IHC have secured the first of two IEM Rio Major Challengers Stage spots on offer in the IEM Road to Rio Asia RMR after beating JiJieHao International in the first round and Grayhound 2-0 in the upper final.
The Mongolian squad will make their second Challengers Stage appearance in a row after having won the Asian RMR ahead of PGL Major Antwerp.

IHC won the Asia RMR for the second consecutive time
Chinese side Rare Atom have bowed out of the competition in last place following a 1-2 loss to JiJieHao International in the lower bracket final. Their exit from the tournament leaves China with no representatives at the Major for the second consecutive time, after TYLOO were unable to qualify for the Antwerp event earlier this year.
One more spot in Rio is left to be determined with Grayhound and JiJieHao International set to face in an all-or-nothing match taking place on Sunday at 05:00 .
The IEM Rio Major team list looks as follows after IHC clinched the latest spot:
Legends Stage
FaZe

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Natus Vincere

ENCE
Challengers Stage
9z

FURIA

00NATION

IHC
TBD*
Liquid
Evil Geniuses
Spirit
Cloud9
Sprout
* Liquid will play Evil Geniuses for a Legends spot on Sunday
** The team with the highest Buchholz score between Spirit, Cloud9, and Sprout will automatically clinch a Legends spot, and the other two will play for another in a 4th-place decider on Sunday


FaZe #1


Finn 'karrigan' Andersen

Håvard 'rain' Nygaard

Russel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken

Robin 'ropz' Kool

Helvijs 'broky' Saukants


JiJieHao International #101


Vadim 'DavCost' Vasilyev

Dmitriy 'facecrack' Alekseyev

Maoz 'BluePho3nix' Paz

Tal 'meztal' Hahiashvili

Mori 'MOREE' Mizrahi



Ninjas in Pyjamas #11



Patrick 'es3tag' Hansen

Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner

Hampus 'hampus' Poser

Aleksi 'Aleksib' Virolainen

Ludvig 'Brollan' Brolin


TYLOO #73


YuLun 'Summer' Cai

WingHei 'Freeman' Cheung

Kelun 'SLOWLY' Sun

Zhenghao 'DANK1NG' Lv

Shengjun 'aristo' Jin


Rare Atom #72


Zhuo 'advent' Liang

Andrew 'kaze' Khong

Yi 'JamYoung' Yang

Jingxiang 'Mercury' Wang

Qianhao 'Moseyuh' Chen


Cloud9 #6


Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov

Timofey 'interz' Yakushin

Sergey 'Ax1Le' Rykhtorov

Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov

Vladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov



Spirit #15



Leonid 'chopper' Vishnyakov

Boris 'magixx' Vorobiev

Pavel 'S1ren' Ogloblin

Robert 'Patsi' Isyanov

Ihor 'w0nderful' Zhdanov


00NATION #29


Marcelo 'coldzera' David

Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo

Eduardo 'dumau' Wolkmer

Bruno 'latto' Rebelatto

Santino 'try' Rigal Time is adjusted to your selected timezone


ENCE #18


Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer

Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså

Pavle 'Maden' Bošković

Paweł 'dycha' Dycha

Álvaro 'SunPayus' García


IHC #82


Bat-Enkh 'kabal' Batbayar

Tengis 'sk0R' Batjargal

Tuvshintugs 'Annihilation' Nyamdorj

Garidmagnai 'bLitz' Byambasuren

Sodbayar 'Techno' Munkhbold



9z #50



Maximiliano 'max' Gonzalez

Franco 'dgt' Garcia

David 'dav1deuS' Tapia Maldonado

Lucas 'nqz' Soares

Nicolás 'buda' Kramer


Sprout #31


Ismail 'refrezh' Ali

Fritz 'slaxz-' Dietrich

Rasmus 'Zyphon' Nordfoss

Victor 'Staehr' Staehr

Laurențiu 'lauNX' Țârlea



Evil Geniuses #22



Timothy 'autimatic' Ta

Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte

Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov

Sanzhar 'neaLaN' Iskhakov

Jadan 'HexT' Postma


Natus Vincere #2


Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev

Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov

Viktor 'sdy' Orudzhev

Ilya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy

Valeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy


Liquid #4


Nick 'nitr0' Cannella

Keith 'NAF' Markovic

Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski

Josh 'oSee' Ohm

Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Gaļinskis


FURIA #7


Andrei 'arT' Piovezan

Yuri 'yuurih' Santos

Kaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato

Rafael 'saffee' Costa

André 'drop' Abreu


Grayhound #39


Simon 'Sico' Williams

Jay 'Liazz' Tregillgas

Alistair 'aliStair' Johnston

Joshua 'INS' Potter

Declan 'Vexite' Portelli