A chaotic two days saw the early IEM dreams of 2022 shattered for Entropiq, Sprout, Wisla Krakow, BIG, GODSENT, MIBR, Renegades & Movistar Riders. However for Copenhagen Flames, MOUZ, Astralis, FaZe, OG, NIP, fnatic & ENCE they're moving on to face the even greater teams in the main Katowice event.

Despite knowing who was the winners, and the losers, some credit must be given to certain teams who almost managed that ticket. BIG for example came so close to that ticket they could almost touch it, after a strong start against the Movistar Riders, they then suffered two 2:1 defeats, one to Astralis and one to fnatic. The Astralis performance was far too great for BIG, and they went down without much trouble, although when they faced NIP for the final chance for both teams, BIG took it so close to a 2:0 win. The first map, Ancient, hit overtime where fnatic only just managed to limp across the line for a 19:17 win, across to the heights of Vertigo BIG exacted revenge taking it to 16:13 for the German side, but that was all they managed. BIG's steam ran out, and fnatic were able to demolish BIG thoroughly on Overpass 16:8. Movistar Riders, who at the last minute replaced Complexity after the latter had several COVID cases, looked strong against BIG, even though they lost 16:13, although next up they managed to pull off a convincing win against MIBR 2-0, before finally being kicked out by a strong showing NIP 2-0.

For the lucky 8 going through, they now will come against the force of teams that include Liquid, FURIA, G2, Natus Vincere, Virtus.pro, Gambit, Vitality & Heroic. 16 teams will enter the arena, but only one will win that huge $400,000 prize for the winner.

For all your Katowice needs, stay tuned to bother Gamer Galaxy, and the IEM twitter located here.