After having recently announced the open qualifiers for the first Intel Extreme Masters CS:GO World Championship in years, we are now pleased to present eight of the world’s best teams, who will be joining us in Katowice for a phenomenal season final. Two winners of this season’s Intel Extreme Masters tournaments as well as a full seven players who won a World Championship back in the days of CS 1.6 will make this tournament a very special one indeed.

The IEM World Championship invited teams

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Team EnVyUs (Winner of IEM gamescom 2015)

Natus Vincere (Winner of IEM San Jose 2015)

Virtus.Pro

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Luminosity Gaming

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Fnatic

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Three of the teams who will be joining us in Katowice have players who know the feeling of winning the Intel Extreme Masters World Championship. TaZ and Neo of Virtus.pro not only won the very first World Championship in 2007 with PGS Gaming but also the last title back in 2012 for ESC Gaming together with Pasha.

Both Natus Vincere and Ninjas in Pyjamas have two Intel Extreme Masters World Champions in their lineups. While Edward and Zeus of Natus Vincere won the title back to back in 2010 and 2011, GeT_RiGhT and f0rest of Ninjas in Pyjamas won in 2009 with Fnatic. Additionally, starix (Natus Vincere) and kuben (Virtus.pro) both won the title as players and could now make this big step once more in their new role as coaches.

With these eight teams around as well as a minimum of US$250,000 on the line, the World Championship is already set to be one of the biggest CS:GO tournaments this year. Don’t forget that four spots at the World Championship are still to be taken in the already announced qualifiers, so take this chance and join the best CS:GO teams in the world in fighting for the title!

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