Perfect World Shanghai Major Elimination Stage opening round set

3-12-2024 13:45

The top-seeded G2 will face The MongolZ in the opening round.

The MongolZ are the top seed from the Opening Stage teams

The Perfect World Shanghai Major's Elimination Stage opening round match-ups are set following the conclusion of the Opening Stage.

The top eight teams were seeded by their pre-event ranking, while the rest were seeded based on their qualification in the Opening Stage.

The top seed from the RMR will face the top seed from the Opening Stage, so G2 will face The MongolZ. The two second seeds will face each other, and the two thirds, and so on.

The seeding is:

G2
2.

Natus Vincere
3.

Vitality
4.

Spirit
5.

MOUZ
6.

FaZe
7.

HEROIC
8.

3DMAX

The MongolZ
10.

Liquid
11.

GamerLegion
12.

FURIA
13.

paiN
14.

Wildcard
15.

BIG
16.

MIBR

Like in the Major's Opening Stage, the Elimination Stage will start with best-of-ones in the opening round, as well as in the 1-0, 0-1, and 1-1 pools. Best-of-threes will then take over in elimination, progression, and decider matches. The top eight teams progress to the playoffs, and the bottom eight go home.

The opening match-ups are:

Date	Matches
Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024
05/12/2024	G2 04:00 The MongolZ	Match
05/12/2024	Natus Vincere 04:00 Liquid	Match
05/12/2024	Spirit 05:05 FURIA	Match
05/12/2024	Vitality 05:10 GamerLegion	Match
05/12/2024	MOUZ 06:05 paiN	Match
05/12/2024	FaZe 06:10 Wildcard	Match
05/12/2024	HEROIC 07:00 BIG	Match
05/12/2024	3DMAX 07:10 MIBR	Match

ez for g2

2024-12-03 13:45

3 replies

hm IDK, The Mongolz sounds to be the toughest team to play against in this round. G2 needs to be aware of it, definetly won't be an easy match for them.

2024-12-03 15:36

1 reply

so whats the point of getting 3-0?? you get punished to play the top 2 seeds lmao

2024-12-04 03:59

MongolZ owned G2 in Pro League bro... (maybe with Malbs and -nexa will be a different story)

2024-12-03 18:19

why seed like this

2024-12-03 13:46

5 replies

Valve wanted to give a chance to low tier teams.

2024-12-03 13:49

Every time the same system and every time the same questions and complaints See #16

2024-12-03 14:24

Because Buchholz is shit and Valve is too lazy to come up with a better system

2024-12-03 14:32

2 replies

This is not based on bucholz

2024-12-03 15:07

It's an attempt to fix some of the Buchholz problems but that ended up creating new ones

2024-12-03 15:16

EZ for MongolZ

2024-12-03 13:48

prize for the 8th insted the 1st... I will never understand this

4 replies

Due to the way Buchholz works, this seeding (in theory) gives better system correction. That is to say you get a better picture of who is the best by playing closer matches. In practice, it should reduce the chances of a match like FaZe-Na`Vi in an elimination 2-2 game, as happened in Paris, because all of the good teams are likely to have good Buchholz scores. EDIT: Where this system falls down is the assumption that (e.g.) 'Seed 8' is actually the 8th best team.

2024-12-03 14:19

Its looks good in theory but what stops good teams like the Mongolz throwing games in the opening stage to get 3DMAX ? Competitive integrity out of the window.

2024-12-03 14:45

because even if they get 3dmax after they can just either lose to 3dmax (cuz they showed they can upset other teams even in bo3) or just get matched to another good team later cuz of bo1 upsets. giving away games in a swiss stage is always dumb if you are doing it intentionally. especially with this system where the better teams should advance cuz they get good seeding

2024-12-03 15:05

You would get an easier matchup yea in the first round but then later on you will keep getting all the very good teams so better to play ur first round against a better opponent in a Bo1 to keep having a good bucholz score

2024-12-03 15:15

G2 again in BO1 nightmare xd

when will the pickems open

When G2 lose to Mongolz

2024-12-03 16:57

what's the point?

2024-12-04 00:28

Called it

2024-12-05 04:59

Big not playing at 4 am nice

7 AM xd

2024-12-03 13:50

so next time aim to 3-2 instead of 3-0 lmao

more BO1´s. Lets roll the dice.

Let's go Brazil!!

2024-12-03 13:59

Why best teams from opening play against best teams in legends while freaking 3dmax plays MIBR? Shouldn't it be the exact opposite?

2024-12-03 16:43

Why are the top seeds facing other top seeds that makes no sense???

2024-12-03 14:01

thats how volvo operate last 5 years

2024-12-03 16:58

top seeds playing against opening top seeds LUL talk about nonsense

2024-12-03 14:06

this seeding is bs no matter how you look at that

2024-12-03 14:13

Like it or not, but 3 Brazilian teams in top16 is an impressive achievement.

2024-12-03 14:14

especially doing this 2 Majors in a row... it won't be easy, but I hope at least one of them makes the playoff this time

2024-12-03 16:50

I hope so too.

2024-12-03 19:26

is valve retarded?

spirit, so unpredictable in bo1

2024-12-03 14:17

Incredibly dumb bracket formatting. #1 seed plays #9 while #8 gets #16.. Who makes these terrible decisions?

2024-12-03 14:20

Yea its insane to me.

2024-12-03 14:39

when valve gonna update pickems in game? what a noobs

2024-12-03 14:21

Gaben*

2024-12-03 14:44

3DMAX been awarded the easiest opponent ... GG Valve ... this guys never learn , what a "sick" seeding system

2024-12-03 15:17

mibr next shangai champions

2024-12-03 15:41

It's so insane to me that 1st plays 9th and not 16th. Imagine NBA (or any major league) playoffs pairing 1st v 5th instead.

2024-12-03 15:51

they don't use buchholz, so this seeding is perfect as we saw in Copenhagen

2024-12-03 16:44

It doest matter what seeding they use, 1 vs 9 is still weird.

2024-12-03 18:54

Strategic approach to majors when being top 3-6 team is more favorable and ending with 3-2 is better than with 3-0

2024-12-03 15:52

It's so true, top 2 seeds get faced off against the 3-0 teams from the opening stage, yet Vitality 3rd seed faces off against GamerLegion!? FaZe vs WILDCARD???? LMAOOO

2024-12-03 16:59

dont forget 3dmax vs MIBR

2024-12-04 03:58

Tough first round for gamerlegion. But if they win that somehow, anything is possible

4 am is a win

2024-12-03 17:43

great matchups. I like this idea

2024-12-03 20:04

This seeding is bad because it punishes the best teams whereas in normal seeding they should be rewarded for being the best. Now you get to play a top 10 team as a top 1-2 team, which are still very good. Meanwhile, the teams from 5th onward almost guaranteed get "flukers" or not that great teams. And considering it's BO1, it's setting up the top teams to be upset, and then to have a much harder time qualifying. Completely stupid. Regards

2024-12-03 20:15