Falcons top ESL's Annual Club Incentive rankings in post-Cologne update

ESL have updated their Annual Club Incentive standings following the conclusion of IEM Cologne 2025, and Falcons have surpassed Natus Vincere for the No. 1 spot despite not making the playoffs in Cologne.

This is because Falcons drew far more viewers than any other team throughout IEM Cologne. The Saudi organization averaged 479,088 concurrent viewers (CCV) during their Cologne run, which was Maksim "kyousuke" Lukin's first event with Ilya "m0NESY" Osipov and Nikola "NiKo" Kovač.

FURIA and Spirit were the ones that got closest to drawing as many viewers as Falcons. The Brazilian organization averaged 358,570 CCV, while Spirit averaged 358,251 CCV.

This is how ESL measured the IEM Cologne CCV:

The average concurrent viewership is based on the highest value of a team in either Stage 1 or Stage 2, only the highest and only one value per team is included. Playoffs are not included as it heavily favours those select teams advancing, these teams are already being rewarded via the Club Reward.

Falcons now have 48.5 total viewership points and will earn $394,581, which corresponds to 13.4% of the Annual Club Incentive sum ($2,950,000). Vitality and Liquid round out the top three with 11.6% ($341,699) and 10.6% ($313,224), respectively.

ESL will issue another Annual Club Incentive update following ESL Pro League S22, which will be played from September 28th to October 12th.