BetBoom, 9z, FURIA, Spirit win again at IEM Cologne Stage 3

Field Level Media|published: Fri 12th June, 17:18 2026

Nov 5, 2022; San Francisco, California, USA; Fans do the wave between games of the League of Legends World Championships between T1 and DRX at Chase Center. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images

BetBoom Team and 9z Team continued their torrid runs at the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne Major, joined by FURIA and Team Spirit in winning their Round 2 High matches on Friday in Germany.

BetBoom -- who've battled all the way from Stage 1 to make it this far -- upset Team Falcons 2-0, and 9z Team, who entered the tournament in Stage 2, beat Team Vitality 2-1.

BetBoom's next opponent will be FURIA, who outlasted MOUZ 2-1 on Friday, while 9z will take on Team Spirit, who rallied 2-1 over Aurora Gaming.

Sixteen teams are still standing at the Counter-Strike 2 tournament that began with 32 entrants, competing for their share of a $1.25 million prize pool with the grand final scheduled for June 21. The champion receives $500,000.

Stage 3 utilizes a Swiss System format and all matches are best-of-three. The top eight finishers will proceed to the playoffs next week.

On Friday, BetBoom scored the only 2-0 win of the High matches by gritting out a 13-11 victory on Nuke and a 13-10 result on Ancient to stymie the Falcons. Kirill "Magnojez" Rodnov paced the all-Russian BetBoom squad with 47 kills and a 1.80 match rating.

Meanwhile, 9z lost to Vitality 13-4 on Inferno before bouncing back 13-9 on Mirage and 13-11 on Dust II. Ignacio "meyern" Meyer of Argentina carried 9z with 46 kills and the team's only positive kills-deaths differential (46-39).

FURIA sandwiched a 13-5 victory on Nuke and a 13-7 win on Overpass around MOUZ's 13-5 result on Inferno. FURIA relied on a match-high 56 kills from Kazakhstan's Danil "molodoy" Golubenko.

Spirit fell 13-9 to Aurora on Dust II before drubbing their opponents 13-4 on Anubis and 13-5 on Nuke. Russian Danil "donk" Kryshkovets (46 kills), Belarusian Andrey "tN1R" Tatarinovich (44) and Russian Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov (43) led a balanced Spirit attack.

The four winners of the Round 2 Low matches move into the Mid matches for Round 3, while the losers will have to play win-or-go-home Round 3 Low matches.

The MongolZ blanked B8 2-0, Natus Vincere did the same against Legacy, Monte charged back to beat PARIVISION 2-1 and G2 Esports defeated FUT Esports 2-1.

Stage 3 continues Saturday with eight matches:

Round 3 High matches

--Team Spirit vs. 9z Team

--BetBoom Team vs. FURIA

Round 3 Mid matches

--Natus Vincere vs. The MongolZ

--Team Falcons vs. Monte

--Aurora Gaming vs. G2 Esports

--Team Vitality vs. MOUZ

Round 3 Low matches

--B8 vs. FUT Esports

--PARIVISION vs. Legacy