IEM Road to Rio 2022 Europe Open Qualifier 2Astralis, Movistar Riders eliminated from IEM Road to Rio open qualifier
Four spots for the European RMRs are up for grabs in the second open qualifier.
Notable Matches - Bracket
Round of 32
Coverage of these matches can be found on the event page.
Round of 64
Eternal Fire 16-11
Budapest Five - lobby - stream
Benched Heroes 6-16
UNGENTIUM - lobby
EYEBALLERS 16-13
OneTap - lobby
FORZE 16-8
HEET 11-16
Copenhagen Flames 5-16
SINNERS 16-5
BLUEJAYS 13-16
Nemiga - lobby
Movistar Riders 12-16
Round of 128
Wolsung - lobby - stream
Madagaskar - lobby - stream
Bitfix - lobby
ArcticRaptors - lobby
Round of 256
Sissi State Punks - lobby - stream
BIG EQUIPA 14-16
RAIKIRI - lobby
JANO 13-16
Round of 512
TOXICalbanians - lobby
Tilava Esports - lobby
Streams
smooya (Benched Heroes POV) ESL NeiL_M (Endpoint) Damage Travis Reapex Punico (Into the Breach) HiddeH (GamerLegion) DEFINE Lassolo (TITANS) lmbt (TITANS) DutchBoy & Atro (Entropiq) Dugaid (SINNERS) Jacky EternalJay GrimyRannarr sAw Xaxaa10 (sAw) D10s_ (FTW) REGUFE Esports Werty (Nexus) Infinite Pop
Nemiga
Casters covering specific teams will have that team listed in brackets next to their name. Players streaming the qualifier will be listed with their team name and POV in brackets.
00:20 Astralis and Movistar Riders eliminated as day one of the Road to Rio European open qualifier ends
The last few games of today's action did not disappoint, as two huge shocks went down.
Astralis, the world No. 4 team, were sent packing by world No. 198 Neon Rangers, who had Vitaly "L1GH7n1nG" Lyubarets to thank for an impressive performance to get them over the line 16-14.
The Danes may well blame a hangover from their BLAST Premier games from earlier in the day, but the other top 10 team eliminated have no such excuse.
World No. 6 Movistar Riders could not overcome François "amanek" Delaunay's LDLC side, losing 12-16 to once again crash out of the qualifier before the second day of play.
That's it for the live post, remember to continue following this open qualifier tomorrow head over to our event page.
23:30 Apeks eliminated as day one of the qualifier nears its end
We are almost at the end of the first day's action, and yet more upsets have occurred.
Richard "shox" Papillon' new squad Apeks find themselves dumped out 16-19 by Genk, the shock upset seeing them fail to make the second day of play.
Mathias "MSL" Lauridsen's TITANS project has also not faired well, falling 13-16 to the 167th seed in the qualifier, Insilio.
Finally, Copenhagen Flames are enduring a rocky start to life with their new roster, being crushed 5-16 by Finest in the round of 64.
22:00 Copenhagen Flames and LDLC taken to OT
A couple more near-misses occurred for high-profile teams in the round of 128.
amanek's new team LDLC had to battle to a 25-22 win over flowstate, and they needed a monster 46-kill performance from Remi "Diviiii" Alexandre to get there.
Copenhagen Flames also had to fight to make the round of 64, squeaking a 19-16 win over STRZELCY V2.
21:50 Astralis survive OT to make round of 128
After failing to progress through the last qualifier, Astralis almost suffered an early exit here after being taken to double OT by Brandbergen Shooters.
Eventually Lukas "gla1ve" Rossander and co. got over the line 22-18.
21:00 f0rest loses out to KRIMZ
Ludvig "HEAP" Alonso and Patrik "f0rest" Lindberg could not secure bragging rights over fnatic, with d00m losing out 3-16 against Freddy "KRIMZ" Johansson and co.
Entropiq made short work of Partizan, crushing them 16-3 with Aleksei "El1an" Gusev topping the scoreboard.
Another interesting result saw Aleksi "allu" Jalli's new JANO roster eliminated 13-16 by Atmosphere.
19:45 Mouth-watering matchups await in round of 256
With the first couple of rounds over, some exciting matchups are starting to happen.
Entropiq will be facing off against the new Luka "emi" Vuković-led Partizan squad in what is probably the strongest matchup of the round.
We will also get to see some Swede-on-Swede action, with f0rest's d00m mix taking on fnatic. There are some fascinating storylines at play here, with HEAP playing against the team that opted against signing him, and f0rest taking on an organisation he has a rich history with in 1.6.
19:15 No upsets yet as qualifier continues
The big-name teams remain untouched as the qualifier continues, with teams like Copenhagen Flames and LDLC taking quick 16-0 wins.
Elsewhere, Budapest Five encountered a bizarre bug in their opening game where one of the enemy players ended up outside the map.
17:45 smooya and f0rest enter mix-teams
Benched Heroes and d00m return for the second qualifier, although this time the Swedes will be fielding HEAP instead of Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund.
Owen "smooya" Butterfield and co. were bested by BAKS last time out, whilst d00m were eliminated at the hands of AVANGAR.
Nicolas "Keoz" Dgus
d00m:
17:16 A quick recap of the first open qualifier
Many of the expected names successfully navigated the first qualifier, teams like Sprout, MOUZ, OG and Falcons, but that does not mean there were not plenty of shocks and upsets.
Aurora, featuring the likes of Viktor "Lack1" Boldyrev and Aleksandr "KaiR0N-" Anashkin, made a surprise run to qualify last time around, taking impressive wins over Astralis and BLUEJAYS in the process.
Astralis had cruised through their first attempt up until being upset by Aurora, and will be hoping for better fortune this time.
Movistar Riders were the other casualty from the top 10, being unceremoniously dumped out of qualifier one by Romanians INFINITE in their first outing without star AWPer Álvaro "SunPayus" García.
Other big-name teams that are back for another bite of the cherry are fnatic, who eliminated Endpoint before being bested by Falcons previously, Entropiq, who lost to Sprout, Copenhagen Flames, who also succumbed to Falcons, and BLUEJAYS, who lost to Aurora in their prior attempt.
17:00 The second European RMR open qualifier begins soon
Five teams locked themselves in for the Road to Rio Europe RMRs a few days ago, and four more spots are up for grabs in the IEM Road to Rio Europe Open Qualifier 2 which kicks off today at 18:00 .
Teams will make their way through a single-elimination best-of-one bracket, with the exception being that quarter-final qualification bouts will use best-of-three. As there are only four places for the RMRs on the line in this qualifier there will be no fifth-place decider bracket, but there will still be a third place decider best-of-one for seeding purposes.
Some of the high-profile teams participating in this qualifier are:
The teams who were already qualified for the European RMRs through their finish at the last Major are:
The teams who made it through the last open qualifier were:
#1 Sprout
#2 Falcons
#3 MOUZ
#4 Aurora
#5 OG
This live post will be covering the qualifier up until the round of 32, at which point coverage can be found here.
This article will be updated with more information as the qualifier develops, including links to streams and a list of noteworthy match results. Streamers are invited to link their streams in the comments with information regarding the broadcast language in order to have them added to the article.
Remember, to stay up to date with all things related to the IEM Rio Major, check out our dedicated coverage hub.
Shahar 'flameZ' Shushan
Christopher 'dexter' Nong
David 'frozen' Čerňanský
Aurimas 'Bymas' Pipiras
Kristjan 'shokz' Jakobson
Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg
Rigon 'rigoN' Gashi
Pavle 'Maden' Bošković Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund
Joey 'CRUC1AL' Steusel
Kyle 'Xaka' Gatt
Aleksandr 'KaiR0N-' Anashkin
Marin 'ROGA' Rogić
Jack 'Jackinho' Ström Mattsson
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken
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