comeback2024-12-02
Complexity16–13Cloud9
Complexity went into the break 2–10 down on T, took the second half 10–2 on CT, and won overtime 4–1 — 16–13 over Cloud9.
Vertigo · Complexity started on T
Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 Opening Stage
Shanghai, China
Liquid and The MongolZ Clear the Shanghai Major's Opening Stage 3-0
The Major's opening Swiss stage ran on Bo1s except where a series would qualify or eliminate a team, so twenty-five of its thirty-three matches ended without the loser taking a map. Liquid and The MongolZ went through 3-0; fnatic and Imperial went out 0-3. Nuke was banned first in eleven of those matches and played in five.
2024-11-30 – 2024-12-03, part of Season 1b. 33 matches played across 54 maps at Tier 1 events — HLTV Majors and international LAN events with a prize pool between $600,000 and $2,000,000.
championWho took it
Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 Opening Stage's own name marks it as one phase of a larger tournament — its last match's winner is not a tournament champion.
Why no bracket is shown
matches.stage is empty on every row in this snapshot — no bracket, round, or placement is derivable for this event, or any other on this site.
momentsThe maps worth remembering here
The maps from this event that were not ordinary — a half thrown away and won back, a game that would not end, a side that conceded nothing. Ranked by how rare each reading is across every map in this snapshot, rarest first.
shutout2024-12-01
Liquid13–1FlyQuest
Liquid beat FlyQuest 13–1, conceding a single round.
Nuke · Liquid started on CT
comeback2024-11-30
Liquid13–10Cloud9
Liquid went into the break 3–9 down on T, took the second half 10–1 on CT — 13–10 over Cloud9.
Ancient · Liquid started on T
decider2024-12-03
Wildcard16–13Passion UA
The series went the distance and the decider went to overtime — Wildcard took it 16–13.
Ancient · Wildcard started on T
What these readings are drawn from
Drawn from results, half-by-half round counts and overtime only. This snapshot carries no demo data, so nothing here is about an individual player.
formatHow the event was run
Swiss Bo1 - Progression matches Bo3 - Elimination matches Bo3
maps playedWhat was picked, banned and left over
Every map this event's veto touched, picked or played, at least once — Nuke was the most first-banned map (11 matches), and Inferno was the most first-picked (5 matches).
- Ancient12 maps played
57.2% CT · 42.8% T — 7.2pts CT-leaning
picked 5 · banned 20 · left over 8 · first ban 2 · first pick 2 · decider 8
- Anubis11 maps played
43.9% CT · 56.1% T — 6.1pts T-leaning
picked 4 · banned 20 · left over 9 · first ban 4 · first pick 1 · decider 9
- Inferno10 maps played
47.5% CT · 52.5% T — 2.5pts T-leaning
picked 9 · banned 22 · left over 2 · first ban 0 · first pick 5 · decider 2
- Mirage7 maps played
60.8% CT · 39.2% T — 10.8pts CT-leaning
picked 4 · banned 26 · left over 3 · first ban 6 · first pick 1 · decider 3
- Vertigo6 maps played
56.0% CT · 44.0% T — 6.0pts CT-leaning
picked 2 · banned 27 · left over 4 · first ban 4 · first pick 2 · decider 4
- Nuke5 maps played
56.7% CT · 43.3% T — 6.7pts CT-leaning
picked 2 · banned 27 · left over 4 · first ban 11 · first pick 2 · decider 4
- Dust II3 maps played
44.6% CT · 55.4% T — 5.4pts T-leaning
picked 0 · banned 30 · left over 3 · first ban 6 · first pick 0 · decider 3
Per-map veto counts and the thin-sample rule
A row marked "thin sample" played under a quarter of this event's own busiest map — the same relative cut `/pro-meta` uses for a thin season or month, applied here within this one event. A map with no CT/T bar was banned before it was ever played, not omitted.
against the seasonHow it compares with its own season
This event played 54 maps at 52.4% CT; Season 1b as a whole played 1,012 maps at 49.7% CT (0.3pts T-leaning) — 2.7pts more CT-sided than the season as a whole.
54 maps is under a quarter of Season 1b's 1,012 maps — a small sample against the season it sat in, marked here rather than read as equally trustworthy.