Group stage schedule confirmed for IEM Rio

Seven of the top ten teams in the world are set to clash in Brazil.

The groups for IEM Rio have now been confirmed, as well as the schedule for the group stage of the event. 16 teams are set to do battle across two double elimination groups for the chance to fight for the lion’s share of $250,000 in the Jeunesse Arena.

Group A will host the second-highest ranked team in the event, HEROIC, and the Danes find themselves facing an intriguing matchup with 9INE in their opening match. The Poles have been on a tear so far this year, and all eyes will be focused on how they perform against elite opposition. The other side of the bracket hosts Ninjas in Pyjamas and Natus Vincere, so there is a chance that Daniil "⁠headtr1ck⁠" Valitov may face off against the organization he left to join the Ninjas.

Teams will battle for the chance to play in the Jeunesse Arena

The winners of ESL Pro League, FaZe, find themselves placed in Group B and reside in what many will consider the easier side of the bracket, as their highest-ranked potential opposition before the bracket finals is FURIA. Vitality and Cloud9 have also been placed in Group B, and are likely to face each other in the second round of play.

The group stage of IEM Rio will start with best-of-one opening matches, before moving to best-of-three. The winners of each group will advance directly to the semi-finals, whilst the second and third placed teams will progress to the quarter-finals. The grand final of IEM Rio will be a best-of-five.

The groups and opening matchups for IEM Rio, which kicks off April 17, are:

Group A

Denmark HEROIC vs Poland 9INE (17:15 )
Europe MOUZ vs Germany BIG (17:15 )

Russia Virtus.pro vs Europe Ninjas in Pyjamas (16:00 )
Ukraine Natus Vincere vs Mongolia The MongolZ (16:00 )

Group B

Europe FaZe vs South America 9z (19:45 )
Europe fnatic vs Brazil FURIA (19:45 )

Europe Vitality vs Europe OG (18:30 )
Russia Cloud9 vs Brazil MIBR (18:30 )

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Ukraine Daniil 'headtr1ck' Valitov
Daniil 'headtr1ck' Valitov
Age:
18
Rating 1.0:
1.11
Maps played:
173
KPR:
0.73
DPR:
0.61
ez for furia
2023-04-04 23:33
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13 replies
furia in meme group
2023-04-04 23:37
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9 replies
the other group is easier
2023-04-05 00:43
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8 replies
Rigged, why 2 BR teams in the same group?
2023-04-05 05:13
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7 replies
so at least1 BR team will not be last place
2023-04-05 06:32
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6 replies
lol this made me laugh
2023-04-05 07:58
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3 replies
#71
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Sweden v1king
Why, cause it's true or sad ? Haha me 2!
2023-04-05 08:49
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2 replies
both its true and sad lol.
2023-04-05 09:35
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1 reply
#76
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Finland r1CEsT1CK
yeah lmao
2023-04-05 11:20
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#68
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Brazil _Awper
Reality: 3 Brazilian teams in the Pro League playoffs, but morally 4 teams because Imperial (The best team in the world) was giving free wins to more unfortunate teams.
2023-04-05 08:24
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1 reply
Am i tripping or are you tripping
2023-04-05 09:09
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#31
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Canada ssau
Ez for team who just recently lost to EG academy team. Just kidding tho I know furia is still a good team. They a different beast at lan
2023-04-05 00:15
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2 replies
Yeah with the crowd cheating.
2023-04-05 07:29
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crowdhax is their only way to win
2023-04-05 08:25
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#2
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Libya Planum
nice
2023-04-04 23:33
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ez
2023-04-04 23:33
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we are fucked
2023-04-04 23:33
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#5
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Poland Obajtek
hard for 9INE
2023-04-04 23:33
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3 replies
#13
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Poland PolarisS5
It couldn't be easy
2023-04-04 23:44
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2 replies
#17
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Poland Obajtek
it couldn't be easy either way
2023-04-04 23:45
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1 reply
#32
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Poland xLezer
I think lower bracket final is possible
2023-04-05 00:20
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I still want to know the genius that thought Rio would be the perfect choice in host a CS major in Brazil. At least go with São Paulo or Brasília.
2023-04-04 23:34
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10 replies
why do u think Rio is bad?
2023-04-05 00:09
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#29
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United States Sancler
how do you know são paulo and brasilia?? possibly you are a brazilian pretending to be a foreigner?
2023-04-05 00:14
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8 replies
#42
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Netherlands xrnavkha
the two biggest cities in brazil “you are a brazilian” omg man if i say like henrico country richmond virginia it’s mean i’m american or what?
2023-04-05 01:26
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6 replies
Since when is Brasilia biger than RIo ? Clown !
2023-04-05 01:52
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5 replies
#50
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Netherlands xrnavkha
normal for a frenchman to not understand through context that i meant they are the two most well known cities after rio, but it’s okay i know it’s hard for french people to learn english dw
2023-04-05 01:58
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STFU, you answered you own question " two most known cities AFTER Rio " effing clown. Thank you for confirming the core reason while most events are in Rio : it is the "most well known", most popular tourist city in Brasil, that's why Olympic Games or the Final of the soccer world cup took place there. How ironic is that, btw the way you are playing english teacher but can't even come up with a proper wording like " best-known" ... But I guess clown stoned tulip farmer is so intellectually dishonest that he can't even own his mistake. So trying hard to come up with something :D ps : I'd rather make a typo than having USA levels of geographic knowledge btw dumbo.
2023-04-05 12:05
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1 reply
#90
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Netherlands xrnavkha
the fact that u bring up minute grammatical errors in english on an online website is fucking hilarious man like if u show up to a forum (an actual one where u debate not this shit) and say this i get it, but online we are just monkeys with typewriter (in the sense of the thought experiment) , and you are turning around to the one next to you and saying “you’re a real shitter for having a different model of typewriter than me”. Man in France there is Bouville, Aix-En-Provence and fucking Diagonal Du Vide, mais car jsais cette fait peut je dire q chui fr ou will u just admit ur fallacy
2023-04-15 07:36
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It's the capital and writes like Brasil, so it's easily recognizable by a foreigner
2023-04-05 03:36
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Not all foreigners are from NA. In Europe we actually have geography classes during our schooling ( except in the netherlands it seems )
2023-04-05 12:07
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Im no Brazilian. I study occasional geography in my free time. Have been since 2017.
2023-04-05 15:11
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#7
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Brazil ZerongBr
For the first time ever it isn't Brazil vs Brazil
2023-04-04 23:34
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ESL still uses IHC xd
2023-04-04 23:40
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#10
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Brazil bugesy
guales killed this event
2023-04-04 23:40
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2 replies
#12
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Poland PolarisS5
How so
2023-04-04 23:42
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bugesy kkkkkkk
2023-04-05 00:08
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RIP Jame's 100 % winrate in Rio
2023-04-04 23:40
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ez for C9
2023-04-04 23:44
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#15
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Poland Beczuniaa
EZ FOR 9ine
2023-04-04 23:44
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RMR schedule ending at 15th april and this starts on 17th april?
2023-04-04 23:55
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3 replies
LOL you're right. Vita, big, heroic, 9ine and c9 are fucked, will play with jetlag probably unless someone finish 3-0 and fly away earlier
2023-04-05 00:31
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2 replies
i can see some forfeits and they invite random local teams like fluxo and 00nation as replacements
2023-04-05 08:07
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1 reply
The problem is that a lot of them are partner teams so I would assume they can't just not show up to the event
2023-04-05 12:50
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#19
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Brazil b1gb0y_
Go FURIA
2023-04-05 00:00
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LESGO NUEVE CEEEEEEEEEEE *shoots in the air*
2023-04-05 00:05
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all of SA in the same group, that's sad
2023-04-05 00:07
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2 replies
That's the only way they can qualify
2023-04-05 00:11
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1 reply
#84
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Brazil MrLucas
oh yeah, that's why they put Faze, C9 and Vita in their group, nice logic
2023-04-05 17:00
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#26
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Denmark rolade
all brazillians teams out in the first rounds thats what we like to see
2023-04-05 00:12
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4 replies
fnatic would win furia easily, but with crowdhax furia have a lot higher chances
2023-04-05 08:29
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3 replies
#85
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Brazil MrLucas
2023-04-05 17:01
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2 replies
who cares about 1 game also 13-16 13-16 im talking about real power
2023-04-05 18:50
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1 reply
#88
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Brazil MrLucas
2023-04-05 20:21
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Big gonna hose C9 in finals again, 16-14, 3-16, 16-14 ggez
2023-04-05 00:14
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#Vamos9z
2023-04-05 00:50
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9z will upset
2023-04-05 00:54
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1 reply
so ez for 9z
2023-04-05 01:59
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Groups look good. Gonna be a banger.
2023-04-05 00:58
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#38
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Brazil Vicmar
Ez for 9z
2023-04-05 01:05
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$165K BetBoom > $100K IEM Rio and you don't have to fly anywhere.
2023-04-05 01:08
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2 replies
#54
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Europe alkahzane
this does count for the grand slam, ez money
2023-04-05 03:32
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+1 No media day, no Brazillian crowd
2023-04-05 05:19
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Why the fuck they put 3 SA teams in the same group?
2023-04-05 01:12
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1 reply
less chances for crowdhackers - better
2023-04-05 18:54
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#43
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United States ddown
arena will have 18 people lol
2023-04-05 01:31
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4 replies
including 5 players from both teams, coaches and referee?
2023-04-05 01:50
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2 replies
#45
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United States ddown
dont forget the cameramen. there will be 1 actual human in the crowd. rest will be cardboard cutouts of the imperial players
2023-04-05 01:51
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1 reply
right :)
2023-04-05 01:51
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You will never understand
2023-04-05 01:57
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EZ4NAVI
2023-04-05 01:57
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Wheres the best br team???? why they invite trash teams like furia
2023-04-05 02:24
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F MIBR
2023-04-05 03:08
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gaules party let's go! csgo is dying anyway:)
2023-04-05 03:54
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Ty cloud 9 free spot again
2023-04-05 05:18
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furia k k k
2023-04-05 06:56
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Ez for mongolz. The sons of Chinghiz khan will own slavic Navi as they did seven hundred years ago
2023-04-05 07:11
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1 reply
frfr
2023-04-05 07:49
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L CROWD L EVENT L ESL
2023-04-05 08:06
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#72
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Sweden v1king
It's always funny to read comments from delusional people how their noob team will qualify or win.. how can they believe it? .. it's like the phrase.. "it's coming home!" all over again!! Than they loose and still say they were the best team but just unlucky haha
2023-04-05 08:54
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Compress that paragraph into the very professional word "malding"
2023-04-05 09:14
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lets hope 100% crowd capacity when navi play
2023-04-05 12:11
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ez for furia
2023-04-05 12:20
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BIG against Heroic again in the bracket... It's so hard for teams to get a better seeding when you always play against the top top top teams. If BIG wins first game they have to play against Heroic and then in lower bracket against Navi or virtus pro....
2023-04-05 15:47
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#89
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El Salvador Haney
Very excited for this one
2023-04-06 01:55
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