Rare Atom qualify for IEM Rio

kaze and company defeated TYLOO to secure their berth at the Brazilian tournament.

kaze's Rare Atom will fly to Brazil in October

Rare Atom won the IEM Rio Asia Closed Qualifier and secured a spot at the Brazilian tournament, taking place from October 7-13.

The Chinese squad began the four-team qualifier with a hard-fought victory against ATOX, which earned them an upper-bracket clash against TYLOO.

Rare Atom lost the domestic matchup 0-2 and found just nine rounds across the series. They dropped down to the lower bracket, where they once again got the job done against ATOX.

That meant Rare Atom were in for a rematch against TYLOO, with the winner securing a spot at the Brazilian event. The first map went in favor of Rare Atom in an overtime affair before TYLOO forced a third map after winning their pick of Anubis.

HaoWen "⁠somebody⁠" Xu then took over the server with a 1.61-rated performance on the Ancient decider and helped his team secure qualification for Rio, where Rare Atom will be one of two Asian representatives at IEM Rio alongside The MongolZ.

IEM Rio 2024 Asia Closed QualifierBest of 3

TYLOO

Matchpage

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Rare Atom

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Inferno

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Anubis

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Ancient

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TYLOO	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Dongkai 'Jee' JiJee	44 - 47	+0.41%	70.5	67.1%	1.01
Yi 'JamYoung' YangJamYoung	43 - 48	+1.06%	75.9	75.7%	1.00
WeiJie 'zhokiNg' ZhongzhokiNg	46 - 60	+1.40%	77.2	68.6%	0.94
Jingxiang 'Mercury' WangMercury	41 - 49	-3.52%	64.0	65.7%	0.92
Qianhao 'Moseyuh' ChenMoseyuh	38 - 47	-1.44%	57.5	64.3%	0.82

Rare Atom	K - D	Swing	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Junhao 'ChildKing' PengChildKing	56 - 46	+0.16%	82.5	78.6%	1.25
HaoWen 'somebody' Xusomebody	50 - 47	+0.02%	79.0	77.1%	1.22
YuLun 'Summer' CaiSummer	49 - 37	+2.04%	76.7	80.0%	1.22
Yihang 'L1haNg' LiL1haNg	51 - 46	-0.35%	83.9	82.9%	1.20
Andrew 'kaze' Khongkaze	41 - 36	+0.06%	62.5	85.7%	1.14

Just three spots at the $250,000 event remain up for grabs. One will come from the North American closed qualifier (August 31-September 1), while the European qualifier (August 26-28) will hand out two spots.

The current team list for IEM Rio is as follows:

Natus Vincere
MOUZ
Vitality
G2
FaZe
Virtus.pro
Astralis
Europe Qualifier

The MongolZ
Complexity
9z
FURIA
paiN
Rare Atom
Europe Qualifier
NA Qualifier