Day three of the IEM Rio Major Legends Stage will be all about elimination or qualification.
The matchups of the fourth round at the IEM Rio Major Legends Stage have been set following the conclusion of round three, which saw Cloud9 and FURIA advance to the Jeunesse Arena and FaZe and Ninjas in Pyjamas exit the competition after being stunned by underdog teams.
The most high-profile match of the day will be an end-of-day qualification bout between Liquid and HEROIC, currently the #3 and #7 teams in the world.
The North American side will enter series play for the first time after previously sending Natus Vincere to the elimination matches, while Casper "cadiaN" Møller's men will have a second shot at securing a place in the playoffs after a disappointing first attempt against Cloud9.
Before that, two more playoffs spots will be determined in matches between MOUZ and Outsiders as well as BIG and fnatic.
Meanwhile in the 1-2 pool, after sending FaZe home, Bad News Eagles will take on another massive favorite in Natus Vincere in the opening round. Vitality will then lock horns with ENCE, before the day concludes with a match for survival between Spirit and Sprout.
Below is the full schedule:
2-1 pool (BO3)
| Date | Matches | |
|---|---|---|
| IEM Rio Major 2022 | ||
| 07/11/2022 | MOUZ 15:00  Outsiders | Match |
| 07/11/2022 | BIG  18:30  fnatic | Match |
| 07/11/2022 | HEROIC  22:00  Liquid | Match |
1-2 pool (BO3)
| Date | Matches | |
|---|---|---|
| IEM Rio Major 2022 | ||
| 07/11/2022 | Natus Vincere 15:00   Bad News Eagles | Match |
| 07/11/2022 | ENCE 18:30  Vitality | Match |
| 07/11/2022 | Spirit  22:00  Sprout | Match |
FaZe #1 
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
Håvard 'rain' Nygaard
Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken
Robin 'ropz' Kool
Helvijs 'broky' Saukants 
Outsiders #8 Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev
Alexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' AliDavid 'n0rb3r7' DanielyanPetr 'fame' Bolyshev 
Ninjas in Pyjamas #11 Patrick 'es3tag' HansenFredrik 'REZ' SternerHampus 'hampus' Poser
Aleksi 'Aleksib' VirolainenLudvig 'Brollan' Brolin 
BIG #15 Johannes 'tabseN' WodarzFlorian 'syrsoN' RischeNils 'k1to' GruhneKarim 'Krimbo' MoussaElias 's1n' Stein 
Bad News Eagles #23 
Rigon 'rigoN' GashiSener 'SENER1' MahmutiFlatron 'juanflatroo' HalimiDionis 'sinnopsyy' BudeciGenc 'gxx-' Kolgeci 
Cloud9 #5 Abay 'HObbit' KhassenovTimofey 'interz' YakushinSergey 'Ax1Le' RykhtorovDmitry 'sh1ro' SokolovVladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov 
Spirit #13 Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovBoris 'magixx' VorobievPavel 'S1ren' OgloblinRobert 'Patsi' Isyanov
Ihor 'w0nderful' Zhdanov ENCE #12 Marco 'Snappi' PfeifferValdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså
Pavle 'Maden' Bošković
Paweł 'dycha' Dycha
Álvaro 'SunPayus' García Sprout #30 Ismail 'refrezh' AliFritz 'slaxz-' DietrichRasmus 'Zyphon' NordfossVictor 'Staehr' Staehr
Laurențiu 'lauNX' Țârlea Natus Vincere #4 Oleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' SharipovViktor 'sdy' OrudzhevIlya 'Perfecto' ZalutskiyValeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy 
Vitality #2 
Dan 'apEX' MadesclairePeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenEmil 'Magisk' ReifMathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut
Lotan 'Spinx' Giladi 
MOUZ #9 
Christopher 'dexter' Nong
David 'frozen' ČerňanskýJon 'JDC' de Castro
Ádám 'torzsi' TorzsásDorian 'xertioN' Berman HEROIC #7 Casper 'cadiaN' MøllerMartin 'stavn' LundRené 'TeSeS' MadsenRasmus 'sjuush' BeckJakob 'jabbi' Nygaard fnatic #19 Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson
Dion 'FASHR' DerksenNico 'nicoodoz' TamjidiFredrik 'roeJ' Jørgensen
William 'mezii' Merriman Casper 'cadiaN' Møller 
Age: 27 Team: HEROIC Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 1521 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.63 
Liquid #3 Nick 'nitr0' CannellaKeith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiJosh 'oSee' OhmMareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis 
FURIA #10 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRafael 'saffee' CostaAndré 'drop' Abreu (责任编辑：case drop)
