【kisah lucah 2020】IEM Rio Major initial seeding and Challengers Stage opening matchups set
The Regional Major Ranking events concluded on Sunday following a week of action in Malta, Sweden, and Australia, and all 24 teams who will play at the first Brazilian Major taking place from October 31-November 13 are now known.
Specific seeding has been assigned to each team who has qualified for the Rio Major as per Valve's official Major rulebook and, as a result, the opening matchups of the first stage of the tournament have been set.

MOUZ will face Outsiders in the biggest matchup of round 1
The rulebook outlines that teams are assigned their pre-event seeding based on the results of their region's representatives at the previous Major — the final ranking from the PGL Major Antwerp in this case.
For example, as the first-placed team from the Americas RMR, Liquid have inherited the Legends status and the overall eighth seed in the Legends Stage that FURIA earned for the region by making it to the quarter-finals in Antwerp five months ago. The other five Americas teams were assigned seeds 3, 8, 11, 12, and 15 in the Challengers Stage after their representatives were ranked 11th, 16th, 19th, 20th, and 23rd last time around in Belgium.
As a result of the aforementioned seeding method, the opening matchups of the IEM Rio Major Challengers Stage are the following:
Round 1
OG vs.
Grayhound
Vitality vs.
Imperial
Evil Geniuses vs.
IHC
Cloud9 vs.
fnatic
BIG vs.
FURIA
Bad News Eagles vs.
00NATION
MOUZ vs.
Outsiders
9z vs.
GamerLegion
Below you can see the complete seeding order of each Swiss phase. This will be further used for round 2 of the Challengers Stage (right column) as well as for the first two rounds of the Legends Stage (left column).
It will also serve as a tiebreaking method when teams are tied in their difficulty score (the combined record of a team's previous opponents, also known as the Buchholz score), which is the primary seeding method for rounds 3-5.
Legends Stage1.

FaZe
2.

Natus Vincere
3.

Ninjas in Pyjamas
4.

ENCE
5.

Sprout
6.

HEROIC
7.

Spirit
8.

Liquid
9-16. Determined based on Challengers Stage results
Challengers Stage1.

OG
2.

Vitality
3.

Evil Geniuses
4.

Cloud9
5.

BIG
6.

Bad News Eagles
7.

MOUZ
8.

9z
9.

GamerLegion
10.

Outsiders
11.

00NATION
12.

FURIA
13.

fnatic
14.

IHC
15.

Imperial
16.

Grayhound



Ninjas in Pyjamas #11



Patrick 'es3tag' Hansen

Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner

Hampus 'hampus' Poser

Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen

Ludvig 'Brollan' Brolin



Evil Geniuses #22



Timothy 'autimatic' Ta

Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte

Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov

Sanzhar 'neaLaN' Iskhakov

Jadan 'HexT' Postma


fnatic #19


Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson

Dion 'FASHR' Derksen

Nico 'nicoodoz' Tamjidi

Fredrik 'roeJ' J?rgensen

William 'mezii' Merriman



Bad News Eagles #32



Rigon 'rigoN' Gashi

Sener 'SENER1' Mahmuti

Flatron 'juanflatroo' Halimi

Dionis 'sinnopsyy' Budeci

Genc 'gxx-' Kolgeci


MOUZ #9


Christopher 'dexter' Nong

David 'frozen' ?erňansky

Jon 'JDC' de Castro

ádám 'torzsi' Torzsás

Dorian 'xertioN' Berman


Vitality #3


Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire

Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen

Emil 'Magisk' Reif

Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut

Lotan 'Spinx' Giladi


GamerLegion #60


Frederik 'acoR' Gyldstrand

Mihai 'iM' Ivan

Nicolas 'Keoz' Dgus

Kamil 'siuhy' Szkaradek

Isak 'isak' Fahlén


FURIA #7


Andrei 'arT' Piovezan

Yuri 'yuurih' Santos

Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato

Rafael 'saffee' Costa

André 'drop' Abreu


Cloud9 #6


Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov

Timofey 'interz' Yakushin

Sergey 'Ax1Le' Rykhtorov

Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov

Vladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov


OG #14


Nemanja 'nexa' Isakovi?

Adam 'NEOFRAG' Zouhar

Shahar 'flameZ' Shushan

Abdul 'degster' Gasanov

Maciej 'F1KU' Miklas


Liquid #4


Nick 'nitr0' Cannella

Keith 'NAF' Markovic

Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski

Josh 'oSee' Ohm

Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Ga?inskis


Outsiders #12


Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev

Alexey 'Qikert' Golubev

Dzhami 'Jame' Ali

David 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan

Petr 'fame' Bolyshev


Sprout #31


Ismail 'refrezh' Ali

Fritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich

Rasmus 'Zyphon' Nordfoss

Victor 'Staehr' Staehr

Lauren?iu 'lauNX' ?arlea


FaZe #1


Finn 'karrigan' Andersen

H?vard 'rain' Nygaard

Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken

Robin 'ropz' Kool

Helvijs 'broky' Saukants



BIG #16



Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz

Florian 'syrsoN' Rische

Nils 'k1to' Gruhne

Josef 'faveN' Baumann

Karim 'Krimbo' Moussa


IHC #82


Bat-Enkh 'kabal' Batbayar

Tengis 'sk0R' Batjargal

Tuvshintugs 'Annihilation' Nyamdorj

Garidmagnai 'bLitz' Byambasuren

Sodbayar 'Techno' Munkhbold



HEROIC #10



Casper 'cadiaN' M?ller

Martin 'stavn' Lund

René 'TeSeS' Madsen

Rasmus 'sjuush' Beck

Jakob 'jabbi' Nygaard



Spirit #15



Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov

Boris 'magixx' Vorobiev

Pavel 'S1ren' Ogloblin

Robert 'Patsi' Isyanov

Ihor 'w0nderful' Zhdanov


00NATION #29


Marcelo 'coldzera' David

Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo

Eduardo 'dumau' Wolkmer

Bruno 'latto' Rebelatto

Santino 'try' Rigal


Natus Vincere #2


Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev

Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov

Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev

Ilya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy

Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy



9z #50



Maximiliano 'max' Gonzalez

Franco 'dgt' Garcia

David 'dav1deuS' Tapia Maldonado

Lucas 'nqz' Soares

Nicolás 'buda' Kramer


Imperial #21


Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo

Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga

Ricardo 'boltz' Prass

Marcelo 'chelo' Cespedes

Vinicius 'VINI' Figueiredo


ENCE #18


Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer

Valdemar 'valde' Bj?rn Vangs?

Pavle 'Maden' Bo?kovi?

Pawe? 'dycha' Dycha

álvaro 'SunPayus' García


Grayhound #39


Simon 'Sico' Williams

Jay 'Liazz' Tregillgas

Alistair 'aliStair' Johnston

Joshua 'INS' Potter

Declan 'Vexite' Portelli