9z team will play this Tuesday the second date of the world video game tournament Counter-Strike: global offensive, known worldwide as the Intel Extreme Master Major of Rio de Janeiro. Starting at 11, the viola quintet will face the North Americans from Evil genes (EG) with the dream of qualifying for the next Legend Stage.

The Argentine team that has Buda, the Uruguayans Dgt and Max, the Chilean Dav1d and the Brazilian Nqz They will have to overcome a tough obstacle at midday in Argentina when they face the American quintet, who also have the same record (1-1) after winning the opening match against the IHC and then losing to MOUZ.

Violet has to beat EG in the last series one match from the Challenger Stage. In case of achievement of the same, the next match for the ranking at Legend Phase It will be the best of the three. But if he falls by the wayside, he will play the best of three maps again to continue with the chances in the Rio de Janeiro tournament.

After crashing hard on Monday in his debut against Gamer Legion’s Europeans (16-6), 9z managed to recover with a win over Brazil’s Imperial Esports on the Mirage map, which was placed in the 0-2 loser bracket of the IEM Rio Major Challengers Stage.

the veteran Gabriel “⁠FalleN⁠” Toledowho is playing his last major in his home country, he will now have to play this Tuesday with no margin of defeat, as he will have to prevail best of three to avoid early elimination in front of his crowd.

Rio de Janeiro Major: public record and party in the stands

The first Counter Strike: Global Offensive Major to be held for the first time in South America was with a real gamer party in the stands of pavilion 6 of the Riocentro.

Between the songs of the Brazilian retorts and the thousands of participants who gathered to see the best players in the world in the tactical shooter, the 9z Team bar appeared, a group led by the Francesco “Frankkaster” Postillion -CEO of the team- and its partner the streamer Luchi Quinteroswhich he did not stop encouraging during the hard-fought victory against Imperial Esports.

The audience record They were pulverized when more than 700,000 people watched the presentation match between Imperial Esports and Vitality via Twitch, according to data published by the sports monitoring site Esports Charts.

Unsurprisingly, South American teams have attracted more attention from the general public, both via streaming and on social media.

The opening match of FURY against BIG where the Brazilians have blown a lead of 15-8 to lose in extra time, attracted second for number of spectators with a peak of 699,767.

Similarly, the South American classic between Imperial and 9z Team became the third most watched game, with 522,578 spectators peaks.

Rio Major: match schedule for the second day

• 11.00 – Genes of evil vs. 9zTeam.
• 11:00 – Vitality vs. strangers.
• 12:15 – OG FURIA.
• 12:15 – GREAT Greyhound.
• 13:30 -00 NATION vs. IHC.
• 13:30 – MOUZ vs. fanatic.
• 17:00 – Cloud9 vs. Imperial.
• 17:00 GamerLegion vs. Bad news eagles