching a plus-6 differential with his 50 kills.
Twenty-four teams began the tournament, competing for shares of the first $1 million prize pool in Europe since Counter-Strike 2 launched in September. Sixteen advanced to the group stage, which featured two double-elimination groups of eight. Six teams, the top three from each group, reached the playoffs. All matches were best-of-three until Sunday’s best-of-five grand final.
PRIZE POOL
1. $400,000, 3,000 BLAST Premier points (Qualifies to IEM Cologne 2024, BLAST Premier World Final) — Team Spirit
2. $180,000, 2,000 BLAST Premier points — FaZe Clan
3-4. $80,000, 1,200 BLAST Premier points — Team Falcons, MOUZ
5-6. $40,000, 500 BLAST Premier points — ENCE, G2 Esports
7-8. $24,000, 300 BLAST Premier points — Natus Vincere, Heroic
9-12. $16,000 — Complexity Gaming, Eternal Fire, GamerLegion, Monte
13-16. $10,000 — Rebels Gaming, Apeks, Team Vitality, Cloud9
17-20. $4,500 — Virtus.pro, The MongolZ, BIG, M80
21-24. $2,500 — BetBoom Team, Astralis, FURIA Esports, Rooster
–Field Level Media
