PGL reveals opening matches for Americas RMR

The Regional Major Ranking event for the Americas is set to start on Monday and will include four teams ranked in the global top 30.

The Romanian tournament organizer has announced the opening matchups for the PGL Major Antwerp 2022 Americas RMR, scheduled to take place between April 11-15 in Bucharest, Romania. 16 teams will compete for the six spots reserved for the two continents at the Valve sanctioned event, battling it out in a Swiss-system group.

The qualifier event features some of the biggest names from North and South America, including FURIA, Liquid, Complexity, Evil Geniuses, Imperial, and 00NATION.

FURIA come in as the highest-ranked team at the event

The matches will be broadcast on two concurrent streams starting on Monday at 11:00 with FURIA taking on the Argentinians from Leviatan and Party Astronauts facing the South American mix of Isurus.

The 12:15 matchups will see Case challenging Bad News Bears while Imperial's "last dance" take on São Caetano to give us the first Brazilian derby of the tournament. These two games will be quickly followed by Evil Geniuses vs paiN and Complexity vs TeamOne.

The last two matches of the first round are schedules to start at 14:45 , with MIBR lining up against 9z while Liquid and 00NATION get ready to provide one of the most interesting matchups of the day. Round 2 matches will resume at 16:00 .

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Day one of the event will see the first two rounds of the Swiss-system being played. After the initial matchups, teams with a 1-0 record will face each other on the main stream while the 0-1 teams will see action in the B stream. After the first two rounds, the second day will see the 1-1 teams face off before moving to the decider best-of-three matches in the afternoon for teams with 2-0 and 0-2 records.

The third day will only see BO3 matches, with six series being played before the final three on the last day. As per PGL's announcement on Thursday, two additional matches will be played on April 15 to determine the sixth spot at the Major between the teams with a 3-2 record.

The day one schedule for PGL Major Antwerp 2022 Americas RMR is:

Stream A:
11:00 FURIA vs. Leviatan
12:15 Case vs. Bad News Bears
13:30 Evil Geniuses vs. paiN
14:45 Liquid vs. 00NATION
16:00 1-0 Match #1
17:15 1-0 Match #2
18:30 1-0 Match #3
19:45 1-0 Match #4

Stream B:
11:00 Party Astronauts vs. Isurus
12:15 Imperial vs. São Caetano
13:30 Complexity vs. TeamOne
14:45 MIBR vs. 9z
16:00 0-1 Match #1
17:15 0-1 Match #2
18:30 0-1 Match #3
19:45 0-1 Match #4