Shanghai Major to have live audience at all three stages; venues announced

For the first time since IEM Rio 2022 a Major will feature a live audience across all three stages of the tournament.

SPD Bank Oriental Sports Center will host the playoffs of the Perfect World Shanghai Major

Perfect World has announced the venues where the Shanghai Major will take place from November 30-December 15.

The Opening and Elimination stage will be held at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, a venue with a maximum capacity of 5,000 spectators, a representative from Perfect World has told HLTV.

The SPD Bank Oriental Sports Center indoor arena, with a capacity of 13,000 spectators, will play host to the playoffs on the last four days of the competition.

For a Major to feature live audience at all three stages is a rarity. The only time it has been done on a large scale was at IEM Rio 2022, while StarLadder Major Berlin 2019 also featured a small audience for the first two stages.

It speaks volumes for Perfect World to do so for the first Chinese Major. Counter-Strike's popularity has grown immensely in the country in the past few years, as was apparent at the latest IEM Chengdu and CS Asia Championships competitions.

In an interview with HLTV from PGL Major Copenhagen, a Perfect World director spoke about that growth and shared his hopes that the first Chinese Major will only continue to boost the game's popularity in China.

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nice
2024-09-06 09:02
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W China
2024-09-06 18:59
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#117
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Brazil MrLucas
That should become a requirement for all majors
2024-09-06 19:00
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#2
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United Kingdom MathmechFan
rip mouz
2024-09-06 09:03
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#11
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France Strayke
xD
2024-09-06 09:13
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#58
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Netherlands p2dr
sadge
2024-09-06 10:56
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#81
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FalleN | 
China EilrahC
Take me a second to realize lol
2024-09-06 12:34
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0-3 confirmed
2024-09-06 15:21
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1-3 if they meet stabbi
2024-09-06 15:21
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lol. stabbi duo were booed by the crowd at IEM Chengdu. RIP astralis if they made it to the stage or maybe just they should avoid it at all lol.
2024-09-06 18:49
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Denmark Not_Dane
Nice one haha
2024-09-06 15:25
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RIP mouz ? They beat g2 on Stage in Cologne but okay man
2024-09-06 15:53
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Average german reaction to a joke
2024-09-06 15:54
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Australia killinxs
hopefully they arent paid actors like saudi
2024-09-06 09:03
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#18
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China Zhongzhi
Why compare China to Saudi Arabia? You guys do know how crazy big E-Sports is here in China?
2024-09-06 09:31
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#34
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Italy Karimk03
Yeah true I wonder tho if Chinese fans will be there if there's no Chinese team.
2024-09-06 10:10
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Iem chengdu, iem shanghai, countless valorant events in shanghai not enough proof? Not to mention this is the more popular game there and its literally the fucking major? Like what??
2024-09-06 10:12
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#36
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Italy Karimk03
Didn't watch this events and i don't watch valorant That's why i asked.
2024-09-06 10:13
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Mad because Italy never hosted any cs tournament at all XD
2024-09-06 10:32
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Italy literally invented the best foods though.
2024-09-06 10:37
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Actually we did
2024-09-06 10:56
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Italy Karimk03
Schizo
2024-09-06 11:19
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Portugal Faydeeeee
they did and it was home to one of the craziest maps in early csgo youtu.be/1G_sE0Kl0PQ
2024-09-06 11:26
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I also love spreading misinformation online.
2024-09-06 15:14
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Relax kiddo, youve shat youself
2024-09-06 10:24
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dont worry we have more g2 fans than tyloo fans here in china
2024-09-06 14:33
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Viewership is crazy in China even when no Chinese teams are playing. I remember I was watching Mouz vs Falcons at IEM Cologne on Bilibili and there were 500k+ concurrent viewers.
2024-09-06 15:38
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they make hypocritical arguments anyways
2024-09-06 10:32
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#64
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Portugal Faydeeeee
yup it's kind of a disrespect to assume there would be paid actors when china and other asian countries have been deeply involved in the game from the early 1.6 days to now, not only in teams but also hosting events, despite sometimes lacking meaningful success.
2024-09-06 11:24
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China Zhongzhi
thanks, well said.
2024-09-06 11:50
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Ye Italian scene is huge also
2024-09-06 11:30
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MOUZ and Astralis sweating right now
2024-09-06 09:04
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Stabbi will stumble in front of live audience LUL
2024-09-06 10:29
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Russia I_D_R_C
Free BOOOO~ for stabbi incoming.And they have to advance through RMR first.
2024-09-06 11:29
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Romania wadd
W
2024-09-06 09:04
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Finally some good news
2024-09-06 09:05
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Big w
2024-09-06 09:05
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thats good..hope ohne pixel wins major as a coach
2024-09-06 09:05
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gonna go to watch the banana alarm live
2024-09-06 09:14
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whats your age?
2024-09-06 13:51
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2024-09-06 16:22
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China hdgamerrr
I'll eat my keyboard if ohne pixel wins this major as a coach.
2024-09-06 16:03
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Sangal vs drillas grand final.
2024-09-06 09:07
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Austria Kaklo2705
This men knows
2024-09-06 10:21
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Sh - it
2024-09-06 10:30
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That is sick
2024-09-06 09:11
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No more Gaules saying "The Brazil Major was the only Major with audience at all stages" for the x142 time:(
2024-09-06 09:14
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Gaules going to rent the entirety of Shanghai for the duration of the major to make it true
2024-09-06 09:26
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The rmr still has no spectators tho
2024-09-06 12:01
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Georgia Megobari
Is Chinese crowd good
2024-09-06 09:29
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The best crowd is Chinese
2024-09-06 09:31
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United States JackPirate
there's no drinking, no chants, and they clap balloon sticks together when cool stuff happens but it'll be fine although i'm sure people on here will complain
2024-09-06 09:42
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Don’t worry, I will turn up there drunk and be loud, like at blast London.
2024-09-06 10:39
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good, sad, amazing
2024-09-06 11:44
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Sweden Vrede
and many hiding faces tho
2024-09-06 21:01
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nah, this is not Riot, the crowd will be like IEM Chengdu
2024-09-09 04:58
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Way way way Better than saudi Better than brazil ( highly baised ) Better than Copenhagen Better than london
2024-09-06 10:33
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United Kingdom Waitr0se
If they get the same hype man we had for Chengdu
2024-09-06 10:34
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Canada Fingy123
W
2024-09-06 09:31
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Awesome. Hope they are a bit louder than Chengdu though, that crowd was a bit of a library
2024-09-06 09:35
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They scared they lose the good boy points
2024-09-06 10:26
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They're plenty loud when G2 was playing...
2024-09-06 10:30
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mostly stick clapping though. They arent a fun, loud and chanty crowd, at least from what we've seen.
2024-09-06 10:43
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crowd too loud we hate crowd crowd too quiet dead scene
2024-09-06 11:46
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different people saying different things dipshit. the forums arent a contradicting monolith but rather a large group of people with differing views.
2024-09-06 11:50
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Sweden KhaZix
good news
2024-09-06 09:38
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United States JackPirate
hype af
2024-09-06 09:39
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Doesn't the SPD Bank Oriental Sports Center have a capacity of 18,000?
2024-09-06 09:48
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It does, but CS events can pretty much never fill out that sort of capacity because the stage covers a significant part of seating. I got that number from PW
2024-09-06 10:14
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ty
2024-09-06 10:15
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Great news.
2024-09-06 09:49
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avg chinese W
2024-09-06 09:50
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HUGE W, I hope we can qualify
2024-09-06 09:54
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Chinese crowd is dead anyway if it is not a chinese team/m0nesy/zywoo/s1mple playing
2024-09-06 09:55
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G2 buff with Ni ku and mo nay si .
2024-09-06 09:59
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African Union mikecool
pag real ppl
2024-09-06 10:02
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they gonna all watch valorant since china is at the top KANGKANG U GOAT!
2024-09-06 10:03
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NIIIIICE!!
2024-09-06 10:17
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Greenland orox2
best major already
2024-09-06 10:23
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Russia bilibrin
its real nice
2024-09-06 10:27
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Trying to make sure Faze doesnt choke in group stage nice
2024-09-06 10:50
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Sweden multib
Haha <3
2024-09-06 10:53
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as long as its better than iem rio major
2024-09-06 11:06
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Kazakhstan Laggy
Huge W
2024-09-06 11:13
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Massive W, challenger stage crowd in Rio was better than playoffs imo Crowd bias shouldn’t be much of a problem either, excited to watch this!
2024-09-06 11:30
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Russia I_D_R_C
gud setup
2024-09-06 11:31
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nice!!!!
2024-09-06 11:32
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RIP MERCEDES BENZ ARENA....
2024-09-06 12:16
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It was said that Mercedes Benz Arena's has no vacancies until 2026...... Maybe VALORANT Champions could be held there
2024-09-06 14:39
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W
2024-09-06 12:19
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13k for playoffs not so much?
2024-09-06 12:22
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China Rainielove
China No.1
2024-09-06 12:23
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Big. But this means MOUZ will suck already in the group stage and that FaZe might play good in groups.
2024-09-06 12:35
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China halflife2
The only problem is that , can people buy a “regular” priced ticket…..
2024-09-06 12:39
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Well they need people since viewership is going to be one of the lowest
2024-09-06 12:41
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1.7 billion is a large pool to draw from. plus if the locals don't show up, it'll lower their social credit score
2024-09-06 21:41
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Reunion caMsTar_^
Good, as it should be.
2024-09-06 12:45
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Russia mshkoda
Finally
2024-09-06 13:33
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I kinda want to go there, but never been to China. I heard stories about China being very safe and nice place to be as a tourist, anyone ever visited China major before?
2024-09-06 14:42
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Ofc China is fun to visit
2024-09-06 16:16
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City is good, public toilet on the other hand... Haven't been there for a long time tho, things MIGHT have changed. But dont get your hopes up
2024-09-06 18:09
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im chinese and have visited many times, it's very safe in the cities, 99% of the time you will have no problems, there are scammers ofc but they won't target tourists usually. idk about how they handle cs events though but it looks normal.
2024-09-06 18:49
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Poland BAN_ANIME
its over for my goat siuhy
2024-09-06 14:50
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Bangladesh ImpacT_
should be done in every major, big w
2024-09-06 15:19
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I hope blast does the same for the Austin Major. If they do i would honestly go take a 1 month trip to texas, go to IEM dallas playoffs, and then wait around and go full tourist until the major came around 2 weeks later in Austin. This is massive, and i remember the difference it made at Rio, I hope to see more tournament organizers do this.
2024-09-06 15:25
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Latvia Ryzmii
W Now lets hope other major hosts take notes and start doing this as well, there are plenty of CS fans anywhere who would want to attend a major in any stage
2024-09-06 15:49
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Czech Republic kemysswastaken
anyone knows how much for playoffs tickets?
2024-09-06 18:19
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W
2024-09-06 18:45
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big w
2024-09-06 18:45
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#116
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Brazil MrLucas
That should become a requirement for all majors
2024-09-06 19:00
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This will be massive.
2024-09-06 21:02
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United States sallos
noice
2024-09-06 21:53
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Israel Lawyyy
Insane
2024-09-06 22:12
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No please god no. Only BR crowd is worst than china one
2024-09-08 10:50
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Shanghai Major is going to be more like a tea ceremony almost dead crowd no cheers no beer challenges. Worst Major hosts in history.
2024-09-12 00:24
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