Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 EU RMR Closed Qualifier A

ENCE and TSM in trouble as EU RMR CQ day 1 reaches end

21-8-2024 20:50

gla1ve's team is staring elimination in the face after two best-of-one losses.

ENCE will take on Enterprise in an elimination match

The opening day of the closed qualifiers for the Europe RMRs has come to a close, with teams like ENCE, TSM and AMKAL left fighting for survival after losing their opening two games.

Despite being the highest-ranked team in Closed Qualifier A, ENCE got off on the wrong foot in the tournament and fell to KOI and UNiTY in best-of-one games.

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These results only add to a disappointing start to the season from Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander's team, who lost to PARIVISION in the CCT Season 2 Europe Series 7 quarter-finals and couldn't make it out of the Europe open qualifiers for IEM Rio.

TSM's newly built full Danish team lost to BLEED and GamerLegion, while AMKAL, who are playing the qualifier with Emil "⁠nota⁠" Moskvitin as their fifth player, were defeated by Permitta and Sashi.

Meanwhile, SAW, the highest-ranked team in the closed qualifiers, blasted into the 2-0 pool with convincing wins over OG and Qiang. The only other top-20 team in the qualifiers, BIG, recovered from a shock 13-3 loss to Passion UA with a 13-5 win over Insilio to end the day in the 1-1 pool.

Below you can find the qualifier's standings after day one:

Group A

Group Swiss

2W - 0L

SINNERS

Sangal

BLEED

KOI

1W - 1L

0W - 2L

TSM

Group B

Group Swiss

2W - 0L

9 Pandas

SAW

Permitta

Cloud9

1W - 1L

Passion UA

BIG

0W - 2L

The Europe RMR closed qualifiers will continue Thursday with the third Swiss round, featuring a best-of-three format for the elimination and progression matches.

The match-ups are:

Date	Matches
Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 EU RMR Closed Qualifier A
22/08/2024	Monte 11:00 ECLOT	Match
22/08/2024	Rhyno 11:00 UNiTY	Match
22/08/2024	BC.Game 12:00 GamerLegion	Match
22/08/2024	B8 12:00 PARIVISION	Match
22/08/2024	SINNERS 13:00 KOI	Match
22/08/2024	Sangal 13:00 BLEED	Match
22/08/2024	ENCE 17:00 Enterprise	Match
22/08/2024	1win 17:00 TSM	Match

Date	Matches
Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 EU RMR Closed Qualifier B
22/08/2024	Nemiga 11:00 Sashi	Match
22/08/2024	Passion UA 11:00 ARCRED	Match
22/08/2024	Qiang 12:00 BIG	Match
22/08/2024	OG 12:00 Rebels	Match
22/08/2024	SAW 13:00 Permitta	Match
22/08/2024	9 Pandas 13:00 Cloud9	Match
22/08/2024	AMKAL 17:00 Insilio	Match
22/08/2024	Johnny Speeds 18:00 Zero Tenacity	Match

Expected

2024-08-21 20:52

People are still saying glaive is the goat igl while litterly only being successful in one team.

2024-08-21 20:54

7 replies

he has goofy and kylar how are you supposed to win with that

2024-08-21 20:56

1 reply

kylar has litterly never looked worse than under him though. Goofy plays tough positions but is still just well bad...

2024-08-21 20:58

bro put goofy, kylar and dycha on arena at kato, he deserve to be in goat igl discussion. this is harder than have an era with that astralis core

both kylar and dycha played their worse cs under glaive. I agree that he deserve to be in the goat igl discussion, but that discussion should end rather quickly with all parts agreeing that he is not the goat (still top 3 for sure though).

2024-08-21 21:02

one of the most successful teams to ever touch the game

2024-08-21 21:11

give him the teams karrigan has had and he would win more, oh wait he took over from karrigan in TSM and won 4 majors. move along now

2024-08-22 01:00

0/8

2024-08-22 10:45

bye sweden but you still has truls moregard !!!

and some people said that Glaive was one of the greatest IGL's LOL

Im so confused by ENCE. Like what the fuck is happening there, did ENCE management just bail and told kuben/glaive to do whatever the fuck they want but not expect any money for player changes or whats up? And even if, they still should look way better if they managed to get top 6 at kato this year. Whos fault actually is it that they look this bad and the only thing they achieved is kato top 6 and qualifying for the major. Kubens apeks looks more and more like a coincidence rather than his own achievement.

2024-08-21 21:26