The third ESL Pro Tour event of 2025 wrapped up with an epic 5-map affair between Team Vitality and Team Falcons at IEM Melbourne, with the French-based organization hoisting the silverware and completing their ESL Grand Slam run. With the tournament now concluded, we’re bringing an update to the Annual Club Incentive.
In accordance with previous updates, the update is once again based on viewership data from Esports Charts, the 16 teams in attendance have been ranked based on their average concurrent viewers in the Group Stage.
From the 16 teams in attendance, the top 12 ranked teams based on average concurrent viewers were awarded viewership points based on the points matrix.
IEM Melbourne 2025Viewership placement
Posição | Team Name | Average CCV | Viewership points |
|---|---|---|---|
1 |  Team Falcons | 222,376
| 12 |
2 |  Team Vitality
| 144,733 | 12 |
3 |  Natus Vincere | 142,611 | 12 |
4 |  Team Liquid | 94,310 | 12 |
5 |  The MongolZ | 93,179 | 9 |
6 |  FaZe Clan | 84,384 | 9 |
7 |  SAW | 82,333 | 9 |
8 |  Virtus.pro | 80,296 | 9 |
9 |  FlyQuest | 75,107 | 6 |
10 |  MOUZ | 70,019 | 6 |
11 |  MIBR | 68,497 | 6 |
12 |  GamerLegion | 52,794 | 6 |
13 |  paiN Gaming | 52,794 | 6 |
14 |  Complexity | 48,655 | 0 |
15 |  BIG | 44,221 | 0 |
16 |  3DMAX | 33,376 | 0 |
Being the third event of the year contributing to the Annual Club Incentive, the event distributed 108 viewership points, out of the 720 points available in 2025. There’s 414 points still up for grabs across the next four events.
With the Event Multiplier also coming into effect for teams attending the event, this has generated the below current standings to the Annual Club Incentive.
The $2,950,000 Annual Club Incentive concludes end-of-year 2025 and is paid out in Q1 of 2026 to the top 16 teams in the standings. Full details about how the Annual Club Incentive is calculated can be found here.
The fourth event of 2025 is coming up with IEM Dallas taking place across May 19-25. As per usual, we'll provide another update to the standings after its conclusion.
May 14, 2025Annual Club Incentive
Posição | Team Name | Total viewership points | Events attended | Total points | Total points share | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |  Natus Vincere | 34 | 3 | 102 | 13.1% | $386,017 |
2 |  Team Falcons | 28.5 | 3 | 85.5 | 11.0% | $323,573 |
3 | Team Liquid | 26.5 | 3 | 79.5 | 10.27% | $300,866 |
4 |  Team Vitality | 25 | 3 | 75 | 9.6% | $283,836 |
5 | The MongolZ | 19.5 | 3 | 58.5 | 7.5% | $221,392 |
6 |  G2 Esports | 22 | 2 | 44 | 5.6% | $166,517 |
7 |  FURIA | 20 | 2 | 40 | 5.1% | $151,379 |
8 | MOUZ | 13 | 3 | 39 | 5.0% | $147,595 |
9 |  Team Spirit | 18.5 | 2 | 37 | 4.7% | $140,026 |
10 |  Eternal Fire | 18 | 2 | 36 | 4.6% | $136,241 |
11 | FaZe Clan | 17 | 2 | 34 | 4.4% | $128,672 |
12 | SAW | 9 | 3 | 27 | 3.5% | $102,181 |
13 | Virtus.pro | 13 | 2 | 26 | 3.3% | $98,396 |
14 | 3DMAX | 7 | 3 | 21 | 2.7% | $79,474 |
14 | paiN Gaming | 7 | 3 | 21 | 2.7% | $79,474 |
16 | FlyQuest | 6 | 3 | 18 | 2.3% | $68,121 |
16 | GamerLegion | 6 | 3 | 18 | 2.3% | $68,121 |
16 | MIBR | 6 | 3 | 18 | 2.3% | $68,121 |
