eSports | Vitality x Grayhound - Nov 02 | 17:30 UTC

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Game info Vitality x Grayhound

 

Vitality and Grayhound compete this Wednesday, November 2, in Swiss round 4 of the IEM Rio Major 2022 Challengers Stage. Being in an unimaginable situation in the third round, the best in the world could be eliminated early in the main tournament of the season. On the other side, Australia's best team, Grayhound, is set to play their final Major match. As a round that will eliminate the tournament's loser, Swiss Round 4 1-2 (1 loss and 2 wins) will be played in the MD3 format (best of three maps). The match is scheduled to take place at 17:30 UTC.

 

How the 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 stage, 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.

 

Vitality

At first, the Vitality team appears in this match after losing the Swiss round 3 of the IEM Rio Major 2022 Challengers Stage against Outsiders. Before analyzing the last round of the best in the world, it is worth remembering how they performed in Swiss round 2. Facing GamerLegion in vertigo, they started losing even though they were on the favorable side of the map (counterterrorist), where they found only six points in the first half. In the second half, they continued to show a lower level of play than their opponents and ended up losing 10×16 on aggregate.

 

In the last match, they faced the Outsiders Russians on the overpass map and were surprised again. In the first half, they again started on the good side of the map and didn't do a good defensive side, starting at a disadvantage (7×8). In the second half, they failed to show a great reaction and remained tactically inferior on the terrorist side, losing on aggregate by 12×16.

 

Grayhound

On the other hand, the Grayhound team appears in this matchup after losing the Swiss round 3 of the IEM Rio Major 2022 Challengers Stage against BIG. Before analyzing the last round of the Australians, it is worth remembering how they performed in Swiss round 2. Facing Cloud9 in dust2, they started losing by 5×10, being on the terrorist side. However, they managed to draw a great reaction in the second half and tie the duel. In overtime, they got the better of it and finished their first win by 19×17 on aggregate.

 

In the last match, they faced the Germans from BIG again on the dust2 map, but this time they didn't face the Europeans. They had an excellent terrorist side in the first half, winning six points despite being on the opposing side. However, in the second half, they made a terrible defensive side and were dominated, losing all the rounds on the side against terrorists and being submitted on aggregate by 6×16.