ESL have announced the initial matchups for the upcoming Regional Major Ranking (RMR) events that will take place between September 29 – October 10.
The European, North American and CIS events will start with a round-robin group stage before moving to a single-elimination bracket. Meanwhile, the Asian, Oceanic, and South American teams will only have to play a double-elimination bracket.
IEM Fall North America and Asia will start on October 5 while the other events will all kick off several days earlier, on September 29.
The Oceanic teams will open up the last cycle of RMR events while the CIS, European and South American regions will see their first round of matches later in the day. In the CIS tournament, IEM Fall will also have teams playing two matches on on the opening day.
The opening matchups for IEM Fall are as follows:
Oceania
Wednesday, September 29
09:15 – Renegades vs VERTEX
09:15 – ORDER vs LookingForOrg
Europe
Wednesday, September 29
19:00 – BIG vs mousesports
19:00 – FunPlus Phoenix vs Copenhagen Flames
19:00 – G2 vs AURA
20:15 – Complexity vs Sinners
20:15 – Astralis vs Endpoint
20:15 – Heroic vs Movistar Riders
21:30 – ENCE vs Dignitas
21:30 – OG vs Sprout
21:30 – Vitality vs MAD Lions
22:45 – FaZe vs fnatic
22:45 – NIP vs Fiend
22:45 – SKADE vs DBL PONEY
CIS
Wednesday, September 29
13:15 – Nemiga vs Spirit
13:15 – Natus Vincere vs AVE
13:15 – Entropiq vs Akuma
14:30 – Virtus.pro vs K23
14:30 – forZe vs Unique
14:30 – Gambit vs INDE IRAE
15:15 – Nemiga vs Natus Vincere
15:15 – Spirit vs Akuma
15:15 – AVE vs Entropiq
17:00 – Gambit vs K23
17:00 – Virtus.pro vs Unique
17:00 – forZe vs INDE IRAE
South America
Wednesday, September 29*
00:45 – Sharks vs MIBR
00:45 – Bravos vs Imperial
*In Central European and Eastern time zones the South American matches will be played on Thursday morning
The North America and Asia tournaments, starting on October 5, will have the following opening matches:
Asia
North America
Tuesday, October 5
21:00 – Liquid vs Bad News Bears
21:00 – paiN vs Extra Salt
23:30 – Extra Salt vs Bad News Bears
23:30 – EXTREMUM vs ATK
00:45 – Evil Geniuses vs 00Nation
00:45 – FURIA vs Triumph
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Source: https://www.hltv.org/news/32444/iem-fall-initial-matchups-announced