Rare Atom eliminate fnatic from Shanghai Major

The home squad thrived in a historic moment in front of the home crowd to survive another day.

Rare Atom took a bow in front of the home crowd after the match against fnatic

Pick 'Ems players the world over saw their diamond dreams recede further as the tournament's lowest seed, Rare Atom, secured a victory in their elimination match against fnatic, sending them home after three straight defeats and no victories at the Perfect World Shanghai Major.

It was a historic moment at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center when Rare Atom won the final round on the Vertigo decider, as they became the first Chinese team to win a Major match in front of their home crowd.

The last time a Chinese team won a best-of-three series at a Major was at the FACEIT Major in London, in 2018, when HaoWen "⁠somebody⁠" Xu's TYLOO beat Spirit to qualify for the New Legends Stage (now named Elimination Stage).

The local crowd recorded and cheered for ChildKing after the match

YuLun "⁠Summer⁠" Cai and company came out with a bang, going 8-1 on Ancient before crumbling to the Europeans and letting their massive lead slip, to lose 10-13 and start the match on the back foot.

It wasn't looking great on Inferno for the hometown heroes, who went down 0-6 on the attack, but a brilliant performance by Major rookie Junhao "⁠ChildKing⁠" Peng powered RA to a 6-6, after which they went on to tie the series, 13-10.

fnatic then folded on Vertigo, where Rare Atom were in the driver's seat throughout. A 6-1 start turned into an 8-4 half and a clean T side gave way to RA's 2-1 victory.

Rare Atom will play another elimination match in the 1-2 pool, and the crowd will once again get to cheer the local squad on at least one more day.

 Rare Atom K - D Swing ADR KAST Rating2.1
52 - 40 +3.25% 88.8 76.2% 1.33
45 - 34 +3.66% 72.7 73.0% 1.14
48 - 43 +1.73% 85.6 63.5% 1.11
41 - 42 +3.87% 78.9 69.8% 1.10
22 - 45 -4.93% 44.1 66.7% 0.63
 fnatic K - D Swing ADR KAST Rating2.1
52 - 46 -0.15% 92.7 76.2% 1.19
43 - 43 -2.44% 81.1 73.0% 1.09
43 - 39 -0.87% 73.7 68.3% 0.97
34 - 35 -1.84% 57.6 71.4% 0.91
32 - 45 -2.29% 65.3 73.0% 0.88
China Junhao 'ChildKing' Peng
Junhao 'ChildKing' Peng
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.02
Maps played:
366
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.69
China YuLun 'Summer' Cai
YuLun 'Summer' Cai
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.06
Maps played:
1472
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.65
China HaoWen 'somebody' Xu
HaoWen 'somebody' Xu
Age:
29
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.06
Maps played:
1412
KPR:
0.73
DPR:
0.67
#1
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Poland KUTER
absolute cinema
2024-12-01 09:55
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Malaysia tebupahit
W kaze
2024-12-01 09:55
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#3
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Kenya pumk1n1
they should get sunpayus, nafany and BERRY
2024-12-01 09:55
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#27
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England Jamey
or perhaps focus on UK talent as a UK org so you aren't just playing as a soulless international tier 3 team.
2024-12-01 15:28
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#4
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Korea syjeon
get wrecked by China baby CHINA ON TOP L1HANG IS THE FUTURE
2024-12-01 09:56
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#5
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China Deeconii
Great W for my home team
2024-12-01 09:57
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so funny seeing pickem nerds crying about this being rigged
2024-12-01 09:58
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Fnatic is such a joke.
2024-12-01 10:08
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let's go
2024-12-01 10:13
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Cambodia Nara1511
for the sake of counter strike please dont ever bring this type of performance to a major stage and body's call were so dumb and bro thought he's smarter than everyone all the time.
2024-12-01 10:18
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Talk more shit bodyy, guaranteed loss XD -2022 PGL Copenhagen Major: HEET almost complete a comeback on Nuke to qualify against Astralis => bodyy shit talks => Astralis CANCEL the comeback -2024 Shanghai Major: Fnatic comeback on Rare Atom on Ancient => bodyy teabags => RA eliminate Fnatic in the other 2 maps
2024-12-01 10:40
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now that teabagging just makes him look like a clown. Same thing for Jee when he decided to tbag somebody and tyloo didn't even make rmr.
2024-12-01 15:37
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Karma is real brother and we love to see it manifest
2024-12-17 13:24
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Last major it was Furia now Fnatic are fucking our 0-3 picks
2024-12-01 10:40
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Never put CNCS into 0-3 picks, because u never know when they will give you a victory haha.
2024-12-01 17:22
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African Union mikecool
Oh no no no. Ggs to rare atom tho. Well done.
2024-12-01 10:40
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Czech Republic maXX_CZ
When i wrote that nawk is hardly an upgrade over afroo i did not know how true that is: hltv.org/stats/players/matches/13670/naw.. That's atrocious, not even remotely close to just "bad"... You can easily keep blameF matys and maybe krimz and thing if you can upgrade bodyyy and def look for...... don't know any solid T2 awper, cause nawk won't cut it for sure. He is still who he is, one dominant map and then turn into bot for another few. Just get smooya or whoever as a trial, this is... NOT ok...
2024-12-01 10:42
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Czech Republic maXX_CZ
as much as i like krimz, he can be under pressure as well btw... considering his age and all... not sure about their roles and so on.
2024-12-01 11:23
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#20
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Sweden Vrede
fk u fnatic, 0-3 1/2 pickems fucked both 3-0 correct lol
2024-12-01 11:07
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#21
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Germany M1n1M3
Unexpected ggs
2024-12-01 11:15
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#23
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Brazil Necro_Spa
you never put asian teams as the 0-3, people never learn
2024-12-01 12:01
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"The last time a Chinese team won a best-of-three series at a Major was at the FACEIT Major in London, in 2018"
2024-12-01 13:25
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Brazil Necro_Spa
i said 0-3, not that they have never won a bo1 or bo3. Lynn Vision didnt go 0-3 last major, just like every APAC teams since ages ago
2024-12-01 15:42
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To be fair, that normally was more about the Aussie teams (which, tbf, usually did qualify via Asia, but still). No matter how weak they looked on paper, they would always find a way to pull that one unlikely win out of the hat.
2024-12-01 15:09
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Brazil Necro_Spa
Tyloo, Vici, IHC, LVG and etc always won a bo1 or bo3 at the major and not go 0-3. I think the last times were Tyloo at Stockholm or Flash Gaming way back at Boston went 0-3 at the major, but besides that its turning into the exception to the rule at this point
2024-12-01 15:45
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Sweden 7emod
So boring Rare fucking everybodys pick em just to lose next match
2024-12-01 15:39
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#33
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m0NESY | 
Canada max07
china no 1
2024-12-02 03:54
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