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Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024
2024
Tournament information
GameCounter-Strike 2
LocationShanghai, China
DatesNovember 30–December 15, 2024
AdministratorValve
Perfect World
FormatTwo 16-team Swiss-system group stages
8-team single-elimination playoff
Host(s)Perfect World
PGL[a]
VenueShanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center (Opening & Elimination stages)
Shanghai Oriental Sports Center (Playoffs stage)
Teams24
PurseUS$1,250,000
Final positions
ChampionsTeam Spirit
1st runners-upFaZe Clan
2nd runners-upG2 Esports
MOUZ
MVPDanil "donk" Kryshkovets
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The Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 was the second Counter-Strike 2 Major Championship and twenty-first Counter-Strike Major overall. It was held in Shanghai, China from November 30 to December 15, 2024, and was the first Major organized by Perfect World.[2] For the first time since Rio 2022, each stage of the tournament was in front of large audiences. The Opening and Elimination stages were held at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, while the Playoffs stage were held at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center.[3] Twenty-four teams qualified from regional qualifiers for the tournament, which included a prize pool of US$1,250,000.

Team Spirit were the Major's champions, following a 2–1 victory over FaZe Clan.[4] 17-year old Spirit player Danil "donk" Kryshkovets was named the tournament's MVP, making him the highest-rated ever as well as the youngest ever, since Markus "Kjaerbye" Kjærbye at Atlanta 2017.[5]

Background

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Counter-Strike 2 is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It is the fifth game in the Counter-Strike series. In professional Counter-Strike, the Valve-sponsored Majors are considered the most prestigious tournaments.[6]

The defending Major champions were Natus Vincere, following a 2–1 victory over FaZe Clan at Copenhagen 2024.[7] They were eliminated following a defeat to HEROIC in the Elimination Stage.

On July 4, 2024, it was announced that Romanian tournament organizer and previous Major hosts PGL had acquired the rights to the English-language broadcast.[1]

Talent

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On November 1, 2024, PGL announced the full talent lineup for the Major's English-language broadcast.[8]

Hosts

Analysts

  • Alex "Mauisnake" Ellenberg
  • Janko "YNk" Paunović
  • Sudhen "Bleh" Wahengbam
  • Dustin "dusT" Mouret

Casters

  • Jason "moses" O'Tool
  • Adam "dinko" Hawthorne
  • Hugo Byron
  • Harry "JustHarry" Russell
  • Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill
  • Alex "Machine" Richardson
  • Mohan "launders" Govindasamy
  • Conner "Scrawny" Girvan

Format

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Like previous Majors using a Swiss-system group stage, twenty-four teams will qualify for the tournament. This includes sixteen teams who qualify for the Opening Stage. The top eight teams from the Opening Stage move on to the Elimination Stage, along with eight teams directly from the Regional Major Ranking (RMR) qualifiers. Finally, the top eight teams from the Elimination Stage will play a single-elimination Playoffs Stage to determine a champion. As a tiebreaker, each team with the same number of matches won and lost during the Opening and Elimination stages will be seeded according to their Buchholz score. Teams qualified for the Playoffs Stage will also be seeded according to their final Buchholz scores.

In the first two stages, all matches except for progression or elimination matches, which are played as bests-of-three, are played in a best-of-one format. All matches in the Playoff Stage are played in a best-of-three format.

Map pool

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Teams

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Europe

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Asia

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Americas

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Qualification

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Qualification took place through three Regional Major Ranking events, based on teams' geographical regions, events were held for Europe, Americas and Asia.[9]

Four teams who qualify from each Europe RMR earned direct berths to the Elimination Stage, in accordance with the number of each region's teams that advanced from the Elimination Stage to the Playoffs Stage of Copenhagen 2024. Like the previous Major, these places were distributed according to the highest ranked teams in the Valve Regional Standings.[10]

The RMR tournaments for all regions took place in Shanghai, at the following dates:[11]

  • Asia: November 11–13
  • Americas: November 12–15
  • Europe: November 17–24

RMR results

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Region Opening Stage Elimination Stage
Europe A
Europe B
Americas —
Asia —

Team seeding

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Following the conclusion of the Europe RMRs, Valve updated their regional standings and awarded teams Elimination Stage berths based on their new rankings. Perfect World initially had the top 4 teams from each of the Europe RMRs qualify for the Elimination Stage, following the rulebook that was in place up to Paris 2023. Team Vitality, MOUZ, Natus Vincere and FaZe (in Europe RMR A), as well as BIG and 3DMAX (in Europe RMR B), were mistakenly qualified for the Elimination Stage before Perfect World reverted to utilizing the Valve Regional Standings on November 22, during the middle of Europe RMR B.[10][12]

Europe Regional Standings for qualified teams (as of 25 November, 2024)[13]
Standing Team Name Roster Seed
1 G2 huNter-, m0NESY, malbsMd, NiKo, Snax Elimination Stage
2 Natus Vincere Aleksib, b1t, iM, jL, w0nderful
3 Team Vitality apEX, flameZ, mezii, Spinx, ZywOo
4 Team Spirit chopper, donk, magixx, sh1ro, zont1x
5 MOUZ Brollan, Jimpphat, siuhy, torzsi, xertioN
6 FaZe broky, frozen, karrigan, rain, ropz
7 HEROIC degster, kyxsan, NertZ, sjuush, TeSeS
11 3DMAX Djoko, Ex3rcice, Graviti, Lucky, Maka
13 Virtus.pro electroNic, fame, FL1T, Jame, n0rb3r7 Opening Stage
15 BIG JDC, Krimbo, rigoN, syrsoN, tabseN
17 fnatic blameF, bodyy, KRIMZ, MATYS, nawwk
22 GamerLegion FL4MUS, sl3nd, Tauson, volt, ztr
30 Cloud9 Ax1Le, Boombl4, HeavyGod, ICY, interz
34 Passion UA fear, jackasmo, jambo, s-chilla, zeRRoFIX

Opening stage

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On November 4, 2023, it was announced that Valve had renamed the Challengers Stage and Legends Stage of the Major to "Opening Stage" and "Elimination Stage" respectively. Teams would also be seeded into these stages according to their regional standings.[14] Like previous Majors using a Swiss-system bracket, sixteen teams will compete for eight Elimination Stage spots, with all matches besides elimination and progression matches, which are bests-of-three, being bests-of-one.

The Opening Stage was played between November 30 and December 3, 2024.

Pos Team W L RW RL RD BS Qualification
1 The MongolZ 3 0 52 15 +37 1 Qualification
to Elimination Stage
2 Liquid 3 0 57 43 +14 -2
3 GamerLegion 3 1 64 72 -8 6
4 FURIA 3 1 68 65 +3 1
5 paiN 3 1 65 49 +16 -4
6 Wildcard 3 2 108 100 +8 -1
7 BIG 3 2 89 95 -6 -3
8 MIBR 3 2 87 68 +19 -3
9 FlyQuest 2 3 78 97 -19 6 Eliminated
10 Passion UA 2 3 95 93 +2 4
11 Complexity 2 3 101 87 +14 -6
12 Virtus.pro 1 3 31 30 +1 1
13 Cloud9 1 3 55 60 -5 1
14 Rare Atom 1 3 68 90 -22 -1
15 Imperial 0 3 25 52 -27 3
16 fnatic 0 3 43 62 -19 -3
Updated to match(es) played on December 3, 2024. Source: [1]

Matchup results

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Opening Stage full results
Round 1 matches
Team Score Map Score Team
FURIA Esports 8 Vertigo 13 GamerLegion
Virtus.pro 7 Ancient 13 MIBR
Team Liquid 13 Ancient 10 Cloud9
Complexity Gaming 6 Anubis 13 FlyQuest
BIG Clan 13 Mirage 9 Passion UA
fnatic 11 Mirage 13 Wildcard
The MongolZ 13 Anubis 2 Rare Atom
paiN Gaming 13 Dust II 5 Imperial Esports
Round 2 matches
Team Score Map Score Team
1–0
BIG Clan 5 Nuke 13 FlyQuest
The MongolZ 13 Ancient 6 MIBR
Team Liquid 13 Inferno 10 Wildcard
paiN Gaming 10 Nuke 13 GamerLegion
0–1
fnatic 5 Ancient 13 Cloud9
Complexity Gaming 9 Anubis 13 Passion UA
Virtus.pro 13 Anubis 4 Rare Atom
FURIA Esports 13 Anubis 11 Imperial Esports
Round 3 matches
Team Score Map Score Team
2–0
Team Liquid 2 Series 1 FlyQuest
GamerLegion 0 Series 2 The MongolZ
1–1
BIG Clan 13 Vertigo 11 Virtus.pro
MIBR 5 Mirage 13 Passion UA
FURIA Esports 16 Vertigo 14 Wildcard
paiN Gaming 13 Anubis 11 Cloud9
0–2
Rare Atom 2 Series 1 fnatic
Complexity Gaming 2 Series 0 Imperial Esports
Round 4 matches
Team Score Map Score Team
2–1
BIG Clan 1 Series 2 FURIA Esports
FlyQuest 0 Series 2 paiN Gaming
GamerLegion 2 Series 1 Passion UA
1–2
MIBR 2 Series 1 Rare Atom
Cloud9 0 Series 2 Complexity Gaming
Wildcard 2 Series 1 Virtus.pro
Round 5 matches
Team Score Map Score Team
BIG Clan 2 Series 1 Complexity Gaming
FlyQuest 0 Series 2 MIBR
Passion UA 1 Series 2 Wildcard

Elimination stage

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Like the Opening Stage, the Elimination Stage is played in a Swiss-system bracket, with eight teams advancing to a single-elimination Playoffs Stage. The Elimination Stage includes the eight teams that advance from the Opening Stage, as well as the eight highest teams from the Europe RMR in Valve's regional standings. Matches are played in the same format as in the Opening Stage.

On December 6, The MongolZ secured qualification to the Playoffs Stage, following a victory over HEROIC on December 6, making them the first Asian team to compete in the playoffs of a Major.[15]

The Elimination Stage was played between December 5 and December 8, 2024.

Pos Team W L RW RL RD BS Qualification
1 The MongolZ 3 0 69 59 +10 4 Qualification
to Playoffs Stage
2 Vitality 3 0 55 28 +27 -4
3 G2 3 1 62 33 +29 -1
4 Spirit 3 1 71 55 +16 -4
5 Liquid 3 1 72 52 +20 -5
6 HEROIC 3 2 127 119 +8 2
7 FaZe 3 2 73 91 -18 0
8 MOUZ 3 2 88 68 +20 -1
9 FURIA 2 3 104 100 +4 6 Eliminated
10 MIBR 2 3 65 110 -45 3
11 Natus Vincere 2 3 77 82 -5 2
12 GamerLegion 1 3 68 80 -12 1
13 3DMAX 1 3 54 63 -9 0
14 paiN 1 3 87 92 -5 -5
15 Wildcard 0 3 44 62 -18 1
16 BIG 0 3 41 63 -22 1
Updated to match(es) played on December 8, 2024. Source: [2]

Matchup results

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Elimination Stage full results
Round 1 matches
Team Score Map Score Team
G2 Esports 10 Inferno 13 The MongolZ
Natus Vincere 13 Nuke 10 Team Liquid
Team Vitality 13 Mirage 7 GamerLegion
Team Spirit 6 Dust II 13 FURIA Esports
MOUZ 13 Nuke 6 paiN Gaming
FaZe Clan 13 Ancient 10 Wildcard
HEROIC 13 Mirage 7 BIG Clan
3DMAX 11 Vertigo 13 MIBR
Round 2 matches
Team Score Map Score Team
1–0
Team Vitality 16 Mirage 13 FURIA Esports
MOUZ 13 Mirage 16 The MongolZ
Natus Vincere 11 Inferno 13 MIBR
FaZe Clan 8 Ancient 13 HEROIC
0–1
Team Liquid 13 Inferno 10 GamerLegion
Team Spirit 13 Ancient 6 Wildcard
G2 Esports 13 Mirage 5 BIG Clan
3DMAX 13 Dust II 11 paiN Gaming
Round 3 matches
Team Score Map Score Team
2–0
MIBR 0 Series 2 Team Vitality
The MongolZ 2 Series 1 HEROIC
1–1
Natus Vincere 2 Mirage 13 Team Spirit
FURIA Esports 9 Inferno 13 Team Liquid
G2 Esports 13 Ancient 8 3DMAX
MOUZ 10 Inferno 13 FaZe Clan
0–2
GamerLegion 2 Series 1 Wildcard
BIG Clan 1 Series 2 paiN Gaming
Round 4 matches
Team Score Map Score Team
2–1
G2 Esports 2 Series 0 FaZe Clan
MIBR 1 Series 2 Team Liquid
HEROIC 1 Series 2 Team Spirit
1–2
MOUZ 2 Series 0 3DMAX
Natus Vincere 2 Series 0 GamerLegion
FURIA Esports 2 Series 1 paiN Gaming
Round 5 matches
Team Score Map Score Team
MIBR 0 Series 2 MOUZ
Natus Vincere 1 Series 2 HEROIC
FURIA Esports 1 Series 2 FaZe Clan

Playoffs stage

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The top eight teams from the Elimination Stage will advance to a single-elimination bracket. Each match in the Playoffs Stage is played in a best-of-three format.

The Playoffs Stage was played between December 12 and December 15, 2024.

Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
                  
1 The MongolZ 14 9 – 0
8 MOUZ 16 13 – 2
MOUZ 13 4 7 1
Spirit 7 13 13 2
5 Liquid 9 11 – 0
4 Spirit 13 13 – 2
Spirit 13 6 13 2
FaZe 8 13 11 1
3 G2 6 13 16 2
6 HEROIC 13 9 13 1
G2 6 14 – 0
FaZe 13 16 – 2
7 FaZe 6 13 13 2
2 Vitality 13 8 7 1

Final standings

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The final placings are shown below. In addition, the prize distribution, roster, and coaches are shown.

Place Prize Money Team Roster Coach
1st US$500,000 Team Spirit donk, chopper, sh1ro, zont1x, magixx hally
2nd US$170,000 FaZe Clan ropz, frozen, broky, rain, karrigan NEO
3rd – 4th US$80,000 G2 Esports Snax, NiKo, m0NESY, malbsMd, huNter TaZ
MOUZ Brollan, siuhy, torzsi, Jimpphat, xertioN sycrone
5th – 8th US$45,000 Team Vitality apEX, ZywOo, flameZ, Spinx, mezii XTQZZZ
HEROIC NertZ, TeSeS, sjuush, degster, kyxsan sAw
Team Liquid Twistzz, jks, ultimate, NAF, YEKINDAR mithR
The MongolZ bLitz, Techno4K, Senzu, mzinho, 910 maaRaa
9th – 11th US$20,000 FURIA Esports FalleN, chelo, yuurih, KSCERATO, skullz sidde
Natus Vincere Aleksib, iM, b1t, jL, w0nderful B1ad3
MIBR exit, Lucaozy, saffee, drop, insani nak
12th – 14th GamerLegion ztr, Tauson, volt, sl3nd, FL4MUS ash
paiN Gaming biguzera, nqz, kauez, snow, lux rikz
3DMAX Maka, Lucky, Djoko, Ex3rcice, Graviti wasiNk
15th – 16th BIG Clan tabseN, syrsoN, rigoN, JDC, Krimbo kakafu
Wildcard stanislaw, Sonic, phzy, susp, JBa vinS
17th – 19th US$10,000 Passion UA fear, jambo, s-chilla, jackasmo, zeRRoFIX Kane
FlyQuest dexter, Liazz, aliStair, INS, Vexite erkaSt
Complexity Gaming EliGE, JT, floppy, hallzerk, Grim T.c
20th – 22nd Virtus.pro Jame, FL1T, fame, n0rb3r7, electroNic PASHANOJ
Cloud9 Ax1Le, Boombl4, HeavyGod, ICY, interz groove
Rare Atom somebody, Summer, L1haNg, ChildKing, kaze z8z
23rd – 24th Imperial Esports felps, VINI, try, decenty, noway zakk
fnatic KRIMZ, bodyy, nawwk, blameF, MATYS keita

Source:[16][17]

Notes

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  1. ^ English-language broadcast.[1]

References

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