{"id":28153,"date":"2023-02-12T18:04:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T23:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=28153"},"modified":"2023-02-12T18:04:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T23:04:03","slug":"g2-esports-lift-their-maiden-iem-katowice-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/g2-esports-lift-their-maiden-iem-katowice-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"G2 Esports lift their maiden IEM Katowice trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G2 Esports have claimed their first-ever <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/iem-katowice\/csgo\/\" title=\"IEM Katowice CS:GO betting guide\">IEM Katowice<\/a> title, defeating Heroic 3-1 in the best-of-five series grand final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The number one <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"CS:GO betting guide\">CS:GO<\/a> team in the world ended their IEM Katowice 2023 campaign undefeated, winning five straight series while only dropping one map on their way to a $400,000 winner&#8217;s cheque. <\/p>\n<p>This G2 roster has now won back-to-back tournaments, after they ended their 2022 season with a win in the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/blast-premier-world-final\/\" title=\"BLAST Premier World Final betting guide\">BLAST Premier World Final<\/a> in Abu Dhabi back in December. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE LATEST INDUCTEES INTO THE HALL OF HEROES.<\/p>\n<p>YOUR <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IEM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IEM<\/a> KATOWICE 2023 CHAMPIONS <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/G2esports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@G2esports<\/a> \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/21FJfVMucH\">pic.twitter.com\/21FJfVMucH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESLCS\/status\/1624861650598649860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The win in Katowice, Poland, is regarded as a massive breakthrough for many reasons for this G2 roster, with their star player Nikola \u201cNiKo\u201d Kovac winning his first IEM Katowice title at his fourth attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the IEM Katowice MVP, Justin \u201cjks\u201d Savage, has picked up back-to-back IEM Katowice titles having also won the event as a stand-in with FaZe Clan in 2022, becoming the first player to win the title in consecutive years with different teams.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUSTIN KATOWICE SAVAGE.<\/p>\n<p>THE ONLY PLAYER TO WIN <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IEM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IEM<\/a> KATOWICE BACK TO BACK WITH DIFFERENT TEAMS. \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6RFYxkVS9z\">pic.twitter.com\/6RFYxkVS9z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESLCS\/status\/1624862896269451264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now that G2 have broken the so called \u201cG2 curse\u201d and been successful in consecutive tournaments, we could now see the international squad go on a run similar to that of FaZe Clan, who won IEM Katowice, ESL Pro League, PGL Major Antwerp and <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/iem-cologne\/\" title=\"IEM Cologne betting guide\">IEM Cologne<\/a> in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>As for Heroic, they have now made the grand final at IEM Katowice and the IEM Rio Major but fallen short on both occasions, which is starting to become somewhat of a trend at big tournaments for the Danish roster. <\/p>\n<p>Both teams will now move onto <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/esl-pro-league\/\" title=\"ESL Pro League betting guide\">ESL Pro League<\/a> Season 17 in Malta, where they will begin the event as the top two contenders in the $850,000 tournament. <\/p>\n<p>G2 Esports are $3.50 outright favourites with Heroic next at $5.50 on most <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/sites\/\" title=\"Best esports online betting sites\">esports betting sites<\/a> for the next event on the 2023 CS:GO calendar. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G2 Esports have claimed their first-ever IEM Katowice title, defeating Heroic 3-1 in the best-of-five series grand final on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":28155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[508,11,430,103,235,1081,46,2882,1368],"class_list":["post-28153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-counter-strike","tag-csgo","tag-esl-pro-league","tag-g2-esports","tag-heroic","tag-iem-katowice","tag-intel-extreme-masters","tag-justin-jks-savage","tag-nikola-niko-kovac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28183,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28153\/revisions\/28183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}