Evil Geniuses, IHC Esports and Grayhound Gaming end their performances at IEM Rio Major 2022

The fourth round of the IEM Rio Major 2022 Challengers Stage has come to an end, following which Evil Geniuses , IHC Esports and Grayhound Gaming suffered their third defeat and left the championship. On the contrary, the teams BIG, Outsiders and FURIA got the third victory, thanks to which they advanced to the next stage of the competition. Well, we propose to sum up the results of the past game day and present the available layouts.

Fourth round of IEM Rio Major 2022 Challengers Stage

The game day started with a fairly obvious victory for OG over the Mongols from IHC Esports (2:0). At the same time, the German team BIG turned out to be stronger than 9z (2:0), thus breaking into the "legends" of IEM Rio Major 2022.

In the next portion of the matches, the Outsiders team defeated fnatic (2:0), while Vitality, as expected, defeated Grayhound Gaming (2:0).

Late in the evening, the Brazilian team FURIA pleased the local audience by defeating GamerLegion (2:0). In a parallel match, the Cloud9 team outplayed Evil Geniuses (2:0), knocking out the North Americans from the championship.

Results of the first round of IEM Rio Major 2022 Challengers Stage:

• Gamer Legion (16 - 6) 9z
• MOUZ (16 - 6) Outsiders
• Bad News Eagles (16 - 3) 00NATION
• OG (16 - 5) Grayhound Gaming
• BIG (19 - 16) FURIA
• Evil Geniuses (16 - 9) IHC Esports
• Team Vitality (16 - 9) Imperial Esports
• fnatic (19 - 17) Cloud9

Results of the second round of IEM Rio Major 2022 Challengers Stage:

• FURIA (16 - 6) 00NATION
• Outsiders (16 - 12) IHC Esports
• MOUZ (16 - 10) Evil Geniuses
• Bad News Eagles (16 - 11) BIG
• 9z (16 - 11) Imperial Esports
• Gamer Legion (16 - 10) Team Vitality
• fnatic (16 - 13) OG
• Grayhound Gaming (19 - 17) Cloud9

Results of the third round of IEM Rio Major 2022 Challengers Stage:

• 9z (19 - 17) Evil Geniuses
• Outsiders (16 - 12) Team Vitality
• BIG (16 - 6) Grayhound Gaming
• FURIA (19 - 16) OG
• MOUZ (2 - 1) fnatic
• IHC Esports (2 - 1) 00NATION
• Bad News Eagles (2 - 0) GamerLegion
• Cloud9 (2 - 0) Imperial Esports

Results of the first round of IEM Rio Major 2022 Challengers Stage:

• OG (2 - 0) IHC Esports
  
• BIG (2 - 0) 9z
  
• Outsiders (2 - 0) fnatic
  
• Team Vitality (2 - 0) Grayhound Gaming
  
• Cloud9 (2 - 0) Evil Geniuses
  
• FURIA (2 - 0) GamerLegion

Intermediate table IEM Rio Major 2022 Challengers Stage

Team

Result

Number of rounds

1st round

2nd round

3rd round

4th round

5th round

one

MOUZ

3-0

73-49

16:6

16:10

2:1

—

—

2

Bad News Eagles

3-0

64-30

16:3

16:11

2:0

—

—

3

BIG

3-1

81-57

19:16

11:16

16:6

2:0

—

four

Outsiders

3-1

70-55

6:16

16:12

16:12

2:0

—

5

FURIA

3-1

83-61

16:19

16:6

19:16

2:0

—

6

Gamer Legion

2-2

68-80

16:6

16:10

0:2

0:2

—

7

fnatic

2-2

83-103

19:17

16:13

1:2

0:2

—

eight

OG

2-2

77-65

16:5

13:16

16:19

2:0

—

9

Team Vitality

2-2

70-59

16:9

10:16

12:19

2:0

—

ten

9z Team

2-2

60-79

6:16

16:11

19:17

0:2

—

eleven

Cloud9

2-2

107-88

17:19

17:19

2:0

2:0

—

12

Grayhound Gaming

1-3

48-81

5:16

19:17

6:16

0:2

—

13

Evil Geniuses

1-3

59-76

16:9

10:16

17:19

0:2

—

fourteen

IHC Esports

1-3

98-112

9:16

12:16

2:1

0:2

—

fifteen

00NATION

0-3

57-84

3:16

6:16

1:2

—

—

16

Imperial Esports

0-3

54-73

9:16

11:16

0:2

—

—

IEM Rio Major 2022 takes place from October 31 to November 13 in Brazil at the Jeunesse Arena and at the Riocentro convention center. As part of the championship, 24 teams from the CIS, Europe, North and South America, and Asia are fighting for a total prize pool of $1,250,000, ranking points in the BLAST Premier table, as well as tickets to BLAST Premier: World Final 2022 and IEM Katowice 2023 for the winner.

Intermediate results of IEM Rio Major 2022

• 1st place: $500,000 + 4,000 points + tickets to BLAST Premier: World Final 2022 and IEM Katowice 2023
• 2nd place: $170,000 + 2,000 points
• 3rd-4th place: $80,000 + 1,250 points
• 5th-8th place: $45,000 + 500 points
• 9th-11th place: $20,000
• 12th-14th place: $20,000
• 15th-16th place: $20,000
• 17th-19th place: $10,000
• 20th-22nd place: IHC Esports, Evil Geniuses and Grayhound Gaming — $10,000
• 23rd-24th place: 00NATION and Imperial Esports — $10,000