Heroic beat Vitality and advanced to the IEM Katowice 2023 semi-finals

The Heroic team turned out to be stronger than Vitality with a score of 2:0, thanks to which they directly made it to the semifinals of IEM Katowice 2023. In turn, the Danish-French team goes to the 1/4 finals, where they will play with the winner of the FaZe Clan match — Team Liquid.

The Grand Final of Group B started on the Inferno map, which became the choice of the Danish-French team. Initially, the meeting was in favor of the wards of zonic, who kept the situation under their control. However, towards the end of the first half, the Danes joined the game in order to get a comfortable advantage and hit the opponent's morale hard - 9:6. In addition, after the side switch, Vitality completely stopped playing, while Heroic showed a confident streak and took the lead in the series — 16:7.

Next, the teams moved to the Overpass map, which turned out to be the choice of Heroic. Here the intrigue turned out to be dead in its infancy, as the Danish team spent a fiery half in the attack and resolved all issues in advance - 12:3. After switching sides, Vitality only lasted for one round, after which Heroic fired back with a force-round and brought the matter to a victorious rout — 16:4.

IEM Katowice 2023 takes place from 1 to 12 February in Katowice at the Spodek Arena. As part of the championship, 24 teams from the CIS, Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Oceania are fighting for a total prize pool of $1,000,000, as well as a ticket to IEM Cologne 2023 for the winner.

Interim results of IEM Katowice 2023

• 1st place: $400,000 + ticket to IEM Cologne 2023
• 2nd place: $180,000
• 3rd-4th place: $80,000
• 5th-6th place: $40,000
• 7th-8th place: $24,000
• 9th-12th place: IHC Esports, OG, fnatic and Team Spirit — $16,000
• 13th-16th place: BIG, Ninjas in Pajamas, MOUZ and Cloud9 — $10,000
• 17th-20th place: MIBR, ENCE, Sprout and FURIA - $4,500
• 21st-24th place: paiN Gaming, Evil Geniuses, Permitta Esports and Grayhound Gaming — $2,500