CSGO | Rio de Janeiro Major: when is 9z playing, days, times and everything you need to know

The violet team will play their second consecutive Counter World Cup, after their participation in Antwerp. We review the first day’s matches.

Team 9z will play from 31 October his second CSGO Major consecutively, after his participation in Antwerp 2022, although it will have a very particular flavor for the debate in Rio de Janeiro and for being the first to have an audience at all its stages. We examine the matches, schedule and tournament format.

9z Team at the Rio de Janeiro Major: who is your first rival

After leaving the American RMR with great performances against the Brazilians of 00Nation and Imperial, the set of Frankster, composed of Argentines Buddhathe Uruguayans Dgt and Maxthe Chilean David1d and the brazilian Nqzwill face again Challenger stagethe first phase of this contest.

Team 9z will begin Switzerland against the European team GamerLegion, who finished seventh in that continent’s A qualifier and even beat G2 Esports along the way. is 31 October on the first shift, from 11 from Argentina. Once the eight matches in the first round are over, Violeta will compete on the same day against another rival.

MAJOR DE RIO – ROUND 1: Argentina matches and schedule

• 31/10 11.00 MOUZ vs. Outsiders
• 31/10 11.00 9z vs. GamerLegion
• 10/31 12:15 Bad News Eagles vs. 00COUNTRY
• 31/10 12.15 OG vs. greyhound
• 31/10 13.30 BIG vs. ANGER
• 31/10 13.30 Evil Geniuses vs. IHC
• 31/10 14.45 Vitality vs. Imperial
• 31/10 14.45 Cloud9 vs. fnatic

CSGO | How the Rio de Janeiro Major is played

The Major of Rio de Janeiro is a dispute between October 31 and November 13in two different places: Challengers and Legends Stages will be played at the convention center Riocentrowhile the Champions Stage is on Jeunesse Arena. The champion will stay on 500 thousand dollars and the classification 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 is from October 5 to 8. Another Swiss format will be played with the same rules and number of teams as in the previous stage and the best eight will reach the playoffs, from November 10 to 13. All matches will be best of three maps.

CSGO | Rio de Janeiro Major: all qualified teams

• legends
• FaZe
• Navi
• By P
• ENCE
• sprout
• heroism
• spirit
• fluid

CHALLENGES

• OG
• vigor
• eg
• Cloud9
• HUGE
• BNE
• MOUZ
• Team 9z

CONTENT

• GamerLegion
• Outsiders
• 00Country
• ANGER
• fnatic
• IHC Esports
• Imperial
• Greyhound Game