IEM Dallas viewer's guide

Get up to date on the teams, schedule, and format of the penultimate tier-one event before the player break.

IEM Dallas will kick off on Monday, May 29, and will feature a three-day group stage followed by a single-elimination playoff bracket before concluding on June 4 with a best-of-three grand final in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.

The team list features five top 10 teams, while the most notable absentees are Natus Vincere and reigning-Major champions Vitality. The 16 teams have been seeded into two double-elimination groups, with just six playoff spots up for grabs. The group winners earn a spot in the semi-finals, while those who finish the group stage in second and third place will start the playoffs from a false four-team quarter-finals.

The playoff bracket will be single-elimination and all of the matches best-of-threes. The winners will take home a $100,000 grand prize and will earn a spot at IEM Cologne, which will run from July 25-August 6.

Heroic make the flight over the pond as the event's highest-ranked team, with the likes of FaZe, Cloud9, and G2 also in the pool of favorites. All four squads will be trying to leave their Major performances — or Major qualifying performances, in the case of the Russians — behind and set their sights back on winning a trophy.

Liquid are the fifth top 10 side and the best North American team in attendance. They will play their home event at a delicate time as Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella, who gave up calling at the Major in favor of Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis, recently announced that he will step down from the North American squad's active roster after IEM Dallas.

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Elsewhere on the roster are two teams with stand-ins. fnatic will be playing with Patrik "⁠f0rest⁠" Lindberg in place of Freddy "⁠KRIMZ⁠" Johansson, while OG will be using Iulian "⁠regali⁠" Harjău instead of Abdul "⁠degster⁠" Gasanov ahead of a potentially hectic off-season which will most likely see star rifler Shahar "⁠flameZ⁠" Shushan depart to a bigger team.

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Down the list are two American teams that don't make it to top flight events regularly: Edgar "⁠MarKE⁠" Maldonado's Nouns, another local North American side, and 9z, who will be representing South America.

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Participating teams

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Schedule

Group A

Date	Matches
IEM Dallas 2023
29/05/2023	FURIA 18:00 OG	Match
29/05/2023	G2 18:00 Nouns	Match
29/05/2023	fnatic 19:20 MOUZ	Match
29/05/2023	Heroic 19:45 9z	Match
29/05/2023	FURIA 23:45 Nouns	Match
29/05/2023	G2 23:50 OG	Match
30/05/2023	MOUZ 02:30 Heroic	Match
30/05/2023	fnatic 02:30 9z	Match
30/05/2023	FURIA 21:40 MOUZ	Match
31/05/2023	OG 01:00 9z	Match
31/05/2023	G2 21:30 Heroic	Match
31/05/2023	MOUZ 21:50 OG	Match

Group B

Date	Matches
IEM Dallas 2023
29/05/2023	ENCE 20:45 Complexity	Match
29/05/2023	FaZe 21:00 Evil Geniuses	Match
29/05/2023	Liquid 22:05 Astralis	Match
29/05/2023	Cloud9 22:40 Grayhound	Match
30/05/2023	Evil Geniuses 18:00 Complexity	Match
30/05/2023	Liquid 18:00 Grayhound	Match
30/05/2023	FaZe 21:30 ENCE	Match
31/05/2023	Cloud9 01:00 Astralis	Match
31/05/2023	Complexity 18:00 Cloud9	Match
31/05/2023	FaZe 18:00 Liquid	Match
01/06/2023	ENCE 01:00 Astralis	Match
01/06/2023	FaZe 01:00 Cloud9	Match

Playoffs

Date	Matches
IEM Dallas 2023
02/06/2023	Astralis 20:30 MOUZ	Match
03/06/2023	G2 00:35 FaZe	Match
03/06/2023	Heroic 18:30 MOUZ	Match
03/06/2023	ENCE 23:00 FaZe	Match
04/06/2023	MOUZ 20:00 ENCE	Match

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Prize distribution

IEM Dallas will feature a $250,000 prize pool, of which $100,000 will go to the winner alongside a spot at IEM Cologne.

The full prize pool allocation is as follows:

1. $100,000 + IEM Cologne
2. $42,000
3-4. $20,000
3-4. $20,000
5-6. $10,000
5-6. $10,000
7-8. $6,000
7-8. $6,000
9-12. $5,000
9-12. $5,000
9-12. $5,000
9-12. $5,000
13-16. $4,000
13-16. $4,000
13-16. $4,000
13-16. $4,000

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On-site coverage

HLTV will be in attendance at IEM Dallas, so stay tuned as we'll bring you coverage of the competition in North America.