Vitality to face MOUZ in final Swiss round for EU RMR A

19-4-2022 22:15

Three final spots at the Major are on offer as the first Europe RMR event heads into its final day.

The third day of play at the first EU Regional Major Ranking event for PGL Antwerp has come to a close, with FORZE, Natus Vincere, and FaZe all advancing to the Major with 3-1 records following wins over SAW, Vitality, and MOUZ, respectively.

Meanwhile, Dignitas, fnatic, and Unique all had their Major hopes brought to an early end, exiting the event after falling in the elimination matchups as Outsiders, Eternal Fire, and OG kept themselves in contention. As a result, six teams are left standing heading into the final day of play, with three Contender spots at the Major on the line.

Vitality have the most difficult matchup in the final round

Kicking off the last day of the Swiss stage is a thrilling affair between Vitality and MOUZ, a series that is sure to be the match of the day. Simultaneously, OG and Eternal Fire will clash on the B stream for another spot at the Major, while the final spot will go to the winner of the match between SAW and Outsiders.

Notably, two Legends spots are still to be decided heading into the final day, one being decided via Bucholz seeding, and the other being awarded to the winner of a fourth-place tiebreaker. FORZE will have no choice but to play in that match for the spot, whereas FaZe and Natus Vincere both have a chance to directly advance with a third-place finish, depending on the results of the final round of matches.

Natus Vincere's only opportunity to automatically advance as Legends is a scenario in which both Vitality and OG win their final matches, leaving FaZe to take on FORZE for the final spot. Any other outcome — a MOUZ or Eternal Fire win — will see FaZe instead secure the Legends spot, with NAVI playing in the fourth-place decider instead.

The schedule for the final round of play looks as follows:

09:00 Vitality vs. MOUZ (A stream)
09:00 OG vs. Eternal Fire (B stream)
12:45 SAW vs Outsiders (A stream)
12:45 FORZE vs. FaZe / Natus Vincere (B stream)

unluko, Faze, Navi and now Mouz

2022-04-19 22:16

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Mouz is definitely the easiest one of these.

2022-04-19 22:55

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> Outsiders > SAW > OG > EF Only Outsiders are better than MOUZ i think but even they are very inconsistent

2022-04-19 22:57

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Oh, I meant out of Navi, Faze and Mouz :D

og just beat mouz

2022-04-19 23:13

rigged pgl is zywoo hater

2022-04-19 23:00

Izz juzz tuff up dere, man !!! I DOOO have high hopes for this Vitastrality project, but boy ... They've been tested so far! 😎 But okay ... I actually think that these players with Zon1c at the back are ENJOYING this "opposition" so far: They'll get a few issues solved ... and we'll see a SERIOUS contender at top1 spots by summer 2022!

2022-04-20 03:40

If vitality pretend to be a top3 team, they should beat easily anyone outside of top5.

2022-04-20 03:42

ez4 zygoat

2:1 Vitality

2022-04-19 22:17

10am matches, stewie2k malding rn

2022-04-19 22:20

lol noobs

2022-04-19 22:18

7th

2022-04-19 22:19

Is everyone going to ignore the fact that Forze don't even know who they're facing and thus have to prepare for 2 opponents, while their opponent only has to prepare for them? This seeding system is only getting worse.

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Who cares about this bots.

It's simply not fair, even if they are worse.

2022-04-19 22:24

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+1 but they are more than happy about securing the spot and I am not seeing them even to be competitive against either FaZe or NaVi with or without prepration

2022-04-19 23:29

it is navi for sure

2022-04-19 22:21

It depends on the Vitality-Mouz match, right? If Mouz win, it's Na'Vi, otherwise it's Faze or something like that? Edit: and OG. Read over that part.

2022-04-19 22:26

It is indeed ridiculous in many ways, so its not even surprising to not spot some of the facts

didnt think about it but def a concern. pretty a**

2022-04-19 22:30

first of all forze dont deserve legend spot

2022-04-19 23:01

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Doesn't make it fair, does it?

2022-04-19 23:26

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ofc this system is bad

2022-04-19 23:30

I'd love to see a system or a tournament where they just draw names out of the hat before playing straight away, giving no prep time whatsoever. Maybe not for the major, but something else? It would be interesting to see who's got the best game all around and who spends too much time anti-stratting. Think of the UK Open for darts, except for CSGO instead. Some small-name teams could make a big run through if the draw came out right

2022-04-20 00:54

yeah, it would be interesting to watch, maybe blast can make this format but the best format is TI(dota2), 2 groups of 18 teams, they play with each other(2 bo1 each) and double-elimination playoff

2022-04-20 01:40

That is a good format but it would be whether the viewers would manage 10 full-on days of CS I guess. It would be a very fair way to decide who's best as the bracket would be drawn quite fairly and it would take 2 shocks for a favourite to be eliminated

2022-04-20 11:16

All teams have to prepare for exactly 2 opponents on that day. Seems fair to me. Edit: nvm, I missed smth. Yep, it's bad.

it's fair considering the opponents they've faced thus far... they're lucky to even be qualifying nvm a chance at the Legends spot

2022-04-20 03:29

That's not how it works though. You can't fix a mistake with another mistake. The seeding is what got them this far, true. But you should at least have an equal chance in the match to prepare!

2022-04-20 07:41

VAMOUZ

this format fucking sucks

Vitality, pls don’t fuck this up.. i beg you

faze vs forze confirmed?

2022-04-19 22:25

What descide who will play who in the series? Is it random or what

Unluko Mouz... Btw, I hope unfair EF won't win.

2022-04-19 22:28

nice its on at 3am so my whole day can be ruined

2022-04-19 22:29

lmao here it is 4am, today gaules streamed NBA, slept like 2-3h and had to wake up to start streaming EU RMR lol

2022-04-19 22:38

how the hell is that dude streaming nba? how has he not gotten his twitch disabled yet....

2022-04-19 23:42

He has official rights

2022-04-20 00:33

how rich is he?

2022-04-20 06:08

He bought the rights to stream it, it's been a long time since it happened, one year I think

this is retardation not swiss format

2022-04-19 22:36

This is not by any way a good format. So unfair...

2022-04-19 22:37

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Yep, it's dogshit. It looks like a legends stage path, meanwhile it's just a major qualifier, PGL fucked up.

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Isn't this format a volvo decision?

2022-04-19 23:02

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would not be suprised as volvo are like silvers with control on the game

2022-04-19 23:17

2022-04-19 23:16

I don't think so.. They used this same exact format in their last major, meanwhile they could have just used the seeding from kato or berlin 2019..

2022-04-19 23:23

They didnt used it because its been 2 years difference , a lot of teams have changed since 2019 like ENCE.

2022-04-20 00:14

How does that matter ?

2022-04-20 06:34

For example the team of ENCE that reached kato final is not existent anymore and many teams have changed since then , what teams their gonna put as legends?

2022-04-20 10:17

I talked about the seeding, not the teams, ENCE went through some favourites in that run, that was legit. They had some initial seeding, that was used for round 1 and 2. Then they used buchholtz for the others and since the matchups cannot repeat and after faze lost to big it made the path easier for some lower ranked team like forze/saw + it made the path for vitality and mouz really hard.

2022-04-20 10:26

oh , yeah you are right about that

2022-04-20 10:58

2022-04-19 23:32

Trash system. I do like the swiss format but the buchholz system that determines the matchups is horrible.

2022-04-19 22:47

Buchholz isn't too bad normally, but it depends on the points system used which can be an issue, as seen.

2022-04-19 23:11

I do see why people are not happy but this format treats teams equally. Two wins is two wins for Buchholz score no matter if you beat Navi or Unique. You can't always match opponents based on HLTV ranks. If Navi and Faze beat their easier opponents, we wouldn't have match ups like that in the end. Valve couldn't give a fig about placing in other tournaments and I personally respect it.

2022-04-20 01:24

But you can't act like it's okay for Forze to not know who they're facing while their opponents can prepare for them. And if Valve doesn't care about other tournament placings, they're just opening themselves for a bad team in the Legends stage that's just there to get their ass kicked. Nobody will watch those matches. Also, it's not like Faze and NaVi lost against opponents Forze and SAW would beat. BIG and Heroic are notorious for doing shit like this in a group stage and fucking tournaments up. But they could've avoided it. Just get a seeding and keep it, instead of over-complicating things with Buchholz.

2022-04-20 07:47

As people above said this system is total shit.

2022-04-19 22:53

I didnt expect Vital is fucking down like this.

good training for vitality , it s good for them to play faze , navi and now mouz , they wont get better by playing tier 2

2022-04-19 23:18

such a stupid format forze go through the major with beating the likes of GL, SAW, and OG while Vitality had to take on Faze and Navi

2022-04-19 23:25

mouz should have loose vs outsiders to play saw haha what a great system

2022-04-19 23:28

2022-04-19 23:33

That system is so stupid, it makes zero sense at all.

2022-04-19 23:35

So Outsiders had to play BIG, Unique, MOUZ, Dignitas and now SAW? Damn they do have luck on this one...

And against those easy match ups they are in 2-2 situation. Outsiders doesnt deserve major

2022-04-20 00:01

Pls get vitality down

2022-04-19 23:50

I want both OG and Vitality to Win but I also want Faze to make it to the legends stage without needing to fight forze

2022-04-20 00:27

OG disband if no major again?

2022-04-20 01:46

So BiG got robbed first place by Heroic even tho they didnt drop a Map and have a better RD because of a seed number? Great system, please never again.

2022-04-20 02:23

No one is robed of anything :) it is a qualifying. What matters is at what stage you qualify in! They both earned there legend spot. You can discuss forever who had the hardest path or best score. But honestly the system have WAY bigger issues than legend spot one and two ;)

2022-04-20 08:36

Mouz no major rip

2022-04-20 03:30

Forze doesn't even know who they are playing against. Lmao

2022-04-20 03:33

This RMR system is very Bad. 😶

2022-04-20 04:43

Why the hell is it at 3AM Eastern time? Can they not play them more in the afternoon so that North Americans can also tune in? ESL should host the next major.

2022-04-20 05:41