HEROIC to participate in IEM Rio 2024

Damjan "kyxsan" Stoilkovski's squad became the second winner of the closed European qualifier for the upcoming tournament IEM Rio 2024 Counter-Strike 2.

In the lower bracket final, HEROIC bested Falcons with a scoreline of 2:0 (13:9 on Mirage, 13:6 on Dust2), while before that, they knocked out fnatic, 3DMAX and B8 from the qualifier.

Notably, the first winner of the European qualifier for IEM Rio 2024 is Eternal Fire, which also defeated Falcons in the winners' final. The final qualifier bracket looks as follows:

IEM Rio 2024 will be held from October 7 to 13, 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the participation of 16 rosters. The participants will compete for $250,000 in prize money. The winner will secure a ticket to IEM Katowice 2025. The current team list looks as follows:

 Astralis
 FaZe
 G2
 MOUZ
 NAVI
 Vitality
 FURIA
 Virtus.pro
 Complexity
 The MongolZ
 9z
 paiN
 Rare Atom
 Eternal Fire
 HEROIC
 North America qualifier winner