Favorites in order: what we learned from the first round of IEM Road to Rio 2022 American RMR

The first round of IEM Road to Rio 2022 American RMR has ended, as a result of which eight teams got into the basket of the strongest and will try to realize their ambitions in the next matches. In turn, eight other teams suffered their first defeats, thus bringing themselves closer to elimination from the RMR tournament. We offer to get acquainted with the results of past fights and present an intermediate leaderboard.

IEM Road to Rio 2022 American RMR First Round

Game day began with two ordinary defeats. And if in the first case FURIA presented an updated jersey design with a victory over Infinity (16:2), then in the parallel match Imperial Esports had no problems in the game against Isurus (16:2). Then the North American team Evil Geniuses confidently coped with Nouns Esports (16:7), while paiN Gaming managed to keep the victory over ARCTIC (16:13).

In the next portion of the matches, Complexity Gaming left ATK out of work (16:5), just as 9z managed to make a comeback and coped with 00NATION (19:16). Well, at the very end of the first round, the Brazilian team MIBR figured out the derby with O PLANO (16:9), while in the parallel match Team Liquid outplayed Team oNe eSports (16:6) in the class.

Results of the first round of IEM Road to Rio 2022 American RMR:

• FURIA (16 - 2) Infinity
  
• Imperial Esports (16 - 2) Isurus
  
• Evil Geniuses (16 - 7) Nouns Esports
  
• paiN Gaming (16 — 13) ARCTIC
  
• Complexity Gaming (16 - 5) ATK
  
• 9z (19 - 16) 00NATION
  
• MIBR (16 - 9) O PLANO
  
• Team Liquid (16 - 6) Team oNe eSports
  

Tournament table according to the results of the first round

Team

Result

Number of rounds

1st round

2nd round

3rd round

4th round

5th round

one

FURIA

1-0

16-2

16:2

—

—

—

—

2

Imperial Esports

1-0

16-2

16:2

—

—

—

—

3

Team Liquid

1-0

16-6

16:6

—

—

—

—

four

paiN Gaming

1-0

16-13

16:13

—

—

—

—

5

Complexity Gaming

1-0

16-5

16:5

—

—

—

—

6

MIBR

1-0

16-9

16:9

—

—

—

—

7

9z

1-0

19:16

19:16

—

—

—

—

eight

Evil Geniuses

1-0

16-7

16:7

—

—

—

—

9

Nouns Esports

0-1

7-16

7:16

—

—

—

—

ten

00NATION

0-1

16-19

16:19

—

—

—

—

eleven

ABOUT PLANO

0-1

9-16

9:16

—

—

—

—

12

ATK

0-1

5-16

5:16

—

—

—

—

13

ARCTIC

0-1

13-16

13:16

—

—

—

—

fourteen

Team one eSports

0-1

6-16

6:16

—

—

—

—

fifteen

Isurus

0-1

2-16

2:16

—

—

—

—

16

Infinity

0-1

2-16

2:16

—

—

—

—

IEM Road to Rio 2022 American RMR takes place October 5-9 in Stockholm. As part of the championship, sixteen teams from North America, Latin America and Brazil are fighting for six tickets to the upcoming IEM Rio Major 2022.