Liquid lock in IEM Rio Major Legends Stage spot

9-10-2022 20:29

Liquid earned Legends status in Rio after a two-map thriller victory against Evil Geniuses.

Liquid became the seventh team to secure Legends status at the IEM Rio Major following 2-0 a victory over Evil Geniuses in the first-place decider at the IEM Road to Rio Americas RMR.

North America's best team earned a direct berth in the Legends Stage after a laborious series, which went to triple overtime on Ancient and another set of overtime on Overpass and saw both teams give up big leads.

In a heavily CT-sided game, Liquid came back from 6-14 behind on the opener to force extra time, where they survived three map points in overtime number two to clinch Ancient in the third.

On Overpass, even 40 kills from Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta weren't enough to pull Evil Geniuses across the finish line despite their impressive CT comeback from a 9-14 deficit. Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski and Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis pulled out some key kills once it got to overtime, dragging the series to its closing after a total of 84 rounds were played across the two maps.

IEM Road to Rio 2022 Americas RMRBest of 3

Evil Geniuses

Matchpage

9th October 2022

Liquid

Ancient

Overpass

Evil Geniuses	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Timothy 'autimatic' Ta autimatic	76 - 59	+17	91.0	73.8%	1.27
Sanzhar 'neaLaN' Iskhakov neaLaN	61 - 61	0	87.0	70.2%	1.13
Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov CeRq	56 - 46	+10	63.9	66.7%	1.04
Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte Brehze	49 - 62	-13	65.0	60.7%	0.84
Jadan 'HexT' Postma HexT	30 - 60	-30	49.6	58.3%	0.66

Liquid	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Keith 'NAF' Markovic NAF	67 - 50	+17	94.7	72.6%	1.26
Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski EliGE	64 - 60	+4	80.3	69.0%	1.11
Josh 'oSee' Ohm oSee	60 - 50	+10	74.4	71.4%	1.10
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis YEKINDAR	57 - 58	-1	71.0	61.9%	0.98
Nick 'nitr0' Cannella nitr0	39 - 55	-16	55.4	70.2%	0.84

Only one more Legends spot is left to be determined in the ongoing series between HEROIC and OG.

Legends Stage

Challengers Stage

To be determined
HEROIC
OG

HEROIC and OG play for a Legends spot

Best NA team by far & Yeki NA superstar

2022-10-09 20:30

7 replies

0.98 superstar naf & elige are better

2022-10-09 20:38

4 replies

he was feeling sick bro

2022-10-09 20:45

He was sick bro show some respect to all liquid players. They’re all good in their own right

2022-10-09 22:54

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I didnt know, i was mainly joking all those people saying that yekindar is 1000 better than elige/naf and that is carrying the team

2022-10-09 22:55

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I agree. They are setting yekindar up for success and letting him do pretty much anything he wants. Naf and even elige have moved over for him. He also baits a lot. Not to say that I’m not glad he’s on liquid, he is definitely a superstar and a big part of the success liquid has been having but the NA slander needs to stop. All the best teams are international now and being one of the best teams in the world while managing to stay mostly NA is impressive.

2022-10-11 04:11

EG still major winners

2022-10-09 20:53

2022-10-09 21:19

nice match

Good showing from eg despite that yekindar was sick

2022-10-09 20:31

nt EG

Nice try Tim

2022-10-09 20:32

GODTOMATIC

NT auti

2022-10-09 20:35

EZ Clap

2022-10-09 20:36

0-3 at legends last major, remember that. Now they'll go to playoffs most likely. Difference? GOATKINDAR.

2022-10-09 20:43

Yekindar is better than shox? No way! Daps better than washed up adren? Whaaaaaat? Great take.

2022-10-11 04:16

NAFFERS LFG

what a game that was, gl to both at the major!

2022-10-09 20:46

Two close games. Great series. Crazy to see how much EG has improved.

3 replies

Nealan is so good, and frags well too

2022-10-09 22:57

Better than 0,88 botfany...

2022-10-10 08:49

probably yes, but C9 is doing fine with nafany EG jumped from tier4 to tier2 thanks to nealan so far C9 jumped from nothing to tier1 with nafany

2022-10-11 00:32

shoutout to hext for getting the bad performance out of the way now

2022-10-09 20:56

Will you fix fantasy points for Liquid/EG game?

2022-10-09 21:26

Nt autimatic insane impact but just not enough

2022-10-09 22:11

why does elige look like that

2022-10-09 23:00

If you ever experienced balding at a relatively young age, you wouldn’t be making an insensitive comment like that. With that being said, it’s probably time for him to just shave it all off. Elige, I know what you’re going through man, keep your head up. It’s just hair.

2022-10-10 02:30

Could be due to stress. I lost a lot of hair in my late teens due to stress (and a bad dye job). I am much older now and have a full head of hair, even more than I did then.

2022-10-13 01:22