fnatic, forZe, K23, and Monte qualify for Europe RMR

William "⁠mezii⁠" Merriman's squad came out victorious from a close match against HAVU to lock in their spot at the RMR.

Four teams have confirmed their attendance at the upcoming IEM Rio Europe RMR from the second set of open qualifiers. fnatic, FORZE, Monte, and K23 are set to attend the event and fight for a spot at the Major after securing a spot in the top four, joining the four other teams who qualified from the first open bracket on the team list.

The advancing teams reached the quarter-finals of the online tournament after going through six rounds of single-elimination best-of-ones across two days. The qualifying matches were played in a best-of-three format while the upcoming seeding matches will also be best-of-ones.

fnatic made it through after four sets of overtime on Nuke

Monte were the first team to qualify following their 2-0 victory over Endpoint. The European mix made their way to the quarter-final after victories over eSuba and LDLC, setting up a match between Mohammad "⁠BOROS⁠" Malhas and his old squad. Max "⁠MiGHTYMAX⁠" Heath's men conceded Mirage before collapsing on the CT side of Overpass despite Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye and Joey "⁠CRUC1AL⁠" Steusel's exemplary performances on the map.

The second team to punch their ticket to the event was K23 as the Russian squad comfortably dispatched 1WIN in the seventh round of the qualifiers. Timur "⁠clax⁠" Sabirov and Bogdan "⁠xsepower⁠" Chernikov pushed their team to victory in the Russian derby, sending them into the semi-final.

GamerLegion faced the likes of Anonymo and EYEBALLERS to secure a spot in the qualification match against FORZE. The Russian squad barely made it out through their map against UNGENTIUM, but turned it up against the European mix, eliminating them after an excellent 2-0 sweep.

The last team to secure their attendance in the Regional Major Ranking event was fnatic after their narrow victory against HAVU. The mezii-led squad went to the very last round on Mirage and all the way to four sets of overtime on Nuke before securing their spot in the RMR.

The teams participating at the EU RMR are currently:

Europe
FaZe
Spirit
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Cloud9
MOUZ
Natus Vincere
ENCE
BIG
OG
Monte
K23
Open Qualifier 3
Open Qualifier 3
Open Qualifier 4
Open Qualifier 4
Open Qualifier 4
Aurora
Falcons
G2
Bad News Eagles
Sprout
Vitality
HEROIC
Outsiders
FORZE
fnatic
Open Qualifier 3
Open Qualifier 3
Open Qualifier 3
Open Qualifier 4
Open Qualifier 4
Open Qualifier 4 FaZe #1 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenHåvard 'rain' NygaardRussel 'Twistzz' Van DulkenRobin 'ropz' KoolHelvijs 'broky' Saukants 1WIN #48 Egor 'flamie' VasilyevIgor 'lollipop21k' SolodkovAleksandr 'TRAVIS' TimkivAleksandr 'glowiing' MatsievichDenis 'deko' Zhukov Markus 'Kjaerbye' Kjærbye Age: 24 Team: Endpoint Rating 1.0: 1.04 Maps played: 1533 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.66 Aurora Viktor 'Lack1' BoldyrevArtem 'RAiLWAY' GradovichAmin 'sugaR' AzimovAleksandr 'KaiR0N-' AnashkinEvgeny 'delus1onn' Plottsov LDLC #200 François 'amanek' DelaunayRemi 'Diviiii' AlexandreArthur 'Snobling' BenardFilip 'Graviti' BrankovicHugo 'Brooxsy' Di Bono Vitality #7 Kévin 'misutaaa' RabierDan 'apEX' MadesclairePeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenEmil 'Magisk' ReifMathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut Sprout #23 Ismail 'refrezh' AliFritz 'slaxz-' DietrichRasmus 'Zyphon' NordfossVictor 'Staehr' StaehrLaurențiu 'lauNX' Țârlea OG #16 Nemanja 'nexa' IsakovićAdam 'NEOFRAG' ZouharShahar 'flameZ' ShushanAbdul 'degster' GasanovMaciej 'F1KU' Miklas ENCE #10 Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferPavle 'Maden' BoškovićPaweł 'dycha' DychaLotan 'Spinx' Giladi Natus Vincere #2 Oleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' SharipovViktor 'sdy' OrudzhevIlya 'Perfecto' ZalutskiyValeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy Endpoint #32 Joey 'CRUC1AL' SteuselMarkus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeMax 'MiGHTYMAX' HeathKia 'Surreal' ManGuy 'NertZ' Iluz Monte #79 Hristiyan 'REDSTAR' PironkovVolodymyr 'Woro2k' VeletniukSergiy 'DemQQ' DemchenkoMohammad 'BOROS' MalhasJoel 'joel' Holmlund EYEBALLERS #87 Robin 'flusha' RönnquistJesper 'JW' WecksellAnton 'Sapec' PalmgrenCasper 'SHiNE' WennerbergLeo 'Svedjehed' Svedjehed Max 'MiGHTYMAX' Heath Age: 25 Team: Endpoint Rating 1.0: 0.90 Maps played: 1179 KPR: 0.59 DPR: 0.65 FORZE #20 Andrey 'Jerry' MekhryakovAleksandr 'zorte' ZagodyrenkoAleksandr 'shalfey' MarenovAleksandr 'KENSI' GurkinEvgeny 'Norwi' Ermolin HEROIC #14 Casper 'cadiaN' MøllerMartin 'stavn' LundRené 'TeSeS' MadsenRasmus 'sjuush' BeckJakob 'jabbi' Nygaard G2 #11 Audric 'JACKZ' JugNikola 'NiKo' KovačNemanja 'huNter-' KovačAleksi 'Aleksib' VirolainenIlya 'm0NESY' Osipov Anonymo #101 Paweł 'innocent' MocekOskar 'oskarish' StenborowskiArek 'Vegi' NawojskiPatryk 'Demho' TomaszewskiAlan 'flayy' Krupa K23 #41 Timur 'clax' SabirovBogdan 'xsepower' ChernikovDaniil 'X5G7V' MaryshevKonstantin 'Raijin' Trubarov Falcons #35 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittAli 'hAdji' HaïnoussBryan 'Maka' CandaKévin 'misutaaa' RabierJordan 'Python' Munck-Foehrle William 'mezii' Merriman Age: 23 Team: fnatic Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 527 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.63 Outsiders #17 Evgenii 'FL1T' LebedevAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' AliDavid 'n0rb3r7' DanielyanPetr 'fame' Bolyshev Timur 'clax' Sabirov Age: 20 Team: K23 Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 393 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.65 MOUZ #8 Christopher 'dexter' NongDavid 'frozen' ČerňanskýJon 'JDC' de CastroÁdám 'torzsi' TorzsásAurimas 'Bymas' Pipiras UNGENTIUM #56 Paweł 'byali' BielińskiDominik 'GruBy' SwiderskiPatryk 'Sidney' KorabMateusz 'm4tthi' SzambelanWojciech 'Prism' Zięba GamerLegion Mihai 'iM' IvanIsak 'isak' Fahlén Bad News Eagles #28 Rigon 'rigoN' GashiSener 'SENER1' MahmutiFlatron 'juanflatroo' HalimiDionis 'sinnopsyy' BudeciGenc 'gxx-' Kolgeci BIG #13 Johannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschFlorian 'syrsoN' RischeJosef 'faveN' BaumannKarim 'Krimbo' Moussa Cloud9 #3 Abay 'HObbit' KhassenovTimofey 'interz' YakushinSergey 'Ax1Le' RykhtorovDmitry 'sh1ro' SokolovVladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov Spirit #15 Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovBoris 'magixx' VorobievPavel 'S1ren' OgloblinRobert 'Patsi' IsyanovIhor 'w0nderful' Zhdanov Ninjas in Pyjamas #5 Patrick 'es3tag' HansenFredrik 'REZ' SternerHampus 'hampus' PoserLudvig 'Brollan' BrolinNicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez Zamora HAVU #85 Jesse 'zehN' LinjalaJani 'Aerial' JussilaSami 'xseveN' LaasanenJoonas 'doto' ForssJarkko 'spargo' Rahja Mohammad 'BOROS' Malhas Age: 18 Team: Monte Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 252 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.74 eSuba #124 Martin 'Pechyn' PechoušekLukáš 'luko' HrabčíkDominik 'Blogg1s' JanitaLukáš 'Levi' BouřaJakub 'M1key' Krausko fnatic #33 William 'mezii' MerrimanFreddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonDion 'FASHR' DerksenNico 'nicoodoz' TamjidiFredrik 'roeJ' Jørgensen Joey 'CRUC1AL' Steusel Age: 25 Team: Endpoint Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 1477 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.65 Bogdan 'xsepower' Chernikov Age: 24 Team: K23 Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 1288 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.58