Copenhagen Flames' Major hopes quashed as RMR qualifiers reach round 4

The Danes were one of four teams to get eliminated early from the European RMR qualifiers, along with IKLA, ECSTATIC, and HONORIS.

The second day of play in the BLAST.tv Paris Major Europe RMR closed qualifiers has concluded. After the first four teams ensured qualification for April's RMRs — G2, Apeks, GamerLegion, and 9INE — it was time for the elimination series.

Copenhagen Flames are the highest-ranked team to suffer an early elimination so far, falling in the 0-2 pool to PGE Turow after previously suffering losses to Eternal Fire and Mixfits. Ukrainian side IKLA were the other team to go 0-3 in the A group after losing the elimination series against local rivals B8.

Astralis will play SAW for a spot at the European RMR

At the beginning of the day, the final best-of-one matches of the qualifier were played in the 1-1 pool. Among the biggest success stories of the round in the A group were Astralis and the new 1win squad, who continued a good recovery from their losses in the opening round and are now one victory away from the RMR, along with SAW, Eternal Fire, Into the Breach, and Tricked.

The standings of the A group look as follows:

Group Swiss

3W - 0L

G2

9INE

2W - 1L

Astralis

SAW

Eternal Fire

Into the Breach

1win

Tricked

1W - 2L

HAVU

Mixfits

B8

Viperio

LDLC

PGE Turow

0W - 3L

IKLA

Copenhagen Flames

Over in the B group, HONORIS bowed out of the competition winless after a round three loss to Jesper "⁠JW⁠" Wecksell and Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist's EYEBALLERS. ECSTATIC soon followed, falling at the hands of FORZE in a close series.

The Russian side around Andrey "⁠Jerry⁠" Mekhryakov will hope to continue their recovery moving forward after they got off to the closed qualifier on the wrong foot and also finished outside of the playoffs at the concurrently running CCT Central Europe Malta Finals.

OG as one of the favorites of the group, playing with Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen instead of Nemanja "⁠nexa⁠" Isaković, secured their second win in the Swiss format and require a series victory in one of the next two matches to qualify for the RMR. So do Falcons, who narrowly escaped Illuminar in the 1-1 pool, as well as Monte, Aurora, 500, and HEET

Below are the standings of the B group:

Group Swiss

3W - 0L

Apeks

GamerLegion

2W - 1L

HEET

Aurora

Monte

Falcons

OG

500

1W - 2L

EYEBALLERS

Anonymo

iNation

Illuminar

JANO

FORZE

0W - 3L

ECSTATIC

HONORIS

Round 4 matches

Rounds 4 and 5 will be played on Saturday. The elimination series in the 1-2 pool will be played first, scheduled to start at 12:00 , and the 2-1 pool matches will follow at 15:30 . Matches of the 2-2 pool will be played at the end of the day at 19:00 .

The round four matchups, which were determined by the teams' Buchholz score, are:

Date	Matches
BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Europe RMR Closed Qualifier A
18/02/2023	LDLC 12:00 B8	Match
18/02/2023	Viperio 12:00 PGE Turow	Match
18/02/2023	HAVU 12:00 Mixfits	Match
18/02/2023	Tricked 15:30 1win	Match
18/02/2023	SAW 15:30 Astralis	Match
18/02/2023	Into the Breach 15:30 Eternal Fire	Match

Date	Matches
BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Europe RMR Closed Qualifier B
18/02/2023	Anonymo 12:00 JANO	Match
18/02/2023	iNation 12:00 EYEBALLERS	Match
18/02/2023	Illuminar 15:30 FORZE	Match
18/02/2023	500 15:30 Falcons	Match
18/02/2023	HEET 15:30 Monte	Match
18/02/2023	OG 15:30 Aurora	Match