eSports | Natus Vincere x Vitality - Nov 05 | 16:30 UTC

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Game info Natus Vincere x Vitality

 

Natus Vincere and Vitality will compete this Saturday, November 5, in Swiss round 1 of the IEM Rio Major 2022 Legends Stage. After a great campaign in the European RMR, Natus Vincere got a direct spot for this stage of the tournament. On the other hand, the French organization Vitality managed to advance from the Challengers Stage with three wins and two losses. As it is not considered a knockout or qualifying round, Swiss Round 1 is played in MD1 (best of a map) format. The match is scheduled to take place at 16:30 UTC.

 

How IEM Rio Major 2022 works

 

In principle, the IEM Rio Major 2022 is a competition that will bring together all the best teams in the world in search of the most coveted title in CS:GO (Counter Strike Global Offensive), the Major. The tournament will start at the Challengers Stage. In this stage, the games take place in the Swiss format. That is, the winners face each other, and the losers also face each other. In the next phase, called Legends Stage, the Challengers Stage qualifiers join the 8 Legends teams of the competition, which were the teams that passed with the best placement in the RMR.

 

Finally, the last phase is called the Champions Stage, which works like a knockout. The eight best teams face each other until the tournament's grand champion is defined. All games in this phase will be in MD3 (best of three maps). The prize pool for the IEM Rio Major 2022 is US$1.250.000, which will be distributed to the best place: first place will receive US$500.000, second place will take home US$170.000, third and fourth will with a prize pool of $80.000 each.

 

Natus Vincere

At first, the Natus Vincere team appeared in this confrontation after reaching the classification with a good performance in the IEM Road to Rio 2022 Europe RMR B, where they managed to advance with three wins and no defeat. Before we analyze the Ukrainian organization's campaign in the European RMR, it is worth noting the team's intentions at the Legends Stage. Having the current best player in the world in the line-up and an extremely qualified team, they are not only the favorites to win the spot for the Champions Stage but also for the title of the Brazilian Major.

 

In their IEM Road to Rio 2022 Europe RMR B campaign, they managed to advance with three wins and no losses. Along the way, they beat the Polish organization of Illuminar Gaming by 16×5 with extreme ease. In the second round, they had a little more difficulty beating the German organization MOUZ by 16×11. In the third and qualifying round, they faced their compatriots from Outsiders and managed to win again in a capital way by two maps to zero.

 

Vitality

On the other hand, the Vitality team appears in this confrontation after reaching the classification with a good performance in the Challengers Stage, where they managed to advance with three wins and two defeats. Before analyzing the French organization's campaign in the first phase, it is worth saying what the intentions are for the Legends Stage. Even though the current number two team in the world has almost been left out of this phase and doesn't believe in a victory in their debut, I think they have enough technical quality to advance to the Champions Stage, mainly because they have the current second-best player. Of the world in its cast (ZywOo).

 

In their campaign for the Challengers Stage, they managed to advance with three wins and two losses. In their campaign, they started beating the Imperial team in the debut by 16×9 in inferno. However, the next two rounds failed to present a significant level of play, and they ended up defeated against GamerLegion and Outsiders, respectively. Having won the fourth and fifth rounds, the French organization did not disappoint and managed to eliminate the Grayhound and OG squads, respectively, to guarantee the spot.