{"id":25688,"date":"2025-05-18T14:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=25688"},"modified":"2025-05-18T14:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T14:34:12","slug":"iem-dallas-2025-overview-format-teams-schedule-favorites-and-underdogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/iem-dallas-2025-overview-format-teams-schedule-favorites-and-underdogs\/","title":{"rendered":"IEM Dallas 2025 Overview: Format, Teams, Schedule, Favorites and Underdogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IEM Dallas 2025<\/strong> is an S-tier tournament with a prize pool of <strong>$1 million<\/strong>. The tournament will be held in <strong>Dallas, Texas, US<\/strong> from <strong>May 19<\/strong> to <strong>May 25<\/strong>. There will be sixteen teams featured, among the participants are elite-level teams everyone knows, such as <strong>Vitality<\/strong>, <strong>Falcons<\/strong>, <strong>MOUZ<\/strong>. Teams like <strong>Spirit <\/strong>and <strong>Natus Vincere<\/strong> will miss this event as they just finished at the <strong>PGL Astana 2025<\/strong> the day before. Will it be the fifth tournament win in a row for <strong>Vitality<\/strong>, or will someone finally stop them? We will have to see!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tournament Format<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Group Stage (May 19 &#8211; May 22)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Two double-elimination format (GSL) Groups<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Each group has eight teams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All matches are Bo3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The top three teams from each group advance to the Playoffs:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Group stage winners advance to the Semifinals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Group stage runners-up advance to the Quarterfinals as the High Seeds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Group stage 3rd place teams advance to the Quarterfinals as the Low Seeds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Playoff Stage (May 23 &#8211; May 25)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Single-Elimination bracket<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Quarterfinals &amp; Semifinals are Bo3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Grand Final is Bo5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teams<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Vitality<\/td><td>Falcons<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>MOUZ<\/td><td>TheMongolZ<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Liquid<\/td><td>Aurora<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>HEROIC<\/td><td>FaZe<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>GamerLegion<\/td><td>3DMAX<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>TheMongolZ<\/td><td>FURIA<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Lynn Vision<\/td><td>Legacy<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>NRG<\/td><td>BC.Game<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">IEM Dallas 2025 &#8211; Teams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Favorites and Underdogs<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vitalityaaa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vitalityaaa.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vitalityaaa-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vitalityaaa-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vitalityaaa-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vitalityaaa-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Team Vitality<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Vitality <\/strong>is the main favorite to win this tournament, as they have done it four times in a row and nobody has been able to stop them before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Falcons <\/strong>have faced <strong>Vitality <\/strong>in the <strong>Grand Finals <\/strong>twice in a row, and even though they lost both times by a <strong>score of 2-3<\/strong>, it was a close one. Therefore, <strong>Falcons <\/strong>are one of the favorites for this tournament as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MOUZ <\/strong>usually gets into the playoff stages. They\u2019re the best team after both Vitality and Falcons, and they\u2019re clearly the favorite to make it to the playoff stage at the very least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Liquid,<\/strong> <strong>FaZe<\/strong>, <strong>GamerLegion<\/strong>, <strong>TheMongolZ<\/strong>, <strong>Aurora, FURIA <\/strong>and<strong> HEROIC <\/strong>are all the dark horses of this tournament. Considering their recent results and their experience, on a good day, they might surprise any team they play against.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>G2 <\/strong>was one of the top teams last year. Still, after all the roster shuffles they went through, they don\u2019t seem like a title contender until they prove otherwise, so they will be playing as underdogs at this tournament, together with the rest of the teams: <strong>Legacy<\/strong>, <strong>3DMAX<\/strong>, <strong>Lynn Vision<\/strong>, <strong>BC.Game<\/strong>, <strong>NRG.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Opening Matches Schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May 19 &#8211; May 20<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>3DMAX <\/strong>vs. <strong>Gamerlegion <\/strong>and <strong>Liquid <\/strong>vs. <strong>FaZe <\/strong>starting at <strong>18:30 CET<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Vitality <\/strong>vs. <strong>Legacy <\/strong>and <strong>MOUZ <\/strong>vs. <strong>BC.Game<\/strong> starting at<strong> 21:00 CET<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>G2 <\/strong>vs. <strong>Lynn Vision<\/strong> and <strong>Falcons <\/strong>vs. <strong>NRG <\/strong>starting at <strong>23:30 CET<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>TheMongolZ <\/strong>vs. <strong>FURIA <\/strong>and <strong>Aurora <\/strong>vs. <strong>HEROIC <\/strong>starting at <strong>02:00 CET<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The<\/em><strong><em> Grand Final<\/em><\/strong><em> is scheduled for<\/em><strong><em> May 25<\/em><\/strong><em> at <\/em><strong><em>21:00 CET<\/em><\/strong><em>!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Watch<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/iemdali-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/iemdali-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/iemdali-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/iemdali-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/iemdali-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/iemdali-1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/iemdali-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>You can watch all the matches live on these <strong>IEM Official<\/strong> platforms:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/ESLCS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IEM Dallas 2025 Official Twitch Primary Stream<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/ESLCS\/streams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IEM Melbourne 2025 Official YouTube Stream<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/ESLCSb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IEM Dallas 2025 Official Twitch Secondary Stream<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the group stage (from<strong> May 19<\/strong> to <strong>May 22<\/strong>), two streams will cover matches happening simultaneously. The playoffs (from <strong>May 23 <\/strong>to <strong>May 25<\/strong>) will be one stream, as one match will be played at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Keep up with our coverage for more insights on the latest esports news and updates.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview IEM Dallas 2025 is an S-tier tournament with a prize pool of $1 million. The tournament will be held in Dallas, Texas, US from May 19 to May 25. There will be sixteen teams featured, among the participants are elite-level teams everyone knows, such as Vitality, Falcons, MOUZ. Teams like Spirit and Natus Vincere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":25693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,11,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-25688","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\/25688","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=25688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25694,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25688\/revisions\/25694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}