Eternal Fire and Aurora are now one loss away from elimination, and will play best-of-three matches until their fates are decided. Astralis bounced back from an opening loss to Ninjas in Pyjamas, avoiding the 0-2 pool after two rounds of Swiss play, by sending Eternal Fire to their first elimination match of the Road to Rio Europe RMR A. On the B stream, GamerLegion refreshed their spirits with a victory over Aurora after disheartening loss in the first day of play, when they let several match points slide in a quadruple overtime against FaZe that in the end went the way of the best team in the world. Astralis got off to a flying start on the attacking side of Inferno, taking a 3-0 lead despite a close anti-eco, but Eternal Fire did not let the opportunity to keep things close pass in the first gun round. The Turks led in the blink of an eye, the score reading 4-3 in their favor by the seventh round. Only briefly did it last, however, as the Danes tied it back up and went on a rampage winning six in a row to take a 9-6 lead at the half. A Dual Berettas triple by Benjamin "blameF" Bremer kept Astralis ahead, putting ever more distance between the two teams, and the Danes never faltered despite losing three rounds in a row, denying Eternal Fire double digits on the way to a 16-9 victory. Aurora put up a wall on the CT side of Anciento from the start, tallying seven rounds in a row before GamerLegion retaliated. The European squad then opened the faucet, consecutively adding two more and securing seven of the last eight rounds to keep it within one before switching sides. GamerLegion's strong attacking side put them in a very good position on the CT side, as they flew to the lead early on despite losing the first two rounds of the half. A nine round streak put Kamil "siuhy" Szkaradek and company on match point in the 25th round, which they easily followed up on to end it 16-10. GamerLegion and Astralis join 1WIN and B8 in the 1-1 pool now, the last round of play which will see teams play best-of-ones before all matches become elimination or qualification series.Astralis
Matchpage 16 9 5th October 2022
Eternal Fire 16Inferno 9
Astralis
K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Benjamin 'blameF' BremerblameF
23 - 17 +6 87.6 1.36 Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossandergla1ve
17 - 16 +1 84.0 1.09 Mikkel 'MistR' ThomsenMistR
14 - 15 -1 59.9 1.07 Asger 'Farlig' JensenFarlig
18 - 16 +2 70.4 1.02 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethXyp9x
11 - 18 -7 62.6 0.79 Eternal Fire
K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Özgür 'woxic' Ekerwoxic
18 - 13 +5 71.0 1.14 Ismailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşXANTARES
20 - 17 +3 85.7 1.11 Engin 'MAJ3R' KüpeliMAJ3R
18 - 15 +3 68.0 1.04 Ömer 'imoRR' KarataşimoRR
15 - 21 -6 77.6 0.87 Ahmet 'paz' Karahocapaz
10 - 17 -7 48.0 0.71 Aurora
Matchpage 10 16 5th October 2022
GamerLegion 10Ancient 16
Aurora
K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Viktor 'Lack1' BoldyrevLack1
19 - 19 0 83.8 1.14 Evgeny 'delus1onn' Plottsovdelus1onn
16 - 22 -6 70.0 0.81 Aleksandr 'KaiR0N-' AnashkinKaiR0N-
18 - 20 -2 54.3 0.80 Artem 'RAiLWAY' GradovichRAiLWAY
13 - 19 -6 67.2 0.79 Amin 'sugaR' AzimovsugaR
16 - 22 -6 74.7 0.76
Group Swiss 1W - 0L GamerLegion
K - D +/- ADR Rating 2.0 Nicolas 'Keoz' DgusKeoz
27 - 18 +9 105.3 1.51 Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradeksiuhy
22 - 17 +5 87.9 1.29 Mihai 'iM' IvaniM
21 - 15 +6 81.6 1.26 Isak 'isak' Fahlénisak
16 - 18 -2 77.5 1.12 Frederik 'acoR' GyldstrandacoR
16 - 14 +2 61.3 1.04 G2
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Cloud9
Spirit
Ninjas in Pyjamas
FaZe
Bad News Eagles
Sprout
1W - 1L
Astralis
GamerLegion
1WIN
B8
0W - 2L
FORZE
Eternal Fire
Aurora
ECSTATIC
FaZe #1
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken
Robin 'ropz' Kool
Helvijs 'broky' Saukants
Ninjas in Pyjamas #11
Patrick 'es3tag' Hansen
Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner
Hampus 'hampus' Poser
Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen
Ludvig 'Brollan' Brolin
Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek
Age: 20 Team: GamerLegion Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 541 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.70
Eternal Fire #20
Engin 'MAJ3R' Küpeli
Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş
Özgür 'woxic' Eker
Ahmet 'paz' Karahoca
Ömer 'imoRR' Karataş
1WIN #33
Egor 'flamie' Vasilyev
Igor 'lollipop21k' Solodkov
Aleksandr 'TRAVIS' Timkiv
Aleksandr 'glowiing' Matsievich
Denis 'deko' Zhukov
B8 #69
Arseniy 'cptkurtka023' Derevinskiy
Denys 'amster' Liashenko
Alexey 'alex666' Yarmoshchuk
Mykyta 'Hkta' Reva
Artem 'r1nkle' Moroz
GamerLegion #60
Frederik 'acoR' Gyldstrand
Mihai 'iM' Ivan
Nicolas 'Keoz' Dgus
Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek
Isak 'isak' Fahlén
Aurora #36
Viktor 'Lack1' Boldyrev
Artem 'RAiLWAY' Gradovich
Amin 'sugaR' Azimov
Aleksandr 'KaiR0N-' Anashkin
Evgeny 'delus1onn' Plottsov
Benjamin 'blameF' Bremer
Age: 25 Team: Astralis Rating 1.0: 1.15 Maps played: 917 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.61
Astralis #8
Andreas 'Xyp9x' Højsleth
Lukas 'gla1ve' Rossander
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke
Asger 'Farlig' Jensen
Benjamin 'blameF' Bremer