ESL revise Major slot distribution, finalize Road to Rio team list

8-4-2020 17:19

ESL has revealed the remainder of participating teams in most regions of ESL One: Road to Rio and announced that one Challenger slot at the ESL One Rio Major has been moved from North America to Europe.

The slot distribution was adjusted after c0ntact — formerly one of Rio's New Challengers after having placed in the top 14 at the StarLadder Major — changed regions from North America to Europe, where they became the last unannounced participating team in ESL One: Road to Rio.

As a result, the prizepool of the first Regional Major Ranking series has also changed slightly, with Europe's now totaling $115,000 after gaining $10,000 from North America, where $60,000 is now on offer.

c0ntact will play Road to Rio from Europe, after all

Meanwhile, ESL revealed nearly all of the remaining teams in the other regions. Orgless and Yeah completed the North American team list, Isurus and TeamOne were added in South America, Chiefs and Ground Zero in Oceania, and Camel Riders in Asia.

The organizers mainly determined the rest of the teams based on their placing in the Minor closed qualifiers. Due to multiple teams finishing in the same spot in CIS and Asia, ESL will hold tiebreaker matches to determine the last two participants in each of the two regions.

You can find the list of participants, full dates, and the prizepool of each region below:

Europe

Dates: April 22-May 17
Prizepool: $115,000

North America

Dates: April 22-May 10
Prizepool: $60,000

CIS

Dates: April 30-May 17
Prizepool: $50,000

Tiebreaker matches

Tiebreaker matches

South America

Dates: April 22-26
Prizepool: $10,000

Oceania

Dates: May 6-10
Prizepool: $10,000

Asia

Dates: May 6-10
Prizepool: $10,000

TYLOO

ViCi

Mazaalai

Tiebreaker matches

TIGER

Lucid Dream

Camel Riders

Tiebreaker matches

thats really nice

2020-04-08 17:19

22 replies

CAMEL RIDERS ARE IN! TOP 1 2020 HERE WE COME!

2020-04-08 17:22

18 replies

nice

15 replies

So no OG?

2020-04-08 17:24

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wait yeah wtf? They gonna seriously invite teams like Movistar Riders and Copenhagen Flames over OG? Well so far for the "we want the best teams in the major" stuff.

2020-04-08 17:28

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Well they qualified to the minors og didn't

2020-04-08 17:30

These aren't invited teams you speak of.

2020-04-08 17:34

How is it unfair that a team that didn’t qualify for minor doesn't get a spot

2020-04-08 17:36

7 replies

They would have 110% qualified for the next minor though.

2020-04-08 17:42

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Lol ok bud

2020-04-08 17:52

you don't know that

2020-04-08 17:57

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as it happens i am from the alternate future where there is no corona and OG qualified for major and beat flipside in the final

2020-04-08 20:55

0% more likely

2020-04-08 18:29

So they will play next minor. :)

2020-04-08 18:47

first of all I didn't say it was "unfair", just thought it was strange secondly I thought the entire point of this new "Road to Rio" was to make sure the top teams were at the major.

2020-04-09 19:11

Young Sharks is missing too

2020-04-08 17:39

Jamppi owns a vac banned account apparently that he bought when he was 14 to his friend, so he sued valve about it

2020-04-09 05:31

and this is relevant how?

2020-04-09 18:59

Good to see a pakistani player, Go camel rider.

2020-04-08 17:23

YES EZ 4 POKEMON

2020-04-08 17:26

ez for camel riders

2020-04-08 17:21

+1 No german team :)

2020-04-08 20:04

No BIG lul! Expected af

2020-04-08 20:11

good

2020-04-08 17:20

Wow

waiting...

unluko

ez4wubbalubbadubdub

when valorant major ?

wtf

Nice

C OMEGALUL NTACT

C 0MEGALUL NTACT

where big tho

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Didnt qualified tho

2020-04-08 17:46

sadly tru tho

Cool!

LETS GO CAMEL RIDERS

mad lions?

Withdrew from Minor Closed Qualifier, remember?

i did not. Thanks!

2020-04-08 19:01

Poor OG

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Why, they failed to qualify

2020-04-08 17:32

I thought they will get the last spot on EU

2020-04-08 18:22

c0ntact got top 14 last major so

2020-04-09 03:18

No w7m :(

kinda shitty for the teams that didn't make it the first time have to wait a whole year for the next major

sad that OG choked in qualifiers, in their current form they deserve to compete

+1 Sad. Next time they'll qualify.

2020-04-08 17:25

OG??????????????

8 replies

Failed qualifiers

2020-04-08 17:29

It’s hard to say, but it is deserved. OG choked on minor qualifications. They lost against Heretics and GODSENT. Maybe next time :(

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there won't be any minors from now on if I remember correctly. also don't forget that there will be several rmr events before RIo, so OG might still qualify if they will qualify for the other rmr events.

What are the other RMR events? I thought there is just 2, this one in Spring and one during the summer/fall

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Valve are looking at other events too that organizations are apply to valve to make

2020-04-08 17:56

Thank you men

2020-04-08 19:10

valve set an application deadline for april 10th, so they'll prob. announce the other events a few days later.

2020-04-08 18:12

Thank you aswell men

2020-04-08 19:11

Should been OG

YEEEES CAMEL RIDERS AND MOVISTAR RIDERS:)

no big ? wtf

2020-04-08 17:27

No, they failed to qualify

i thought they put some more teams in it like in CIS

2020-04-08 17:35

so now both NA and CIS have 5 slots at the major?

2020-04-08 17:31

Go Movistar! Go Dignitas! Go Furia! Go Liquid!

Very excited! Rip OG :(

2020-04-08 17:33

Yeah, sad :(

2020-04-08 19:07

So easy for 100T #YeahTheThieves

Yea, your name says everything xd

2020-04-08 17:49

LETS GO CAMEL RIDERS COME BACK

Pretty much destroyed all those teams that did not have major or minor spot, as they now have to wait at least 1.5 years for the next time.

they'll have other chances at the next RMR events, just wait until they're announced

OK. Hopefully that is the case.

2020-04-08 18:36

Sincerely hope so...

2020-04-08 18:56

why no indian team?

even czech scene is better

2020-04-09 08:46

Polish cs dead af.

If you pull NA-SA-CIS-OCE-ASIA together its still not as packed as EU..

2020-04-08 17:38

+10000

2020-04-08 17:51

Dont worry bruhs, One more rmr will be played on this year. BIG and OG fans just wait.

2020-04-08 17:43

No that will not happen

OMG are you stupid? Normally two major would be played this year. For now, this was done in order not to defeat the right of the teams that came out of the Minor elimination. In the 2nd rmr tournament there will be teams like OG BIG

2020-04-08 17:50

Lol what is this clown fiesta????

2020-04-08 17:44

South America qualy is a total joke... Isurus ? cmon...

they made it to the upper bracket finals, it makes sense that they're invited

2020-04-08 18:23

mibr should go to br lmao they wont win a single match in na league

2020-04-08 18:07

The team play in NA, same case with Furia.

2020-04-08 18:21

go Yeah

2020-04-08 18:20

CAMEL RIDERS, YES!!

Where is pro100

2020-04-08 18:41

Europe with Ence is a joke and ever will.

2020-04-08 18:44

i was hoping BIG to has a slot. If you lose to movistar riders you dont deserve sh*t. good luck to other teams

Ence won no match the last 6 months no matter tier 1 or tier 25

2020-04-08 18:48

OMG why do they give it to c0ntackt? OG is much better them but they get free place NICE BLAT

what is TIEBREAKER means?

2020-04-08 19:03

true major

2020-04-08 19:42

No chance for c0ntact to qualify.

2020-04-08 20:17

I really like this format.

2020-04-08 20:50

CAMEL RIDERS MAJOR CHAMPIONS

2020-04-08 21:19

Why no qualifier?

2020-04-08 21:31

pathetic

2020-04-08 21:58

Nice change, and CAMEL RIDERS ARE BACK)))

2020-04-08 22:53

nice for c0ntact, they will play where they belong, unlike 100kriegs who plays in na cuz they will not qualify on EU

2020-04-09 00:34

Honestly, they should get rid of individual CIS tournaments, most of their teams are just good enough. Just let them play the big guys from Europe.

2020-04-09 00:36

Can OG into Asia? Like kISSAA is Jordanian and what not

2020-04-09 01:25

There wont be any big events, most certainly not with participants from different nations all around the world, until a sars-cov-2 vaccine is developed -- and that is certainly not this year.

2020-04-09 13:53