IEM Fall initial matchups announced

27-9-2021 21:20

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 - Renegades vs VERTEX
09:15 - ORDER vs Looking For Org

Europe

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

20:15 - Complexity vs SINNERS
20:15 - Astralis vs Endpoint
20:15 - HEROIC vs Movistar Riders

21:30 - ENCE vs Dignitas
21:30 - OG vs Sprout
21:30 - Vitality vs MAD Lions

22:45 - FaZe vs fnatic
22:45 - Ninjas in Pyjamas vs Fiend
22:45 - SKADE vs DBL PONEY

CIS

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

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

15:15 - Nemiga vs Natus Vincere
15:15 - Spirit vs Akuma
15:15 - AVE vs Entropiq

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

South America

Wednesday, September 29*
00:45 - Sharks vs MIBR
00:45 - Bravos vs 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 - NKT vs ViCi

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

North America

Tuesday, October 5
21:00 - Liquid vs Bad News Bears
21:00 - paiN vs Extra Salt

22:15 - GODSENT vs FURIA
22:15 - Triumph vs TeamOne

23:30 - Extra Salt vs Bad News Bears
23:30 - EXTREMUM vs ATK

00:45 - Evil Geniuses vs 00NATION
00:45 - FURIA vs Triumph

EZ FOR BIG

2021-09-27 21:20

3 replies

Rigged groups smh

2021-09-27 21:29

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Bo1 OMEGALUL

2021-09-27 22:10

So true 😂😂😂

2021-09-27 22:14

EZ 4 Endpoint

+1 up the boys!

2021-09-27 21:47

go endpoo

2021-09-28 11:44

EZ4BIG

2021-09-27 21:21

Lots of one-map matches, how different and exciting. Will be tuning in for upsets (except NaVi)

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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Shhhhhhhh

2021-09-28 04:21

16-4 btw

2021-09-28 01:13

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

That is indeed correct and has been mended.

2021-09-27 21:24

Thanks, HLTV! Quick responce. Glad you're answering here.

2021-09-27 21:26

How are you doing, mr LucanAM, can you give me admin?

2021-09-27 21:42

Why is DBLP VS Skade so late

Yeah that's annoying but it's a bo1

2021-09-27 21:31

Ez for aura

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

Why BIG always starts with a derby?? Sprout or mouz all the time starter match

mouz isnt a german team anymore

2021-09-27 21:30

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

Why? Cuz he played for them?

2021-09-27 23:27

Nice

2021-09-27 21:23

Let the clownfieta of new update with minimum time to prepare and the shitfest of BO1 group format , BEGIN!

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Aura through to grand final 🥳 so happy for them

2021-09-27 21:28

AURA best Swedish team, NothingInPaypal and LULnatic who

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

Valve loves chaos

2021-09-28 02:40

They sure seem to do!

2021-09-28 04:03

EZ 4 DBL

hyped) only two more days)

2021-09-27 21:25

(G2 lost btw)

easy for dig

#VforVictory

2021-09-27 21:27

Lets goooo Riders

Damn ez group win for vitality. Only shite teams in that group (ence are good but they lack the consistency to top the group)

So the whole CIS group stage is BO1? This is gonna be............interesting to say the least

2021-09-27 21:40

All the group stages in this event are BO1, wild wild, i expect a lot of upsets in CIS

2021-09-27 21:44

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

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

You will kiss my feet when I get 90 % of the matches right.

I will eat dirt if you get 90% of the matches right, until then 0/8

Astralis beats endpoint ence beats dignitas vitality beats madlions with ease idk how thats a 50/50 in your head lmao

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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

vitality dominates t1 though

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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

That's just diarrhea my dude

2021-09-27 22:37

LULW

2021-09-27 22:52

lul

2021-09-28 04:28

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

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

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

its not a ranking, just a prediction of the first matches

2021-09-28 10:15

Well, due to Endpoint's star player not playing Astralis >>>> Endpoint

2021-09-28 12:19

EZ4LANSTRALIS

Sinners and ATK, doable, still fucking BO1s

bo1 shit

#DreamOG

HOLY HYPE CAN"T FUCKING WAIT)) free money for mouz g2 navi rmr abusers

2021-09-27 22:02

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

EZ4NAVI

2021-09-27 22:24

EZ4AURA

2021-09-27 22:27

Why aren't all the Brazilian teams playing in the south America tournament?

2021-09-27 22:30

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

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

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

2021-09-28 12:55

FINALLY

2021-09-27 22:54

2021-09-27 23:18

Let the gr3nade drop shitshow begin

2021-09-27 23:25

Are you not hyped for it? I’m sure it’s gon be very entertaining

2021-09-28 00:36

i would if Valve had done things right

2021-09-28 01:52

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

Lekr0 is good

2021-09-27 23:39

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

Dignitas will shrekt others on LAN. Too many inexperienced LAN players are playing this RMR.

2021-09-28 00:56

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

LETS GO LIQUID

2021-09-28 00:09

#GONINJAS R EZ, GODvice, hamPOG, LNEZ POGski.

2021-09-28 00:57

Lol Faze vs Fnatic, meanwhile Skade vs Dbl Pony 🙃

2021-09-28 01:19

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

NA moment

2021-09-28 06:39

Ez for NaVi and ViCi

2021-09-28 03:14

Navi will win PGL Major , ITS WRITTEN IN THE STARS 🤩🤩🤩🤩

2021-09-28 03:36

BO1! Most matches. Many upsets incoming

2021-09-28 06:16

Here’s a prediction: FIEND will throw

2021-09-28 07:47

cant wait to put sinners stickers all over my redline

2021-09-28 08:36

AURA 16-4 G2

2021-09-28 09:45

Good luck dignitas

2021-09-28 10:14

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