- Slot distribution for IEM Rio to remain the same
- Teams who placed top 16 in Antwerp receive invites to next RMR
Following the release of Valve's standardized Major cycle system in early 2022, a method for adjusting the regional slot distribution at the Majors was added to account for the departed legacy invite system.
Much like the old system, the distribution is based on teams' performance from the previous Major, allocating Legends status spots to regions whose teams made it to the playoffs and Challengers spots to the regions who placed 9th-16th.

Imperial secured Americas an additional Challenger spot
For the Americas region, critical performances came in the form of Liquid and Imperial. Securing key upset victories in their 2-2 matches during the Challengers stage and advancing to the next phase kept their hopes of making it farther in the Major alive and secured a better path for their region in the future.
While the distribution of Contenders slots always remains the same at three for Europe, three for the Americas, and two for Asia, the distribution for the Legends and Challengers is directly tied to the results of the previous Major. In this case, Liquid and Imperial making the top 16 stage in Antwerp secured the Americas two Challengers slots at the following Major.
Below is shown the regional distribution for the IEM Rio 2022 Major followed by the team that earned their region that spot due to their performance at PGL Antwerp:
Legends

Unknown flag cis Europe (Spirit)

Unknown flag cis Europe (Natus Vincere)

Unknown flag cis Europe (ENCE)

Unknown flag cis Europe (Ninjas in Pyjamas)

Unknown flag cis Europe (FaZe)

Unknown flag cis Europe (Copenhagen Flames)

Unknown flag cis Europe (HEROIC)


Americas (FURIA)
Challengers

Unknown flag cis Europe (G2)

Unknown flag cis Europe (Vitality)

Unknown flag cis Europe (BIG)


Americas (Imperial)

Unknown flag cis Europe (Cloud9)

Unknown flag cis Europe (Outsiders)

Unknown flag cis Europe (Bad News Eagles)


Americas (Liquid)
Contenders

Unknown flag cis Europe

Unknown flag cis Europe


Americas


Asia

Unknown flag cis Europe


Americas


Americas


Asia
Another benefit of placing in the top 16 portion of the Major is receiving an invite to the next Regional Major Ranking tournament for each team's respective region. With the open qualification process being historically so brutal, being able to start directly in the RMR event itself can be very important for a team's chances at repeat qualifying.
On another important note, as a result of the number of slots for each region being the exact same for IEM Rio, the formats of the RMR tournaments will also remain the same, pending any changes from Valve.


FaZe #1


Finn 'karrigan' Andersen

Håvard 'rain' Nygaard

Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken

Robin 'ropz' Kool

Helvijs 'broky' Saukants


Natus Vincere #2


Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev

Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov

Kirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov

Ilya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy

Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy



Bad News Eagles #19



Rigon 'rigoN' Gashi

Sener 'SENER1' Mahmuti

Flatron 'juanflatroo' Halimi

Dionis 'sinnopsyy' Budeci

Genc 'gxx-' Kolgeci


Cloud9 #9


Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov

Timofey 'interz' Yakushin

Sergey 'Ax1Le' Rykhtorov

Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov

Vladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov



BIG #16



Johannes 'tabseN' Wodarz

Tizian 'tiziaN' Feldbusch

Florian 'syrsoN' Rische

Josef 'faveN' Baumann

Karim 'Krimbo' Moussa



Ninjas in Pyjamas #5



Patrick 'es3tag' Hansen

Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner

Hampus 'hampus' Poser

Ludvig 'Brollan' Brolin

Nicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez Zamora


Vitality #10


Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire

Peter 'dupreeh' Rasmussen

Emil 'Magisk' Reif

Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut

Kévin 'misutaaa' Rabier


Imperial #15


Lincoln 'fnx' Lau

Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo

Fernando 'fer' Alvarenga

Ricardo 'boltz' Prass

Vinicius 'VINI' Figueiredo


Outsiders #14


Timur 'buster' Tulepov

Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev

Alexey 'Qikert' Golubev

Dzhami 'Jame' Ali

Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis



HEROIC #4



Casper 'cadiaN' Møller

Ismail 'refrezh' Ali

Martin 'stavn' Lund

René 'TeSeS' Madsen

Rasmus 'sjuush' Beck


ENCE #3


Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer

Pavle 'Maden' Bošković

Paweł 'dycha' Dycha

Olek 'hades' Miskiewicz

Lotan 'Spinx' Giladi


G2 #7


Audric 'JACKZ' Jug

Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač

Nemanja 'huNter-' Kovač

Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen

Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov


Liquid #13


Richard 'shox' Papillon

Nick 'nitr0' Cannella

Keith 'NAF' Markovic

Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski

Josh 'oSee' Ohm


FURIA #8


Andrei 'arT' Piovezan

Yuri 'yuurih' Santos

Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato

Rafael 'saffee' Costa

André 'drop' Abreu


Copenhagen Flames #11


Rasmus 'HooXi' Nielsen

Nico 'nicoodoz' Tamjidi

Fredrik 'roeJ' Jørgensen

Jakob 'jabbi' Nygaard

Rasmus 'Zyphon' Nordfoss



Spirit #6



Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov

Abdul 'degster' Gasanov

Boris 'magixx' Vorobiev

Pavel 'S1ren' Ogloblin

Robert 'Patsi' Isyanov
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