CSGO | 9z Team already has a rival for its Rio de Janeiro Major debut

The purple team qualified through the American RMR and will compete in the highly anticipated Counter event in South America.

Team 9z earned his second straight classification in a CSGO Major and present at Rio de Janeiro from 31 October, in what promises to be an unforgettable event for esports in the region. After leaving the American RMR, the Argentine team already knows its first rival for Challenger stage.

CSGO | 9z Team already has a rival for its Rio de Janeiro Major debut

As reported by HLTV via Valve’s official regulations, the cast consists of Argentinian Buda, Uruguayans Max and Dgt, Brazilian Nqz and Chilean Dav1d will meet the European team GamerLegion, who finished seventh in that continent’s A qualifier and even beat G2 Esports along the way.

RIO MAJOR – ROUND 1

• OG vs. greyhound
• enthusiasm vs. Imperial
• Evil Geniuses vs. IHC
• Cloud9 vs. fnatic
• BIG vs. ANGER
• Bad News Eagles vs. 00COUNTRY
• MOUZ vs. Outsiders
• 9z vs. GamerLegion

CSGO | How the Rio de Janeiro Major is played

The Major of Rio de Janeiro It will be played between October 31 and November 13, in two different venues: The Challengers and Legends Stage will be played at the convention center Riocentrowhile the Champions Stage is on Jeunesse Arena. The champion will keep 500 thousand dollars and the classification in IEM Katowice 2023.

The contest starts on October 31 with Challenger stagewith a duration of four days, where 16 teams will meet in the Swiss format until they find eight classifieds who will advance to legend stage. As in American RMR, matches will be best on one map, except for elimination or classification, which will be BO3.

For his part, the legend stage It will be from October 5 to 8. Another Swiss format will be played with the same rules and number of teams as in the previous phase and the best eight will be accessible playoffsfrom November 10 to 13. All matches will be best of three maps.