Five berths for the European RMRs are on the line in the first open qualifier.

Streams

Casters covering specific teams will have that team listed in brackets next to their name. Players streaming the qualifier will be listed with their team name and POV in brackets.

Notable matches - Bracket

Round of 32

Matches are covered on the tournament page.

Round of 64

Astralis 16-12 allStars - lobby
Sprout 16-14 BAKS - lobby
Endpoint 19-15 JANO - lobby
MOUZ 16-12 Sashi - lobby
Entropiq 16-13 eSuba - lobby
OG 16-7 Nexus - lobby
Copenhagen Flames 16-8 PARTIZAN - lobby
SAW 16-7 Budapest Five - lobby
Sampi 19-16 INFINITE - lobby
SINNERS 6-16 Monte - lobby
BLUEJAYS 16-14 TAG - lobby
Eternal Fire vs. 0to100 - lobby
Finest vs. flowstate - lobby
Falcons vs. HONORIS - lobby
fnatic vs. KTRL
Apeks vs. 9INE
1WIN vs. Wolsung - lobby
EYEBALLERS vs. AVANGAR
HEET vs. Ambush

Round of 128

Astralis 16-3 ToxicWorld - lobby - stream
Endpoint 16-4 Venekorjaamo - lobby - stream
Sprout 16-3 Metizport - lobby - stream - stream
SINNERS 16-3 EZKATKA - lobby - stream
Finest 16-5 PUGSTAR5 - lobby
Illuminar 8-16 Monte - lobby
Movistar Riders 9-16 INFINITE - lobby
TITANS 14-16 9INE - lobby
Apeks 16-4 ALTERNATE aTTaX - lobby
Copenhagen Flames 16-12 K23 - lobby
BLUEJAYS 16-10 Unknown flag cis neverfpl - lobby
OG 16-5 The Prodigies - lobby
Falcons 16-9 Team Impression - lobby
HEET 16-4 SuperGlue - lobby
MOUZ 16-3 GayKachalka - lobby
Entropiq 16-3 Madagaskar - lobby
Eternal Fire 16-10 BLOWN - lobby
fnatic 16-2 sleepwalkers - lobby

Round of 256

Copenhagen Flames 16-2 Norsera - lobby - stream
Astralis 16-1 Fulgor - lobby - stream
Endpoint 16-9 smokshort - lobby - stream
Falcons 16-1 AmbideX - lobby
Finest 16-9 Pugbots - lobby
Sprout 16-12 Atputies - lobby - stream
MOUZ 16-3 TheMoonEsports - lobby - stream
SINNERS 16-2 ForwardGaming - lobby - stream
d00m 15-19 AVANGAR - lobby - stream
SKADE 10-16 PROSPECTS - lobby - stream
Eternal Fire 19-16 FANTASY - lobby - stream
TITANS 16-8 RAIKIRI - lobby - stream
BLUEJAYS 16-0 Francis La Vie - lobby
HEET 16-11 99 - lobby
Movistar Riders 16-4 Pärnu - lobby
fnatic 16-2 POLIGON - lobby
OG 16-10 KalbosEgzaminas - lobby
FORZE 14-16 struggletony - lobby
Entropiq 16-2 Danish Titans - lobby
Apeks 16-4 9 Pandas - lobby - stream

Round of 512

Benched Heroes 16-3 Net Surfers - lobby - stream
d00m 16-10 premk1ngs - lobby - stream
Partizan 16-5 1stRoundWarriors - lobby
Sprout 16-3 JorviVelehot - lobby
FORZE 16-1 Unknown flag cis fazeac - lobby
Copenhagen Flames 16-2 BANTANGENS - lobby
Astralis 16-1 MEDVIDI - lobby
TITANS 16-0 47 Chromosomes - lobby
Endpoint 16-0 Boisen - lobby
BLUEJAYS 16-1 HUiPPUTiiMi - lobby
Falcons 16-0 Surjämtar - lobby
Eternal Fire 19-16 Whois - lobby - stream
OG 16-1 Again - lobby - stream
MOUZ 16-0 PABLOS - lobby - stream
Apeks 16-0 ruin s 0 - lobby - stream
fnatic 16-0 One Match Team - lobby
HEET 16-0 Unknown flag cis 1VS9 - lobby
Entropiq 16-0 AJOC - lobby
Movistar Riders 16-2 Freesi Esports - lobby - stream

01:25 Technical issues cause ESEA to push remaining games to tomorrow

Technical issues have finally gotten the better of the qualifier and the first day is cut short, with the remaining games to be played at 17:00 tomorrow.

Squads such as Finest, fnatic and Falcons will have to wait to get their round-of-64 matches done.

00:35 Big teams make the round of 32

Most of the final games of today are underway and a batch have just ended, with teams like MOUZ, Entropiq, Copenhagen Flames, and OG all making it to tomorrow.

23:45 Astralis and Monte secure first round-of-32 berths

Astralis make the tomorrow's phase of the qualifier with ease, their closest game coming in a 16-12 win against allStars in the round of 64.

Monte, who feature the likes of Volodymyr "⁠Woro2k⁠" Veletniuk and Mohammad "⁠BOROS⁠" Malhas, grabbed an upset win over SINNERS to make the round of 32.

23:35 Movistar Riders crash out

Movistar Riders suffer a 9-16 upset loss to Romanians INFINITE, earning the dubious honour of being the highest ranked team to be eliminated thus far. In their first outing since the departure of Álvaro "⁠SunPayus⁠" García, the Spaniards disappoint.

INFINITE move on to take on Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács's Sampi squad in the round of 64.

23:15 Games back underway

The ESEA website may still be struggling and GOTV may be down, but the games are back underway.

Some headline matchups in the round of 64 include Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli's new JANO squad taking on Endpoint and Astralis facing off against allStars.

22:15 Technical issues continue

ESEA are experiencing service issues and the GOTV relays are currently not working, so updates to this live post will be scarce for the time being.

22:05 First top 20 team eliminated as forZe crash out

Andrey "⁠Jerry⁠" Mekhryakov and co. become the first casualty of the top 20, the young Russian squad bombing out 14-16 at the hands of struggletony.

Elsewhere in the qualifier, Eternal Fire once again were forced to overtime, managing to squeak a 19-15 win over FANTASY on this occasion.

21:35 GeT_RiGhT mix eliminated

Christopher "⁠GeT_RiGhT⁠" Alesund and co. find themselves eliminated in the round of 256, falling to AVANGAR 15-19 on Inferno.

100 ADR from Jonas "⁠Lekr0⁠" Olofsson was not enough to save the Swedes.

21:30 SKADE eliminated by PROSPECTS in round of 256

The first major upset of the European open qualifier has happened, with world No. 36 SKADE bested 10-16 by No. 103 PROSPECTS.

Alexander "⁠AlekS⁠" Andersson was the MVP for his side, putting in a 100 ADR performance to help get his team over the line.

20:30 Eternal Fire survive scare in round of 512

Turkish fan-favourites Eternal Fire were made to work for it by Whois in the round of 512, needing overtime on Nuke to get over the line 19-16.

Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş was key in getting his team the win, grabbing 11 entry kills in the match.

19:54 No upsets yet as qualifier continues

The favourites have survived thus far in the open qualifier, with highest ranked team Astralis grabbing a comfortable 16-1 win.

Both big mixes, Benched Heroes and d00m, also made it through their opening games.

19:20 Technical issues hit round-of-512 matches

GOTV issues are currently hampering the qualifier, with ESEA tweeting that they are aware of the issue.

If streams are currently not showing matches, or the GOTV is lagging, it is likely due to this.

18:20 First round commences as bracket is released

The qualifier is up and running, with the bracket available here.

Some second round matchups are already known, with d00m, BenchedHeroes and Partizan already paired.

16:50 smooya and GeT_RiGhT enter mix-teams

Two high-profile mix-teams will be taking part in this qualifier, with Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield and GeT_RiGhT putting together squads. Both players will also be streaming their qualifying campaigns.

BenchedHeroes:

Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield
Eugene "⁠Aunkere⁠" Karyat
Rodion "⁠fear⁠" Smyk
Michał "⁠MICHU⁠" Müller
Nicolas "⁠Keoz⁠" Dgus

d00m:

Christopher "⁠GeT_RiGhT⁠" Alesund
Patrik "⁠f0rest⁠" Lindberg
Adam "⁠friberg⁠" Friberg
Jonas "⁠Lekr0⁠" Olofsson
Jack "⁠Jackinho⁠" Ström Mattsson

16:31 Check-in opens soon for the first European RMR qualifier

The long journey to qualify for the next Major begins today with the first round of the IEM Road to Rio 2022 Europe Open Qualifier 1 kicking off at 18:00 .

Teams will battle through a single-elimination, best-of-one bracket all the way to the quarter-finals, where best-of-three series play will take over.

With five spots for the Europe RMRs on the line, losers of the quarter-final matches will enter a 5th-8th place decider bracket to determine who takes the final RMR berth. There will also be a third-place decider match, for seeding purposes.

Some of the bigger names fighting it out in this qualifier are:

The teams already qualified for the European RMRs are:

This live post will be covering the qualifier up until the round of 32, at which point coverage can be found here.

This article will be updated with more information as the qualifier develops, including links to streams and a list of noteworthy match results. Streamers are invited to link their streams in the comments with information regarding the broadcast language in order to have them added to the article.

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