Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 Middle East RMR Closed Qualifier

ohnePixel's DRILLAS, JiJieHao among teams through to Middle East RMR qualifier

21-8-2024 21:52

One spot at the Asia RMR will be up for grabs in the eight-team, double-elimination bracket.

Woro2k will fight for a spot at the Asia RMR

The open qualifiers for the Middle East RMR closed qualifier have concluded, seeing seven teams advance through the Arabia, South Africa, and Levant & North Africa open brackets to join NOM in a fight for a spot at the Asia RMR.

The Levant and North Africa qualifier featured the most teams (15) and a handful of notable names, including Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon competing with SSG Ghouls, POGGERZ featuring the former Twisted Minds core of Shuaib "⁠D0cC⁠" Ahmad and Deyvid "⁠h4rn⁠" Benchev, and Volodymyr "⁠Woro2k⁠" Veletniuk's DRILLAS, a mix-team supported by streamer ohnePixel.

ohnePixel signs team for Shanghai Major qualifiers

The latter two won their best-of-threes to advance through to the closed qualifier, with Unlucky Much? claiming the final spot over Lebanon after winning the third-place decider.

Date	Matches
Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 Levant & North Africa RMR Open Qualifier
21/08/2024	POGGERZ Finished 2:1 Lebanon	Match
21/08/2024	DRILLAS Finished 2:0 Unlucky Much?	Match
21/08/2024	Unlucky Much? Finished 2:0 Lebanon	Match

Only nine teams took part in the Arabian open qualifier, including Christophe "⁠SIXER⁠" Xia's Onyx Ravens and Issa "⁠ISSAA⁠" Murad's JiJieHao.

JiJieHao played with Viktor "⁠Duplicate⁠" Mitev as a substitute after moving Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye to the bench ahead of the qualifier, but showed no signs of struggle as they romped through the bracket alongside Onyx Ravens to advance, and beat them in the seeding match for a top finish.

JiJieHao bench Kjaerbye

Date	Matches
Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 Arabia RMR Open Qualifier
21/08/2024	Onyx Ravens Finished 2:0 LetUsQualify	Match
21/08/2024	JiJieHao Finished 2:0 DEPO	Match
21/08/2024	Onyx Ravens Finished 4:13 JiJieHao	Match

South African mainstay Bravado finished atop their region's qualifier, which featured 13 teams and saw Punishers claim the second spot over EXDHQ.

Date	Matches
Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 ZA RMR Open Qualifier
21/08/2024	EXDHQ Finished 0:2 Punishers	Match
21/08/2024	Bravado Finished 2:0 Southern5	Match
21/08/2024	Bravado Finished 13:9 Punishers	Match

The complete team list for the Perfect World Shanghai Major Middle East closed qualifier, set to play out from August 28-30 with one spot at the Asia RMR up for grabs, is:

Ma Drillas major champions

2024-08-21 21:52

ez 4 ohne

2024-08-21 21:53

that title was not on my 2024 bingo card

Let's go drillas!!! 😎🤙

get drill'd?

2024-08-21 21:54

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get drill’d

2024-08-21 23:53

Drilllas aint getting to the major, still gotta go get to the asia rmr, the finish top 3 in rmr.

2024-08-21 21:55

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top 3 in rmr= qualifying for a major mate

2024-08-21 22:03

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hltv.org/events/7874/perfect-world-shang.. still gotta get first in this bracket, then they have to finish top 3.

2024-08-21 22:05

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damn they really gotta go through D0cc's team and JiJiehao who kicked Kjaerbyebye. Not to mention rest of those teams who can just have cheats or have a life game or smth.. I give them like 15% chance of even getting first in that bracket

2024-08-21 22:42

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not to mention then theres the major opening stage as well after the rmr.

2024-08-22 01:13

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Qualifying to major opening stage will still give them their sitckers which will be a huge success for this team already

2024-08-22 03:41

Ye, I know, I just dont think they have a chance to go to the opening stage

2024-08-22 03:45

lets go bravado

2024-08-21 21:58

Not hard to do if you got 3 EU players on the team

2024-08-21 22:01

why is ohnepixel not listed as a coach on hltv?

2024-08-21 22:04

They dont wanna give it to him

2024-08-21 22:06

Coaches right now aren't allowed to be in-play(online games youknow). Only at the RMR will he be there. However, the RMR is in November. So i can see a world where they do find a coach between now and november.

2024-08-21 22:07

oh lord have mercy save us from ohnepixel getting his own HLTV profile

2024-08-21 22:45

He was promised it before though when he played this one streamer + pros tournament, but got scammed.

2024-08-22 06:40

If they get the RMR spot it's so unfair to the asian/african teams. They belong in EU

2024-08-21 22:11

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Completely agree, you only reducing the chance for African/Asian teams to qualify when you put EU players in other teams, shouldn't they play in EU RMR instead? if DRILLAS will qualify it's like another EU team made it in place of the team who really represents the MENA region, doesn't make sense tbh so unfair.

2024-08-21 23:52

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How is it unfair? Thay have 2 EU (Ukrainian players), 2 from Israel and hadji who has double citizenship France-Morocco. So 3 players to qualify them for Asia RMR.

2024-08-22 00:15

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It's unfair because you already got dozens of EU teams in tier 1 who will qualify for the major and you always got half a team which represents the MENA region what the hell? even in Oceania region you only get 1 team and same for Asia where you get 2 teams total (Tyloo and the Mongolz) and that's it, imagine Asia they have the most people in the world they get only two teams for the major, only 1 spot for MENA? bro it's so fucking unfair and nobody says anything, who cares tell me.

2024-08-22 03:21

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Well its not a problem of EU that rest of the world is shit.

2024-08-22 08:09

I'm taliing about fairness not anything else, I'm no saying give those teams a major without them playing or competeting lmfao all I'm saying is to be fair and give some more spots for the rest of the regions not only MENA, but the rest.

2024-08-22 21:01

Ok, so you have no actual point, you are just mad the full algerian team lost. If the team with 2 EU players has such a big advantage that it can win over full MENA teams, then that means that the full MENA teams suck hard, it's not the 2 eu players' fault.

2024-08-22 11:41

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I'm not mad because of that, I'm just wondering and questioning the fairness of spots and the lack of competition, how could you compete and expect to qualify for a major if you only get 1 spot for RMR? doesn't make sense, and the real MENA team who is composed from 5 actual MENA players have no chance to compete against EU team and in MENA aswell lol imagine how many EU teams you have in the major already and you put another one from MENA, but it's EU actually not MENA lol?

2024-08-22 21:04

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That's a skill issue

2024-08-23 10:33

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Nope, it's a fairness issue, EU teams should go play EU RMR not MENA or Asia RMR it doesn't make any sense, it's like you have a MENA team playing EU RMR or NA RMR tf? you onlu decreasing the chances for MENA teams to make it to the major by allowing more EU teams compete in MENA region.

2024-08-23 16:59

How a team with 3 players from MENA region is actual EU team? Let's cry then about Faze - US company get slot in RU RMRs instead of US? 🤔

2024-08-23 17:30

Nah bro, not the same, MENA region only get 1 spot for the major can you imagine? and they allow EU teams to compete for that only spot in MENA tf? what are my chances as a MENA team to qualify for the major? if you put more EU teams in my region, doesn't make sense and it's not fair for the MENA region, Drillas is an EU team alright? shouldn't they be playing EU RMR instead?

2024-08-24 01:47

If they have 3+ persons from one region they are MENA team!!! Or 2 from Mena +2 from other +1 from different of the other 2 - then they can choose in which Region to play. But if the majority is from the MENA region THEY ARE MENA TEAM AND THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO COMPETE AT MENA REGION! Which team from MENA (5 players from the region) can beat teamsike TYLOO, MONGOLZ and the other best teams from Asia? You cannot beat 5 stack 2000 ELO faceit stack. If you want to compete at the RMR and Major - get better? Do some investment in the region, find some good young talents, teach them, invest on their PC's, give all your time for them, make em rly good players and you will be at the Manor.

2024-08-24 02:00

Why you care if they will be able to beat Tyloo or the Mongolz? let them compete in their own region and let EU teams compete in EU easy fix, the point is MENA teams have only 1 spot for the major and that only 1 spot you have also EU teams trying to take it and qualify for the major, not fair meanwhile you already have EU RMR and each region has it's own, having a team that has one or two players from EU is completely fine, but a complete EU team with more than two players that's literary an EU not MENA, it's like you have a MENA or NA team in EU RMR, do you think they would allow it? ofcourse not, at least open more spots for MENA if you are going to let EU teams compete in MENA, I mean you get only 1 spot for the major and that's it.

2024-08-24 02:07

POGGERZ and DRILLAS for example are EU teams, they have more than two EU players, they wear the EU flag they are EU teams, why should EU teams play for the major in the MENA region? don't you already have EU RMR that's been going? what are the chances for the true MENA teams if you let 2 EU teams compete in MENA? 2 literary strongest teams in the list, how could you know the real level of MENA teams when you mix them with EU teams? shouldn't MENA teams represent MENA region instead of EU teams? do you get the point at least? I'm not comparing the level of MENA and EU teams, I'm just saying MENA teams should play against MENA teams for the major before they meet other teams later on, like that you would really get a true MENA team in the major and let people decide if they are good or bad once they go to the major.

2024-08-24 02:15

Look how many EU teams you already have in the major invited ones and the ones that compete for the spots left. hltv.org/news/39671/live-updates-from-sh.. Isn't that already enough? lol MENA only get 1 spot goddamn it and that only 1 spot you go and allow more EU teams to compete for it against MENA teams, tf bro? how is that fair?

2024-08-24 02:21

The Algerian team lost against EU team literary, a team that isn't supposed to be there in first place, when they played against a team from the same region (MENA) they won 2-0 so my point is clear, why do MENA teams have to compete and play qualification versus EU teams? shouldn't EU teams play their own in EU? don't tell me about hAdji nationalities, he is French he represents EU, he never played in MENA team before and he will never do it, why not play versus EU teams in the major for example? why should EU teams be everywhere? doesn't make sense you are only reducing MENA teams chances to qualify and raising EU teams to win it all by allowing them to play for qualification for the major everywhere, imagine now for a bit if a MENA team would ask to go in EU and play RMR there? do you think even for a second that they would allow it? ofcourse not lmfao not only MENA region gets 1 spot for the major, but that only 1 spot will be taken by an EU team so you got literary no MENA team at all in the major, aboslutely 0 and that's fair and fine?

2024-08-22 21:29

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It is a MENA team. 3 players from MENA. Stop crying.

2024-08-22 23:06

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It is MENA, but not all MENA teams, it's EU teams playing in MENA instead of playing in EU RMR, saying the truth is crying for you? tf?

2024-08-22 23:07

So do you only want full mena stacks be able to compete for qualification? Thats stupid af.

2024-08-23 13:27

I want MENA region to have MENA teams just like in EU region where you get only to see EU teams, I don't mind having one EU player in a MENA team, but adding EU teams and allowing them to compete in MENA region that's just stupid and unfair, EU teams can go and play EU RMR.

2024-08-23 16:57

But you dont get that in eu as well, for example vitality, same with almost all american teams. Do you mind if mena teams have 2 europeans?

2024-08-23 18:12

In EU all teams have 95% EU players, all literary, look at Falcons goddamn it lol it's a Saudi Arabian org right? all it's players are from EU literary, thing is it's not fair for MENA teams to compete against EU teams in their own region that's the point I'm making, shouldn't EU teams play for EU RMR instead? I'm not against having one or two EU players in some team outside the EU, but allowing EU teams to compete for the one and only spot in MENA for the major it's just ridiculous and absurd, what are the chances for the true MENA teams? absolutely none and the thing is you already got plenty of EU teams that will make it for the major, MENA has only 1 spot for the major and you allow other EU teams to compete for it? tf? how is it fair for that region outside the EU? lol

2024-08-24 01:53

Thats because you are looking at the strongest region lmao. You will find the strongest regions players in every region in all sports. You will find europeans in europe because europe is the strongest region. Just look at na teams. Its not eu teams fighting for it its mixed eu and mena teams fighting for it. If we followed your logic of thinking there couldnt be mixed teams. Vitality, liquid would be gone as well.

2024-08-24 08:50

Just let them compete in their own region and let EU teams compete in EU easy fix, the point is MENA teams have only 1 spot for the major and that only 1 spot you have also EU teams trying to take it and qualify for the major, not fair meanwhile you already have EU RMR and each region has it's own, having a team that has one or two players from EU is completely fine, but a complete EU team with more than two players that's literary an EU not MENA, it's like you have a MENA or NA team in EU RMR, do you think they would allow it? ofcourse not, at least open more spots for MENA if you are going to let EU teams compete in MENA, I mean you get only 1 spot for the major and that's it.

2024-08-24 20:02

Look how many EU teams you already have in the major invited ones and the ones qualified. hltv.org/news/39671/live-updates-from-sh.. Isn't that already enough? lol MENA only get 1 spot goddamn it and that only 1 spot you go and allow more EU teams to compete for it against MENA teams, tf bro? how is that fair? 32 EU teams and for MENA you get only 1 spot, that 1 spot would also be taken by EU team, so you have 33 EU teams in total, where's MENA spot? taken by another EU team that isn't even from the MENA region lmao

2024-08-24 20:10

nobody cares because your teams suck anyway

2024-08-23 09:58

That's not the debate, you're out of topic clearly.

2024-08-23 16:55

it actually is, nobody cares because it's not like any of your teams are going to qualify to the major anyway

2024-08-23 17:38

Because it's not fair that's why, EU teams are competing in MENA region outside of the EU lol it's like you allow MENA teams or NA teams to compete in EU instead of their own region, does it make any sense? why should you allow that only when it comes for MENA? isn't there EU RMR already? ofcourse there is, MENA region only get 1 spot for the major right? and that one and only spot left they allow EU teams to compete for it like tf? how I'm supposed to qualify as a MENA team if you put more teams in my region, teams they are not even from the region, you are only lowering my chances to qualify for the major obviously meanwhile you already have EU RMR where these EU teams should go and compete there, in their own region, comprende now? not fair.

2024-08-24 01:58

mena teams could play in the eu rmr and nobody would care because none of them would qualify anyway

2024-08-26 14:09

Ofcourse not, they wouldn't allow it in 1st place because you already have many EU teams.

2024-08-26 19:34

Unfair? Bro, there is no open quals in EU anymore, that's what is REALLY unfair. A lot of t3 teams and mixes can't even try to reach their dream anymore. It's Valves problem that people nowadays must abuse different nationalities of team players to join different region quals.

2024-08-22 00:30

I don't care you already got shit tons of EU teams in the major and you leave only 1 spot for MENA region? and the best of these teams have at least two or three players from Europe who obviously will ace everything, the EU players have to compete in EU not in MENA region which already got only 1 spot for the major, how is it fair for the players from MENA who want to qualify for the major? they got absolutely no chance against teams like DRILLAS and other EU teams, you will see how DRILLAS will beat everyone and get the spot for the major, literary an EU team, it's like you put more water into the Ocean.

2024-08-22 03:30

First of all I see why you are upset given that your flag is Algerian. Second of all, why are you complaining so hard about there being so many EU teams? It is a competition for the BEST of the BEST. If having 3 EU players makes you molly wop everyone in MENA region than you don't deserve to be going to the major AT ALL, who gives a shit if you are from a certain place or another, it is about BEING BETTER THAN OTHERS!!! This is just peak copium, you just want to see some terrible MENA team in the major who would get instantly crapped on by said EU teams anyways

2024-08-22 05:02

Based on your logic no other region in the world will be able to attend big events, how will they develop? It's only fair to give the rest of the world a seat at the table so they have a chance to play against the best and develop players and scene

2024-08-22 08:53

I'm not mad because there are more EU teams, I just want it to be fair and give as many spots as possible for the rest so it gets a bit more competitive, MENA teams don't have a chance to qualify even in their own region because EU teams are everywhere like tf? so if two or three players from EU get rejected and no EU team would take them they go and form a team and compete in MENA region? a region who already get 1 spot for the major literary lmfao how is that fair tell me? doesn't make sense, not even NA or SA get a chance to compete if they only get two spots total, same for Asia and Oceania.

2024-08-22 21:15

they 13-0 ed a one of those teams yesterday with basically 0 strats. Just PUGed it. Let's be honest, most these teams have 0 chance of being top 3 at asian rmr even if they made it that far. Half of their team is still from the region they're qualifying for. It's been like this in NA since international teams became a thing. Some of the best NA teams are half EU.

2024-08-22 02:16

Bro believe me that they don't lack talent in these regions, but they lack support, media and the means, not fair bro you come from EU and no team from EU wants you in so you go to Asia and MENA region to compete against teams who lack not the talent, but means, at least don't put too many EU players in one of these teams like DRILLAS did, literary an EU team, imagine now a MENA team who would go and compete in EU lol you think they'd let it? no way bro, EU is taking too many spots let's be real so they always get the highest chance to win everything, how many teams you get from NA? 2? how many teams you get from Asia? two? Tyloo and Mongolz that's it, it's insane bro, continent like Asia who got billions of people get only two spots for the major, and in Shanghai too lol why not split spots equaly?

2024-08-22 03:28

bruh, right now only mongolia and israel that have good talent and players in asia. thats it. asia cs scenes already dead and its worst compared to na region. any eu team mix with some decent israeli players can beat any asians team due lack of skills, talents, decision making and gamesense. the reason why only israeli cs that sucess in MENA because they have own league ( similar to fpl but only for israelis) which other asians countries lack off.

2024-08-22 06:50

Not true at all, it's not the talent they lack, but the means and media, why do you think Israeli players only succeed out of Asia? they only go pro in EU? because their region lack everything, why then you got a lot of Israeli players in EU teams and talnted, but still you have no Israeli superteam? for example, why? you only make noise in EU teams, if you try to make your own national team you would fail and disappear, simply because the MENA region lacks means, media and leagues.

2024-08-22 21:12

ya i know. but one more problem that i think is the major one is asian player have weak mental. they cant handle if the game is tough or they got bad start. I can say this because i meet many players like these in faceit sea . when they got bad start , rough game or the round score is favouring the opponents , they decide to disconnect and give up from the game. sometime I have to change the region from sea to eu or oce so that I dont meet these kind of people in my game.

2024-09-05 19:11

Agreed.

2024-09-05 19:17

drilla, naurrr, vas, nein, wichtig, delluxe, kuss kuss, got me mixed up, f me sideways, s*ck me dry, titan holo

2024-08-21 22:32

gold gold gold

2024-08-21 22:37

Lock in bois

2024-08-21 23:34

scheisse

2024-08-21 23:49

discombobulated

2024-08-23 10:35

The cat is in the bag.

2024-08-23 13:28

JiJieHao will qualify

2024-08-21 22:46

Drillas vs Navi in major xd

2024-08-21 23:44

GG for EU team DRILLAS, says "Asia RMR" so fair lmfao

2024-08-21 23:54

Bro you need to chillout already it's waste of spots to give MENA more than 1 because they won't even win one game after qualifying

2024-08-22 11:58

Damn the disrespect.

2024-08-22 20:57

That's the truth even ohnepixel team with 2 europeans which is broken as you said would not win anything probably without some miracle run

2024-08-23 09:39

Who cares about it? we talking about spots and qualifications, it's not right to put EU teams with MENA teams, EU teams should play EU RMR periode, nobody says anything about Ohne team winning the major.

2024-08-23 16:54

Maybe you missed it but there is no EU open RMR

2024-08-26 09:14

Cause EU teams already made it to the major.

2024-08-26 19:33

If Drillas manage to beat JijieHao, they can definitely make it to the RMR

2024-08-21 23:59

DRILLAS logo Must be the same as ibuypower 2014 if they make it to the major

2024-08-22 00:14

easy for this guy who named himself pokemon

2024-08-22 00:41

EZ 4 MA DRILLAS

2024-08-22 01:58

I don’t get why jiejie hap played for the Arabia qualifiers if all of their player that are Asians are from the Levant? I don’t have a problem with it I’m just confused

2024-08-22 03:11

It's the Middle East as a whole or if you want MENA (Middle East & North Africa) region, Levant is part of the Middle East which is part of Asia.

2024-08-22 03:37

But they divided the open quali to several different areas, Levant and North Africa, Arabia and South Africa. I checked and they had Uzbekistan in the Arabia quali so that made me even more confused

2024-08-22 04:47

Agreed, they mix everything it's confusing, but I just wanted to tell you that Levant is in MENA region in general, it's not as if Levant is a region itself.

2024-08-22 21:13

Oh yeah I know that

2024-08-23 05:04

W ohne for giving cheater woro a chance

2024-08-22 04:03

Wait, can teams like Vitality with 2 Israeli players abuse the Middle East qualifier as well?

2024-08-22 04:17

yeah they already prequalify for rmr so going threw a open and closed would be risky because of radar teams in bo1 matches. the 2nd match ohnes team played would 5 stack any site they lurked to and only won by outgunning them

2024-08-22 05:52

LETS GO MADRILLAS! LOL

2024-08-22 05:50

ready to get slapped by D0cC team next match

2024-08-22 06:19

swedish cs is alive with tvs ))

2024-08-22 06:26

who cars

2024-08-22 11:43

Drillas vs NaVi in major Pog

2024-08-22 20:26

Who cares about that Silver Elite bot. That guy looks like a weirdo. Talks like a weirdo. Acts like a Weirdo. His ''team'' had to go to the middle east to even be competitive LOL. Woro2k is an idiot for joining that team. He had so much potential. Now he is just embarrassing himself smh haha.

There were no open quals in EU ,and this team is just for this qual (would be my guess).

2024-08-23 13:31

from my understanding it's just a publicity stunt kinda thing the team would've competed with or without ohne the only thing ohne brings to the table is getting them better ping at closed qual