IEM Road to Rio 2022 Europe Open Qualifier 4

Benched Heroes, GamerLegion through to Europe RMR

28-8-2022 22:17

The team list for the IEM Road to Rio Europe RMR has now been finalised.

Benched Heroes and GamerLegion have clinched the last two spots up for grabs at the IEM Road to Rio Europe RMR after making their way through the fourth and final open qualifier. The two teams took down Illuminar and Forward, respectively, in the 5th-6th place decider matches after missing out on direct qualification with losses in yesterday's quarter-finals.

A handful of notable teams fell in this most-recent qualifier, namely Apeks and Movistar Riders. The European combine's absence from the upcoming Major-qualifying event is set to put an end to Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon's record of attending every CS:GO Major championship since the game's release, one he shares with Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen and Andreas "⁠Xyp9x⁠" Højsleth.

smooya's Benched Heroes will be present at the Europe RMR in Malta

Benched Heroes, a mix-team featuring the likes of Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield and Michał "⁠MICHU⁠" Müller, had to secure their place at the Europe RMR through the 5th-6th place decider bracket after suffering a quarter-final defeat at the hands of HEET on Saturday. The side managed to put up some resistance versus the Frenchmen, but in the end were taken down in two straight maps with 16-11 and 16-10 showings on Overpass and Dust2.

Benched Heroes faced off against Illuminar in their decider match. Both teams were pushed to the limit in the opening two maps, with Mirage being a 16-14 victory in favour of Illuminar before Benched Heroes equalised with a 22-20 scoreline on Dust2. In the end, however, it was smooya and company who punched in their ticket to Malta, surviving the Poles after a hard-fought 16-14 showing on the final map of Nuke.

IEM Road to Rio 2022 Europe Open Qualifier 4Best of 3

Illuminar

Matchpage

28th August 2022

Benched Heroes

Mirage

Dust2

Nuke

Illuminar	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Piotr 'morelz' Taterka morelz	79 - 70	+9	84.2	1.18
Paweł 'reatz' Jańczak reatz	66 - 73	-7	79.2	1.00
Bartek 'mASKED' Trybuła mASKED	66 - 68	-2	67.0	0.96
Mateusz 'TOAO' Zawistowski TOAO	62 - 72	-10	66.5	0.94
Konrad 'EXUS' Jeńczeń EXUS	63 - 79	-16	67.2	0.87

Benched Heroes	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Owen 'smooya' Butterfield smooya	87 - 64	+23	92.3	1.35
Eugene 'Aunkere' Karyat Aunkere	78 - 71	+7	86.8	1.17
Buğra 'Calyx' Arkın Calyx	70 - 66	+4	67.4	1.01
Rodion 'fear' Smyk fear	62 - 67	-5	68.1	0.99
Michał 'MICHU' Müller MICHU	63 - 68	-5	69.1	0.98

GamerLegion, on the other hand, were sent down to their decider game following their 2-0 defeat to SAW in the quarter-finals yesterday. The Portuguese side looked in control for much of the series, edging out the European mix with 16-12 and 16-9 showings on Ancient and Vertigo.

GamerLegion squared up against Mihail "⁠Dosia⁠" Stolyarov and Rustem "⁠mou⁠" Telepov's Forward squad for their chance at making the Europe RMR. The two teams traded map picks with the Russian-majority roster nabbing their choice of Dust2 19-16 before the European roster answered back by stealing away Mirage 16-9. Ancient, meanwhile, was a completely walkover from start to finish, with GamerLegion thrashing their opponents 16-1 to get themselves one step closer to an appearance at the Major.

IEM Road to Rio 2022 Europe Open Qualifier 4Best of 3

Forward

Matchpage

28th August 2022

GamerLegion

Dust2

Mirage

Ancient

Forward	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Nikita 'JIaYm' Panyushkin JIaYm	62 - 59	+3	77.2	1.09
Rustem 'mou' Telepov mou	55 - 50	+5	74.7	1.08
Dmitriy 'ProbLeM' Martinov ProbLeM	49 - 56	-7	71.9	0.88
Vladislav 'xiELO' Lysov xiELO	38 - 60	-22	64.3	0.73
Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov Dosia	26 - 50	-24	48.1	0.69

GamerLegion	K - D	+/-	ADR	Rating 2.0
Frederik 'acoR' Gyldstrand acoR	74 - 42	+32	88.1	1.45
Nicolas 'Keoz' Dgus Keoz	59 - 52	+7	84.2	1.20
Mihai 'iM' Ivan iM	55 - 46	+9	79.4	1.16
Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek siuhy	46 - 46	0	73.1	1.03
Isak 'isak' Fahlén isak	40 - 44	-4	63.8	0.92

With all four open qualifiers now done and dusted, the team list for the IEM Road to Rio Europe RMR is finalised. The two groups will each offer eight spots for the Major in Brazil, split between both the Challengers Stage and the main IEM Major Rio event.

The team list for the Europe RMR is as follows:

Europe RMR A

Europe RMR B

Qualifier #1

Qualifier #2

Qualifier #3

Qualifier #4

Visit our dedicated coverage hub to stay updated with all the news related to the IEM Rio Major 2022.

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2022-08-28 22:17

smooooooooooooooya

Smooya numba 1

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2022-08-28 22:18

EZ GL

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2022-08-28 22:19

dosia dead weight sadly :(

EZ SMOOYA

SMOOOYA

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SMOOOOOOOOYA

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Im sorry but smooya and aunkere are dream duo.

smoooooooooooooya what a legend

NICE

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2022-08-28 22:20

so there are 4 pug teams in a minor now lmao

I hope smooya works on his behaviour because he is damn good

2022-08-28 22:21

smoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooya

Is siuhy playing for GL permanently, or only at RMR events since main MOUZ teams is qualified?

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He must have been bought out otherwise he wouldn't be able to play afaik.

2022-08-28 22:30

Smooya pog

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2022-08-28 22:22

Did the last 2 qualifiers offer more spots to give Astralis more of a chance?

Nah it was planned like that since the beginning. Do you think they just added more spots to the RMR after Astralis failed to qualify 3 times? That would be insane and would not have gone unnoticed. Why they did it like that though I don't know. They could have had 5 spots at each one. Instead it was 5-4-5-6.

2022-08-29 00:35

illuminar should disband... this is embarrassing

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2022-08-28 22:23

X God has 0.69 rating... Nice one old guy.

BENCHED HEROS TO WIN THE MAJOR!!! #LETSGOSMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYA

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2022-08-28 22:24

KEKW we never gonna see pl team on major

I'm sorry for polacks

2022-08-28 22:25

Dosia 0.69 kd X-GOD just wanted 69

2022-08-28 22:28

so ez for smoooyaaaaa

2022-08-28 22:29

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holy shit mens)))))))

Smooooooooooooooooooooooooya

smooooooooooooooya da goat

Acor finally showing what he can do. You can see that it's not the awpers' fault that they can't play well for Astralis but the problem is in gla1ve under utilising his awpers.

2022-08-28 22:32

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Acor played for mouz not astralis lol

2022-08-28 22:34

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My bad lol idk why I thought that. Still my point stands that these players are just not being used well and that's why they whiff their shots/have bad stats.

2022-08-28 22:35

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Absolutely mechanically insane player

2022-08-28 22:47

I mean he was straight up missing people coming into his crosshair at times, and you are comparing tier 3-4 qualifier to tier 1 tournaments that he attended in Mouz

2022-08-28 23:26

I'm not trying to make excuses, but when you are not allowed to play however you want or are limited because you have to flash for your teammates instead of your teammates flashing for you, you might have more things on your mind and you miss a shot because of it. Same with using aggro players passively, if someone is used to flicking left and right, he might miss a sitter.

2022-08-28 23:29

Agree, there was a reason mouz went for him at the time. GL have iM as well, finally he's gonna be on a bigger stage after putting up great numbers for so long

2022-08-28 23:30

True, iM, siuhy and Acor deserve it.

Nah acor is not good, its just vs tier4teams

2022-08-29 08:13

Smooooooya

2022-08-28 22:36

I'm ready for the IRL fight between Smooya and Aunkere at Malta GJ OWEN nonetheless

2022-08-28 22:38

lol

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2022-08-28 22:48

2022-08-28 22:49

SMOOOOOOOYA might be the greatest of all time

2022-08-28 22:51

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2022-08-28 22:53

13 of 32 are EU teams

2022-08-28 22:55

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2022-08-28 22:54

Don't say that smooya created this team, benched heroes founded fear

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2022-08-28 22:56

Dosia X God Sadge

2022-08-28 23:01

SMooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooYA

2022-08-28 23:04

3 replies

biggest smooya I've seen all night

2022-08-28 23:11

2 replies

Smooya always big!

2022-08-29 17:03

2022-08-29 17:13

EZ4 MY BOI CALYX

2022-08-28 23:05

Smooya 1 UK > Whole polish scene OMEGAKEK

2022-08-28 23:08

SMOOOOOOOOOOYA

Have to give credit to smooya & co Well done

2022-08-28 23:10

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2022-08-28 23:13

OWEN "SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYA" BUTTERFIELD AT IT AGAIN MAGICAL

2022-08-28 23:16

Why did you put astralis on top of SAW? Who won the open qualifier?

2022-08-28 23:17

Unluko for GRGECHI

2022-08-28 23:18

acor wtf smooooooooooooooooooooooooooya tho

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2022-08-28 23:22

smoooooooooooya!

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2022-08-28 23:25

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2022-08-28 23:27

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2022-08-28 23:32

and nobody publishes the news that the SAW in 1st and win to the astralis! This news is the most important...

2022-08-28 23:35

No one care, they lose 3 qualifiers too like astralis

2022-08-29 09:12

who cars about seeding

2022-08-29 12:30

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polish choke 8-0 2nd map lol

2022-08-28 23:37

Dosia unlucky

2022-08-28 23:43

all that work just to get eliminated in the first round in RIO

2022-08-28 23:47

2022-08-28 23:49

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2022-08-28 23:53

So happy for MICHU and ofcourse my boy Owen! You go hard at them at the RMR, Owen! Make the queen proud! SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYAAAA!!!!

Let’s go smooya

2022-08-29 00:01

Let's go ! Great to see both teams making it . Both Smooooooooooooooooya and TerminAcor are 2 of my favourite players and I am glad to see them making waves again , both individually and team level Hope they do well in the RMR too !

2022-08-29 00:04

nt dosia

2022-08-29 00:29

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2022-08-29 00:42

Sad for Riders but....SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

2022-08-29 01:01

ez for acoR

2022-08-29 01:14

crazy to see the gamer legion org outside of Aoe2. Also crazy they only have two players rostered on hltv?

2022-08-29 01:16

Age of empires 2? Wow that game has esport?

2022-08-29 05:48

Gj AcoR

2022-08-29 01:24

SMOOOOOOOOOYA

2022-08-29 01:29

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2022-08-29 01:53

SMOOOOYA MAJOR POG

2022-08-29 01:54

Imagine Smooya, Michu and Calyx's team beat eternal fire, eg and fnatic. Gamerlegion (with Acor) and Falcons (with NBK) beat mouz. Karma I would like the second one, I really don't like how Mouz treat their players.

2022-08-29 02:06

No, it’s completely normal to let your player know he’s benched as he joins the server for practice lol

2022-08-29 03:06

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Definitely, hey btw here is the new guy, xertion. Btw, He is remplacing you. Did you read the memo ? Ah damn, I forgot. Anyway gl, hope to see you soon. We will contact you if we need a stand in.

2022-08-29 03:27

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Also he sure not to join any teams since we disqualified you from playing at the RMR by letting you play qualifiers with us.

2022-08-29 03:49

Even bymas was average, I don't mind the kick, it is how and when they did it . Sure, if you are not performing, it is a fps, you have to be sharp, but c'mon... I don't think dexter will be in this team after the major, even before. Just after the qualifier (but honestly, mouz won't probably make it.

2022-08-29 04:26

My problem is that it’s now been twice since adding Sycrone that they’ve kicked players either right before or right after the RMR with little to no warning. Seems like he needs to develop better personal skills imo

2022-08-29 04:28

I have also problems in ppl who say it is not sycrone, it is the manager or the org. Honestly, with Mytrhil, or with Rejin, things like that didn't happen. So, I doubt Sycrone is just following orders.

2022-08-29 05:21

+1 snake move also sound good if bald egg lose to benchedH

2022-08-29 08:18

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2022-08-29 02:38

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2022-08-29 02:41

Unlucky for major winners Dosia and Mou

2022-08-29 04:11

when do we find out the full RMR A and B team lists? And first match ups?

2022-08-29 05:57

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2022-08-29 06:57

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2022-08-29 08:22

Thanks god that this illuminar idiots not qualify to rmr, we dont need humiliation anymore... especially if poorlacks choke leads like that in fucking quali, imagine what will happen deeper...

2022-08-29 08:52

lets go Calyx boy smooya ez carry

2022-08-29 08:54