Teams like Vitality, Cloud9, FaZe, NAVI, and Liquid all made it to the Major in Rio. The three last mentioned managed to make it to the legends stage, and the first two need to compete in the challenger stage to make it through to the legends stage. The home crowd will be loving this major as the legendary duo Epitácio “TACO” de Melo and Marcelo “coldzera” David will be playing at this year’s last Major. Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo and Imperial is also one of the Brazilian roasters who will be playing in the challenger stage after they took a win in a thriller match against Complexity.
Watch these special moments doing the qualifier here made by the YouTuber “NosleepCSGO”.
Throughout the RMR qualifier, mixed emotions were shown as many upsets managed to push out big organizations such as G2, Astralis, and Complexity. The biggest surprise of them all must have been that G2 is not going to Rio, The star-studded roster was eliminated by GamerLegion after three maps.
No Rio for NiKo! G2 eliminated in huge downfall!
“This will probably be the 2 toughest months in my career, you can hate all you want, it’s well deserved. But you won’t see me give up. That I can promise” Niko tweeted on his Twitter.
