{"id":28879,"date":"2025-07-23T17:55:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/iem-cologne-2025-teams-format-and-favorites-explained\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T16:55:30","slug":"iem-cologne-2025-teams-format-and-favorites-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/iem-cologne-2025-teams-format-and-favorites-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"IEM Cologne 2025: Teams, format, and favorites explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cCathedral of Counter-Strike\u201d is all set up for the return of IEM Cologne, and all the top teams are coming together to crown a champion. Cologne, Germany, is a special place in the hearts of CS2 fans. Since 2014, the tournament has drawn just as many eyes as Valve Majors&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/counter-strike\/iem-cologne-2025-teams-format-and-favorites-explained\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cCathedral of Counter-Strike\u201d is all set up for the return of IEM Cologne, and all the top teams are coming together to crown a champion. Cologne, Germany, is a special place in the hearts of CS2 fans. Since 2014, the tournament has drawn just as many eyes as Valve Majors&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}