RMR tournaments will be held in Bucharest from 11 to 24 April

PGL has officially announced the dates and times for the Regional Qualifiers for the Spring 2022 Major. American, Asian and two European RMR tournaments will be held in LAN format from April 11 to 24 in Bucharest. At the same time, open qualifications for the events will begin at the end of February.

The Americas Championship will take place over four days from 11 to 14 April. It will be followed by the RMR tournament for teams from Asia and Oceania, which will be held from April 15 to 16. After them, European teams will arrive in Bucharest, for which two RMR tournaments will be organized at once. The first European RMR tournament will take place from 17 to 20 April, while the second championship will take place from 21 to 24 April.

Recall that according to the new set of rules from Valve, each team must re-qualify to participate in the Major, including the current champion of PGL Major Stockholm 2021. At the same time, Valve completely abandoned the RMR points system, in fact returning to the Minor system. The only thing that decides whether a team will play at PGL Antwerp Major 2022 is the results of the RMR tournaments in April.

Full schedule of RMR tournaments at PGL Major Stockholm 2021:

• America (16 teams): April 11-14.
• Asia (4 teams): April 15-16.
• Europe A (16 teams): April 17-20.
• Europe B (16 teams): April 21-24.

Teams that perform best at PGL Stockholm 2021 will reportedly be rewarded with direct invites to RMR tournaments, but this is the only head start they will get compared to any other team.

Participants of RMR tournaments in Europe, America and Asia-Pacific region

The following teams will take part in PGL Major Antwerp 2022: European RMR A: Natus Vincere, Heroic, Virtus.pro, Team Vitality, Copenhagen Flames, Astralis and ENCE + nine teams from qualifiers.

PGL Major Antwerp 2022: European RMR B will feature: G2 Esports, Gambit Esports, Ninjas In Pajamas, Entropiq, FaZe Clan and MOUZ + ten teams from the qualifiers.

FURIA + 15 teams from qualifiers will take part in PGL Major Antwerp 2022: American RMR.

At the same time, none of the teams received a direct invitation to PGL Major Antwerp 2022: Asia-Pacific RMR.

RMR Tournament Format

PGL Major Antwerp 2022: American RMR

The American RMR tournament will be held according to the Swiss system, in which all matches, with the exception of the decisive ones, will be held in the BO1 format. At the same time, the meetings that decide the tournament fate of the teams will be held in the BO3 format. It is expected that the Buchholz system, which has already been used at PGL Major Stockholm 2021, will be used for the draw.

More information about the rules can be found here.

The team that takes first place at PGL Major Antwerp 2022: American RMR will receive Legend status. The teams that take places from 2nd to 3rd will receive the Challenger status. Teams ranked from 4th to 6th will receive Contender status. The remaining teams will miss PGL Major Antwerp 2022.

PGL Major Antwerp 2022: Asia-Pacific RMR

The Asian RMR tournament will take place in the GSL format, with each match taking place in the BO3 series. The top two teams in the championship will receive Contender status. The remaining teams will miss PGL Major Antwerp 2022.

PGL Major Antwerp 2022: European RMR A

The first European RMR-tournament will be held according to the Swiss system, in which all matches, with the exception of the decisive ones, will be held in the BO1 format. At the same time, the meetings that decide the tournament fate of the teams will be held in the BO3 format. It is expected that the Buchholz system, which has already been used at PGL Major Stockholm 2021, will be used for the draw.

Teams that take places from 1st to 4th will receive Legend status. The teams ranked 5th and 6th will receive the Challenger status. At the same time, the teams that take 7th and 8th places will receive the status of Contender. The remaining teams will miss PGL Major Antwerp 2022.

PGL Major Antwerp 2022: European RMR B

The second European RMR tournament will be held in a similar format. Teams that take places from 1st to 3rd will receive Legend status. The teams ranked from the 4th to the 7th lines will receive the Challenger status. At the same time, the team that takes 8th place will receive the status of Contender. The remaining teams will miss PGL Major Antwerp 2022.

Qualification rules for RMR tournaments

Another change is that there are no closed qualifiers for RMR tournaments. All teams that are not invited to the championships will have to get their place in the open qualifiers. This means that teams like Team Liquid and Evil Geniuses in North America, or OG and BIG in Europe, will have to go through a long journey to get seats in Bucharest.

Schedule of open qualifiers (Europe):

• First open qualifier (5 tickets to the RMR tournament): February 19-20.
• Second open qualifier (5 tickets to the RMR tournament): February 26-27.
• Third open qualifier (5 tickets to the RMR tournament): March 5-6.
• Fourth open qualifier (4 tickets to the RMR tournament): March 12-13.

Open Qualifiers Schedule (North America):

• First open qualifier (4 tickets to the RMR tournament): February 26-27.
• Second open qualifier (3 tickets to the RMR tournament): March 5-6.

Open Qualifiers Schedule (South America):

• First open qualifier (4 tickets to the RMR tournament): February 26-27.
• Second open qualifier (4 tickets to the RMR tournament): March 5-6.

Asia will host several open qualifiers in China, Oceania, the Middle East and the rest of Asia. More information about the format and rules will appear later.