Matchups set for day three of IEM Rio Major Challengers Stage

Three teams will secure berths to the Legends Stage while another three will have their Major aspirations brought to a crushing end.

The IEM Rio Major Challengers Stage has reached its third day, which means that solely best-of-three matches will take place from here until the Legends Stage gets underway on Saturday.

The home crowd suffered on day two as both Imperial and 00NATION were eliminated from contention following losses to Cloud9 and IHC, respectively, leaving FURIA as the sole all-Brazilian representatives still in the competition.

Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan's side still need to fight to carry that status through to the next stage, and will have their first chance to lock in a spot among the top sixteen from the 2-1 pool when they take on GamerLegion at the end of day three.

Vitality are on the brink of elimination with a 1-2 record

A number of favorites have their backs up against the wall in the 1-2 pool, with Cloud9 in particular struggling following a slow start to the tournament. Dmitry "⁠sh1ro⁠" Sokolov has been their one saving grace so far, but they'll need the help Sergey "⁠Ax1Le⁠" Rykhtorov, who has been rather absent thus far, if they want to move past Evil Geniuses in their second elimination series.

Vitality are also staring down an early exit from the Major following their loss to Outsiders on day two, and will need to demonstrate better form as they now have two best-of-threes separating them from qualifying for the Legends Stage, beginning with a match against Grayhound.

The complete schedule and matchups for day three can be found below:

2-1 pool (BO3)

Date	Matches
IEM Rio Major 2022 Challengers Stage
02/11/2022	BIG15:00 9z	Match
02/11/2022	Outsiders18:35 fnatic	Match
02/11/2022	GamerLegion22:00 FURIA	Match

1-2 pool (BO3)

Date	Matches
IEM Rio Major 2022 Challengers Stage
02/11/2022	OG15:00 IHC	Match
02/11/2022	Vitality18:30 Grayhound	Match
02/11/2022	Evil Geniuses22:00 Cloud9	Match

Evil Geniuses #21 Timothy 'autimatic' TaVincent 'Brehze' CayonteTsvetelin 'CeRq' DimitrovSanzhar 'neaLaN' IskhakovJadan 'HexT' Postma Imperial #18 Gabriel 'FalleN' ToledoFernando 'fer' AlvarengaRicardo 'boltz' PrassMarcelo 'chelo' CespedesVinicius 'VINI' Figueiredo Outsiders #8 Evgenii 'FL1T' LebedevAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' AliDavid 'n0rb3r7' DanielyanPetr 'fame' Bolyshev Vitality #2 Dan 'apEX' MadesclairePeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenEmil 'Magisk' ReifMathieu 'ZywOo' HerbautLotan 'Spinx' Giladi Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov Age: 21 Team: Cloud9 Rating 1.0: 1.22 Maps played: 914 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.53 Andrei 'arT' Piovezan Age: 26 Team: FURIA Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 1028 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.71 Cloud9 #5 Abay 'HObbit' KhassenovTimofey 'interz' YakushinSergey 'Ax1Le' RykhtorovDmitry 'sh1ro' SokolovVladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov Sergey 'Ax1Le' Rykhtorov Age: 20 Team: Cloud9 Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 987 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.63 GamerLegion #25 Frederik 'acoR' GyldstrandMihai 'iM' IvanNicolas 'Keoz' DgusKamil 'siuhy' SzkaradekIsak 'isak' Fahlén 00NATION #27 Marcelo 'coldzera' DavidEpitacio 'TACO' de MeloEduardo 'dumau' WolkmerBruno 'latto' RebelattoSantino 'try' Rigal IHC #47 Bat-Enkh 'kabal' BatbayarTengis 'sk0R' BatjargalTuvshintugs 'Annihilation' NyamdorjGaridmagnai 'bLitz' ByambasurenSodbayar 'Techno' Munkhbold Grayhound #41 Simon 'Sico' WilliamsJay 'Liazz' TregillgasAlistair 'aliStair' JohnstonJoshua 'INS' PotterDeclan 'Vexite' Portelli FURIA #10 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRafael 'saffee' CostaAndré 'drop' Abreu