IEM Cologne 2021: Scores, bracket, schedule

It’s been 16 months, but LAN events have returned to the competitive CS:GO.

As the world begins to heal and the CS:GO environment returns to normal, 24 teams have traveled to a five-star hotel in Cologne, Germany for IEM Cologne 2021. These teams will compete in a safe and sterile environment, on LAN, for the lion’s share of a $1 million prize pool.

LANs have been away for so long that IEM Cologne will be the offline debut for several pro players, as well as the newest addition to the map pool, Ancient. The action begins on July 6, when 16 teams will compete in a play-in stage to determine the eight that will move on to the primary group stage. Six teams will advance past the group stage to the playoffs.

Here’s all the information you’ll need to keep up with the action at IEM Cologne, including a full team list, the brackets, and scores.

Participating teams

Play-in teams

• Team Spirit
• Complexity Gaming
• Ninjas in Pyjamas
• Evil Geniuses
• Team One
• MIBR
• Renegades
• ViCi Gaming
• BIG
• mousesports
• Team Vitality
• FaZe Clan
• Bad News Bears
• OG
• Team LDLC
• Sprout

Directly qualified teams

• Gambit Esports
• Natus Vincere
• Heroic
• Virtus Pro
• Astralis
• G2 Esports
• FURIA Esports
• Team Liquid

Bracket and schedule

Play-in bracket

Group A bracket

Group B bracket

Playoffs Bracket

All times CT, all matches best-of-three unless noted otherwise.

July 6

• Play-in stage upper bracket round one (best-of-one)
  • Ninjas in Pyjamas 16-7 Team LDLC (Ancient)
  • mousesports 16-7 Bad News Bears (Nuke)
  • Team Spirit 22-18 MIBR (Inferno)
  • Team Vitality 16-8 Renegades (Overpass)
  • OG 16-6 Team One (Inferno)
  • BIG 16-8 Sprout (Dust2)
  • FaZe Clan 16-12 Evil Geniuses (Mirage)
  • Complexity 16-10 ViCi Gaming (Mirage)
• Play-in stage lower bracket round one
  • Team LDLC 2-0 Bad News Bears (16-9 Inferno, 16-6 Mirage)
  • Renegades 2-0 MIBR (19-15 Vertigo, 16-14 Mirage)
• Play-in stage upper bracket round two
  • NiP 2-0 mousesports (16-8 Mirage, 16-11 Ancient)
  • Team Vitality 2-1 Team Spirit (Spirit 16-14 Dust2, Vitality 16-13 Mirage, Vitality 16-12 Nuke)
  • BIG 2-0 OG (16-9 Dust2, 19-17 Mirage)
  • FaZe 2-0 Complexity (16-13 Dust2, 16-6 Nuke)

July 7

• Play-in stage lower bracket round one
  • 6:30am CT: Sprout 2-1 Team One (ONE 16-12 Nuke, Sprout 16-13 Dust2, Sprout 16-8 Mirage)
  • 6:30am CT: Evil Geniuses 2-0 ViCi Gaming (16-5 Inferno, 16-7 Mirage)
• Play-in stage lower bracket round two
  • 9:45am CT: Complexity 2-0 (16-13 Dust2, 16-6 Mirage)
  • 9:45am CT: Renegades 2-0 OG (16-11 Nuke, 19-15 Inferno)
  • 1pm CT: Team Spirit 2-1 Sprout (Spirit 16-10 Ancient, Sprout 16-14 Dust2, Spirit 16-13 Nuke)
  • 1pm CT: mousesports 2-0 Evil Geniuses (16-12 Nuke, 16-8 Inferno)

July 8

• Group A upper bracket round one
  • 6:30am CT: Gambit Esports 2-1 mousesports (mous 16-14 Inferno, Gambit 16-3 Vertigo, Gambit 16-12 Mirage)
  • 6:30am CT: Ninjas in Pyjamas 2-1 Team Liquid (Liquid 19-17 Overpass, NiP 16-6 Dust2, NiP 16-3 Mirage)
  • 9:45am CT: BIG 2-0 Virtus.pro (16-13 Dust2, 16-12 Inferno
  • 9:45am CT: G2 Esports 2-0 Complexity (16-14 Vertigo, 16-6 Dust2)
• Group B upper bracket round one
  • 1pm CT: Natus Vincere 2-1 Renegades (RNG 16-10 Inferno, Na’Vi 16-6 Dust2, Na’Vi 16-4 Nuke)
  • 1pm CT: Team Vitality 2-0 (16-10 Overpass, 16-14 Nuke)

July 9

• Group B upper bracket round one
  • 6:30am CT: Astralis 2-0 FaZe Clan (16-13 Dust2, 25-22 Nuke)
  • 6:30am CT: Heroic 2-1 Team Spirit (Heroic 16-13 Overpass, Spirit 16-12 Nuke, Heroic 22-19 Ancient)
• Group A upper bracket round two
  • 9:45am CT: Gambit 2-1 NiP (NiP 16-10 Ancient, Gambit 16-5 Inferno, Gambit 16-8 Dust2)
  • 1pm CT: G2 2-1 BIG (BIG 16-8 Dust2, G2 16-1 Mirage, G2 16-4 Inferno)
• Group A lower bracket round one
  • 9:45am CT: Liquid 2-1 mousesports (Liquid 16-9 Nuke, mous 16-12 Dust2, Liquid 28-25 Inferno)
  • 1pm CT: Virtus.pro 2-1 Complexity (COL 16-6 Mirage, VP 19-15 Dust2, VP 16-13 Overpass)

July 10

• Group B lower bracket round one
  • 6:30am CT: FURIA 2-0 Renegades (16-9 Inferno, 16-11 Nuke)
  • 6:30am CT: FaZe Clan 2-1 Team Spirit (Spirit 16-11 Overpass, FaZe 16-13 Inferno, FaZe 16-10 Vertigo)
• Group A lower bracket round two
  • 9:45am CT: BIG 2-0 Team Liquid (16-11 Vertigo, 16-13 Nuke)
  • 1pm CT: Virtus.pro 2-0 Ninjas in Pyjamas (16-9 Ancient, 16-11 Inferno)
• Group B upper bracket round two
  • 9:45am CT: Natus Vincere 2-1 Team Vitality (Vitality 16-14 Overpass, Na’Vi 16-5 Nuke, Na’Vi 16-10 Mirage)
  • 1pm CT: Astralis 2-0 Heroic (16-11 Inferno, 16-12 Overpass)

July 11

• Group B lower bracket round two
  • 6:30am CT: Heroic 2-0 FURIA (19-17 Ancient, 16-10 Nuke
  • 6:30am CT: FaZe Clan 2-0 Vitality (16-11 Mirage, 16-14 Dust2)
• 9:45am CT: Group A upper bracket round three
  • G2 Esports 2-1 Gambit (G2 16-13 Mirage, Gambit 16-10 Vertigo, G2 16-14 Inferno)
• 9:45am CT: Group A lower bracket round three
  • BIG vs. Virtus.pro (19-15 Dust2, 19-16 Inferno)
• 1pm CT: Group B upper bracket round three
  • Na’Vi 2-1 Astralis (Na’Vi 16-7 Ancient, Astralis 22-19 Dust2, Na’Vi 16-5 Inferno)
• 1pm CT: Group B lower bracket round three
  • Faze 2-1 Heroic (FaZe 16-10 Mirage, Heroic 16-11 Nuke, FaZe 16-10 Ancient)

July 16

• 9am CT: Quarterfinal No. 1
  • Astralis 2-1 Virtus.pro (AST 19-16 Overpass, VP 22-20 Dust2, AST 16-8 Inferno)
• 12:15pm CT: Quarterfinal No. 2
  • Gambit vs FaZe

July 17

• 9am CT: Semifinal No. 1
  • G2 2-1 Astralis (G2 16-6 Nuke, AST 16-12 Dust2, G2 16-14 Inferno)
• 12:15pm CT: Semifinal No. 2
  • Na’Vi 2-0 FaZe Clan (16-7 Inferno, 16-7 Mirage)

July 18

• 9am CT: Grand Finals (best-of-five)
  • Na’Vi 3-0 G2 Esports (Na’Vi 16-11 Dust, Na’Vi 16-14 Mirage, Na’Vi 16-13 Nuke)