IEM Katowice is one of the most prestigious and well-known CS:GO tournaments. The 2015 event had the status of a Major and was called ESL One Katowice. The team stickers that dropped on the occasion of the championship are now some of the most expensive in the game. The CS.MONEY Blog is here to elaborate on how much you could earn on these old-school stickers.
The most expensive stickers are the Katowice 2014 ones, so why are we talking about 2015?
Yes, the most expensive stickers in-game are the EMS One Katowice 2014 ones. But with the number of both capsules and stickers decreasing each year, and prices continually rise. On the Steam Marketplace, many stickers aren’t available at all. Even the price of cheap stickers, like the NiP one, has increased tenfold.
ESL One Katowice 2014 capsules cost several thousand dollars, while ESL One Katowice 2015 capsules are priced at several hundred. Of course, this huge difference is due to the iBUYPOWER sticker, which stopped dropping after 2014.
We are telling you about the stickers from the 2015 tournament since they too are highly sought-after, and their value will likely continue to rise in the future. “How much could one earn on the 2015 Katowice stickers?” Long story short, quite a lot.
Now, we’ll give a little more detailed answer.
It’s the stickers that depict clubs gone from CS that are the most expensive
The cheapest sticker is the TSM one. Nevertheless, even this item could be a good investment: in 2015, it was sold at about 35 cents, and today, it costs about $5. Not a bad increase in percentage terms.
TSM hasn’t had a CS lineup for a long while. Usually, this would cause the sticker price to increase, but the Holo version of the item only costs 70 bucks. This might have to do with the sticker’s design: a logo with three capital letters doesn’t look particularly eye-catching.
The most expensive stickers are indeed those of squads that left CS. And odds are, they aren’t returning. At the time of writing, there’s only one VOX Eminor (Holo) on the marketplace. Its price is $1,800! Purchase requests start at $1,500. In 2015, the Australian team’s sticker was priced at $1.33.
The Titan (Holo) sticker can be bought for around $800, and it’s more common than the VOX Eminor.
The third most expensive sticker is the FlipSid3 Tactics (Holo), which costs about $500.
If a capsule contains expensive stickers, it’s naturally rather expensive. A capsule with Holo and Foil stickers is sold at $650. A little more than a FlipSid3 sticker. In 2015, you could purchase such capsules for $2 or $3.
If you look closely at the charts, you’ll see that the prices of all items changed according to a similar dynamic. About a year after the tournament ended, the price went up slightly, then held steady and jumped sharply in 2019, to drop slightly again afterward.
Stickers add extra value to skins. But there’s no single formula for calculating that
It goes without saying that stickers affect the price of a weapon finish. Additional items mean an additional cost. But not all stickers can change the price of a gun by an order of magnitude, and there’s no formula for calculating how exactly stickers increase the rarity of and demand for a particular finish.
Much depends on visual perception. At the same time, though, it’s self-evident that, say, the AWP | Asimov with 4 Titan (Holo) stickers would cost a fortune. The main thing is to not make the fatal mistake of applying expensive stickers to stock guns. Even though you can remove the sticker from the weapon, you can’t return it to the inventory. Well, you can always exchange your stickers for real money with CS.MONEY!
