Imperial Beat Complexity To Secure Final IEM Rio Major Spot

Imperial triumphed over Complexity in a roller-coaster of a game, emerging victorious over Inferno (16-13) and Overpass (22-20) on either side of a losing on Nuke (11-16). Less with the newly-found victory, the Brazilian squad finally moves on to the Major being organised in their home country, where they will try to grasp the audience's imagination once more. Imperial travlled through the Swiss System with a 3-2 record, besting Nouns, TeamOne, and Isurus, before receiving consecutive best-of-three wins against paiN and Complexity to achieve the spot through the sixth-place decider bracket.

Complexity got the pistol and turned it to a lead before FalleN chucked an ace on the A site to get Imperial their first. An amazing brawl kickstarted, with Justin "⁠FaNg⁠" Coakley grabbing two clutches, while chelo and FalleN kept delivering on the CT side. On overtime, Imperial required 2 attempts to finish the game, eventually getting 22-20 to get a spot at their home Major.