After the conclusion of the Regional Major Ranking cycle, it’s time to look forward to IEM Rio Major later this month. The prestigious Major championship is taking place from Oct 31st – Nov 3rd 2022. Teams such as Cloud9, Fnatic, Vitality, BIG, MOUZ, Outsiders, FURIA, and many more top teams are competing in the challenger stage. 8 out of the 16 teams will be qualifying for the Legends stage at the Major in Rio, the rest who does not manage to qualify for the Legends stage, will be out of this year’s last major.
Imperial win huge drama and qualifies as the last team for Rio!
With the seeding of all the Challenger Stage teams being revealed, it means that we now can see the opening round matches.
Opening matches | IEM Rio Major
OG – Grayhound
Vitality – Imperial
Evil Geniuses- IHC
Cloud9 – Fnatic
BIG – FURIA
Bad News Eagles – 00 Nation
MOUZ – Outsiders
Here are all the teams ready for IEM Rio
All the games are swiss Bo1 just like the RMR qualifier, the games will later on in the Challengerstage swift over to Bo3 and Bo3 elimination matches.
