FANTASY and SAW eliminated from Europe RMRs

Illuminar and HEET survive their first elimination matches as they look to recover from a 0-2 start to their RMR campaign.

FANTASY and SAW are the first two teams to bow out from the IEM Road to Rio Europe RMR B group after going winless in the Swiss group stage. The two teams suffered their third losses on Friday, to Illuminar and HEET, respectively.

The two winning teams now head into 1-2 matches, where HEET will lock horns with Falcons in an all-French battle for survival in the Major-qualifying event and the Polish side around Paweł "⁠reatz⁠" Jańczak face off against Sangal.

HEET will play countrymen Falcons for survival on Saturday

The B group's fourth round will take place on Saturday:

2-1 pool
11:00 MOUZ vs. Vitality
11:00 BIG vs. HEROIC
11:00 OG vs. Outsiders

1-2 pool
14:30 Falcons vs. HEET
14:30 Sangal vs. Illuminar
14:30 K23 vs. Monte

A mix-team that came together at the last minute just for the Major cycle, FANTASY had been one of the biggest surprises to come from the open qualifiers, but they were unable to replicate their success when facing the higher level of competition at the Regional Major Ranking itself.

They opened the event with losses to Vitality and Sangal before getting eliminated by another big underdog, Illuminar, following a three-map thriller.

Fielding a core that narrowly missed out on a Major spot in the last cycle ahead of PGL Antwerp, SAW came into the RMRs as one of the lowest-ranked teams and struggled to compete this time around. They only won eight rounds across their first two matches against HEROIC and Monte and faltered to HEET over three maps.

After three rounds of play, the standings of the European B group look as follows:

Group Swiss 3W - 0L Natus Vincere ENCE 2W - 1L HEROIC Vitality BIG OG MOUZ Outsiders 1W - 2L Monte HEET Falcons K23 Sangal Illuminar 0W - 3L FANTASY SAW Sangal #37 Robin 'ScrunK' RöpkeKornél 'kory' SzedlárLove 'phzy' SmidebrantCan 'kyuubii' AliCaner 'soulfly' Kesici Outsiders #12 Evgenii 'FL1T' LebedevAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' AliDavid 'n0rb3r7' DanielyanPetr 'fame' Bolyshev K23 #46 Timur 'clax' SabirovBogdan 'xsepower' ChernikovVladislav 'FinigaN' UsovDaniil 'X5G7V' MaryshevKonstantin 'Raijin' Trubarov BIG #16 Johannes 'tabseN' WodarzFlorian 'syrsoN' RischeNils 'k1to' GruhneJosef 'faveN' BaumannKarim 'Krimbo' Moussa Illuminar #77 Paweł 'reatz' JańczakPiotr 'morelz' TaterkaKonrad 'EXUS' JeńczeńMateusz 'TOAO' ZawistowskiBartek 'mASKED' Trybuła OG #14 Nemanja 'nexa' IsakovićAdam 'NEOFRAG' ZouharShahar 'flameZ' ShushanAbdul 'degster' GasanovMaciej 'F1KU' Miklas Monte #49 Hristiyan 'REDSTAR' PironkovVolodymyr 'Woro2k' VeletniukSergiy 'DemQQ' DemchenkoMohammad 'BOROS' MalhasJoel 'joel' Holmlund Paweł 'reatz' Jańczak Age: 27 Team: Illuminar Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 1565 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.67 Vitality #3 Dan 'apEX' MadesclairePeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenEmil 'Magisk' ReifMathieu 'ZywOo' HerbautLotan 'Spinx' Giladi SAW #54 Christopher 'MUTiRiS' FernandesRicardo 'roman' OliveiraTiago 'JUST' MouraJoão 'story' VieiraMichel 'ewjerkz' Pinto Time is adjusted to your selected timezone MOUZ #9 Christopher 'dexter' NongDavid 'frozen' ČerňanskýJon 'JDC' de CastroÁdám 'torzsi' TorzsásDorian 'xertioN' Berman HEROIC #10 Casper 'cadiaN' MøllerMartin 'stavn' LundRené 'TeSeS' MadsenRasmus 'sjuush' BeckJakob 'jabbi' Nygaard HEET #25 Audric 'JACKZ' JugAlexandre 'bodyy' PianaroThomas 'Djoko' PavoniPierre 'Ex3rcice' BulingeAurélien 'afro' Drapier FANTASY #42 Bastian 'ayken' SchendzielorzThijs 'rilax' IzaksFilip 'tudsoN' TudevAlexander 'br0' BroOleksii 'Topa' Topchiienko Falcons #35 Nathan 'NBK-' SchmittAli 'hAdji' HaïnoussBryan 'Maka' CandaKévin 'misutaaa' RabierJordan 'Python' Munck-Foehrle