MOUZ, Natus Vincere to face off in grand final at IEM Rio

Field Level Media|published: Sat 12th October, 18:37 2024

Nov 5, 2022; San Francisco, California, USA; A camera follow fans with DRX in the background during the League of Legends World Championships against T1 at Chase Center. Mandatory Credit: Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images

MOUZ blanked FURIA Esports 2-0 on Saturday in the semifinals of the Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2024 event in Rio de Janeiro.

Hungarian Adam "torzsi" Torzsas racked up 40 kills and recorded a plus-30 kill-death differential as MOUZ earned a pair of 13-3 wins on Nuke and Mirage. All five of FURIA's players finished with more deaths than kills. MOUZ had three players on the plus side, one was even and the other was minus-2.

In Saturday's other semifinal match, Natus Vincere rallied to beat HEROIC 2-1.

HEROIC got things started with a 13-9 victory on Ancient, but Natus Vincere then took Dust II 16-14 and Mirage 13-6. Valeriy "b1t" Vakhovskiy of Ukraine paced the winners with 59 kills and a plus-18 K-D differential.

The $250,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event began with two double-elimination groups of eight teams. The best-of-one opening matches in both groups were played on Monday. All ensuing group matches were best-of-three.

The playoffs are a single-elimination bracket where all matches are best-of-three until the best-of-five grand final on Sunday.

The winning team will take home $100,000 and earn an automatic berth into IEM Katowice 2025.

The event concludes Sunday with the grand final:

--MOUZ vs. Natus Vincere

IEM Rio 2024 prize pool

1. $100,000, qualification to IEM Katowice 2025

2. $42,000

3-4. $20,000 -- FURIA Esports, HEROIC

5-6. $10,000 -- Team Vitality, Virtus.pro

7-8. $6,000 -- FaZe Clan, The MongolZ

9-12. $5,000 -- Complexity Gaming, Team Liquid, Astralis, Eternal Fire

13-16. $4,000 -- Imperial Esports, paiN Gaming, 9z Team, G2 Esports