Season 16 of IEM Fall returns to LAN in the European edition, whose groups have just been announced.

Astralis have been placed in group B along with Heroic, Complexity, SINNERS Esports, Endpoint, and Movistar Riders. 

The participating teams in the European tournament version consist of 12 invited teams and 12 teams via closed qualifier. The teams will be able to win a prize pool of $105,000 in the only LAN tournament of the IEM Fall. The NA, CIS, Asia, South American and Oceania-editions will all be hosted online. 

Overview of the announced groups:

Group A

• G2 Esports
• BIG
• mousesports
• FunPlus Phoenix
• Copenhagen Flames
• AURA

Group B  

• Heroic
• Astralis
• Complexity
• SINNERS Esports
• Endpoint
• Movistar Riders

Group C  

• Team Vitality
• OG
• ENCE
• Dignitas
• Sprout
• MAD Lions

Group D  

• FaZe Clan
• Ninjas in Pyjamas
• Fnatic
• SKADE
• Fiend
• Double Poney  

All groups will play on all dates during the event. The group stage will take place remotely from a hotel near the from September 29th until October 3rd. After that, the top 3 teams in each group will continue to play, either in tiebreakers or in the playoffs. 

All of Astralis' matches can be found at https://www.astralis.gg/schedule‍

IEM Fall Official Website: https://www.intelextrememasters.com/season-16/fall/