IEM Road to Rio 2022 North America Open Qualifier 2

Evil Geniuses, ATK qualify for Americas RMR

2/9/2022 - 05:58

Just two more teams will have the chance to join the team list through the final open qualifier.

Evil Geniuses and ATK have qualified for the IEM Road to Rio Americas RMR event that will take place in Stockholm, Sweden, topping the second open qualifier bracket to join twelve other teams who will be fighting for spots at the Major.

Any fears of one of the few titanic names left in North American Counter-Strike not making it through were quashed as Evil Geniuses became the first of the two teams to secure their berth, but it didn't come without hardship. The team were given trouble by Limitless in the round of 16, where Bobby "⁠stamina⁠" Eitrem almost led his side to a comeback from a 6-12 deficit only to fall in overtime, a gargantuan effort from Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta allowing EG to just scrape a win.

The team's subsequent match against TeamOne was also close as the Brazilians managed to tally thirteen rounds before losing in regulation, allowing EG through to their deciding series against BHOP. That match took only two maps to resolve, Brett "⁠brett⁠" Rhein's best efforts not being enough to help his team score a win as Vincent "⁠Brehze⁠" Cayonte powered EG to victory.

Brehze topped the qualifying series with a 1.40 rating

On the other side of the bracket, ATK moved past Unjustified before narrowly beating a Mythic mix featuring Austin "⁠Cooper⁠" Abadir and Ryan "⁠freakazoid⁠" Abadir in double overtime, setting up a qualifying series versus Strife.

The two teams traded wins on each other's map picks, ATK dominating 16-2 on Mirage and Strife securing a 16-11 victory on Overpass, leaving Vertigo as the final battleground. There, ATK dominated on the CT side to help claim victory, closing things out after a brief back and forth in the second half to qualify.

With one qualifier to go, the team list for the Americas RMR looks as follows:

Open Qualifier 3

Open Qualifier 3

EZ FOR THE GREATEST NORTH AMERICAN TEAM IN COUNTER STRIKE HISTORY

2022-09-02 05:59

3 replies

The amount of spots NA gets on rmrs is ridiculous. I hope fake minors with BO1 go die.

2022-09-02 06:51

2 replies

Fr their bracket was a joke, the only good team they fought was team one and they barely won it (16-13)

2022-09-02 08:59

1 reply

I was 15 - 5 at some point thought

2022-09-02 12:54

Gratz

2022-09-02 05:58

Still won't qualify for major lol

2022-09-02 11:04

wrong breeze @nohte

2022-09-02 06:00

Well used Filipino name Ben Mitchelmore

2022-09-02 06:03

Cheers, phone autocorrected it when editing

2022-09-02 06:11

Auti literally had to drag them across the line lmao

MAN ON THE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON

SA qualifier is unironically so shit compared to NA idk how you can be as delusional to think otherwise

2022-09-02 06:06

4 replies

Idk na scene sucks too sadly

2022-09-02 06:42

oh we're bad but no way in hell does artic qualify in na

2022-09-02 06:43

how is arctic inferior to atk or gaimin gladiators

2022-09-02 14:29

+1 they have too many spots

2022-09-02 15:49

breeze new eg pickup?

20 man roster soon

2022-09-02 06:14

+1 peak of humanity move by new Eg shareholders

2022-09-02 07:22

EZ4ATK

2022-09-02 06:37

So EG.PA and EG.CD wont be playing the majors, sucks for them

2022-09-02 07:28

at least they are getting paid lol

2022-09-02 17:00

EG qualified wtf? oh stewie is gone. k then

2022-09-02 08:00

I speak for everyone when i say goatimatic clears s0mple

2022-09-02 10:06

how come atk doesnt have a na core and is allowed in the na qualifier? does them not having a continent majority give them the option to choose?

2022-09-02 10:38

6 replies

I believe it is because South African region is counted towards NA. But I might be wrong on this one.

2022-09-02 12:15

A team’s region is determined by the citizenship of the majority of its players. In case of a tie, the team chooses between the two. In the case of players that don't belong to one of the 3 regions (Europe, Asia, Americas), those players can assign themselves to a region already represented on the roster. If all players are from another region, then they can choose any region.

2022-09-02 12:38

South African players can play in any region because they do not have a home qualifier.

2022-09-02 15:05

one of the ESL rules I think is the team is staying in the region for a prolonged time with the intent to play which ATK is and thus can qualify through there. I think this was the main rule which a SA team broke when they flew to Mexico to play in the NA qualifier they weren't staying there for a prolonged time and had no intent to play from there on a permanent basis

2022-09-02 15:22

but whats weird, if that is the case, is that apparently eg took hext because they wanted a na core for the rmr even though obviously eg is a dedicated na org, so #33 is probably whats up

2022-09-02 15:30

yea its also that, but i think the other rule is if its split between 2 regions like it is for ATK they can choose, not like they really have an option tho as there is not ZA qualifier

2022-09-02 15:37

Mythic choked so hard 😭😭😭😭😭 18-15 4v2 😭😭😭

2022-09-02 11:52