Sticker | KRIMZ | Katowice 2019

This is a Paper autograph: an in-game sticker stamped with KRIMZs signature and issued within the Katowice 2019 Returning Challengers Autograph Capsule for the 2019 IEM Katowice set. It is an event-tied team autograph rather than a community or generic team logo, so the name on the sticker is the feature.

Paper sits at the base of the finish ladder for this set; it is the standard film beneath any Holo, Foil, or Gold variants that may exist for the same lineup. Think of Paper as the common canvas that the rarer finishes layer over, not as a flaw but as the baseline every collector understands.

Market-wise this sticker grades into the budget bracket, so it lives below mid and premium lanes in the set hierarchy. For collectors that assemble crafts or fill out autograph runs, its budget status makes it a practical pick rather than a headline buy.

KRIMZ is the signer and the sticker is tied to his time on Fnatic, which is the provenance collectors look for here. That full provenance-player name and team-anchors the sticker as an autograph piece rather than a generic team decal, and provenance is what underpins autograph interest.

It was released in the Katowice 2019 Returning Challengers Autograph Capsule, which groups this autograph with the other returning challengers from that event. The capsule origin tells you this sticker belongs to a matched lineup of autographs released together by Valve.

Applied to a weapon the sticker can be scraped thinner and will be destroyed if you try to remove it, and every time you craft the game burns a copy from inventory. That makes clean, unapplied stock the finite resource collectors actually chase.

The sticker carries a High Grade rarity, which places it above base grades yet below any contraband-level items in the sticker grading ladder. That grade underpins expectations for how often copies appear compared with the absolute common or the very exotic entries.

Collectors typically craft autographs onto signature-friendly weapon finishes where the ink and signature sit visibly without clashing with the skin art; Paper autographs like this one are often used where a bold name is wanted without the visual pop of a Holo or Foil. Demand for specific crafts, and for clean copies to execute them, feeds back into how desirable a given autograph becomes.

This piece is part of the Katowice 2019 wave from the 2019 IEM Katowice release and belongs to the cycle of event autograph capsules Valve issued that year. Its placement in that release window gives it the context of the Returning Challengers capsule rather than a later or earlier autograph run.