The schedule for the $250,000 tournament taking place from March 1-5 has been revealed.

Twelve teams will gather in Katowice, Poland at the beginning of March for IEM Katowice. Virtus.pro, Astralis, SK and North are some of the attending teams.

Wednesday and Thursday will host the round-robin group stage matches while the remaining three days will be reserved for the playoffs. The first-placed team from both groups will advance to the semi-finals while the second and third-placed teams from different groups will play a best-of-three in order to advance to the semis.



VP will be in Group B

During the group stage, there will be at least two matches at any time. The action will kick off with OpTic vs. Astralis and the Swedish derby between NiP and fnatic.

Here are the groups:

The full schedule is below:

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