Today, the tournament operator ESL announced the seeding for the Play-in and groups at IEM Katowice 2024 on their Twitter. The first 8 matches have been revealed.

The first matches of the championship will start on January 31, 2024. As is typical for ESL, there will be at least 2 matches right away.

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In 2024, the first event of the Intel Extreme Masters series will be the tournament in Katowice, starting on January 31 and ending on February 2. The event will be held in the Polish city of Katowice in a LAN format. The tournament's prize pool amounts to one million dollars.

ESL:

IEM Katowice 2024: TOURNAMENT BRACKET READY.24 teams. Only one can illuminate the Hall of Fame! Our story begins on January 31, 2024!

  

The Play-in stage will take place in a Swiss format. Following the seeding, these teams made it to the Play-in stage:

• PALOMA
• Cloud9
• Virtus.pro
• Heroic
• FURIA Esports
• M80
• Rooster
• The MongolZ
• BIG
• GamerLegion
• Astralis
• Eternal Fire
• BetBoom Team
• ENCE
• Apeks
• Team Spirit

The group stage will take place in a Swiss format. And these teams have made it directly to the Group Stage:

• G2 Esports
• MOUZ
• FaZe Clan
• Team Vitality
• Complexity
• Natus Vincere
• Monte
• Team Falcons