Field Level Media
19 Apr 2026, 12:25 GMT+10
(Photo credit: Nick Oza/The Republic via Imagn Content Services, LLC)
Team Vitality and Team Spirit advanced to the grand final with semifinal victories Saturday at the $300,000 Intel Extreme Masters Rio event in Brazil.
Vitality blanked FURIA and Spirit did the same to Team Falcons. FURIA and Team Falcons will meet in the third-place match on Sunday before Vitality and Spirit face off in the grand final.
Sixteen Counter-Strike 2 teams have been competing this week for a top prize of $125,000.
The double-elimination group stage began with two groups of eight teams, with all matches best-of-three. The group winners advanced to the playoff semifinals, with the group runners-up entering the quarterfinals as high seeds and the third-place teams entering the quarterfinals as low seeds.
In the single-elimination playoffs, all matches have been best-of-three until Sunday's best-of-five grand final.
On Saturday, Vitality took out FURIA 13-10 on both Overpass and Ancient. Mathieu 'ZywOo' Herbaut of France paced the winning side with a 49-27 kill-death differential. For FURIA, Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato of Brazil posted a 36-28 K-D differential.
Spirit cruised past Team Falcons 13-7 on Dust II and 13-4 on Mirage, led by Russian Boris 'magixx' Vorobiev's K-D differential of 31-17. Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov of Russia led Falcons with a 28-27 K-D differential.
Play continues Sunday with the final two matches:
--Team Vitality vs. Team Spirit (grand final)
--FURIA vs. Team Falcons (third-place match)
IEM Rio prize pool:
1. $125,000
2. $50,000
3. $30,000
4. $20,000
5-6. $12,500 -- MOUZ, Natus Vincere
7-8. $7,000 -- G2 Esports, Aurora Gaming
9-12. $5,000 -- RED Canids, 3DMAX, B8, HOTU
13-16. $4,000 -- Gentle Mates, Team Liquid, Passion UA, Legacy
--Field Level Media
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