{"id":15132,"date":"2024-07-27T15:59:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T15:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/iem-cologne-2024-format-changes"},"modified":"2024-07-27T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T15:59:29","slug":"iem-cologne-2024-format-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/iem-cologne-2024-format-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"IEM Cologne 2024 Format Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ESL <\/strong>has decided to eliminate the best-of-one format from <strong>IEM Cologne 2024<\/strong>. According to the announcement, this change was prompted by &#8220;player and community feedback.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The organizers initially planned for the <strong>Play-In<\/strong> stage to include <strong>best-of-one <\/strong>games, but they recently changed the format to a<strong> best-of-three<\/strong> series instead. This new match format will be used for the entire main tournament, except the<strong> best-of-five<\/strong> grand final.<\/p>\n<p>The recent change has been met with enthusiasm by numerous community leaders. Notably, analyst Janko <strong>&#8216;YNk&#8217; <\/strong>Paunovi\u00c4\u0087 is among those who have openly backed this decision.<\/p>\n<div class=\"_1VPbNXp6UZ1K-ChQg-UhsA==\"><\/div>\n<p>The <strong>Play-In<\/strong> stage is scheduled for August 7, featuring 16 teams competing for eight spots in the next stage.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Keep up with our coverage for more insights on the latest esports news and updates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESL has decided to eliminate the best-of-one format from IEM Cologne 2024. According to the announcement, this change was prompted by &#8220;player and community feedback.&#8221; The organizers initially planned for the Play-In stage to include best-of-one games, but they recently changed the format to a best-of-three series instead. This new match format will be used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":14839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-15132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-cs2-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}