Team Spirit dominates FaZe Clan in grand final at IEM Katowice

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