{"id":21121,"date":"2025-02-14T13:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=21121"},"modified":"2025-02-14T13:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:04:53","slug":"iem-melbourne-revealed-invited-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/iem-melbourne-revealed-invited-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"IEM Melbourne Revealed Invited Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ESL <\/strong>has announced the lineup of sixteen teams for IEM Melbourne<\/strong>, an S-tier event boasting a $1,000,000<\/strong> prize pool. The event will take place from April 21<\/strong> to April 27.<\/strong> It will include two double-elimination groups that will advance to a playoff stage featuring six teams in front of a live audience at the Rod Laver Arena<\/strong> in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ten invitations were distributed based on the global ranking, while six invitations were allocated to the three individual regions in the VRS: Americas, Asia, and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top four teams in the world\u2014Spirit<\/strong>, Vitality<\/strong>, Natus Vincere<\/strong>, and Eternal Fire<\/strong>\u2014will attend the event. FaZe<\/strong>, who knows what it\u2019s like to win in Australia after taking home the IEM Sydney<\/strong> trophy in 2023, has also confirmed their participation. However, three teams\u2014G2<\/strong>, FURIA<\/strong>, and Astralis<\/strong>\u2014have decided to sit this out\u2014a complete list of the teams below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IEM Melbourne Invited Teams List<\/h2>\n\n\n
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IEM Melbourne 2025 – Invited Teams<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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  • Team Spirit<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Team Vitality<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Team Liquid<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • paiN Gaming<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • TheMongolZ<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • FlyQuest<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • FaZe Clan<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Natus Vincere<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Eternal Fire<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • MOUZ<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Team Falcons<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Virtus.pro<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • GamerLegion<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 3DMAX<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • MIBR<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • BIG  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Closer to the event, we will provide you with all the information considering IEM Melbourne<\/strong>, such as groups, schedule, and everything else you need to know, so stay tuned for the updates!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    ESL has announced the lineup of sixteen teams for IEM Melbourne, an S-tier event boasting a $1,000,000 prize pool. The event will take place from April 21 to April 27. It will include two double-elimination groups that will advance to a playoff stage featuring six teams in front of a live audience at the Rod<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":21122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,11,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-21121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-cs2","9":"tag-cs2-news","10":"tag-cs2-tournaments"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21121","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=21121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21124,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21121\/revisions\/21124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}