ESL Announces IEM Katowice 2025 Broadcast Talent

The first Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) flagship event of the year, Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) Katowice 2025, kicks off on 29 January 2025 and runs until 9 February 2025. It boasts a prize pool of $1 million and features the best teams in the world competing for glory.

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We already know what the IEM Katowice 2025 Play-In stage matchups will look like, and now, I'm excited to report about the broadcast talent at the event. Casters, hosts, and analysts make events like IEM Katowice unique with their world-class knowledge and entertaining takes. 

Tournament organizer ESL announced all the broadcast talent on social media.

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐫𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐞𝐬?

YOUR #IEM KATOWICE 2025 TALENT LINEUP 🎙️ pic.twitter.com/9qtGhhoNIo

— ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) January 23, 2025

In case you can't make out all the broadcast talent from the tweet and accompanying images above, we've listed them below per category for your convenience.

Stage Hosts:

• Iain Chambers
• Oliver "⁠OJ Borg⁠" D'Anastasi

Desk Hosts:

• James "⁠BanKs⁠" Banks
• Tres "⁠stunna⁠" Saranthus
• Freya "⁠Freya⁠" Spiers
• Eefje "⁠sjokz⁠" Depoortere

Analysts:

• Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović
• Jacob "⁠Pimp⁠" Winneche
• Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović
• Joshua "⁠steel⁠" Nissan

Commentators/Casters:

• Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill
• Alex "⁠Machine⁠" Richardson
• Harry "⁠JustHarry⁠" Russell
• Hugo "⁠Hugo⁠" Byron
• Adam "⁠Dinko⁠" Hawthorne
• Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole
• Conner "⁠Scrawny⁠" Girvan
• Mohan "⁠launders⁠" Govindasamy

This makes me even more excited for IEM Katowice 2025! The hype is most definitely real, and I'll bring CS2 esports fans as much coverage as I can.

The lists above are sorted in no particular order.

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