ESL announce IEM Brazil and qualifier dates

9/1/2023 - 18:35

The Brazilian event will take place in the slot previously reserved for IEM Spring in April.

ESL has officially announced their new addition to the CS:GO calendar with IEM Brazil 2023, the latest ESL Pro Tour event with a $250,000 up for grabs. The tournament will take place between April 17-23 and will host 16 teams in the South American country competing for the lion's share of the prize pool and a notch in the Intel Grand Slam belt.

The tournament organizer has also announced the dates for the open and closed qualifiers which will allow five teams from four different regions (Europe, North America, South America, and Asia) to reach the event while the remaining 11 squads will be directly invited by ESL.

IEM will return to Brazil in 2023 as a non-Major event

ESL announced their plans to host a Brazilian tournament ahead of the IEM Rio Major final, but gave no further details on the event's location or dates. Reports from ge, meanwhile, pointed at an April return to Rio de Janeiro aligned to the previously announced IEM Spring.

IEM Brazil will begin just two weeks after ESL Pro League Season 17's conclusion in Malta and will end two weeks before the BLAST.tv Paris Major.

Intel Extreme Masters to return to Brazil in 2023

The qualifiers will take place on ESEA between January 21-February 16 across four different regions and will allow five teams to reach the Brazilian tournament. Two qualifying spots have been reserved for European teams while North America, South America, and Asia will only receive one each.

The complete schedule for the qualifiers can be found below:

EU Open Qualifier #1: January 27-28
EU Open Qualifier #2: January 30-31
EU Closed Qualifier: February 8-10

NA Open Qualifier #1: January 26-27
NA Open Qualifier #2: February 11-12
NA Closed Qualifier: February 15-16

SA Open Qualifier #1: January 26-27
SA Open Qualifier #2: February 11-12
SA Closed Qualifier: February 15-16

Asia Open Qualifier #1: January 21-22
Asia Open Qualifier #2: January 23-24
Asia Closed Qualifier: January 26-27

L crowd

2023-01-09 18:37

21 replies

+1 they didnt learn from iem rio

2023-01-09 19:04

6 replies

They did learn, this is a business. Rio had all tickets sold out in a matter of hours.

2023-01-09 19:09

3 replies

who cares if the fans actually come if you sell tickets, right?

2023-01-09 21:35

1 reply

Money is what matter.

2023-01-09 21:53

we will never understand

2023-01-10 00:16

understanding levels critically low

2023-01-09 19:11

Name

2023-01-09 19:34

why?

2023-01-09 19:41

brazil fans didnt even come to watch major finals and make them hype and lil bro asks why :skull:

2023-01-09 21:51

5 replies

all tickets sold out bro... NA maths I was under the impression about it to but a guy who was in the event explained that: ESL structure sucks, u couldn't watch the game if u bought a ticket from the corner, no TV's at the corner

2023-01-10 16:15

4 replies

guess we forget about spitting at players and cheating too xd, is that the first tournament they ahd to turn off xray and radar?

2023-01-11 00:34

Yeah, "Cheat" like Astralis in Compenhagen Never passed throught ma mind that it was your first event kid I was to you and you didn't answer shit that I said, give me a suck bitch

2023-01-11 01:59

2 replies

"Yeah, "Cheat" like Astralis in Compenhagen Never passed throught ma mind that it was your first event kid" what does that have to do with brazil having worst crowd in 2022 xD? did astralis drunk fans cheat and made the experience for the viewer shit? of course did brazil fans made the same? of course what did you want to achieve by referring to astralis fans, normalize cheating xDD? or show us that brazil fans are indeed as bad as astralis fans? well since we agree on that astralis fans were on that event L crowd and u just compared brazil fans to them and we can add to brazil fans other incidents like spitting on players, what does that make brazil fans then xD? not an L crowd?

2023-01-11 02:31

No, u are dumb and do not realize wtf the crowd was speaking cause even u and even esl do not know or language and are a bunch of racists, just it fellas now SMB

2023-01-12 03:52

Why arent they going to Sydney or so, if its like Major then another L Event bruh

2023-01-09 19:44

FAZ o L ?

2023-01-09 20:56

Jkakakkkakak best comment

2023-01-10 03:58

Underrated comment xd

2023-01-11 17:42

you wouldnt come either if u had to listen to gaules instead of actually good talent which they kicked after day one

2023-01-09 21:44

Another cry kkkkkkkkkkkk

2023-01-10 18:02

2023-01-11 05:42

why

Ez for eternal fire

who

2023-01-09 18:39

dafuq plaky ur a ef fan now? XD

2023-01-09 18:52

2023-01-09 19:06

wow

2023-01-09 18:38

IEM Brazil or IEM Gaules?

IEM You Will Never Understand

IEM CrowdCheating

2023-01-09 22:20

IEM Spit On Players

2023-01-11 05:43

god no. please cancel

2023-01-09 18:41

just don't watch it... you don't have to suffer with it

2023-01-09 20:08

Alright Brazil, show us you're actually capable of a good crowd Denmark redeemed themselves somewhat a year after that horrible Blast crowd You've got one shot, don't waste it

jiminy cricket crowd is back

2023-01-09 18:42

what crowd

2023-01-09 19:39

calm down, friend.. we're still going to have a major in germany, for the tiny big clan fans to rave about!

2023-01-10 20:36

Crowds will be great for any match containing an SA team, otherwise virtually empty again.

Ez 4 FURIA

2023-01-09 18:43

12 replies

Just like last time huh?

2023-01-09 18:46

11 replies

Liechtenstein exist? Lmao

2023-01-09 19:22

10 replies

3rd worlder kek

2023-01-09 19:51

8 replies

"Liechtenstein is a principality 25 kilometers long"... omegalul...

2023-01-09 20:31

"Signed Up 2023-01-02"

2023-01-09 21:10

And? "Signed up2021-02-19"

2023-01-09 23:07

you are a troll bro

2023-01-10 16:10

no one called you in the conversation, go to sleep mule...

2023-01-10 16:42

axaxaxaxax nice flair and name bro

2023-01-10 16:53

he is the only guy who likes cs there :)

2023-01-10 22:37

Brazil is a developing country (emerging) and not a 3rd world (underdeveloped) it's been a while, including being the 9th largest economy in the world in 2022, no it is a poor country and yes unfair in the division of wealth..

2023-01-10 21:07

IEM Gaules

2023-01-10 08:30

L incoming

Shoulda been Australia

2023-01-09 18:44

Agreed and specifically sydney

Every single IEM Sydney was actually god tier

2023-01-09 19:36

Aussie Aussie Aussie .......

2023-01-10 04:13

oi oi oi

2023-01-12 09:44

so good <3

Sao Paulo >>> Rio

2023-01-09 18:45

???????????????????? pfff

2023-01-10 02:20

2023-01-10 18:29

wtf...

Garbage crowd

EU fans are fast they are already crying here lmaooo we love that

It's because we will never understand

2023-01-09 22:49

no its because you are just retard

2023-01-10 17:39

Learn English before you try to talk shit bud.

2023-01-10 18:21

can't wait to see an empty arena again.

Please no

Great! Brazil crowd are insane! Can't wait!

2023-01-09 18:47

we're gonna be even louder 6pat

2023-01-10 00:20

Till every brazil team eliminated. After that its ghost town

2023-01-10 06:32

until all brazilians are eliminated

2023-01-10 09:06

oh godness no

2023-01-09 18:49

W event

i hope it'll be in my state this time

nosense

2023-01-09 18:50

Not again!

nooooo why

2023-01-09 18:51

I bet the non-brazilian teams love the library venue

2023-01-09 18:53

Rare Atom take this one easily

2023-01-09 18:55

Should be awesome

2023-01-09 18:56

L Event

south american complaining about having more events in south america 🤡

We need IEM Buenos Aires, Brazil crowd is just L generally.

2023-01-10 01:03

Pathetic, you should support SA events

2023-01-10 12:45

2023-01-10 16:39

No chance. Wild and disrespectful crowd.

2023-01-11 18:39

hope it gonna be better this time

2023-01-09 19:02

cool just hope the crowd cheers for all teams !

2023-01-09 19:03

This is not gonna happen

Europeans hating SA in 2023, idiots Lets go manitosss

2023-01-09 19:05

lets go

2023-01-09 20:09

bamos

2023-01-10 00:21

YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND

Zzzzzzz another you will never understand event Zzzzzzzzzzzz

2023-01-09 19:07

you will never understand...

2023-01-09 21:57

i'm not understanding

2023-01-09 19:10

The empty stadium picture sums up the last major perfectly...

Idk why you guys keep trying to push the empty stage narrative, there was 2 irrelevant teams in the finals and the stage was still filled.

2023-01-09 20:57

can't wait to see the great BR library again.

2023-01-09 19:12

Disgusting behaving library crowd

pro.eslgaming.com/tour/2023/01/iem-brazi.. invites are out a week today location confirmation in a few weeks

2023-01-09 19:16

plz bring to Sao Paulo

Lets goo manitosss, happy for another big event in SA <3

gracias manito, i hope you've the opportunity to host big CS tournaments in Argentina, soon

2023-01-09 20:17

<3 <3

2023-01-10 20:50

BR getting a redemption arc kek. Im not hopeful tho

2023-01-09 19:18

Every body saying “oh Its Gonna be empty “ like come on, this huge company dont invest their money, Betting in a random placel, they know that is huge viewship base here

2023-01-09 19:27

oh sh.. here we go again. empty arena wasted major

NOOOO

2023-01-09 19:24

RJ again? bad choice why not SP

yOu WiLl NeVeR uNdErStAnD

2023-01-09 19:28

I sleep

2023-01-09 19:30

No teams will care about this event it is just after the rmrs and before the major lol

2023-01-09 19:38

If Faze don't win Katowice or EPL they will definitely tryhard this one. They only need 1 win for the Grand Slam and this would be one of their last chances (they need 1 win in the next 4 eligible events and this would be event 3 out of 4).

2023-01-10 05:12

True If faze win the grandslam before some other hungry team will take it though

2023-01-10 23:17

One more ez title for Jame 100% winrate in Brazilian territory

2023-01-09 19:49

L event

2023-01-09 19:56

You will never understand guys

2023-01-09 20:13

big L rio major was the worst no events in brazil please final without crowd was hilarious 😂😂

2023-01-09 20:14

"Final without crowd was hilarious" Ye, keep lying on the internet, its not like we could go to twitch and make a clip from the finals right? stage was filled: clips.twitch.tv/MagnificentImportantAmaz..

2023-01-09 20:59

Dead silent crowd tho. It's understandable tho that brazilians don't like CS in general, brazilians just love Brazil.

2023-01-09 23:03

Bro but who fucking loves cheaters vs boring savers? Tbf worst teams in a major final ever

2023-01-09 23:12

Totally agreed my man

2023-01-13 04:20

Lol, go check Jame's youtube channel he said himself that he never had a crowd that supported him so much, that usually they're hated in EU. Same for Heroic, remember them gettin booed while playing in home soil last year?

2023-01-10 00:07

You're certainly right. I hope for next BR event in grand final we will see FURIA vs. MIBR or something. This will be insane to watch on site or even on stream :)

2023-01-13 04:26

POG

2023-01-09 20:18

2023-01-09 20:28

i really dont know why every fvcking person are always criticizing brazilian crowd. we never got attention for several years, and we SIMPLY have a different way to cheer. this is what you'll never understand. football is the main sport in our society, and if you really like football in BR, you pick one team to cheer and you deal with it till death. basically, ALL FOOTBALL TEAMS have rivalry between them, so we have social-implanted the idea that is “wrong” cheer for two or more teams. i hope you understand what i mean, thats my pov/opinion.

2023-01-09 20:35

Yeah a "different" way to cheer. Truly is different than everyone elses like going outside and hanging out with Gaules AFTER buying tickets to the event and very different in the way it is as silent as in a library when no br team is playing. We really will never understand

2023-01-09 22:59

#243

2023-01-15 09:24

WE DONT RELATE WITH MOSTLY EUROPEAN TEAMS/PEOPLE BRO; we're a fcking 3rd worlder we'll cheer for our teams. hanging with gaules (if he'll be there) and european matches will be just a entertainment zZzZ

Australians had one team during Sydney and they still cheered for other teams, you are just giving excuses for your shitty behaviour.

2023-01-15 10:30

Hope the crowd cheers or at least not stay quiet for teams that are not Brazilian when the event arrives

challengers/legends stage = nice crowd playoffs = horrible crowd.

2023-01-09 20:49

Pretty true i’d say, the crowd has real good potential, just needs to be organized right

2023-01-09 21:07

already a W if no gaules

2023-01-09 20:36

cringe, wont watch

2023-01-09 20:40

it will be boring If there isn't a Brazilian team in the final

2023-01-09 20:44

Waste of a tournament

meh irrelevant tournament right before the major, should have been Australia

Yeah, Australia scene is so relevant

2023-01-09 21:25

it isnt about scene, what u dont realise, its about fans, australia had one of the best crowds in csgo history which made these events so good to watch, check out iem sidney i am sure there are a lot of clips from it

2023-01-09 21:55

Why Rio tho, so many better places to host it.

2023-01-09 21:09

iem juiz de fora pls

2023-01-09 21:23

Please make it on São Paulo and not on Rio.

2023-01-09 21:26

Rio Major was terrible because of "fans"

2023-01-09 21:28

LETS GO

2023-01-09 21:29

GOAT Messi should play Showmatch vs ronaldo and we already know that messi is the best but ronaldo atleast might get kinda spiced

I called it last year that IEM Spring would be in Brazil. They called me a madman.

2023-01-09 22:02

'we need bigger arena' no way...

2023-01-09 22:25

need bigger arena guys unfortunately this is not enough

2023-01-09 22:53

oh god why

2023-01-09 23:09

cry gringos.

2023-01-09 23:34

Hell nah men

2023-01-10 00:24

I think the crowd should actually be better than the major because tickets were not sold 2 years in advance

2023-01-10 02:51

oh boy i wonder what happened to comments #1 to #7

2023-01-10 03:21

Wtf why not IEM Australia?

2023-01-10 03:34

This time try do not set the grand final match to happens right in the day of a fucking nacional exam.

2023-01-10 03:35

IEM Sydney where?

2023-01-10 03:37

Where IEM Sydney??

The news I was expecting since November!

2023-01-10 04:14

IEM Melbourne when? We need to replace 2020 hellooo

2023-01-10 05:17

Expected, cry is free.

2023-01-10 05:45

Brazil really deserves another event

2023-01-10 06:57

IEM Library

2023-01-10 08:35

2023-01-10 10:54

We want excitement we want to watch best cs in this event and not like those things that happened in Rio major, we want to see if BR crowd is the best or not, BR fans, proove us wrong! Let's goooo!

2023-01-10 11:53

Now all they need is to ban Gaules.

2023-01-10 13:12

they trying to sneak in this as a third event for KATO COLOGNE DUO naaaah

2023-01-10 15:45

Cry is free They liked here, and our scene is very relevant. So.. stop crying

2023-01-10 18:18

No just no

2023-01-10 18:35

IEM Sydney or riot

2023-01-11 01:57

brazil event stealers

2023-01-11 09:55

The truth behind the ghost town in the major final... ESL doesn't know how to prepare such an event. BR plahyers was doing meet and greet during the finals, that's why it was an ghost twon

2023-01-11 12:32

I really do not understand why people think we should cheer for others teams the same way we do for the Brazilians. Like in any other sport, people will not cheer for their opponents, or even watch the game because it doesn't matter who wins or loses. I was in the arena during the final, most of the time on the phone because there is no motivation to cheer, it is like watching a random game The arena was empty and will be empty again when no Brazilian teams are playing, just deal with it. In the end, all the tickets will be sold out and therefore doesn't matter if you are there watching or not.

2023-01-11 17:08