Astralis and Spirit clinch Road to Rio titles

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The French versus the Danes. Cuisses de grenouille versus "rødgrød med fløde". G2 and Astralis took each other on in a BO5 to see which team would gets those juicy 1600 Regional Major Rankings points and $33,000 for first place at Road To Rio EU.

Both teams managed to bounce back from inaugural group stage fall-outs and place in the top 2 of their respective tables though. Astralis even going as far as to place first - in true 2018 Astralis fashion. The teams had already met once before in the playoffs, Astralis knocking down G2 in to the Lower Bracket, where the nexa got the G2 memes kicked off for real.

The Grand Final became another meme. Since this is the TLDR we'll be quick: G2 lost 0-3, and it almost took less time than writing this sentence. G2 fans are trying to kill the meme, but we'll happily ignore that.

Meanwhile in the CIS division, the Grand Final was a matter between Spirit and Winstrike. We still can't believe s1mple wasn't in this one. In the final, one team was full of Spirit while the other lacked the ability to Win and Strike. With the victory, Spirit currently sits in 2nd place in the CIS Regional Major Rankings. It's pretty impressive if take into account that they started out with 0 points from last major.

As a result of the first tournaments in the RtR circuit, the Regional Major Rankings have been updated. If you want to see the full version, it's on Liquipedia, there's really no way to TLDR this one.

May 18, 2020

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