I have been following the IEM Cologne tournament in CS2 so far. Starting with the play-in stage. I'm really sad about the team I support, Eternal Fire, couldn't make it to the main tournament after the last chance match.

Source: https://www.hltv.org/events/7436/iem-cologne-2024The great prize is $400k and the winner earns the right to join IEM Katowice directly next year at the same time. Do you have any favourites?
FaZe don't look convincing to me. Even if they beat SAW, I expect Vitality to eliminate them later. I think we are going to see a NaVi v Vitality finale. I'm favouring NaVi to become champions.
Really that much for the grand prize of this tournament?
So they must be playing their best CS to make it far into this stretch of the Intel Extreme Masters series.
I am also seeing Navi taking it all the way and to advance to Katowice.
They are the team to beat all tournament long.