IEM Fall initial matchups announced

The action starts on Wednesday with the initial set of Oceanic matches.

ESL have announced the initial matchups for the upcoming Regional Major Ranking (RMR) events that will take place between September 29 - October 10.

The European, North American and CIS events will start with a round-robin group stage before moving to a single-elimination bracket. Meanwhile, the Asian, Oceanic, and South American teams will only have to play a double-elimination bracket.

IEM Fall North America and Asia will start on October 5 while the other events will all kick off several days earlier, on September 29.

The European RMR will take place on LAN

The Oceanic teams will open up the last cycle of RMR events while the CIS, European and South American regions will see their first round of matches later in the day. In the CIS tournament, IEM Fall will also have teams playing two matches on on the opening day.

The opening matchups for IEM Fall are as follows:

Oceania

Wednesday, September 29
09:15 - Australia Renegades vs Australia VERTEX
09:15 - Australia ORDER vs Australia Looking For Org

Europe

Wednesday, September 29
19:00 - Germany BIG vs Europe MOUZ
19:00 - Europe FunPlus Phoenix vs Denmark Copenhagen Flames
19:00 - Europe G2 vs Sweden AURA

20:15 - Europe Complexity vs Czech Republic SINNERS
20:15 - Denmark Astralis vs United Kingdom Endpoint
20:15 - Denmark HEROIC vs Spain Movistar Riders

21:30 - Europe ENCE vs Sweden Dignitas
21:30 - Europe OG vs Germany Sprout
21:30 - France Vitality vs Europe MAD Lions

22:45 - Europe FaZe vs Sweden fnatic
22:45 - Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas vs Bulgaria Fiend
22:45 - Bulgaria SKADE vs France DBL PONEY

CIS

Wednesday, September 29
13:15 - Belarus Nemiga vs Russia Spirit
13:15 - Russia Natus Vincere vs Russia AVE
13:15 - Russia Entropiq vs Ukraine Akuma

14:30 - World Virtus.pro vs Kazakhstan K23
14:30 - Russia FORZE vs Kazakhstan Unique
14:30 - Russia Gambit vs Russia INDE IRAE

15:15 - Belarus Nemiga vs Russia Natus Vincere
15:15 - Russia Spirit vs Ukraine Akuma
15:15 - Russia AVE vs Russia Entropiq

17:00 - Russia Gambit vs Kazakhstan K23
17:00 - World Virtus.pro vs Kazakhstan Unique
17:00 - Russia FORZE vs Russia INDE IRAE

South America

Wednesday, September 29*
00:45 - Brazil Sharks vs Brazil MIBR
00:45 - Brazil Bravos vs Brazil Imperial

*In Central European and Eastern time zones the South American matches will be played on Thursday morning

The North America and Asia tournaments, starting on October 5, will have the following opening matches:

Asia

Tuesday, October 5
13:00 - Asia NKT vs China ViCi

Wednesday, October 6
13:00 - China TYLOO vs. Mongolia Checkmate

North America

Tuesday, October 5
21:00 - United States Liquid vs United States Bad News Bears
21:00 - Brazil paiN vs North America Extra Salt

22:15 - Brazil GODSENT vs Brazil FURIA
22:15 - United States Triumph vs Brazil TeamOne

23:30 - North America Extra Salt vs United States Bad News Bears
23:30 - Oceania EXTREMUM vs South Africa ATK

00:45 - North America Evil Geniuses vs Brazil 00NATION
00:45 - Brazil FURIA vs United States Triumph

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EZ FOR BIG
2021-09-27 21:20
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Rigged groups smh
2021-09-27 21:29
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2 replies
Bo1 OMEGALUL
2021-09-27 22:10
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#50
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World lol_n00bs
So true 😂😂😂
2021-09-27 22:14
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#2
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Turkmenistan MilkEnjoyer
EZ 4 Endpoint
2021-09-27 21:20
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2 replies
#45
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England Jerry2805
+1 up the boys!
2021-09-27 21:47
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#104
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Sweden HaasF1Team
go endpoo
2021-09-28 11:44
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EZ4BIG
2021-09-27 21:20
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#4
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Canada Gurthy
EZ4BIG
2021-09-27 21:21
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IE
2021-09-27 21:21
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Lots of one-map matches, how different and exciting. Will be tuning in for upsets (except NaVi)
2021-09-27 21:21
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3 replies
why except Navi? These are the kind of matches Navi tends to lose especially against cis teams.
2021-09-28 00:41
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1 reply
Shhhhhhhh
2021-09-28 04:21
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#83
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Norway 2kayn
16-4 btw
2021-09-28 01:13
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Why is North America have matches on 29th Of September, HLTV? Tournament starts on 5th of October, isn't it? Asia too by the way
2021-09-27 21:22
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3 replies
That is indeed correct and has been mended.
2021-09-27 21:24
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2 replies
Thanks, HLTV! Quick responce. Glad you're answering here.
2021-09-27 21:26
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How are you doing, mr LucanAM, can you give me admin?
2021-09-27 21:42
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Why is DBLP VS Skade so late
2021-09-27 21:21
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1 reply
Yeah that's annoying but it's a bo1
2021-09-27 21:31
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#9
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Russia brezyyy
Ez for aura
2021-09-27 21:22
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Europe: Legends:NiP,Vitality,Heroic Challengers:Big,G2,mouz,astralis,col,faze Contenders:Ence,fnatic NA: Legends:Furia,liquid,extremum Challenger:Extra salt Contender:00NATION SA: Sharks Asia:Vici Oceania:Renegades CIS: Legends:Navi,gambit Challenger:Forze Contenders:Entropiq,Spirit
2021-09-27 21:24
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Why BIG always starts with a derby?? Sprout or mouz all the time starter match
2021-09-27 21:22
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3 replies
mouz isnt a german team anymore
2021-09-27 21:30
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2 replies
It is a a German clan with biggest German Cs history. As tabsen said it is a Derby for them.
2021-09-27 21:43
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1 reply
Why? Cuz he played for them?
2021-09-27 23:27
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Nice
2021-09-27 21:23
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#14
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Pakistan LoOuU2
Let the clownfieta of new update with minimum time to prepare and the shitfest of BO1 group format , BEGIN!
2021-09-27 21:23
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5 replies
Aura through to grand final 🥳 so happy for them
2021-09-27 21:28
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2 replies
#25
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Pakistan LoOuU2
AURA best Swedish team, NothingInPaypal and LULnatic who
2021-09-27 21:30
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#107
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Sweden Tac2
I guess your fantastic imagination of namecalling is the evidence that you are not smarter than that. How do you mean ranked #77 team (and dropping) would be the best? I too am happy for them to be through to GF but... Never go full retard
2021-09-28 15:53
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Valve loves chaos
2021-09-28 02:40
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#90
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Pakistan LoOuU2
They sure seem to do!
2021-09-28 04:03
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EZ 4 DBL
2021-09-27 21:24
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hyped) only two more days)
2021-09-27 21:25
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(G2 lost btw)
2021-09-27 21:25
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#19
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Sweden Trkmag
easy for dig
2021-09-27 21:26
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#21
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France Uexo
#VforVictory
2021-09-27 21:27
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Lets goooo Riders
2021-09-27 21:27
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Damn ez group win for vitality. Only shite teams in that group (ence are good but they lack the consistency to top the group)
2021-09-27 21:30
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So the whole CIS group stage is BO1? This is gonna be............interesting to say the least
2021-09-27 21:40
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All the group stages in this event are BO1, wild wild, i expect a lot of upsets in CIS
2021-09-27 21:44
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#40
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Slovakia Daev0n
I mean I get the EU RMR, because it's LAN. But why the fck would they make CIS and NA RMRs BO1 Group stage??
2021-09-27 21:45
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#30
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Slovakia Daev0n
1. Mouz 2. FPX 3. G2 4. CLX 5. Endpoint 6. Heroic 7. Dignitas 8. OG 9. A 50/50 match. Could to either way. 10. FaZe 11. NIP 12. SKADE
2021-09-27 21:41
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0/8
2021-09-27 21:42
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#37
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Slovakia Daev0n
You will kiss my feet when I get 90 % of the matches right.
2021-09-27 21:44
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I will eat dirt if you get 90% of the matches right, until then 0/8
2021-09-27 21:45
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Astralis beats endpoint ence beats dignitas vitality beats madlions with ease idk how thats a 50/50 in your head lmao
2021-09-27 21:44
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#43
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Slovakia Daev0n
We will see. Vitality hasn't played against tier 2/3 opposition for a while now. On the other hand Mad Lions with b0rup have been looking good.
2021-09-27 21:46
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vitality dominates t1 though
2021-09-27 21:47
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#46
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Slovakia Daev0n
There's a difference in playstyle. I'm expecting teams who underestimate the Tier 3 teams to have some big problems. Vitality being one of those. On the other hand Astralis will prepare for their opponents, but they will somehow lose the game. I feel it in my guts.
2021-09-27 21:50
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That's just diarrhea my dude
2021-09-27 22:37
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LULW
2021-09-27 22:52
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#92
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India pranavlko
lul
2021-09-28 04:28
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you and I have exact same predictions . the only diff is Astralis and Ence . GL I think we will get most of them correct.
2021-09-28 00:16
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#75
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Slovakia Daev0n
Yeah GL to you too. People are acting like these are BO3 matches where the better team wins. Also it's LAN so we can expect teams like Dignitas who have LAN proven players to get further than people expect.
2021-09-28 00:25
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#93
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Czech Republic PaYaB
Why do you have Endpoint and FPX that high ? Based of what ? They are both products of this online era(especially Endpoint), LAN will probably be very different.
2021-09-28 05:40
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its not a ranking, just a prediction of the first matches
2021-09-28 10:15
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#105
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Slovakia Daev0n
Well, due to Endpoint's star player not playing Astralis >>>> Endpoint
2021-09-28 12:19
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EZ4LANSTRALIS
2021-09-27 21:42
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Sinners and ATK, doable, still fucking BO1s
2021-09-27 21:43
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bo1 shit
2021-09-27 21:46
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#DreamOG
2021-09-27 21:45
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HOLY HYPE CAN"T FUCKING WAIT)) free money for mouz g2 navi rmr abusers
2021-09-27 22:02
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#51
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Finland Karppanator
The more I hear about IEM Fall the more I want to see it become a normal qualifier These points from 2 years ago are still affecting shit lol
2021-09-27 22:23
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EZ4NAVI
2021-09-27 22:24
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EZ4AURA
2021-09-27 22:27
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Why aren't all the Brazilian teams playing in the south America tournament?
2021-09-27 22:30
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#55
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Poland SebL
Oceania : LookingForOrg wins Europe : Heroic wins CIS : Natus Vincere wins South America : Bravos wins Asia : ViCi wins North America : FURIA wins
2021-09-27 22:34
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#79
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Asia Viquersvikers
Naah NA with liquid recent performance... Like 80% probably liquid, Furia not doing pretty good since Hen1 left. Godsent in the other hand, is rising Team one as well.
2021-09-28 00:40
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#108
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Poland SebL
GODSENT for sure has a shot at even winning this, they are looking insane lately, TOP 20 team for me, but TeamOne, man for me they won't even get out of group or even win a game, like they look so trash lately in my eyes, those players are just not players that could play for a TOP 30 team or even close to this level.
2021-09-28 17:32
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#106
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Brazil ghcn
+1
2021-09-28 12:55
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#59
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Germany KimpaVita
FINALLY
2021-09-27 22:54
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n1
2021-09-27 23:18
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Let the gr3nade drop shitshow begin
2021-09-27 23:25
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2 replies
Are you not hyped for it? I’m sure it’s gon be very entertaining
2021-09-28 00:36
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1 reply
i would if Valve had done things right
2021-09-28 01:52
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#63
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
f0rest | 
Brazil flytwNiP
I'm really excited to see f0rest on lan again, shame he has to play with a tier2 team though
2021-09-27 23:29
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#65
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Slovakia Daev0n
Lekr0 is good
2021-09-27 23:39
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#78
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
f0rest | 
Brazil flytwNiP
my point still stands, dignitas is a tier2 team and won't qualify. i just wanna see f0rest at a major again
2021-09-28 00:39
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#81
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Slovakia Daev0n
Dignitas will shrekt others on LAN. Too many inexperienced LAN players are playing this RMR.
2021-09-28 00:56
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Let’s see! It’s 3 Major winners in this team, years of LAN experience and I think their bootcamp made them better. At least on Nuke they‘re always good for an upset, ask FalleN and Liquid ;) If they’re lucky enough to play on Nuke or Vertigo vs the topteams BO1 it really might happen to see f0rest and friberg back at a Major, let’s pray!
2021-09-28 09:37
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#68
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Chile cristiaan
LETS GO LIQUID
2021-09-28 00:09
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#82
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Sweden sn1pie
#GONINJAS R EZ, GODvice, hamPOG, LNEZ POGski.
2021-09-28 00:57
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#84
NAF | 
Canada Jonesyk
Lol Faze vs Fnatic, meanwhile Skade vs Dbl Pony 🙃
2021-09-28 01:19
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#86
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Poland Kobel_
You do know it's Round-Robin right? Initial match-ups don't matter, they all play all the other teams in the group anyway
2021-09-28 02:06
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#95
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Finland Sizz - <3 ex-LGB
NA moment
2021-09-28 06:39
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Ez for NaVi and ViCi
2021-09-28 03:14
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Navi will win PGL Major , ITS WRITTEN IN THE STARS 🤩🤩🤩🤩
2021-09-28 03:36
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BO1! Most matches. Many upsets incoming
2021-09-28 06:16
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Here’s a prediction: FIEND will throw
2021-09-28 07:47
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cant wait to put sinners stickers all over my redline
2021-09-28 08:36
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#99
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Sweden drakendilf
AURA 16-4 G2
2021-09-28 09:45
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#100
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Europe skelteR
Good luck dignitas
2021-09-28 10:14
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Me Asia fan crying as Live schedule announced 2AM-7AM. (app GMT +9) what a late show for you guys, what a early show to us... but I will check anyway XD GL all team, its last chance to Major!
2021-09-28 10:32
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Let's GO!
2021-09-28 11:32
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#109
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Europe erhansol
pfff bo1 is the worst.
2021-09-29 11:33
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this is being played on the lastest patch right?
2021-09-29 17:34
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1 reply
2021-09-29 19:14
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