IEM Cologne 2025 Playoffs to Continue on the Old Version of CS2

Recently, a major update was released for CS2 , and right after its release, it was unclear when this patch would be officially added to IEM Cologne 2025. However, today it was announced that the playoffs for IEM Cologne 2025 will be played on the old patch.

Teams completed the group stage on the old patch, but there was no information about the playoffs. Today, on X, ESL confirmed that the playoff stage of IEM Cologne 2025 will be played on the same patch as the Play-In stage and the group stage.

The first match in the playoffs will be NAVI against The MongolZ , scheduled for August 1 at 3:45 PM CEST. You can follow the news, schedule, and results of IEM Cologne 2025 through the link.

On July 29, 2025, Valve released a major CS2 update related to the transition to the new AnimGraph2 animation system. The patch brought fully overhauled first-person animations, sound improvements, updates to the Overpass, Train, and Inferno maps, as well as gameplay and interface changes.