IEM Summer 2025 betting guide

Intel Extreme Masters Summer

Intel Extreme Masters Summer betting is now open, with esports betting sites having markets live on another of the highly anticipated events, with the 2025 Counter-Strike season now in full swing. The 2025 IEM Summer event will be played in Dallas, Texas, United States of America, at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in May, with the world’s best teams congregating for the week-long event with US$250,000 in prize money on offer and a huge viewing attendance expected, both in person and online. IEM Summer betting sites offer odds on everything from the outright winner to the highest kill percentage on certain maps, right through to the player of the tournament. IEM Summer CS2 betting sites will also have head-to-head odds on matches as they draw closer. You can bet on IEM Summer with the following esports betting sites, or read on for the latest IEM Summer betting information and news.

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IEM Summer 2025 Details

The Intel Extreme Masters is one of a few tournaments that has run for over a decade now on the esports professional scene, with their first collaboration with ESL coming in 2006 when they organised an IEM for Counter-Strike 1.6 and Warcraft III.

With an IEM Spring, Summer and Fall event held every year, this year’s IEM Summer will be held in Dallas, with the event set to be called IEM Dallas. The IEM Dallas event will be the second year that ESL has chosen to hold their IEM Summer event in Texas, with the reigning champions Cloud9 returning to defend their crown in May. We expect to see big crowds and possibly the most recent Major winner attend the US$1,000,000 event, with one spot at IEM Cologne up for grabs for the winner.

In this CS2 IEM Summer betting guide, you will find tournament details, team details, and odds from the best esports betting sites.


IEM Summer 2025 Odds

IEM Summer odds are not available. ESB will update this page when the odds are released closer to the start of the event.


IEM Summer 2025 Teams

Of the 16 teams that will take their place at IEM Dallas, six of the teams are ESL Partnered Teams, four are invited due to their ESL World Ranking, two from the European Qualifier, one from each of the North American, South American and Oceanic Qualifiers, and one team will get the Local Hero Invite.


IEM Summer Format

The format for IEM Summer will follow a similar format that is used across all of the IEM seasonal events, with the Group Stage kicking off the event and the Playoffs Stage ending the event.

  • Two double-elimination format (GSL) groups
  • Each group has eight teams
  • Opening matches are best-of-one
  • All following matches are best-of-three
  • The top three teams from each group advance to the playoffs
  • Group winners advance to the semi-finals
  • Group runners-up advance to the quarterfinals as High Seeds
  • Group third placegetters advance to the quarterfinals as Low Seeds
  • Single-elimination bracket
  • The quarterfinals and semi-finals are best-of-three
  • The grand final is best-of-five

IEM Summer Prize Pool Distribution

The US$300,000 IEM Summer prize pool will be distributed as the table shows below.

PlacePlayer Prizemoney ($USD)Club Prizemoney ($USD)
1st$125,000$160,000
2nd$50,000$100,000
3rd-4th$25,000$80,000
5th-6th$12,500$60,000
7th-8th$7,000$40,000
9th-12th$5,000$20,000
13th-16th$4,000

IEM Summer past winners

  • 2017 (Sydney): SK Gaming
  • 2018 (Sydney): FaZe Clan
  • 2019 (Sydney): Team Liquid
  • 2020: Cancelled
  • 2021 (Online): Gambit Esports
  • 2022 (Dallas): Cloud9
  • 2023 (Dallas): ENCE
  • 2024 (Dallas): G2 Esports
  • 2025 (Dallas): Team Vitality

Where to watch the IEM Summer event?

Every match of the IEM Summer event will be broadcast live by the ESL CS2 Twitch channel (https://www.twitch.tv/eslcs), with all of the highlights and full-day VODs uploaded to their YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@ESLCS) after every day of the event.

Watch IEM Summer on youtube and twitch