Perfect World announce RMR and qualifier invites

9-8-2024 10:12

Over a hundred teams received invites either directly to each Regional Major Ranking event or its closed qualifiers.

Update August 10: Akimbo reassigned to NA closed qualifier

Akimbo, a Mongolian-majority team residing in North America, have been reassigned from East Asia, filling the last spot in the NA closed qualifier that was previously empty due to not enough teams being ranked.

Perfect World have confirmed the list of invited teams to the Regional Major Ranking events in Europe, Americas and Asia and their respective closed qualifiers ahead of the Perfect World Shanghai Major.

These are based on the Valve Regional Standings from August 6, which can be found here, and are still pending confirmation from the teams themselves, Perfect World have clarified to HLTV.

Half of the participating teams in Europe (16) and the Americas (8) received direct invites to the RMRs, while in Asia three slots were filled by direct invites. The remaining 16, eight and five teams, respectively, will come from various closed qualifiers, which will kick off from August 21.

In several cases teams were cut from the list, due to that team participating in a different region (Liquid, who could apply for either Europe or the Americas, for example) or due to Valve's ruling against one organization fielding multiple teams across the various qualifiers.

In Europe and the Americas, direct invites based on the standings served as the only route to participation in the Major qualifying system after open qualifiers were removed in the two regions earlier this year. There is however one empty slot in the NA closed qualifier at the moment because not enough teams were ranked in the region.

Open qualifiers removed in raft of Major rulebook changes

In Asia, open qualifiers remained in each of the five sub-regions to determine four of the eight participating teams in each. However, these are likely to fill more spots than originally intended, as the Middle East, China and Rest of Asia qualifiers didn't feature enough teams on the ranking to receive four invites.

It is worth noting that an outdated Cloud9 roster featuring the previous core is listed as part of the invites to the European closed qualifier, as the new roster had not yet played the required 10 matches to be ranked. It is possible that the Russian side will submit four of their current players plus Ilya "⁠Perfecto⁠" Zalutskiy to ensure a core of the invited roster remains intact, and then substitute him with the last player from the existing roster ahead of the start of the closed qualifier.

The Regional Major Ranking events will all take place in Shanghai, China from November 11-24, ending less than a week before the Shanghai Major kicks off on November 30 with the opening stage. The entire online portion of the qualifying stage will run between August 21-30 depending on the region and stage.

The full list of invites in each region can be found below:

Europe RMR

Closed qualifiers

*Valve's ranking lists the roster Cloud9 used for the Esports World Cup Europe qualifier, which includes Daniil "⁠alpha⁠" Demin, Perfecto, and Abay "⁠HObbit⁠" Khassenov

Americas RMR

South America closed qualifier

North America closed qualifier

Asia RMR

The MongolZ

FlyQuest

Lynn Vision

Closed qualifiers

Oceania

KZG

China

CatEvil

Middle East

East Asia

GR

Rest of Asia

okay sounds good

2024-08-09 10:13

A, B rmrs?

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No disrespect but last time american teams beat you so bad they took 2 spots, additionally mongols also stole one more spot, so you guys are 3 spots down this major, also which teams goes to A or B rme is announced later

2024-08-09 12:41

9 replies

this is pure cope

2024-08-09 14:17

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yes, and?

2024-08-09 15:38

And yet all the playoff teams were still all EU

2024-08-09 14:42

its was SA teams that got us for rmr spots. Im grateful for them.

2024-08-09 15:42

Ok bro but who asked?

2024-08-09 18:21

4 replies

Your mom

2024-08-09 18:27

3 replies

Wtf, not real Canadian. Either frenchie or american immigrant

2024-08-09 18:31

2 replies

Fake russian, NAF fan definitely a canadian

2024-08-09 22:41

NAFistianity is a religion and i am a proud NAFfer.

2024-08-10 07:14

talon inc

2024-08-09 10:14

So we are not sure about cloud9 huh? If they can call back perfecto to replace Interz that would be perfecto.

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It's expected based on previous RMRs. HYENAS got themselves an invite to Flashpoint 3 by registering cajunb for the team but subbed him out instantly and he never played a map for them. Under this precedent it's expected Cloud9 can register a roster with Perfecto and use interz as a substitute, then instantly sub him in and Perfecto never has to play a map. This, of course, would handicap them slightly in the event they actually need a substitute due to illnesses or visa issues. Worth noting is that the rosters for the closed qualifiers aren't locked, and can still be changed without losing your spot.

2024-08-09 10:23

Isn't flash point a tournaments for partner teams tho? Valve tournaments may work differently, Heroic changes 3 players in 2023 but they still make it to blast world final, they could be working differently. And in this case cloud9 suffered a 3 man roster changes. But still, what you said could make sense.

2024-08-09 10:29

flashpoint hosted an RMR during the online era that wasnt a partner team event. Same one with the whole dev40ce meme where faceit heroically DDOSed NIP

2024-08-09 10:56

Then it makes sense.

2024-08-09 11:05

Or they will register him, register interz as substitute and go on with the roster they have without subs

2024-08-09 11:21

no attax?

tbh endpoint would be before attax in the order

2024-08-09 10:28

So will Cloud9s roster now be available to play or will Metizport get the slot?

2024-08-09 10:15

It depends on Cloud9. Metisport could learn Chinese and go to play in the Asian RMRs to get a spot at the Major.

2024-08-09 10:17

I suggest you read the article

2024-08-09 10:31

Well thank you mister Striker, the article contained the information I seeked, at least in most part. I should have read it in full! Is it correct that Metizport is next in line if some of the invited teams are for some reason unavailable?

2024-08-09 11:07

They are indeed

2024-08-09 11:52

#48 most likely

2024-08-09 11:22

where is metizsport ?

They missed out by one spot. If one team opt out Metiz will replace them.

2024-08-09 10:34

no one LT team

Where is JIJIEHAO by the way?

2024-08-09 10:18

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Didn't play enough maps, their one notable event was EWC with a grand total of *drum roll* 1 Map.

2024-08-09 10:59

Gigachad Osamas getting robbed once again. He should have received the MVP for the Esports World Cup as he was by far the highest rated played and now he has to wait another year to stamp his authority over the scene!

2024-08-09 11:06

All hail God 0SAMAS

Awful management, they actually have a chance at Asia RMR.

2024-08-09 11:39

I disagree. They are going to be the 1st team out lol.

2024-08-09 14:43

They basically guaranteed a spot if they are qualified to play closed qualifiers. Unlike other teams in other Asia regions.

2024-08-09 17:12

Soooo BC.Game grabs a spot even though they’ve had a cheater in their roster the entire season LMAO. Give the spot to Metizport!

2024-08-09 10:22

Yeah that is kind of weird to me honestly

2024-08-09 13:14

Fluxo will be forced to play with Chay since if he gets kicked they will lose the core of the last Major cycle (Chay, Zevy and Lucaozy)? That seems fair to me, imagine you helping the team get points for the Major closed qualifier invite so that in the end your team wants to kick your ass and call another player in your placexd. Rare valve W

2024-08-09 10:26

Ez Major for Tyloo

How did you end up inviting GR to the closed RMR? They are not on valve rankings.

2024-08-09 10:30

They are listed in the European standings, but I assume they are an East Russian team, and these typically fall under the East Asia region instead because of ping.

2024-08-09 10:33

Yeah they are an East Russian team. But hasn't RMR spots always been based on a teams nationality instead of what region they play in? They also invited Akimbo directly to the same East Asia qualifier because they have 3 mongolian players even though this team plays in NA. Did they make an exception for GR here? To me it seems like they pulled a team out of European rankings just because the Asian rankings are so scuffed due to the lack of match coverage/data. Please correct me if im wrong here.

2024-08-09 10:47

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Russia is a unique case due to it spanning both European and Asian regions. Notice also how some Brazilian teams live in NA and get to play in that qualifier and it still wasn't enough to fill that up, I think that speaks for itself. It's also not the nationality but the RMR region as a whole that matters, if a team has a 2-2-1 setup like Liquid, they can apply for EU or AMR, technically the same applies to Wildcard in that case too.

2024-08-09 11:01

GR is ranked 118 in Valve's Eu rankings. There are plenty of other Russian teams above them that didn't get invited to any qualifiers. I think Valve specifically made made an exception for GR because they have played in some Asian events. Which is kinda weird. You are talking about wildcard but Im guessing you meant to say akimbo. Basically what annoys me about this invite is that Akimbo plays in tier 3 NA, but get invited to Asia qualifiers over some actual asian teams just because hltv covers NA games, but doesn't cover Asian games. Valve uses data from hltv for their ranking system so basically Akimbo gets points whereas Asian teams dont. I made a whole thread about this issue and the asian rankings. I suggest you check it out!

2024-08-09 11:26

Remember the ECL Asia standings and how teams like -72c, GR and LYG played out of Siberia? That basically explains that part. No no, I meant Wildcard because they have 2 EU, 2 NA and then Sonic as the 5th, allowing them to choose between EU and NA. Akimbo played in NA but chose the easier path via Asia, Legacy and E-Xolos meanwhile chose to play in NA instead of the SA qualifier, it's all a little weird.

2024-08-09 12:34

It's not an exception, the same team and one more East Russian team played in the East Asia closed qualifier for Copenhagen as well The way I see it, it would simply be unreasonable to force a far east team to play in European qualifiers on crazy ping, when they have a much closer region to them in Asia where they can play under reasonably similar conditions. Based on their history as well you can see they are an Asian team, they never play in any European competitions. hltv.org/events/7399/pgl-cs2-major-copen..

2024-08-09 11:57

I would have countered with the old QUAZAR roster but that was a Russian Far East Qualifier on it's own back in the day which then went to EU RMRs afterwards back when the Asia RMR was still at 4 spots. It just makes sense for them but that does make it interesting that Akimbo (formerly G3/OMiT) chose to go into East Asia against their country's top rosters knowing full well it's gonna be an uphill battle to win that qualifier but still finding that easier than going through NA CQ and the AMR RMR.

2024-08-09 12:37

GR played same asian tournaments that any Chinese team could play. And if they have more points, it's not because bad hltv coverage, it's because GR just played better. Akimbo is more controversial. However Valve rules doesn't forbid, for example, american team play a lot of CCTs on a bootcamp in Europe and then play Americas RMR

2024-08-09 13:28

Gr did not play better lol. They are pretty bad even on the asian standards. The lack of hltv is absolutely a part of the reason why they got the invite. Hltv doesn't cover ECL Asia which is the biggest reason valve doesn't get enough data from matches and this makes the Asia ranking incredibly inaccurate outside of the top teams. Gr are currently at the bottom of the rankings in ECL Asia btw. Gr got all of their points from getting destroyed in a few qualifiers that HLTV happend to cover. And again im not mad at the fact that Akimbo is allowed to play in Asia rmrs. What pisses me off is that Akimbo only got the direct invite because they farmed tier 3 events in NA that Hltv fully covers. Some asian teams literally have 0 points on the valve rankings because hltv doesn't cover them, despite these asian teams showing far better results than Akimbo. Sorry about the long rant. I just think its ridiculous that hltv/valve hasn't realized that they are actively messing up the rankings. There is also no excuse not to cover ECL Asia they seemingly just dont want to do it and they haven't even given a proper reason as to why.

2024-08-09 14:05

GR indeed were playing quite good before the departure of qqGOD They got second place in a qualifier to Blast showdown and finished the group stage in ECL Season 47 with a record of 22-6 which made them start play-off games in an upper-bracket semis, where they played with coach and still finished the season on 4th place getting 3k$, which basically gave them this CQ spot, as standings in Valve rating depend on prize money.

2024-08-09 15:49

Why Steeh Helmet not invint to China qualifier?

It doesn't matter, they play for stream contents like Mythic, results are not their goals.

2024-08-09 11:41

They didn't have enough HLTV recorded wins to get on Valve's ranking.

2024-08-09 15:13

number of BR flags is actually insane

Pretty standard amount of br flags, only relevant country in SA

2024-08-09 11:11

yall put NA to shame with the amount of t2 teams you have

2024-08-09 11:15

good job metiz

2024-08-09 10:40

A shitshow , china major...

2024-08-09 10:44

If it's actually a shitshow I would join you, but it's not even started yet, I don't think it's gonna be worse than Copenhagen major early this year.

2024-08-09 10:52

It didn't started yet, but we have a lot of controversial decisions already. I hope for good Major, but it's not looking good right now

2024-08-09 11:14

Might aswell swap out throwquest for TALON

Talon will need to fight the jetlag but should be able to lock up a spot in the OCE CQ and then we'll see if they can go head to head with Rooster and BNK for the RMR spot.

2024-08-09 11:02

I could prob win the open qualifier bro and I suck

2024-08-09 12:04

don't think talon at that lvl yet

2024-08-09 11:12

BC.Game omegalul

Ex-pera players have no org. C9 has the slot only using Perfecto-Alpha, Bc Joel xd

2024-08-09 10:53

Plenty of orgs who could sign ex-PERA, remember ex-Thunderflash in CQs for Copenhagen and how that netted them their current gig at Enterprise? BC Game still has 4 legit players, out with Joel, in with someone else, done. It sucks but punishing the rest of the squad feels wrong to me. C9 I got nothing lol, what a shitshow and poor Metizport and all that but they have no one to blame but themselves for selling off Susp and Ztr and then failing to gain enough points to bounce back. Missed by ONE point to UNiTY lol

BC.game +REDSTAR or god GuardiaN

2024-08-09 12:01

-bcgame+metizport!!!

2024-08-09 11:10

so happy 3dmax doesn't have to go threw the qualifier

2024-08-09 11:13

How can bc.game get the spot when they have been playing with a cheater for all but one game?

2024-08-09 11:51

1 vietnamese player invited to rmr cq poggers.

2024-08-09 12:10

Let's create Mongolian qualifier for Asian RMR

2024-08-09 12:15

The East Asia qualifier is basically the Mongolian qualifier. It just sucks that team like Akimbo, GR got invited instead of IHC, The huns ect... This is because valve doesn't have enough data on asian teams due to the lack of match coverage by HLTV. But don't worry plenty of Mongolia teams will be able to make it from the Open Qualifiers.

2024-08-09 12:42