16 Teams Confirmed for Counter-Strike 2 Event IEM Dallas 2025

After confirming HEROIC and Astralis, all 16 teams for the Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Dallas 2025 in Texas have been confirmed. 

HEROIC was the final confirmed team for the $300,000 Counter-Strike 2 competition, which will take place from May 19 to 25.

In other Counter-Strike news, Ghost Gaming announced their return to the game and announced a women's roster in January. 

More About IEM in 2025

This IEM Dallas event marks the third international IEM tournament for the 2025 Counter-Strike 2 season. It’ll be held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. This comes after IEM Katowice. There, Team Vitality took the win. 

There will also be an IEM Melbourne event in April. A full list of invited teams has been revealed: FaZe Clan, Natus Vincere, Team Spirit, Team Vitality, Team Liquid, paiN Gaming, The MongolZ, FlyQuest, Eternal Fire, MIBR, BIG, and MOUZ.

To qualify for a spot at IEM Dallas, teams did so through Valve’s VRS leaderboard system and region qualifiers. 

The Teams at IEM Dallas 2025

Of the 16 teams, eight qualified based on their regional VRS scores from Feb. 3. That said, Team Spirit, who were atop the VRS leaderboard, along with another top-performing squad, NAVI, won’t attend IEM Dallas. 

Here are the teams set to attend: 

• G2 Esports (VRS Europe 2nd)
• Team Vitality (VRS Europe 3rd)
• FaZe Clan (VRS Europe 4th)
• Eternal Fire (VRS Europe 6th)
• MOUZ (VRS Europe 7th)
• Team Liquid (VRS Americas 1st)
• FURIA (VRS Americas 2nd)
• The MongolZ (VRS Asia 1st)
• Team Falcons (European Qualifier 1st)
• BC.Game Esports (European Qualifier 2nd)
• 3DMAX (European Qualifier 3rd)
• GamerLegion (European Qualifier 4th)
• HEROIC (European Qualifier 5th)
• NRG (NA Qualifier 1st)
• Legacy (South American Qualifier 1st)
• Lynn Vision Gaming (Asian Qualifier 1st)

IEM Dallas Qualifiers 

To qualify, teams had to go through regional qualifiers based on their VRS ranking. 

Open Qualifiers gave the smaller teams an opportunity to compete in the IEM Qualifiers against higher-ranked rosters in their region.

The European Qualifier saw five of 16 teams go to IEM Dallas. Qualifiers from Norther America, South America, and Asia each had four squads. 

Beyond regional ranking, Valve also ranks teams based on a global VRS leaderboard. As of Feb. 3, the top five teams are Team Spirit, G2 Esports, TheMongolZ, Vitality and FaZe.

The highest-ranked organization on the global VRS leaderboard is G2 Esports, which is in second place.

The lowest-ranked team is BC.Game who comes in at 99th.