Shanghai Major: what to expect from the upcoming tournament?

The Shanghai Major starts on the 5th of December and RMR tournaments are now in full swing to determine the participants of the last major tournament of the year. In 2024 we've had time to watch a lot of ups and downs, including from Spirit, NaVi and your other favourite teams. This year can be dubbed as the launch year for CS2, as the game was brand new and no one knew what to expect from pro players. While the whole community was complaining about the quality of the game, the players of the top teams realised that now it's a new reality and it's time to get used to it.

We have already had a chance to see the triumph of FaZe and 7 finals in a row, the little donk who dragged Team Spirit all year long and, of course, the incredible performance of NaVi, who were not only not bet on, they were not taken seriously at all - a vivid example is the first major in CS 2, in which they won. For sure, next year will give us even more colourful emotions especially with Froggy Skin, and the tournament in China will put everything in its place.

BLAST World Finals is the last tournament before the major

Another incredibly interesting event for many was the BLAST World Finals, which became quite hot, even though not many people bet on it. The main favourites, as always, were Vitality, NaVi, G2 and each of them could take the trophy and an additional $1,000,000 to the organisation's account. It is noteworthy that for B1aD3 wards this final could have become 7 in a row, thus NaVi could have come close to FaZe's result, but they lacked something or it was tactics..

Despite all the problems and rumours about NiKo leaving the team, G2 got their act together and took another trophy in 2024. Ilyuha m0nesy managed to get 3 MVP medals already, which shows his desire to reach the level of ZywOo and s1mple, who, by the way, recently returned to CS2, which made many fans happy. Now that you know how the last tournament before the Shanghai Major went, we suggest to discuss it: the main intrigues, confrontations and predictions for the tournament.

Shanghai Major: intrigues, confrontations, predictions

It should be taken into account that in China adore cybersports, which means that Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 promises to be incredibly hot. Remembering the Dota2 tournaments, we can safely say that the fans will not sit still and the atmosphere is incredible. At the moment, one of the most interesting news was the Drillas team led by onepixel. Despite the fact that the guys never managed to make it to the major through RMR in Asia, they gave the fans a lot of emotions, as well as the belief that everyone can achieve their result.

As for the main stage, we still have a few other RMR tournaments ahead of us, namely in America as well as Europe. Of course, there are quite a few teams there that you will probably hear about for the first time, but that's no reason to miss these matches, because they often have the most interesting things going on and one of the main intrigues: which of the favourites will fail miserably? It seems to us that it could quietly be Spirit, they have a lot of problems in their team right now that they need to fight with, because everyone has already realised that in solo donk is unlikely to be able to give the Dragons the championship.

Who will win Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024?

Let's get to the most interesting part, namely the prediction for the Shanghai Major. Our main bet falls on NaVi, Vitality and G2. At the moment each team has an equal number of chances to be on top and a lot will depend on the form of key players. G2 has m0nesy and NiKo, Vitality obviously has ZywOo, but as for NaVi, it is quite controversial.

Many note that B1aD3 was able to build a unique team, where everything works like clockwork and does not depend on one player. You can easily remember the times with s1mple in the squad and compare them with what we have now - structure, discipline and a huge desire to win. Just because of this NaVi seem to be the main favourites for Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024, but it's too early to make precise statements, because it's the majors who can often surprise us!