IEM Rio underdogs make CS:GO Major history in Champions Stage

Welcome to CS:GO, where the rankings are made up and the points don’t matter. One of the most prominent lists used to track team progress in professional CS:GO is the HLTV world ranking list, which ranks teams based on performance and strength of schedule.

At an already historic IEM Rio Major though, for the first time, the four semifinalists heading into the second-to-last day of playoffs are all teams ranked outside of the top five. The four remaining teams in Outsiders, MOUZ, FURIA, and Heroic ranked sixth, seventh, eighth, and 10th, respectively, according to the Nov. 7 HLTV ranking.

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