The European and North American qualifiers for IEM Katowice have been brought to an end, with Natus Vincere, Heroic and Immortals securing the final three spots.

IEM Katowice 2017 will be held on March 1-5 in Poland, featuring 12 teams and a $250,000 prize pool.

The first team to qualify for IEM Katowice on the second day of the qualifier was Natus Vincere, who easily defeated Heroic in the upper bracket semi-final 2-0 (16-9 Mirage, 16-4 Nuke).



Na`Vi will be attending IEM Katowice.

The Danish team, who continued to use Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller as a stand-in for their removed AWPer Michael "⁠Friis⁠" Jørgensen, then made a run through the lower bracket defeating mousesports 2-1 and G2 2-0 to grab the final European slot for IEM Katowice 2017.

IEM Katowice 2017 EU Closed Qualifier Best of 3 G2 Matchpage 0 2 Heroic 8 Cache 16 13 Overpass 16

Heroic K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangsåvalde 45 - 39 +6 94.9 1.34 Nikolaj 'niko' Kristensenniko 44 - 36 +8 95.5 1.29 Andreas 'MODDII' FridhMODDII 43 - 31 +12 80.3 1.26 Casper 'cadiaN' MøllercadiaN 40 - 23 +17 70.7 1.25 Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferSnappi 36 - 39 -3 67.1 0.98 G2 K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittNBK- 36 - 38 -2 81.2 1.04 Alexandre 'bodyy' Pianarobodyy 36 - 44 -8 75.9 0.99 Richard 'shox' Papillonshox 36 - 42 -6 73.4 0.94 Dan 'apEX' MadesclaireapEX 33 - 45 -12 73.8 0.82 Kenny 'kennyS' SchrubkennyS 26 - 39 -13 54.4 0.79

In North America, Immortals and Liquid played the grand final of their region's qualifier, with the Brazilian team having an advantage of one BO3 due to coming from the upper bracket. The advantage was unnecesarry, though, as Lincoln "⁠fnx⁠" Lau had a great series, helping his team secure the qualification for Katowice.

IEM Katowice 2017 NA Closed Qualifier Best of 6 Immortals Matchpage 2 0 Liquid 16 Cobblestone 4 16 Cache 11

Immortals K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Lincoln 'fnx' Laufnx 46 - 24 +22 98.1 1.56 Lucas 'LUCAS1' TelesLUCAS1 41 - 25 +16 79.0 1.36 Lucas 'steel' Lopessteel 31 - 28 +3 77.2 1.21 Ricardo 'boltz' Prassboltz 33 - 31 +2 84.9 1.17 Henrique 'HEN1' TelesHEN1 24 - 27 -3 58.8 0.96 Liquid K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Josh 'jdm64' Marzanojdm64 33 - 30 +3 68.1 1.03 Jonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiEliGE 37 - 36 +1 79.2 0.98 Jacob 'Pimp' WinnechePimp 23 - 35 -12 55.2 0.80 Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguzstanislaw 20 - 37 -17 63.8 0.73 Nick 'nitr0' Cannellanitr0 22 - 37 -15 54.4 0.68

The final IEM Katowice 2017 team list is as follows:

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