Women’s CS2 team drives IEM Katowice viewership to heights it hasn’t seen in years
IEM Katowice 2025 has kicked off, featuring the latest format introduced by Valve and an all-female CS2 team whose participation in the tournament has drawn a ton of attention, bringing the legendary event to its biggest play-in viewership since the pre-COVID days.
These new and fresh introductions to the Counter-Strike tournament formula clearly have found a liking among audiences, as the event opened to around 400,000 peak concurrent viewers who tuned in to watch FURIA Esports duke it out with the all-female Imperial Valkyries, according to Esports Charts. In hours watched, Esports Charts shows that IEM Katowice 2025 saw a 57-percent increase over last year’s event, indicating that female rosters are real attention-grabbers for the CS public, as are expansions and changes to the game’s tournament format.
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