Perfect World Shanghai Major RMR team list finalized

30-8-2024 22:06

Fifty-six teams are set to battle it out for Major spots at the RMRs, set to be played in Shanghai, China.

The team list for all three regional RMR tournaments has been finalized following the conclusion of the regional closed qualifiers, meaning that the 56 teams set to compete for 24 Major spots are now known.

The qualification process will start with the Asia RMR (November 11-14) before the Americas (November 12-15) and Europe (November 17-24) RMRs get underway.

In Europe, 16 teams made it through the closed qualifier to join the 16 already invited because of their rank in Valve's Regional Standings. The teams will be split into two 16-team Swiss groups, with both groups scheduled for November 17-24, with seven Major spots on the line in each group.

The EU closed qualifier ended dramatically as PARIVISION were first disqualified due to having coach Ivan "⁠F_1N⁠" Kochugov, then believed to be serving a permanent ban from Valve events, with the team during matches.

The Russian squad then had the decision overturned after it was revealed the 40-year-old had had his ban reduced in what ESIC called a "special evaluation of the significantly out-of-time appeal."

Official: PARIVISION's RMR disqualification overturned

Even though most favorites were able to secure their spots at the RMR, the tournament will still have some notable teams missing. BLEED, KOI, Monte, and ENCE all missed out on RMR spots after their surprising eliminations in Group A, while OG were the biggest name to miss out in Group B.

That meant we also had some unexpected teams making it through, with majority-Czech teams UNiTY and ECLOT, as well as Rebels and Oleksandr Zinchenko's Passion UA, the lowest-ranked squads at the event.

The full European RMR team list is as follows:

In the Americas, 16 teams will fight for the seven available slots, one more than previously, after the region had four teams in the top-16 stage in the PGL Copenhagen Major. The Americas RMR is set to take place in Shanghai from November 12-15 and feature eight invited sides, including Liquid, Complexity, and FURIA, as well as eight qualified teams.

BOSS, Legacy finalize Americas RMR team list

Wildcard and Legacy OCE are among the four teams to have made the cut through the North American qualifier, while RED Canids and BESTIA are the two highest-ranked South American qualified squads.

The full Americas RMR team list is as follows:

In the Asian RMR, eight teams will fight for the three available Major spots. The MongolZ, FlyQuest, and Lynn Vision received direct invitations due to their rank in Valve's Regional Standings and are the favorites to make it through, but a quintet of qualified rosters will be aiming to put a spanner in the works.

Rare Atom will be riding a wave of confidence after besting TYLOO in the Chinese qualifier, with Alter Ego, TALON, DRILLAS, and GR all looking to upset the apple cart at the RMR.

DRILLAS, Alter Ego, and GR complete Asia RMR team list

The full Asia RMR team list is as follows:

2024-08-30 22:07

MY DRILLA

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Eu flag drillas boutta get rekt by real asia teams rn

2024-08-30 22:10

16 replies

tbf the team comp is weaker than i expected xd there is no atox cuz cheaters beat them, no tyloo due to valve system being shit considering asia has 3 slots their chances are pretty high

2024-08-30 22:15

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Not rly Mongols Flyquest Rare arom/ other team

2024-08-30 22:30

9 replies

flyquest are not that good honestly

2024-08-30 22:32

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this, Flyquest lost to BIG in 2024 and anyone expects them to beat anyone anything above last place would be a surprise, BIG has an absentee IGL and a terrible AWPer and they still wiped them i'm pretty sure Flyquest also routinely lose to asian teams all the time so i don't know why people keep expecting them 2nd seed, maybe because of their HLTV ranking which is just inflated by getting regional invites

2024-08-31 04:17

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Flyquest rarely looses to teams that aren't EU

2024-08-31 16:50

Mongolz will qual 100% so drillas would have to beat 2 of those teams: Flyquest, rare atom, lynn vision I dont think flyquest will do that well, they often choke even against low tier teams. Rare atom/weak lynn vision are not really hard opponents.

2024-08-30 22:38

imagine drillas stickers omg

2024-08-31 04:20

Not too scared of Lynn Vision after losing Jee and especially Starry they have struggled in the matches they've played since then i think the biggest threats are MongolZ who will qualify and Rare Atom/FlyQuest but those two I think are beatable because FlyQuest hasn't beaten a team that wasn't Oceania since May of this year their last few big events have been underwhelming, but we'll see how their Pro League S20 run is in a few days

2024-08-31 21:51

Be ready to face childking maddafakas

2024-08-30 23:22

Me and my four lvl 5 friends can beat flyquest rn

2024-08-31 10:55

FlyQuest are the exact same 5 + coach that failed to get through last time and lost a map to atox. Also, last time I'd say Alistair was solidly the 3rd best, awper in the rmr, this time round he's probably 4th or 5th, that's somewhere they need to focus on majorly before the rmr or else he's just gonna be a week link for thwm

2024-08-31 11:01

what valve system could been done for tyloo to qualify?

2024-08-30 23:18

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Closed qualifiers should not have been split like that 1 team qualifies from ME where there is literally 0 good teams at the same team 1 team qualifies from china where there are 3 teams that have very high chances to qualify to the major

2024-08-30 23:21

Have ecl matches be covered by hltv

2024-08-31 04:11

agree, but thats not a valve fault,

2024-08-31 11:24

agree with the rest but GR arent cheaters, theyre legit and have been playing in asia due to them being far east Russians for a very long time, they arent trying to game the system or get lucky theyve been around for a while now

2024-08-31 02:47

lets go

2024-08-30 22:11

The EU Flag on DRILLAS for the Asia RMR is a lowkey callout lmao

2024-08-30 22:12

20 replies

It's an EU team tbf

2024-08-30 22:13

AMSALEM = Israeli hAdji = Moroccan meztal = Israeli These are not European nationalities?

2024-08-30 22:26

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Woro = ukrainian hAdji = French Kvem = ukrainian These are not European nationalities?

2024-08-30 23:41

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Who are you to to decide if Ali Haïnouss identifies as Moroccan or French?

2024-08-31 01:15

He has dual citizenship. You can literally make the same argument that they shouldn't be allowed to play in European RMR with Moroccan player.

2024-08-31 21:45

yes they can 2eu + 1af + 2as = eu/as by their own choice like liquid

2024-09-01 13:52

Brother... there is no African RMR, North African players are in the "Asian" RMR. If he is counted as a Moroccan player, it would be 3as + 2eu.

2024-09-01 15:35

my bad so yk how it works

2024-09-02 04:24

Hadji has french nationality, french flag and living in France He's as morrocan as I am japanese

2024-08-31 02:15

He is called Ali Haïnouss, is muslim and his family tree is from Morocco/North Africa. "He is not moroccan because he has a piece of paper that says french on it" Clown world.

2024-08-31 11:46

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he's not morrocan, he chose to have french citizenship, represent french flag and live outside muslim country rmr should be based on the region you resid in, hopefully gaben will fix this clown fiesta to punish these low skill bots in the future clown world indeed @take_meds btw

2024-08-31 12:11

"he's not moroccan he's french!" img-cdn.hltv.org/playerbodyshot/6HaaquZa..

2024-08-31 12:22

by that logic all the black ppl that lives in US, has US citizenship and represent US are africans

2024-08-31 12:55

bro is stupid he has moroccan citizenship as well

2024-09-02 04:25

TIL that israel is in Europe thank you....

2024-08-30 22:47

It's basically Europe but just a bit further away.

2024-08-31 09:36

Dual citizenship for the win.

2024-08-30 22:55

Classic "United" States of Israel.

2024-08-31 01:23

That the only way for bot players to get a chance for major quali

2024-08-31 02:16

ahh yes, bots qualifying for a major lmao

2024-09-04 02:06

3 majority czech teams in the EU RMR that is interesting. Third highest represented nation after Russia and Denmark lol.

2024-08-30 22:16

nvm it was not funny

True, great quals for the Czechs

2024-08-30 23:44

And toxic goat neofrag didn't make it lmaooo

2024-08-31 00:29

hope at least one quali to the major

2024-08-31 15:55

How can an EU team play in the Asia RMR? Isn't the whole point of those regional qualifiers to have some worldwide representation, instead of EU teams just stomping everyone and taking all the spots?

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hadji has french-moroccan double citizenship. that + the 2 israelis allows them to play in the middle east qualifiers for the asian rmr. They would also be eligible for the European Qualifiers though. They get to choose

2024-08-30 22:33

ok but how come GR is also at asias?

2024-08-31 00:27

Isn't Russia both a European and an Asian country ? You should know better than me tho

2024-08-31 00:30

so VP and Spirit can play in Asia rmr ??

2024-08-31 00:33

Idk maybe it depends on what part of Russia they are from/based in ?

2024-08-31 00:34

IIRC they have to provide proof of residence in the east part of Russia. But GR plays in Asia throughout the whole season, check ESL Challenger League Asia for exemple. It's not an exploit for the major.

2024-08-31 00:37

China deserves 2 RMR slots

2024-08-30 22:28

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At first I was about to say nah. But maybe the country that hosts the major can have a extra spot in rmr

2024-08-30 23:14

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Asia honestly just needs a bigger rmr to handle the sheer amount of qualifiers they account for

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It'd be useless to give more slots to a region that never achieved anything significant in CS history.

2024-08-31 04:23

Don't worry, nobody is giving more slots to argentina

2024-08-31 05:50

sceneless lol

2024-09-01 01:44

esportsearnings.com/games/245-counter-st.. esportsearnings.com/games/839-counter-st.. lmao 9x the population btw

2024-09-01 04:40

Imagine comparing country earnings. No slovakia teams in major. /closed.

2024-09-01 19:04

As if bestia or kru will even get close to the major /closed

2024-09-01 19:45

They don't need more qualifying slots for the major but I think their rmr should be bigger because theres definitely some Chinese teams that didn't qualify that would run through some of the other Asian closed qualifiers

2024-08-31 13:54

Or minus 1

2024-08-31 00:42

Entire Asian RMR could be reworked, same with Americas and using swiss system for less than 8 teams, specially in closed quals where there were like 5 teams making it out of 16.

2024-08-31 01:38

MA DRILLA Cool

ach man big junge please

LETS GO CZECH BOYSSS

2024-08-30 22:50

MAAAAAH DRILLAS VASSS?!?!?

2024-08-30 23:19

MA DRILLAZZ ohne stikers

2024-08-30 23:37

"In North America, 16 teams will fight for the seven available slots" No... In the Americas*...

2024-08-30 23:49

how come DRILLAS, the eu mix and a full russian squad from GR are on asian rmr? what is going on here?

Hadji has a double citizenship.

why should a full russian Squad from the far east not play in the asian rmr???

2024-08-31 00:40

It's fair they do, but before there used to be a Far East qualifier for teams too far east that qualified as EU teams and gave access to EU RMR if I'm not mistaken.

2024-08-31 01:37

I think it was for Antwerp and that's it

2024-08-31 02:26

Yeah and it made no sense at all

2024-08-31 05:51

Last tournament for NiP, VP and Falcons rosters.

2024-08-31 03:26

VAMOS 9Z, VAMOS BESTIA Y VAMOS KRU!!!!

2024-08-31 03:40

I believe in XigN 🙏

2024-08-31 03:54

2024-08-31 05:47

XigN + aidKiT = carry to the major

2024-08-31 09:30

BnTeT and XigN duo.

2024-08-31 10:35

14 EU teams, 7 Americas + 3 Asia? Can Valve just expand to 32 teams instead?

2024-08-31 03:57

You're asking too much of valve. They don't want to waste their vacation money

2024-08-31 04:13

Expand so more weak teams make the major... what a good idea to make the major loses prestige!!!

2024-08-31 11:42

To give more spots for all regions and change the format, so that teams won't skip any stages.

2024-09-01 01:47

pls get a coach gods reign

2024-08-31 06:32

Welcome to the csgo tournament in China!

2024-08-31 08:48

So DRILLAS with three mid to top tier 2 eu core gets to farm tier 4 middle eastern teams, just for ohne to get a chance for more money? Somehow it doesn't seem fair (although with hadji's "dual citizenship" it is legal). An everybody is also hyped about them qualifying for the RMR, even though for such a team it would be an ultra disappointment not to. Why are we giving a streamer so much praise, when he did exactly what was expected of him?

2024-08-31 10:49

Any information on the tickets for overseas viewers ? I'm planning to attend this one but I haven't seen any info regarding the tickets on their official site..

2024-08-31 16:26