{"id":39869,"date":"2024-11-30T08:07:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T13:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=39869"},"modified":"2024-11-30T19:28:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T00:28:24","slug":"flyquest-the-mongolz-dominate-day-one-of-pw-shanghai-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/flyquest-the-mongolz-dominate-day-one-of-pw-shanghai-major\/","title":{"rendered":"FlyQuest &#038; The MongolZ dominate day one of PW Shanghai Major"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of the opening stage at the <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/perfect-world-shanghai-major\/\" title=\"Perfect World Shanghai Major betting guide\">Perfect World Shanghai Major<\/a>, FlyQuest and The MongolZ have sprung somewhat of a surprise by claiming two dominant victories to top the standings.<\/p>\n<p>The highest-ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"Counter-Strike betting guide\">Counter-Strike<\/a> squads from the Asia region entered the opening stage of the Major as underdogs given the strength of the competition in the first stage.<\/p>\n<p>FlyQuest, who had to face Complexity and BIG, were not considered a serious threat to qualify for the elimination stage, let alone sit one win away from becoming one of the teams to finish the stage with a 3-0 record.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ShanghaiMajor2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ShanghaiMajor2024<\/a> Opening Stage Round2: <br \/>Cloud9 13-5 Fnatic<br \/>FlyQuest 13-5 BIG<\/p>\n<p>More Moments here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ng05IqwNa8\">https:\/\/t.co\/ng05IqwNa8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rVVqoW9O6k\">pic.twitter.com\/rVVqoW9O6k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CS_PerfectWorld (@CS_PerfectWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CS_PerfectWorld\/status\/1862792073424101770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For The MongolZ, they are ranked as the fifth-best team on the Valve Global Rankings, and they were favoured to advance from the opening stage.<\/p>\n<p>The Mongolian squad was rated as a $16.00 chance with <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/sites\/\" title=\"Best esports betting sites\">esports betting sites<\/a> to win the Shanghai Major, and it is expected that those odds will only shorten if they continue playing at this level.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ShanghaiMajor2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ShanghaiMajor2024<\/a> Opening Stage Day1<br \/>1-0 Bracket: The MongolZ 13-6 MIBR<br \/>0-1 Bracket: PUA 13-9 COL<\/p>\n<p>More Moments here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ng05IqwNa8\">https:\/\/t.co\/ng05IqwNa8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S4znzIvx2w\">pic.twitter.com\/S4znzIvx2w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CS_PerfectWorld (@CS_PerfectWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CS_PerfectWorld\/status\/1862809909559194077?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Joining the Asian teams in the 2-0 pool will be Team Liquid and GamerLegion, who also eeked out successive wins in Shanghai, and they will require a best-of-three series victory to advance to the main event of the Major.<\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the spectrum, Complexity and Fnatic, who were well fancied in their clashes, struggled to put rounds together and suffered back-to-back losses to sit at the bottom of the standings, just above Rare Atom.<\/p>\n<p>Rare Atom, who are the lone Chinese squad, could only manage six round wins from their two best-of-one matches, which leaves them with slim to no chance of qualifying for the elimination stage, needing to win three straight best-of-three series to advance.<\/p>\n<p>Complexity was the biggest surprise of day one, as they didn&#8217;t record a single victory against FlyQuest and PassionUA.<\/p>\n<p>Fnatic also struggled, losing to Wildcard and Cloud9 in their respective matches, leaving them with a lot of work to do to advance to the elimination stage.<\/p>\n<p>Virtus.pro, paiN Gaming, Imperial Esports, Cloud9, MIBR, BIG and Passion UA find themselves in the 1-1 pool after recording one loss and one win on the first day.<\/p>\n<p>The opening stage will continue on Sunday, when the first two teams will be eliminated and two will advance to the elimination stage.<\/p>\n<h2>Sunday&#8217;s Opening Stage matches<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"pageList\">\n<li>BIG ($2.10) vs Virtus.pro ($1.66) @ 11am CST<\/li>\n<li>MIBR ($1.83) vs Passion UA ($1.83) @ 11am CST<\/li>\n<li>FURIA ($1.53) vs Wildcard ($2.37) @ 12pm CST<\/li>\n<li>paiN Gaming ($1.90) vs Cloud9 ($1.80) @ 12pm CST<\/li>\n<li>Rare Atom ($6.00) vs Fnatic ($1.11) @ 1pm CST<\/li>\n<li>Team Liquid ($1.30) vs FlyQuest ($3.40) @ 1pm CST<\/li>\n<li>The MongolZ ($1.30) vs GamerLegion ($3.40) @ 4pm CST<\/li>\n<li>Complexity ($1.53) vs Imperial ($2.37) @ 4pm CST<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">Esports news<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the opening day of the Perfect World Shanghai Major opening stage, FlyQuest and The MongolZ have surprised with dominant back-to-back victories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":39546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[941,172,1532,3111,195,109,3118,2620,1876,637,285,3800,3772,1522,128,3678,322,3605],"class_list":["post-39869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-big","tag-cloud9","tag-complexity","tag-counter-strike-2","tag-flyquest","tag-fnatic","tag-furia-esports","tag-gamerlegion","tag-imperial-esports","tag-mibr","tag-pain-gaming","tag-passion-ua","tag-perfect-world-shanghai-major","tag-rare-atom","tag-team-liquid","tag-the-mongolz","tag-virtus-pro","tag-wildcard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39869"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39888,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39869\/revisions\/39888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}