IEM Katowice Major 2019

The Intel Extreme Masters Season XIII – Katowice Major 2019, also known as IEM Katowice Major 2019 or Katowice 2019, was the fourteenth Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship and the world championship for the thirteenth season of the Intel Extreme Masters. It was held in Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland from February 13 – March 3, 2019.^[1] Fourteen teams would qualify for the IEM Katowice Major 2019 based on their top fourteen placements from the last Major, the FACEIT Major: London 2018, while another ten teams would qualify from their respective regional qualifiers.^[2] The top eight teams from the London Major ("Legends") received a bye to the second phase of the group stage while the other sixteen teams ("Challengers") had to go through the first and second group stages in order to reach the playoffs. It featured a US$1,000,000 prize pool, the seventh consecutive Major with that prize pool.^[3][4] It was hosted by ESL, their first Major since 2016. This event was the start of the second season of the Intel Grand Slam.

IEM Katowice 2019

2019
The Intel Extreme Masters logo
Tournament information
Sport	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Location	Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Dates	February 13–March 3, 2019
Administrator	Valve ESL
Tournament format(s)	Two 16 team swiss-system group stages 8 team single-elimination playoff
Venue	ESL Arena Katowice MCK [pl] Spodek
Teams	24 teams
Purse	$1,000,000 USD
Final positions
Champions	Astralis (3rd title)
1st runners-up	ENCE
2nd runners-up	MIBR Natus Vincere
MVP	Emil "Magisk" Reif
← London 2018 Berlin 2019 →

Astralis, Team Liquid, MIBR, Natus Vincere, and FaZe Clan were incoming Legends who retained that status, while BIG, HellRaisers, and compLexity Gaming were knocked out in the New Legends stage. Renegades, Ninjas in Pyjamas, and ENCE advanced to the playoff stage to become Legends for the following Major.

The grand finals featured the world's number one team Astralis, which defeated Ninjas in Pyjamas and MIBR in the playoffs, and the underdog ENCE, which defeated the world's number two in Team Liquid and the world's number three in Natus Vincere. Astralis swept ENCE in two maps to take its third Major title and tie Fnatic for most Majors titles. In addition, Astralis became just the third team after Fnatic and the Brazilian roster of Luminosity Gaming and SK Gaming to win consecutive Majors.

Background

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and Valve. It is the fourth game in the Counter-Strike series. In professional CS:GO, the Valve-sponsored Majors are the most prestigious tournaments.^[5][6]

The defending champions were Astralis, after winning their second championship at the FACEIT Major: London 2018. At the time, Fnatic had the most Major titles, with three.

Format

The Major cycle began with four Minors, or regional qualifiers: Americas, Asia, CIS, and Europe. Two teams from each qualifier moved on to the Major. In addition, because Valve reduced the number of direct Major invites from sixteen to fourteen, the third-place teams at each respective Minor advanced to a third-place qualifier to send two more teams to the Major.

The Major featured twenty-four teams. The top eight teams from the FACEIT Major: London 2018 were the Legends, and the remaining sixteen teams—the teams that placed ninth through fourteenth at the FACEIT Major and the ten teams that advanced from the Minors—were known as Challengers.

The Major was split into three stages. The first stage was the New Challengers stage, featuring all Challengers in a Swiss-system tournament: the top eight teams advanced to the next stage and the bottom eight teams were eliminated. The second stage is the New Legends stage, a second Swiss-system group stage. This stage featured the eight Legends from the London Major and the eight teams advancing from the New Challengers stage. Like the New Challengers stage, the New Legends stage also advanced the top eight teams and eliminated the bottom eight teams. All teams from this stage except the bottom two teams earned automatic invites to the following Major. The final stage was the New Champions stage, and teams that advanced to this stage received Legends status at the following Major. This stage featured an eight team, best-of-three, single elimination bracket.^[7][8]

ESL announced changes for this Major in the New Challengers and the New Legends stages. Rather than only featuring best-of-threes in the fifth round of the group stages, ESL announced that any progression or elimination matches would feature a best-of-three series. Therefore, the high and low matches of round three and all matches in rounds four and five were best-of-three. ESL also made changes to the seeding protocol. Instead of having seeding determined by placement at the last Major and the Minors, each team in the Swiss-system stages ranked the other 15 teams in the stage; the rankings were then aggregated to create the final seeding for the first round of each Swiss-system stage.^[9] ESL also moved away from FACEIT's Buchholz system and instead used an Elo rating system. Teams were assigned Elo ratings that matched their seeding and the rating changed after every win or loss, with the winner taking some of the loser's points. Each team's Elo rating was used to determine all matchups after the first round, instead of the random draws of previous Majors.^[10][11]

Map Pool

The map pool remained the same as the previous Major.^[12]

Maps Cache Dust II Mirage Inferno Nuke Train Overpass

Minors

Each regional qualifier, called "Minors", featured eight teams. Each Minor also had a US$50,000 prize pool, with first place receiving US$30,000, second place taking in US$15,000, and third place raking in the last US$5,000. Unlike past Minors, no teams was directly invited to the Minors.^[13] All Minors take place in Katowice to avoid visa issues, just like the FACEIT Major approach.^[14]

Each Minor's format was similar to past Minors, but with a couple small changes. The group stages would be a GSL, double elimination format with each group featuring four teams. The opening matches would be a best of one. A new change came along with the winner's set being a best of three instead of the usual best of one. The loser's and decider's matches would also be best of three sets. The top two teams in each group would move on to a four team, best of three, double elimination bracket. The top two teams would move on to the Major. In addition, the Minor finals that used to determine seeding would be eliminated; instead, the winner of the winner's match would be the first seed going into the New Challengers stage and the winner of the loser's match would be the second seed.^[15]

CIS Minor

The CIS Minor qualifier featured sixteen teams. Winstrike Team was automatically invited based on its top sixteen placement at the FACEIT Major and another seven teams were invited. Eight more teams qualified through four online qualifiers. The qualifier will have a sixteen team, double elimination bracket and teams will play until eight teams qualified CIS Minor.

The CIS Minor took place from January 16 to 20, 2019.^[16]

Teams AVANGAR (Closed #1–4) Nemiga Gaming (Closed #1–4) Team Spirit (Closed #1–4) Winstrike Team (Closed #1–4) Gambit Esports (Closed #5–8) pro100 (Closed #5–8) Syman Gaming (Closed #5–8) Runtime.gg (Closed #5–8)

Upper round 1

Upper final

Qualified

A1

Team Spirit

0

B2

AVANGAR

2

B2

AVANGAR

2

B1

Winstrike Team

1

B1

Winstrike Team

2

A2

Gambit Esports

1

B2

AVANGAR

A1

Team Spirit

Lower round 1

Lower final

B1

Winstrike Team

1

A1

Team Spirit

2

A1

Team Spirit

2

A2

Gambit Esports

0

Europe Minor

The Europe Minor qualifier featured sixteen teams. mousesports were automatically invited based on their top sixteen placement at the FACEIT Major and another seven teams were invited. Eight more teams qualified through four online qualifiers. The qualifier had a sixteen team, double elimination bracket and teams played until eight teams qualified for the Europe Minor.

The Europe Minor took place from January 16 to 20, 2019. ENCE and Team Vitality^[17] qualified for the main qualifier.

Teams mousesports (Closed #1–4) North (Closed #1–4) OpTic Gaming (Closed #1–4) Windigo Gaming (Closed #1–4) ENCE (Closed #5–8) ex-Space Soldiers (Closed #5–8) Team Vitality (Closed #5–8) Valiance (Closed #5–8)

Upper round 1

Upper final

Qualified

A1

Team Vitality

0

B2

North

2

B2

North

0

B1

ENCE

2

B1

ENCE

2

A2

Valiance

1

B1

ENCE

A1

Team Vitality

Lower round 1

Lower final

B2

North

1

A1

Team Vitality

2

A1

Team Vitality

2

A2

Valiance

1

Asia Minor

The Asia Minor featured two teams from Oceania, two teams from China, two teams from East Asia, one team from Southeast Asia, and one team from the Middle East. Each qualifier featured four invited teams and another four teams through two online qualifiers. Each qualifier consist of an eight team, double elimination, best of three bracket. MVP PK was the first team to qualify for any Katowice 2019 Minor after defeating compatriot GOSU and Renegades rounded up the Asia Minor lineup after defeating Tainted Minds.

The Asia Minor will take place from January 22 to 26, 2019.^[18]

Teams Grayhound Gaming (Oceania #1) Renegades (Oceania #2) ViCi Gaming (China #1) CyberZen (China #2) MVP PK (East Asia #1) GOSU (East Asia #2) Beyond Esports (Southeast Asia) Aequus Club (Middle East)

Upper round 1

Upper final

Qualified

A1

Renegades

2

B2

ViCi Gaming

1

A1

Renegades

2

A2

Grayhound G.

1

B1

MVP PK

1

A2

Grayhound G.

2

A1

Renegades

A2

Grayhound G.

Lower round 1

Lower final

A2

Grayhound G.

2

B2

ViCi Gaming

2

B2

ViCi Gaming

1

B1

MVP PK

0

Americas Minor

The Americas Minor featured two qualifiers, one from North America and one from South America. The North America qualifier featured sixteen teams. Eight teams were invited and another eight teams qualified through four online qualifiers. The qualifier would have a sixteen team, double elimination bracket and teams would play until six teams qualified for the Americas Minor. The South America qualifier featured eight teams. Four teams were invited and another four teams qualified through two online qualifiers. This qualifier have an eight team, double elimination, best of three bracket. Teams would play until two teams qualified for the Minor.

The Americas Minor took place from January 22 to 26, 2019, the same dates as the Asia Minor.^[19]

Teams eUnited (NA #1–4) FURIA Esports (NA #1–4) NRG Esports (NA #1–4) Team Envy (NA #1–4) Bravado Gaming (NA #5–6) Team One (NA #5–6) INTZ eSports (SA #1) Imperial e-Sports (SA #2)

Upper round 1

Upper final

Qualified

A1

NRG Esports

2

B2

Team Envy

0

A1

NRG Esports

2

B1

FURIA Esports

0

B1

FURIA Esports

2

A2

INTZ eSports

1

A1

NRG Esports

B1

FURIA Esports

Lower round 1

Lower final

B1

FURIA Esports

2

B2

Team Envy

2

B2

Team Envy

0

A2

INTZ eSports

1

Minor play-in

This qualifier featured the teams that placed third in their respective Minors. This phase was a four team, best of three, double elimination bracket. The opening matches were the Asia Minor representative against the Europe Minor representative and the CIS Minor team versus the Americans Minor team.^[15]

The Minor play-in took place on January 27, 2019.^[20]

Teams Winstrike Team North ViCi Gaming Team Envy

Upper round 1

Upper final

Qualified

AS

ViCi Gaming

1

EU

North

0

AS

ViCi Gaming

0

CIS

Winstrike Team

1

CIS

Winstrike Team

1

AM

Team Envy

0

CIS

Winstrike Team

AS

ViCi Gaming

Lower round 1

Lower final

AS

ViCi Gaming

2

EU

North

2

EU

North

0

AM

Team Envy

0

Broadcast talent

The Major was streamed in various languages across Twitch. It was also streamed on ESL's YouTube channel, Steam.tv, and on CS:GO's in-game viewing client GOTV.^[21]

Desk hosts

• Alex "Machine" Richardson
• Tres "stunna" Saranthus

Stage host

• OJ Borg

Reporter

• Frankie Ward

Commentators

• Henry "HenryG" Greer
• Vince Hill
• Jason "moses" O'Toole
• Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett

Analysts

• Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill
• Sean "seang@res" Gares
• Jacob "Pimp" Winneche

Observers

• Connor "Sliggy" Blomfield
• Heather "sapphiRe" Garozzo
• David "Prius" Kuntz
• Alex "Rushly" Rush

Teams competing

Legends Astralis Natus Vincere MIBR Team Liquid BIG compLexity Gaming FaZe Clan HellRaisers

London 2018 9th–14th Fnatic G2 Esports Ninjas in Pyjamas Cloud9 TyLoo Vega Squadron

Regional Qualifiers AVANGAR (CIS Minor #1) Team Spirit (CIS Minor #2) ENCE (Europe Minor #1) Team Vitality (Europe Minor #2) Renegades (Asia Minor #1) Grayhound Gaming (Asia Minor #2) NRG Esports (Americas Minor #1) FURIA Esports (Americas Minor #2) Winstrike Team (Play-in #1) ViCi Gaming (Play-in #2)

Pre-Major ranking

HLTV.org rank teams based on results of teams' performances. The rankings shown below reflect the February 11, 2019 rankings.^[22]

Teams that were in the top 30 but failed to qualify for the major include North (#7, Denmark), mousesports (#10, Europe), Ghost Gaming (#16, United States), Valiance (#20, Serbia), 3DMAX (#24, France), Heroic (#25, Denmark), forZe (#26, Russia), Luminosity Gaming (#27, Brazil), Sprout Esports (#29, Germany), and x6tence Galaxy (#30, Sweden).

World ranking
Place	Team	Points	Move1	Peak2	Low2	Best Major placing3	Best achievements2
1	Astralis	933		1	1	1st at Atlanta 2017 1st at London 2018	IEM Chicago 2018 winner ECS Season 6 winner ESL Pro League Season 8 winner
2	Team Liquid	576	1	2	3	2nd at Cologne 2016	IEM Chicago 2018 runner-up ESL One New York runner-up ESL Pro League Season 8 runner-up
3	Natus Vincere	384	1	2	3	2nd at Cluj-Napoca 2015 2nd at Columbus 2016 2nd at London 2018	BLAST Copenhagen winner EPICENTER 2018 runner-up
4	FaZe Clan	4327	1	4	8	2nd at Boston 2018	EPICENTER 2018 winner 3rd at IEM Chicago 2018 ELEAGUE Invitational 2019 winner
5	NRG Esports	265		5	10	1st at Katowice 2019 Americas Minor	cs_summit 3 winner 3rd at ESL One New York 2018 3rd at SL iL Season 6
6	Fnatic	265		5	26	1st at Winter 2013 1st at Katowice 2015 1st Cologne 2015	PLG Grand Slam 2018 winner 3rd at IEM Chicago 2018
8	Cloud9	208	13	7	29	1st at Boston 2018	3rd at BLAST Lisbon 2018 ELEAGUE Invitational 2019 runner-up
9	MIBR	187	5	4	9	1st at Columbus 2016 1st at Cologne 2016	ECS Season 6 runner-up BLAST Istanbul 2018 runner-up
11	ENCE	182	6	10	20	1st at Katowice 2019 Europe Minor	DreamHack Winter 2018 winner SL iL Season 6 winner
12	BIG	178	4	7	15	5th at Kraków 2017 5th at London 2018	5th at SL iL Season 6 3rd at cs_summit 3
13	Renegades	166	10	11	30	9th at Cologne 2015	5th at SL iL Season 6 3rd at Toyota Masters Bangkok 2018
14	Ninjas in Pyjamas	163	5	6	14	1st at Cologne 2014	BLAST Copenhagen runner-up 5th at EPICENTER 2018
15	Team Vitality	162	N/A	14	45	2nd at Katowice 2019 Europe Minor	DreamHack Atlanta 2018 winner
17	Team Spirit	115	17	17	56	17th at London 2018	5th at WePlay! Lock and Load
18	AVANGAR	114	15	15	31	17th at Boston 2018	3rd at EPICENTER 2018 Qi Invitational runner-up
19	G2 Esports	109	4	4	25	5th at Boston 2018	5th at ESL One New York 2018 7th at ESL Pro League Season 8
21	HellRaisers	101	11	10	21	5th at London 2018	5th at EPICENTER 2018
22	Grayhound Gaming	82	23	22	68	2nd at Katowice 2019 Asia Minor	3rd at ESEA Season 29 9th at PLG Grand Slam
23	FURIA Esports	80	56	21	85	2nd at Katowice 2018 Americas Minor	5th at WePlay! Lock and Load
28	Winstrike Team	178	276	27	304	1st at Katowice 2019 play-in	9th at WePlay! Lock and Load
35	ViCi Gaming	–	110	35	145	2nd at Katowice 2019 play-in	13th at ESL Pro League Season 8
39	compLexity Gaming	–	18	11	39	5th at London 2018	3rd at DreamHack Atlanta 2018 4th at cs_summit 3
53	Vega Squadron	–	13	13	53	9th at Boston 2018	SL iL Season 6 runner-up
67	TyLoo	–	55	12	67	12th at London 2018	DreamHack Open Austin 2018 runner-up

HLTV.org pre-major ranking

¹Change since September 24, 2018 ranking, the ranking after the FACEIT Major.

²Since end of FACEIT Major

³Best major placements may not necessarily reflect teams' current rosters

New Challengers stage

The New Challengers stage took place from February 13 to February 17, 2019, at the ESL Arena. The Challengers stage, also known as the Preliminary stage and formerly known as the offline qualifier, was a sixteen team swiss tournament. The seeding was released on February 6, 2019. Next to each team's name under the "Team" column is each team's initial seeding. Under each of the "Rounds" columns are the team's opponent's seed at the time the round was played.^[23]

Place	Team	Record	RD	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5
1–2	NRG Esports (2)	3–0	+22	Winstrike Team (15) 16–9 Nuke	High match ViCi Gaming (12) 16–6 Overpass	High match TyLoo (6) 2–0	New Legends stage	New Legends stage
	Renegades (9)	3–0	+22	AVANGAR (8) 16–8 Train	High match Ninjas in Pyjamas (3) 16–13 Mirage	High match ENCE (2) 2–0	New Legends stage	New Legends stage
3–5	Team Vitality (6)	3–1	+16	TyLoo (11) 8–16 Inferno	Low match Grayhound Gaming (15) 19–17 Nuke	Mid match Vega Squadron (11) 16–1 Overpass	High match ViCi Gaming (11) 2–0	New Legends stage
	AVANGAR (8)	3–1	+6	Renegades (9) 8–16 Train	Low match FURIA Esports (14) 16–14 Mirage	Mid match G2 Esports (7) 16–10 Overpass	High match TyLoo (7) 2–0	New Legends stage
	ENCE eSports (5)	3–1	+4	Team Spirit (12) 16–10 Nuke	High match G2 Esports (6) 16–6 Overpass	High match Renegades (5) 0–2	High match Winstrike Team (12) 2–1	New Legends stage
6–8	Ninjas in Pyjamas (4)	3–2	+20	FURIA Esports (13) 16–6 Mirage	High match Renegades (8) 13–16 Mirage	Mid match Winstrike Team (13) 6–16 Train	Low match Vega Squadron (13) 2–1	ViCi Gaming (11) 2–1
	G2 Esports (7)	3–2	+16	Vega Squadron (10) 16–14 Cache	High match ENCE eSports (4) 6–16 Overpass	Mid match AVANGAR (10) 16–10 Overpass	Low match Fnatic (10) 2–1	TyLoo (10) 2–1
	Cloud9 (3)	3–2	0	Grayhound Gaming (14) 16–11 Mirage	High match TyLoo (9) 3–16 Overpass	Mid match ViCi Gaming (12) 6–16 Inferno	Low match FURIA Esports (14) 2–1	Winstrike Team (8) 2–0
9–11	Winstrike Team (15)	2–3	−3	NRG Esports (2) 9–16 Nuke	Low match Fnatic (5) 16–11 Train	Mid match Ninjas in Pyjamas (3) 16–6 Train	High match ENCE eSports (3) 1–2	Cloud9 (9) 0–2
	TyLoo (11)	2–3	−9	Team Vitality (6) 16–8 Inferno	High match Cloud9 (2) 16–3 Overpass	High match NRG Esports (1) 0–2	High match AVANGAR (8) 0–2	G2 Esports (7) 1–2
	ViCi Gaming (16)	2–3	−12	Fnatic (1) 16–9 Train	High match NRG Esports (1) 6–16 Overpass	Mid match Cloud9 (4) 16–6 Inferno	High match Team Vitality (5) 0–2	Ninjas in Pyjamas (6) 1–2
12–14	FURIA Esports (13)	1–3	−9	Ninjas in Pyjamas (4) 6–16 Mirage	Low match AVANGAR (10) 14–16 Mirage	Low match Team Spirit (14) 2–0	Low match Cloud9 (14) 1–2	Eliminated
	Fnatic (1)	1–3	−11	ViCi Gaming (16) 9–16 Overpass	Low match Winstrike Team (16) 11–16 Train	Low match Grayhound Gaming (16) 2–0	Low match G2 Esports (9) 1–2	Eliminated
	Vega Squadron (10)	1–3	−26	G2 Esports (7) 14–16 Cache	Low match Team Spirit (13) 16–14 Mirage	Mid match Team Vitality (8) 1–16 Overpass	Low match Ninjas in Pyjamas (6) 1–2	Eliminated
15–16	Team Spirit (12)	0–3	−17	ENCE eSports (5) 10–16 Nuke	Low match Vega Squadron (11) 14–16 Mirage	Low match FURIA Esports (15) 0–2	Eliminated	Eliminated
	Grayhound Gaming (14)	0–3	−19	Cloud9 (3) 11–16 Mirage	Low match Team Vitality (7) 17–19 Nuke	Low match Fnatic (9) 0–2	Eliminated	Eliminated

Round 3 matches
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
ENCE eSports	7	Nuke	16	Renegades
ENCE eSports	14	Mirage	16	Renegades
ENCE eSports	–	Inferno	–	Renegades
Fnatic	16	Inferno	9	Grayhound Gaming
Fnatic	16	Overpass	11	Grayhound Gaming
Fnatic	–	Mirage	–	Grayhound Gaming
NRG Esports	16	Inferno	14	TyLoo
NRG Esports	16	Mirage	13	TyLoo
NRG Esports	–	Train	–	TyLoo
Team Spirit	9	Mirage	16	FURIA Esports
Team Spirit	14	Nuke	16	FURIA Esports
Team Spirit	–	Cache	–	FURIA Esports

Round 3 scores

Round 4 matches
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
Team Vitality	25	Inferno	22	ViCi Gaming
Team Vitality	16	Nuke	12	ViCi Gaming
Team Vitality	–	Overpass	–	ViCi Gaming
TyLoo	12	Cache	16	AVANGAR
TyLoo	14	Inferno	16	AVANGAR
TyLoo	–	Mirage	–	AVANGAR
ENCE eSports	16	Dust II	11	Winstrike Team
ENCE eSports	7	Mirage	16	Winstrike Team
ENCE eSports	16	Train	13	Winstrike Team
Ninjas in Pyjamas	17	Overpass	19	Vega Squadron
Ninjas in Pyjamas	16	Train	6	Vega Squadron
Ninjas in Pyjamas	16	Mirage	6	Vega Squadron
G2 Esports	8	Mirage	16	Fnatic
G2 Esports	16	Dust II	8	Fnatic
G2 Esports	16	Overpass	5	Fnatic
Cloud9	1	Mirage	16	FURIA Esports
Cloud9	16	Inferno	1	FURIA Esports
Cloud9	16	Cache	10	FURIA Esports

Round 4 scores

Round 5 matches
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
Ninjas in Pyjamas	16	Train	7	ViCi Gaming
Ninjas in Pyjamas	13	Inferno	16	ViCi Gaming
Ninjas in Pyjamas	16	Mirage	7	ViCi Gaming
G2 Esports	12	Mirage	16	TyLoo
G2 Esports	16	Dust II	2	TyLoo
G2 Esports	16	Cache	7	TyLoo
Cloud9	16	Nuke	7	Winstrike Team
Cloud9	19	Overpass	16	Winstrike Team
Cloud9	–	Mirage	–	Winstrike Team

Round 5 scores

New Legends stage

The New Legends stage, formerly known as the Group stage, used the same format as the Challengers stage. This stage takes place from February 20 to February 24, 2019, live at the International Congress Center in Katowice. The seeding was released on February 19, 2019.^[24] Next to each team's name under the "Team" column is each team's initial seeding. Under each of the "Rounds" columns are the team's opponent's seed at the time the round was played.^[25]

Place	Team	Record	RD	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5
1–2	Astralis (1)	3–0	+45	compLexity Gaming (16) 16–6 Nuke	High match Cloud9 (12) 16–0 Train	High match Renegades (8) 2–1	New Champions stage	New Champions stage
	Team Liquid (2)	3–0	+16	AVANGAR (15) 16–12 Overpass	High match Ninjas in Pyjamas (10) 16–13 Overpass	High match Natus Vincere (3) 2–0	New Champions stage	New Champions stage
3–5	Natus Vincere (3)	3–1	+18	G2 Esports (14) 16–7 Inferno	High match Team Vitality (11) 25–22 Mirage	High match Team Liquid (2) 0–2	High match AVANGAR (10) 2–0	New Champions stage
	MIBR (4)	3–1	+10	Cloud9 (13) 3–16 Inferno	Low match compLexity Gaming (16) 16–9 Mirage	Mid match G2 Esports (14) 16–12 Inferno	High match Ninjas in Pyjamas (8) 2–0	New Champions stage
	Renegades (9)	3–1	−4	ENCE eSports (8) 16–13 Inferno	High match FaZe Clan (4) 16–14 Inferno	High match Astralis (1) 1–2	High match Team Vitality (7) 2–1	New Champions stage
6–8	FaZe Clan (5)	3–2	+15	HellRaisers (12) 16–4 Train	High match Renegades (8) 14–16 Inferno	Mid match AVANGAR (15) 13–16 Mirage	Low match compLexity Gaming (14) 2–1	Cloud9 (11) 2–0
	ENCE eSports (8)	3–2	+11	Renegades (9) 13–16 Inferno	Low match HellRaisers (13) 12–16 Dust II	Low match BIG (7) 2–1	Low match G2 Esports (14) 2–0	AVANGAR (10) 2–0
	Ninjas in Pyjamas (11)	3–2	+8	NRG Esports (6) 16–14 Nuke	High match Team Liquid (2) 13–16 Overpass	Mid match HellRaisers (13) 16–5 Overpass	High match MIBR (4) 0–2	Team Vitality (9) 2–1
9–11	Cloud9 (13)	2–3	−2	MIBR (4) 16–3 Inferno	High match Astralis (1) 0–16 Train	Mid match Team Vitality (11) 14–16 Mirage	Low match HellRaisers (12) 2–0	FaZe Clan (6) 0–2
	Team Vitality (10)	2–3	−16	BIG (7) 16–11 Mirage	High match Natus Vincere (3) 22–25 Mirage	Mid match Cloud9 (12) 16–14 Mirage	High match Renegades (5) 1–2	Ninjas in Pyjamas (8) 1–2
	AVANGAR (15)	2–3	−26	Team Liquid (2) 12–16 Overpass	Low match NRG Sports (6) 16–13 Overpass	Mid match FaZe Clan (4) 16–13 Mirage	High match Natus Vincere (3) 0–2	ENCE eSports (7) 0–2
12–14	compLexity Gaming (16)	1–3	−10	Astralis (1) 6–16 Nuke	Low match MIBR (5) 9–16 Mirage	Low match NRG Esports (6) 2–0	Low match FaZe Clan (6) 1–2	Eliminated
	G2 Esports (14)	1–3	−18	Natus Vincere (3) 7–16 Inferno	Low match BIG (7) 16–13 Mirage	Mid match MIBR (5) 12–16 Inferno	Low match ENCE eSports (8) 2–0	Eliminated
	HellRaisers (12)	1–3	−31	FaZe Clan (5) 4–16 Train	Low match ENCE eSports (9) 16–12 Dust II	Mid match Ninjas in Pyjamas (10) 5–16 Overpass	Low match Cloud9 (11) 0–2	Eliminated
15–16	BIG (7)	0–3	−5	Team Vitality (10) 11–16 Mirage	Low match G2 Esports (14) 13–16 Mirage	Low match ENCE eSports (9) 1–2	Eliminated	Eliminated
	NRG Esports (6)	0–3	−11	Ninjas in Pyjamas (11) 14–16 Nuke	Low match AVANGAR (15) 13–16 Overpass	Low match compLexity Gaming (16) 0–2	Eliminated	Eliminated

Round 3 matches
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
Astralis	17	Mirage	19	Renegades
Astralis	16	Nuke	9	Renegades
Astralis	16	Inferno	2	Renegades
ENCE eSports	5	Dust II	16	BIG
ENCE eSports	16	Train	14	BIG
ENCE eSports	16	Overpass	10	BIG
Team Liquid	16	Mirage	14	Natus Vincere
Team Liquid	16	Dust II	9	Natus Vincere
Team Liquid	–	Nuke	–	Natus Vincere
NRG Esports	19	Nuke	22	compLexity Gaming
NRG Esports	16	Cache	19	compLexity Gaming
NRG Esports	–	Inferno	–	compLexity Gaming

Round 3 scores

Round 4 matches
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
Renegades	16	Dust II	5	Team Vitality
Renegades	11	Cache	16	Team Vitality
Renegades	16	Inferno	12	Team Vitality
Natus Vincere	16	Dust II	6	AVANGAR
Natus Vincere	16	Train	11	AVANGAR
Natus Vincere	–	Mirage	–	AVANGAR
MIBR	16	Train	6	Ninjas in Pyjamas
MIBR	16	Inferno	14	Ninjas in Pyjamas
MIBR	–	Mirage	–	Ninjas in Pyjamas
ENCE eSports	19	Dust II	17	G2 Esports
ENCE eSports	16	Mirage	10	G2 Esports
ENCE eSports	–	Nuke	–	G2 Esports
FaZe Clan	8	Cache	16	compLexity Gaming
FaZe Clan	16	Mirage	11	compLexity Gaming
FaZe Clan	16	Dust II	14	compLexity Gaming
Cloud9	16	Inferno	8	HellRaisers
Cloud9	16	Cache	12	HellRaisers
Cloud9	–	Mirage	–	HellRaisers

Round 4 scores

Round 5 matches
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
ENCE eSports	16	Mirage	12	AVANGAR
ENCE eSports	16	Train	7	AVANGAR
ENCE eSports	–	Overpass	–	AVANGAR
Ninjas in Pyjamas	16	Cache	7	Team Vitality
Ninjas in Pyjamas	8	Overpass	16	Team Vitality
Ninjas in Pyjamas	16	Mirage	7	Team Vitality
FaZe Clan	16	Cache	14	Cloud9
FaZe Clan	16	Dust II	9	Cloud9
FaZe Clan	–	Nuke	–	Cloud9

Round 5 scores

New Champions stage

The New Champions Stage, also known as the Playoffs, is a best of three double elimination bracket. Teams play until a winner is decided. This stage is taking place at the Spodek from February 28 to March 3, 2019. Brackets were revealed shortly after FaZe defeated Cloud9 in the last map of the group stages. Teams were seeded first based on their record in the New Legends stage and based on the strength of their schedule.

Bracket

	Quarterfinals								Semifinals								Finals
	1	Astralis	16	16	–	2
	8	Ninjas in Pyjamas	2	14	–	0
									1	Astralis	16	16	–	2
									4	MIBR	14	7	–	0
	4	MIBR	16	16	–	2
	5	Renegades	6	12	–	0
																	1	Astralis	16	16	–	2
																	7	ENCE	11	4	–	0
	3	Natus Vincere	16	16	–	2
	6	FaZe Clan	13	7	–	0
									3	Natus Vincere	14	16	14	1
									7	ENCE	16	3	16	2
	2	Team Liquid	11	16	–	0
	7	ENCE	16	19	–	2

Quarterfinals

Natus Vincere vs. FaZe Clan

Casters: HenryG & Sadokist

Natus Vincere vs. FaZe Clan scores
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
Natus Vincere	16	Inferno	13	FaZe Clan
Natus Vincere	16	Mirage	7	FaZe Clan
Natus Vincere	–	Dust II	–	FaZe Clan

Team Liquid vs. ENCE eSports

Casters: Vince Hill & moses

Team Liquid vs. ENCE eSports scores
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
Team Liquid	11	Mirage	16	ENCE eSports
Team Liquid	16	Inferno	19	ENCE eSports
Team Liquid	–	Overpass	–	ENCE eSports

MIBR vs. Renegades

Casters: HenryG & Sadokist

MIBR vs. Renegades scores
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
MIBR	16	Dust II	6	Renegades
MIBR	16	Train	12	Renegades
MIBR	–	Mirage	–	Renegades

Astralis vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas

Casters: Vince Hill & moses

Astralis vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas scores
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
Astralis	16	Mirage	2	Ninjas in Pyjamas
Astralis	16	Dust II	14	Ninjas in Pyjamas
Astralis	–	Overpass	–	Ninjas in Pyjamas

Semifinals

Natus Vincere vs. ENCE eSports

Casters: HenryG & Sadokist

Natus Vincere vs. ENCE eSports scores
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
Natus Vincere	14	Train	16	ENCE eSports
Natus Vincere	16	Dust II	3	ENCE eSports
Natus Vincere	14	Mirage	16	ENCE eSports

MIBR vs. Astralis

Casters: Vince Hill & moses

MIBR vs. Astralis scores
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
MIBR	14	Overpass	16	Astralis
MIBR	7	Inferno	16	Astralis
MIBR	–	Train	–	Astralis

Finals

Casters: HenryG & Sadokist

ENCE eSports vs. Astralis scores
Team	Score	Map	Score	Team
ENCE eSports	11	Train	16	Astralis
ENCE eSports	4	Inferno	16	Astralis
ENCE eSports	–	Overpass	–	Astralis

Final standings

The final placings are shown below. In addition, the prize distribution, seed for the next major, roster, and coaches are shown. Each team's in-game leader is shown first.

Place	Prize Money	Team	Seed	Roster	Coach
1st	US$500,000	Astralis	Berlin 2019 Legends	gla1ve, dev1ce, dupreeh, Magisk, Xyp9x	zonic
2nd	US$150,000	ENCE		Aleksib, Aerial, allu, sergej, xseven	Twista
3rd – 4th	US$70,000	MIBR		FalleN, coldzera, felps, fer, TACO	zews
		Natus Vincere		Zeus, Edward, s1mple, electronic, flamie	kane
5th – 8th	US$35,000	FaZe Clan		NiKo, AdreN, GuardiaN, olofmeister, rain	YNk
		Ninjas in Pyjamas		Lekr0, dennis, f0rest, GeT RiGhT, REZ	pita
		Renegades		AZR, jks, Liazz, Gratisfaction, jkaem	kassad
		Team Liquid		nitr0, ELiGE, Stewie2K, NAF, Twistzz	adreN
9th – 11th	US$8,750	AVANGAR	Berlin 2019 Challengers	Jame, buster, fitch, KrizzeN, qikert	dastan
		Cloud9		Zellsis,[a] autimatic, RUSH, flusha, kioShiMa	–
		Team Vitality		NBK-, apEX, Rpk, ZywOo, ALEX	XTQZZZ
12th – 14th	US$8,750	compLexity Gaming		stanislaw, n0thing, ShahZaM, dephh, Rickeh	Warden
		G2 Esports		shox, bodyy, JaCkz, kennyS, Lucky	maLeK
		HellRaisers		ANGE1, DeadFox, HObbit, ISSAA, woxic	ami
15th – 16th	US$8,750	BIG	–	gob b, nex, tabseN, tiziaN, XANTARES	kakafu
		NRG Esports		daps, Brehze, Ethan, FugLy, CeRq	ImAPet
17th – 19th	–	TyLoo		Attacker, somebody, Summer, xccurate, BnTeT	Johnta
		ViCi Gaming		advent, aumaN, zhokiNg, Freeman, kaze	–
		Winstrike Team		Boombl4, n0rb3r7, WorldEdit, Kvik, wayLander	iksou
20th – 22nd	–	Fnatic		Xizt, Brollan, JW, KRiMZ, twist	Jumpy
		FURIA Esports		arT, ableJ, KSCERATO, VINI, yuurih	guerri
		Vega Squadron		chopper, hutji, tonyblack, crush, jR	Fierce
23rd – 24th	–	Grayhound Gaming		dexter, DickStacy, malta, sterling, erkaSt	–
		Team Spirit		S0tF1k, DavCost, Dima, COLDYY1, somedieyoung	Certus

1. Golden was unable to attend due to health issues, but due to Cloud9 having him listed on the roster after the rosters were locked, they were forced to list Zellsis as a coach so he could stand-in for Golden.^[26][27]

Post-Major ranking

The rankings shown below reflect the March 4, 2019 rankings, the first ranking after the Major.^[28]

World ranking
Place	Team	Points	Move1
1	Astralis	986
2	Team Liquid	534
3	Natus Vincere	464
4	ENCE	435	7
5	MIBR	352	4
6	FaZe Clan	310	2
7	Renegades	275	6
8	Ninjas in Pyjamas	252	6
9	Cloud9	196	1
10	Team Vitality	184	5
11	NRG Esports	172	6
13	AVANGAR	149	5
14	Fnatic	147	8
16	G2 Esports	132	3
18	BIG	122	6
19	HellRaisers	88	2
21	FURIA Esports	83	2
22	Winstrike Team	83	6
23	TyLoo	71	44
25	ViCi Gaming	67	10
27	compLexity Gaming	63	12
28	Grayhound Gaming	53	6
31	Team Spirit	–	14
38	Vega Squadron	–	15

HLTV.org post-Major ranking

¹Change since February 11, 2019 ranking