The Major in Brazil has reached the Champions Stage, set to begin on Thursday.

The fifth and final round of play for the Legends Stage has drawn to a close, with MOUZ, Natus Vincere, and Spirit booking their spots in the Jeunesse Arena in the last do-or-die round of matches.

The $1,250,000 tournament now moves on to the single-elimination knockout stage, where eight teams are set to battle it out for their chance at etching their names into the history books and becoming Major champions.

The opening series for the playoffs will be on Thursday at 18:00 with a battle between fnatic and Outsiders, who will be playing a knockout stage rematch after meeting once already during IEM Rio. The two teams previously squared off in the Challengers Stage, with the Russian-majority quintet getting the better of William "⁠mezii⁠" Merriman's team 2-0.

FURIA will look to make a deep run in front of the home crowd

Cloud9 will begin their quest to earn their organisation its second Major trophy with a quarter-final affair versus MOUZ on Thursday at 21:30 . The Russian roster have had a daunting time during their run through the Major, initially facing a threat of elimination with a 0-2 start in the Challengers Stage, before recovering with a 3-0 sweep of the Legends Stage en route to a spot in the playoffs.

HEROIC return to the playoffs of a Major for the third time running. The Danes' first test comes in the form of Spirit in a match that will take place on Friday at 18:00 .

The home-town favourites of FURIA will kick off their playoff campaign on Friday at 21:30 with a clash versus the heavyweights of Natus Vincere.

The two semi-finals will play on Saturday, kicking off at 18:00 and 21:30 before giving way to the highly-anticipated grand final, which begins on Sunday at 19:00 .

The schedule of the playoffs can be found below:

Quarter-finals

Date	Matches
IEM Rio Major 2022
10/11/2022	Outsiders18:00 fnatic	Match
10/11/2022	MOUZ21:30 Cloud9	Match
11/11/2022	Spirit18:15 HEROIC	Match
11/11/2022	FURIA21:45 Natus Vincere	Match

Semi-finals

Date	Matches
IEM Rio Major 2022
12/11/2022	Outsiders18:00 MOUZ	Match
12/11/2022	HEROIC23:00 FURIA	Match

Grand final

Date	Matches
IEM Rio Major 2022
13/11/2022	Outsiders19:00 HEROIC	Match

Natus Vincere #4 Oleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' SharipovViktor 'sdy' OrudzhevIlya 'Perfecto' ZalutskiyValeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy Outsiders #6 Evgenii 'FL1T' LebedevAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' AliDavid 'n0rb3r7' DanielyanPetr 'fame' Bolyshev Time is adjusted to your selected timezone MOUZ #7 Christopher 'dexter' NongDavid 'frozen' ČerňanskýJon 'JDC' de CastroÁdám 'torzsi' TorzsásDorian 'xertioN' Berman HEROIC #10 Casper 'cadiaN' MøllerMartin 'stavn' LundRené 'TeSeS' MadsenRasmus 'sjuush' BeckJakob 'jabbi' Nygaard Cloud9 #5 Abay 'HObbit' KhassenovTimofey 'interz' YakushinSergey 'Ax1Le' RykhtorovDmitry 'sh1ro' SokolovVladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov fnatic #16 Freddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonDion 'FASHR' DerksenNico 'nicoodoz' TamjidiFredrik 'roeJ' JørgensenWilliam 'mezii' Merriman Spirit #12 Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovBoris 'magixx' VorobievPavel 'S1ren' OgloblinRobert 'Patsi' IsyanovIhor 'w0nderful' Zhdanov FURIA #8 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRafael 'saffee' CostaAndré 'drop' Abreu William 'mezii' Merriman Age: 24 Team: fnatic Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 573 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.63