eSports | Ninjas in Pyjamas x Fnatic - Nov 05 | 17:45 UTC

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Game info Ninjas in Pyjamas x Fnatic 

 

Ninjas in Pyjamas and Fnatic 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, Ninjas in Pyjamas got a direct spot for this stage of the tournament. On the other side, their Fnatic compatriots 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 17:45 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.

 

Ninjas in Pyjamas

At first, the Ninjas in Pyjamas team appears in this confrontation after reaching the classification with a good performance in the IEM Road to Rio 2022 Europe RMR A, where they managed to advance with three wins and no defeat. Before analyzing the Swedish organization's campaign in the European RMR, it is worth highlighting the team's intentions at the Legends Stage. With extremely disappointing performances in the last relevant competitions on the international scene, Ninjas in Pyjamas are not one of the favorites for a spot on the Champions Stage, but they can surprise you because they have an experienced squad.

 

In their IEM Road to Rio 2022 Europe RMR A campaign, they managed to advance with three wins and no losses. Along the way, they started beating the renowned Danish organization Astralis by 16×12 in the opening round. They beat the Bad News Eagles' Kosovo players in the second round with great ease, 16×7. Finally, in the qualifying round, they managed to surprise the Russians from Cloud9 by two maps to one.

 

Fnatic

On the other hand, the Fnatic team appears in this clash 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 Swedish organization's campaign in the first phase, it is worth saying what the intentions are for the Legends Stage. Even if I believe in a victory for the players in the first round of this phase, they are not one of the favorites to qualify for the Champions Stage. In the last rounds of the Challengers Stage, they didn't show a significant level of play, so I don't believe in a possible advance from Fnatic.

 

In their campaign for the Challengers Stage, they managed to advance with three wins and two losses. In their trajectory, they started overwhelmingly after winning the first two rounds against Cloud9 and OG, respectively. However, they were surprised by MOUZ and the Outsiders in the next two rounds and wasted their first two chances to qualify. In the fifth and decisive round, they faced the South Americans of the 9z Team and had no major problems reaching the classification by beating them by two maps to zero.