Eternal Fire, Sangal, B8, and FANTASY secure Europe RMR spots

Engin "⁠MAJ3R⁠" Küpeli's squad reverse-swept ECSTATIC to secure their attendance at the RMR.

The third open qualifier for the IEM Rio Europe RMR has closed its second day of action with B8, Sangal, Eternal Fire, and FANTASY all punching their tickets to Malta after victories in their respective quarter-finals.

There is still one more spot from the third RMR qualifier to be claimed from the fifth place decider. HEET, Entropiq, los kogutos, and ECSTATIC will all participate in the bracket to secure the last spot available after losing in the seventh round of the qualifier.

woxic's 1.27 rating on the day was among the highest for Eternal Fire

A few high-profile teams were eliminated on the second day of the qualifier, including Finest and SINNERS; however, the most notable ones were Astralis and Movistar Riders, who were eliminated by los kogutos and B8 respectively despite being the two highest-ranked teams in the fifth round.

The Ukrainian squad did not slow down after taking down the Spaniards, proceeding to beat AVANGAR ahead of their quarter-final match against HEET. There, B8 came out on top following two 16-14 maps to edge out the Frenchmen and secure their presence at the RMR. Arseniy "⁠cptkurtka023⁠" Derevinskiy was the difference-maker on Inferno as he finished with a 1.64 rating.

Read more Astralis, Movistar Riders eliminated from IEM Road to Rio Europe Open Qualifier 3

los kogutos followed their victory over Astralis with a win against RCL before coming across FANTASY in the seventh round of the online qualifier. Martin "⁠maaryy⁠" Nakonieczny's squad's failure to organize a defense on Nuke cost them a potential 2-0 win and they eventually conceded the series to the European mix on Overpass.

Sangal beat the likes of Budapest Five and Sashi on their way to the qualification match, with Entropiq supposed to be their most difficult test yet. The European team cruised on Inferno before taking a close win on Mirage to sweep a squad ranked 52 places ahead of them.

The second day of the qualifier ended with Eternal Fire versus ECSTATIC. The new-look Danish squad came out on top of a double-overtime affair on their pick of Vertigo before being reverse swept by MAJ3R's men with wins on Dust2 and Nuke, securing the Turkish team's spot at their second-ever RMR.

The teams participating at the EU RMR are currently:

Europe
FaZe
Spirit
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Cloud9
MOUZ
Natus Vincere
ENCE
BIG
OG
Monte
K23
Sangal
FANTASY
Open Qualifier 4
Open Qualifier 4
Open Qualifier 4
Aurora
Falcons
G2
Bad News Eagles
Sprout
Vitality
HEROIC
Outsiders
FORZE
fnatic
B8
Eternal Fire
Open Qualifier 3
Open Qualifier 4
Open Qualifier 4
Open Qualifier 4

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ENCE #12 Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferValdemar 'valde' Bjørn VangsåPavle 'Maden' BoškovićPaweł 'dycha' DychaÁlvaro 'SunPayus' García Sprout #21 Ismail 'refrezh' AliFritz 'slaxz-' DietrichRasmus 'Zyphon' NordfossVictor 'Staehr' StaehrLaurențiu 'lauNX' Țârlea OG #15 Nemanja 'nexa' IsakovićAdam 'NEOFRAG' ZouharShahar 'flameZ' ShushanAbdul 'degster' GasanovMaciej 'F1KU' Miklas Natus Vincere #1 Oleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' SharipovViktor 'sdy' OrudzhevIlya 'Perfecto' ZalutskiyValeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy Monte #55 Hristiyan 'REDSTAR' PironkovVolodymyr 'Woro2k' VeletniukSergiy 'DemQQ' DemchenkoMohammad 'BOROS' MalhasJoel 'joel' Holmlund Arseniy 'cptkurtka023' Derevinskiy Age: 23 Team: B8 Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 111 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.69 Vitality #7 Dan 'apEX' MadesclairePeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenEmil 'Magisk' ReifMathieu 'ZywOo' HerbautLotan 'Spinx' Giladi Engin 'MAJ3R' Küpeli Age: 31 Team: Eternal Fire Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 1058 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.67 RCL #219 Vadim 'YumsaN' ToropyninTimur 'FL4MUS' MarevDmitry 'sstiNiX' KhlebnikovMaksim 'sh1nejezzz' VinogradovMaksim 'riskyb0b' Churikov FORZE #20 Andrey 'Jerry' MekhryakovAleksandr 'zorte' ZagodyrenkoAleksandr 'shalfey' MarenovAleksandr 'KENSI' GurkinEvgeny 'Norwi' Ermolin HEROIC #13 Casper 'cadiaN' MøllerMartin 'stavn' LundRené 'TeSeS' MadsenRasmus 'sjuush' BeckJakob 'jabbi' Nygaard AVANGAR #92 Alikhan 'w1nt3r' KopzhanovAman 'ice' SeitkaliyevAidos 'kade0' KhairzhanZhandarbek 'sorrow' MamyrbekKaisar 'ICY' Faiznurov B8 #85 Arseniy 'cptkurtka023' DerevinskiyDenys 'amster' LiashenkoAlexey 'alex666' YarmoshchukMykyta 'Hkta' RevaArtem 'r1nkle' Moroz HEET #25 Audric 'JACKZ' JugAlexandre 'bodyy' PianaroThomas 'Djoko' PavoniPierre 'Ex3rcice' BulingeAurélien 'afro' Drapier FANTASY Bastian 'ayken' SchendzielorzThijs 'rilax' IzaksFilip 'tudsoN' TudevAlexander 'br0' BroOleksii 'Topa' Topchiienko Falcons #26 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittAli 'hAdji' HaïnoussBryan 'Maka' CandaKévin 'misutaaa' RabierJordan 'Python' Munck-Foehrle Astralis #4 Andreas 'Xyp9x' HøjslethLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderKristian 'k0nfig' WieneckeAsger 'Farlig' JensenBenjamin 'blameF' Bremer Movistar Riders #6 Alejandro 'alex' MasanetAlejandro 'mopoz' Fernández-Quejo CanoRaúl 'DeathZz' Jordán NietoDavid 'dav1g' Granado BermudoAntonio 'MartinezSa' Martinez SINNERS #37 Patrik 'Zero' ŽúdelJindřich 'ZEDKO' ChybaSebastian 'beastik' DaňoMax 'SHOCK' KvapilDavid 'forsyy' Bílý Outsiders #17 Evgenii 'FL1T' LebedevAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' AliDavid 'n0rb3r7' DanielyanPetr 'fame' Bolyshev MOUZ #5 Christopher 'dexter' NongDavid 'frozen' ČerňanskýJon 'JDC' de CastroÁdám 'torzsi' TorzsásAurimas 'Bymas' Pipiras los kogutos #91 Karol 'Enzo' LasotaWojciech 'darchevile' KlębaSzymon 'kRaSnaL' MrozekTomasz 'tomiko' UrodaMartin 'maaryy' Nakonieczny Eternal Fire #31 Engin 'MAJ3R' KüpeliIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşÖzgür 'woxic' EkerAhmet 'paz' KarahocaÖmer 'imoRR' Karataş Bad News Eagles #28 Rigon 'rigoN' GashiSener 'SENER1' MahmutiFlatron 'juanflatroo' HalimiDionis 'sinnopsyy' BudeciGenc 'gxx-' Kolgeci Cloud9 #3 Abay 'HObbit' KhassenovTimofey 'interz' YakushinSergey 'Ax1Le' RykhtorovDmitry 'sh1ro' SokolovVladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov Spirit #16 Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovBoris 'magixx' VorobievPavel 'S1ren' OgloblinRobert 'Patsi' IsyanovIhor 'w0nderful' Zhdanov Ninjas in Pyjamas #9 Patrick 'es3tag' HansenFredrik 'REZ' SternerHampus 'hampus' PoserLudvig 'Brollan' BrolinNicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez Zamora FANTASY ECSTATIC #59 Jonas 'Queenix' DideriksenMarcus 'maNkz' KjeldsenCasper 'Cabbi' JensenBenjamin 'brzer' JensenTobias 'kraghen' Kragh Jensen Finest #22 Simon 'twist' EliassonNiclas 'PlesseN' PlessenRasmus 'kreaz' JohanssonGuy 'anarkez' TrachtmanKristjan 'shokz' Jakobson Entropiq #34 Nikolay 'mir' BityukovAleksei 'NickelBack' TrofimovVladislav 'Krad' KravchenkoAleksei 'El1an' GusevIgor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy fnatic #29 Freddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonDion 'FASHR' DerksenNico 'nicoodoz' TamjidiFredrik 'roeJ' JørgensenWilliam 'mezii' Merriman Martin 'maaryy' Nakonieczny Age: 21 Team: los kogutos Rating 1.0: 0.97 Maps played: 101 KPR: 0.66 DPR: 0.67