![]() ![]() ![]() Nikola "NiKo" Kovač was in superlative form, Ilya "m0NESY" Osipov and Nemanja "huNter-" Kovač looked solid, but perhaps most tellingly G2 got a solid overall performance out of Justin "jks" Savage. They got better as the event wore on, besting BIG and then triumphing in a relatively tight series against Natus Vincere before much more comfortably dispatching the CIS squad the second time around. G2 picked up where they left off at the end of last year, backing up their BLAST Premier World Final victory by marching through Spring Groups without dropping a map. Plenty of big names did not feature at all at BLAST and Katowice is their first chance to show us what they are capable of. Some of those teams impressed, some drew doubts as to their potential moving forwards, and some thoroughly disappointed. Squads that have their finger on the pulse and have adapted the best will find themselves ahead of the competition, and many teams who will feature in Katowice got the chance to warm up for the event at the BLAST Premier Spring Groups. There is a meta shift still underway following the nerfs to the M4A1-S and AWP and the introduction of a new map, Anubis. ![]() There is no better time to do it than now considering the state of the professional scene and the update that dropped right at the end of last year - IEM Katowice is the first real chance for teams to start making the case that they are the best in the world. A new opportunity for squads to realise their ambitions, capitalise on the work they did in the off-season and stake a claim as one of the elite squads of the moment. With a new year in CS:GO comes a fresh chance for teams to shake up the hierarchy. BLAST Premier Spring Groups warmed teams and fans up for 2023, now IEM Katowice will provide the first Big Event champion of the year. ![]()
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