Throughout the entirety of IEM Cologne 2025 , a grand total of 8,940 frags were attained with 546 bomb placements through the 1,619 game rounds that were contested.
Given that a mere 33% of game rounds included a bomb plant, the overwhelming majority of rounds were resolved by squads taking down their adversaries rather than the offensive side effectively detonating the objective.
Using statistics furnished by GRID, ESL FACEIT Group’s sanctioned match data associate, Esports Insider examines the figures in greater detail to spotlight the premier competitors throughout both IEM Cologne phases and the Playoffs.
IEM Cologne’s Leading Competitors
It comes as little surprise that the stats favour the event’s ultimate champions, Team Spirit, with the organisation laying claim to its third top-level accolade of the year up to now.
Notably, Team Spirit‘s Danil ‘donk’ Kryshkovets was the most valuable competitor of the tournament, achieving a kill-to-death proportion of 1.42 and an average damage infliction of 654.31 per map. The 18-year-old also secured the title of the event’s overall MWP.
Donk’s companion, Dmitry ‘sh1ro‘ Sokolov, realised the highest K/D proportion of the event, with a 1.50, leading the rankings. Sh1ro similarly attained the honor of the most impactful competitor, securing approximately 20 takedowns per map.
MOUZ’s Ádám ‘torzsi‘ Torzsás likewise differentiated himself thanks to his reliably elevated in-game effect. A 1.40 K/D and a 3,797 damage variance across 15 maps resulted in him being the paramount performer of his squad, which concluded the event in the runner-up spot.
Additional noteworthy stats encompass NAVI’s Valerii ‘b1t’ Vakhovskyi recording the highest headshot rate of 64.94% whilst FURIA’s Danil ‘molodoy’ Golubenko shone on the foremost stage with a 1.40 K/D proportion and a 260 damage divergence per map.
GRID and ESL FACEIT Group
IEM Cologne was the initial event with GRID as a data collaborator for ESL FACEIT Group, the competition’s coordinator. The two bodies united in July, ratifying a multi-year collaboration, with GRID turning into the supplier, infrastructure, and reliability associate of all of ESL’s CS2 and Dota 2 showdowns.
GRID secures the data precisely from the game hosting servers through its technology to ensure the information amassed is precise before being circulated to industry parties involved.
Alongside ESL FACEIT Group, the data establishment has additionally cooperated with the likes of BLAST, StarLadder, and the recently expired YaLLa Esports.
The most recent data collaboration from GRID shone light on the player outputs at the BLAST.tv Austin Major, which also exposed donk as the most valuable competitor of the tournament thanks to his average eliminations and damage inflicted.
The data compiled from showdowns is a valuable instrument for event orchestrators to create content and to render supplemental context to narratives among the squads competing.
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