IEM Fall groups revealed

21-9-2021 18:44

The groups for all of the six final Regional Major Ranking events have been drawn.

ESL have announced all of the groups for the upcoming IEM Fall RMR events, with six events around the world including the 24-team event in Europe and the 12-team events in the CIS and North American regions.

The other three RMR tournaments are four-team events in Asia, Oceania and South America.

TYLOO and ViCi are tied in the Asia RMR ahead of IEM Fall

The largest IEM Fall, the one in Europe, has no less than four groups of six teams per group, featuring all of the top teams in the region and a few challengers that made their ways through long and tedious qualifying processes. The group stage will be a round robin with the top two heading to the playoffs.

Heroic, the top team in the RMR so far are slotted into Group B, where Complexity will fight to win crucial points in hopes of attending the Major. In Group A two of the top three teams in G2 and MOUZ will go up against teams like FunPlus Phoenix and BIG, who are currently in Major-attending positions.

OG and Sprout, both standing right on the edge of qualifying or not, will fight in a Group C headlined by Vitality and with an ENCE team that has been turning heads since the player break. Rounding everything out in Group D are the Swedes of Ninjas in Pyjamas, who will play the likes of FaZe, fnatic and the ninth-placed DBL PONEY as well as the Bulgarians of SKADE and Fiend.

The groups in Europe are:

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

The CIS tournament has 12 teams split down the middle into two groups, with the two top teams in the RMR, Natus Vincere and Spirit, in Group A. The real battleground is in Group B, where the third-placed Gambit will be facing off against several teams that will be fighting for a couple of spots, including FORZE, K23 and Virtus.pro.

The CIS groups are divided into:

Group A

Group B

North America and Brazil are splitting 10 of the spots at the North American RMR tournament, with the last two spots taken up by EXTREMUM and ATK. Currently it is EXTREMUM, Liquid and FURIA sitting at the top, with Evil Geniuses and 00NATION following, but Extra Salt and paiN are incredibly close and very much in contention were they able to pull off a good showing.

The groups in North America are:

Group A

Group B

The events in Asia and Oceania are four-team tournaments, but in both it will be a fight between the top two in each region as they are far enough ahead that just by winning the minimum amount of points allotted at IEM Fall they will be top two.

But with just one spot at the Major for each region, ViCi and TYLOO, who are tied in Asia, and Renegades and ORDER, the latter leading by 200 points in Oceania, will be playing for all of the marbles.

The same is true in South America, where MIBR and Sharks are the two teams in contention, and although MIBR currently lead, it is by so few points that if Sharks were to surpass them they would be the ones taking the spot at the Major.

The Asia, Oceania and South America groups are:

Asia

Oceania

South America
Bravos
MIBR
Sharks
Imperial

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Let's go OG

2021-09-21 18:44

12 replies

you gotta be fucking kidding me with those NA groups. what a joke

2021-09-21 18:56

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i think BNB should be in group B and 00nation in group A

2021-09-21 19:00

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2021-09-21 19:01

2021-09-21 19:40

What you want?

2021-09-22 00:05

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balance mostly, group a would have 2 NA teams, SA, 2 br, and AU, group B would have 3 NA and 3 BR. however, im biased towards Extra Salt and want them to qualify

2021-09-22 00:26

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maybe 00 and es qualify?

2021-09-22 00:27

IEM wants to make sure that at least one brasilian team qualifies so they get the brasilian views 100%

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it's pretty much impossible to have 0 br teams qualifying, no way ATK or BnB can eliminate Furia, 0Nation, paiN, and hardly the other two too

2021-09-21 19:06

There’s a SA spot so that’s essentially guaranteed

+1 he might have not read all the way

2021-09-21 20:21

5/12 teams actually na

2021-09-21 19:41

FPXWin

+11

2021-09-21 18:47

+111

2021-09-21 19:33

BRUH BO1 MATCHES

2021-09-21 18:45

STILL EZ4ENCE

2021-09-21 18:49

TRUEEEEEEE

2021-09-21 19:38

'm not so sure about EZ4ENCE, because ENCE and Dignitas in the same group :(

2021-09-22 10:11

hope heroic is banned by then!

hope lulquid gets owned 1v5 again

2021-09-21 19:14

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why would u hope for something as bad as that

2021-09-21 19:29

The same answer could be put to you. I hope investigations turn out Heroric is clean, otherwise it will be bad for the sport.

2021-09-21 23:59

i hope they get banned bcs i truly believe in hunden!

2021-09-22 00:36

That makes sense then. In any case I hope there is fair handling of the whole mess.

2021-09-22 00:56

Holy shit EZ Playoffs for coL (pls) lets gooo

Hopefully faze ends up 2nd in the group at least and they wont have an excuse that they couldnt anti strat fnatic so we will see

CIS group B wtf

Whats wrong

Look at rmr points

2021-09-21 19:35

4 Brazilians Teams in one group 🤡🤡🤡

Deserved

2021-09-21 19:25

13/24 EU Teams are Danish or have atleast 1 Danish player. what is happening out there?

Sweden 4 teams Denmark 3 teams

2021-09-21 20:20

Group B of EU is like 3x harder than all other groups lmfao, atleast it will be easy for NiP!

2021-09-21 18:46

ikr, shit is stacked asf

2021-09-21 18:58

NiP are in group D.... lol

2021-09-27 17:24

EZ4NKT

NA group B = SA

And those are gonna be bo1 robin round LOL This is just so fucked up

so ez for riders lets goooo!!!!

nice

EZ4SINNERS

One of G2, BIG, Mouz and FPX will miss the major

2021-09-21 18:48

Again, all the BR teams in one group (except one), how is this fair?

why are big seed 1

Is it lan or online?

2021-09-21 18:50

Lan, europe one at least, dunno about the others

Nice. Its the best

2021-09-21 23:20

Extremum not in OCEANIA?

They inherited 100T's points in NA, they have no reason to play in OCE where they would be heavily contested by Renegades

2021-09-21 18:59

ezliquid

no major for faze ez4s1mple

2021-09-21 18:51

rip endpoint and movistar

BO1 you never know, but it's on lan so you're probably right

bo1 in groups sounds reasonable because there will be 5 matches in the group

FPX got the easiest group Maden and Zehn will smash them 5:0

lets put the cheating team heroic in the same group as... let me see, oh yeah put the other cheating team astralis so we can create more drama, seems reasonable. amazing

2021-09-21 18:52

Group D rigged

2021-09-21 18:53

literally easiest group for faze

Heroic and astralis are allways in the same group wtf

I think they looking for Danish derby and high watching ==> MONEY, MONEY, MONEY MONEY

Thw funny thing is that this matchup always get low spectators

2021-09-21 20:08

Hmmm ok cool who ask

how the fck is vitality always in easy groups ?

IS ESL KIDDING? 5 BRAZILIANS ON THE NA SPOT AND PUT 4 ON THE SAME GROUP? IF YOU WANT TO DESTROY OUR DREAMS OF EVERYONE ON THE PLAYOFF'S JUST PUT ALL THE BRAZILIAN TEAMS ON THE SAME GROUP

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Lmao TeamOne and pain and GODSENT not making playoff in any group they are not good LOL Only good team is Furia and 00Nation

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Pain is one of the best teams of Brazil bro, did you alredy saw biguzera and saffee plays?

I don't think Pain is better than 00Nation or Furia but okay

2021-09-21 19:51

they're not better, they can be on the same level of talent

2021-09-21 19:53

godsent

2021-09-21 19:57

really? you think Pain can compete at tier 1 EU?

2021-09-21 20:17

with time and expirience yes, they have good tatics and have a great talent but need to learn more about the tier1 division

2021-09-21 20:31

stop crying brother, let's cheer for furia and 00nation that in my opinion are the most qualified BR teams and in the group A cheer for liquid and pain

2021-09-21 19:26

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i do not suport just 2 teams, i suport all the brazilian teams

2021-09-21 19:42

Did you see how Brazilian teams got destroyed by tier 3 EU teams? You really think they will do anything at the major? Btw in case you are new, if teams qualifies for NA doesn't perform (qualify for new stages, qualify for playoffs), then next major NA will have 1 spot for major at contender, meaning only 1 team will qualify for NA next major (probably Liquid)

well that's because NA CS and SA CS are dead

lmao probably next major 1 contender spot for NA 0 challenger 0 legends

+1 if NA/BR teams don't perform at the major, next major there will be no spots left for NA because Valve gives spot based on previous major's performances :)

if that were the case, there wouldn't even be any more vacancies in SA

you are guaranteed 1 spot regardless of how bad you play, that's why OCE/ASIA all have 1 spot

2021-09-21 20:35

and SA too

2021-09-21 20:39

Come on lanpoint!

Great

#HAVUJA Oh wait, nevermind...

2021-09-21 19:02

OPAA too strong i guess :ddd

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2021-09-21 19:05

Easy group for OG! #DreamOG

2021-09-21 19:07

ban cheaters, get ef!

decent group for astralis, lets go astralis and endpoint :)

2021-09-21 19:10

Location ???

Rip Riders, group B is brutal

group D is absolute trash hahahaha wtf

2021-09-21 19:15

I can see some hope for FAZE there

#DreamOG

2021-09-21 19:17

Might aswell put Liquid and Pain in group B lol

2021-09-21 19:18

Vamos Riders

2021-09-21 19:22

sinners ezi

Finally fnatic isnt in a group of death

wdym, nip and faze are both ranked inside top 10 in the world

2021-09-22 00:17

EZ4NAVI

EZ4ENCE

2021-09-21 19:28

AGREED

where g2 vs faze

EZ4AURA

2021-09-21 19:34

NA groups

2021-09-21 19:36

Bro imagine if pain was in group b😭

Thankfully it's not, paiN is eager to hit the Extra Salt, discount everything they did with us

Groups B so fucking stacked. Group C extremely easy... so unbalanced.

Of course all of the Brasil teams are in the same group

G0-5 incoming

when is vita?

Worth tournament for watching ! GL to all

2021-09-21 19:43

ez for AURA

2021-09-21 19:45

VP and Entro luckily out of major

what happened to navi?

2021-09-21 19:56

2021-09-21 20:00

fk me, i was looking to eu groups for them :D

2021-09-21 20:03

Np kenks

All BRs in one group, EVEY SINGLE TIME, this is a fucking joke!!!

2021-09-21 20:06

Darn,they really want NiP on the major. Just look at that group)

2021-09-21 20:10

Whoever made the NA groups should be fired

2021-09-21 20:12

FPX can suprise in Group A, Group D is a joke Should be EZ FOR G2, Mouz Heroic, Astralis Vitality, OG FaZe, NiP NaVi, Entropiq Gambit, ForZe Liquid, Pain Furia, EG NKT Renegades MiBR

2021-09-21 20:13

ez4sinners

2021-09-21 20:14

akuma kekw

2021-09-21 20:18

Pretty balanced groups for eu maybe could change maybe fpx to c and one of the bottom 3 from c to a

2021-09-21 20:23

4 BRAZILIANS IN ONE GROUP, WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

2021-09-21 20:24

The other group is harder, though.

2021-09-21 22:45

yeh, you're correct

2021-09-22 14:06

bad news bears will make the major

2021-09-21 20:29

Group A is a f***ing mess

2021-09-21 20:55

Im still waiting for NiP and Astralis in same group. Guy who is doing these groups is so stupid. Everyone want to see device vs Astralis

2021-09-21 20:59

device vs astralis would be hyped match but these groups have to be made in accordance with current rankings, rmr points etc

2021-09-22 00:54

Gruop C looks solid. Group D absolute trash, esl making easy groups for faze always on puspose. Makes me feel angry

2021-09-21 21:03

???? :D Mouz only have G2 who are in bad form, BIG who lost firepower and are not ready yet and nobody knows how FPX will play against tier 1 again

2021-09-21 21:15

I was going to comment the same thing, It would be nicer to see FPX in group D instead of Fnatic or Skade

2021-09-21 22:00

In EPL faze had navi big fnatic mouz in their group

2021-09-22 00:46

OMG

2021-09-21 21:12

No pa rip

2021-09-21 21:25

Dale Riders!!!!

2021-09-21 21:50

ATK will win the rmr then the major

2021-09-21 21:59

I just don’t understand why some Brazilian team compete in NA and some in SA…

2021-09-21 22:02

Depends on whether the org is paying the money to relocate them (even if temporarily) to the US/Mexico. Some orgs have that kind of cash, others need to stay in Brazil/Argentina to make the investment worth it. It's a really big continent... if you look at Europe, it is about the size of North America alone.

2021-09-21 22:44

Thanks bro. Furia definitely has bigger chance if in SA. In fact there are a lot of Brazilian teams located in NA.

2021-09-21 23:10

Not really, NA has 5 Spots while SA has 1, and its riskier because if they just choke 1 match they could not qualify because of it

2021-09-21 23:26

Right. But if they all compete in SA, Valve could assign more spots to SA than NA.

2021-09-22 15:44

Some really interesting teams and groups... feels good that CSGO is still fresh even as this stupid pandemic keeps going on.

2021-09-21 22:46

izi money from one-time-major team stickers :)

2021-09-21 23:18

Group D ahahh Is this Snow Yellow Snow or Malta?

2021-09-21 23:24

NaVi vs Akuma again xaxaxaxa

2021-09-22 01:44

What's your thoughts about that group stages matches is BO1 in IEM Fall Europe? This is the most important tournement (RMR-points) this year and the deciders is BO1, how even? Next bullshit thing is that the four third-place teams has no chance to reach quarter-finals, they just competing for place 9-12. Why not the same groups stages format as in esl pro league season 14?

2021-09-22 11:57

LETS GO EG! You got this!

2021-09-22 13:29

EU : Vitality wins CIS : NaVi wins NA : Liquid wins Asia : NKT wins Oceania : Renegades wins SA : Bravos wins EZ 6/6

2021-09-22 15:37

Nice groups

2021-09-22 16:08

no fantasy?

2021-09-23 11:59

EZ 4 FPX (at least 11th pls)

2021-09-23 12:00

Pretty good groups actually

2021-09-23 12:07

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