{"id":39889,"date":"2024-12-01T05:19:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T10:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=39889"},"modified":"2024-12-01T19:07:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T00:07:21","slug":"liquid-the-mongolz-advance-to-shanghai-major-elimination-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/liquid-the-mongolz-advance-to-shanghai-major-elimination-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid &#038; The MongolZ advance to Shanghai Major elimination stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team Liquid and The MongolZ became the first two teams to advance to the elimination 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> after claiming three straight wins en route to a 3-0 record after two days of the opening stage.<\/p>\n<p>Liquid, who are one of the highest-ranked teams at the opening stage, were made to work against FlyQuest, falling to the Australian <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"Counter-Strike betting guide\">Counter-Strike<\/a> squad in a shocking loss on FlyQuest&#8217;s map pick of Inferno before bouncing back on their own pick of Anubis.<\/p>\n<p>FlyQuest dismantled Liquid on Inferno as they sprinted out to a 9-1 lead before closing out the map with a 13-5 scoreline, but Liquid were quick to level the score, securing Anubis (13-9) after controlling most of the contest before the Aussies rallied late in the piece.<\/p>\n<p>Although most <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/sites\/\" title=\"Best esports betting sites\">esports betting sites<\/a> favoured Liquid heavily in the best-of-three series, they didn&#8217;t back up their short quote and dominate their opponents until the final map.<\/p>\n<p>Led by outstanding performances from Roland &#8220;ultimate&#8221; Tomkowiak and Mareks &#8220;YEKINDAR&#8221; Ga\u013cinskis, Liquid thrashed FlyQuest 13-1 on Nuke and booked themselves a spot in the main event of the Shanghai Major.<\/p>\n<p>Justin &#8220;jks&#8221; Savage took home MVP honours following his server-topping performance, recording a rating of 1.33 and kill\/death difference of +20.<\/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 2-0 Pool: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamLiquidCS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TeamLiquidCS<\/a> defeats FlyQuest 2-1, advancing to the elimination stage with a 3-0 record! <\/p>\n<p>More Moments here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ng05IqwNa8\">https:\/\/t.co\/ng05IqwNa8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oALgExCZqN\">pic.twitter.com\/oALgExCZqN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CS_PerfectWorld (@CS_PerfectWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CS_PerfectWorld\/status\/1863129988603724263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The MongolZ continued on from their impressive day one performance by claiming the second elimination stage spot, following another outstanding display, this time against GamerLegion.<\/p>\n<p>The all-Mongolian roster only dropped seven rounds in the series, claiming Mirage 13-5 and Anubis 13-2, dealing GamerLegion their first loss of the Major.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the five players stood up for The MongolZ, but Munkhbold &#8220;Senzu&#8221; Azbayar stood out as the best player, turning in an outstanding performance.<\/p>\n<p>Senzu topped the server in kills (33), kill\/death difference (+20), and rating (1.83).<\/p>\n<p>Fnatic was the first team to be eliminated on day two after the European squad failed to win a match, falling the hometown squad, Rare Atom, in a back-and-forth series.<\/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 0-2 Pool:<br \/>Rare Atom makes a stunning comeback against Fnatic, claiming their first victory in front of a home crowd! <\/p>\n<p>More Moments here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ng05IqwNa8\">https:\/\/t.co\/ng05IqwNa8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bt34ZGcdwG\">pic.twitter.com\/Bt34ZGcdwG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CS_PerfectWorld (@CS_PerfectWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CS_PerfectWorld\/status\/1863143876338606349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fnatic took their own map pick of Ancient (13-10), before Rare Atom answered back with their own 13-10 win on Inferno.<\/p>\n<p>The Asian squad maintained their winning form in the decider as they closed out the series with a dominant 13-4 victory on Vertigo.<\/p>\n<p>Imperial Esports joined Fnatic in exiting the Major, as the Brazilian outfit was sent packing by Complexity, who claimed an easy 2-0 (13-4 on Inferno, 13-5 on Ancient) victory.<\/p>\n<p>Imperial only won nine rounds across the two maps, with Jonathan &#8220;EliGE&#8221; Jablonowski and co. proving to be the superior team in the elimination clash.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Passion UA took care of MIBR (13-5), BIG edged past Virtus.pro (13-11), paiN Gaming held off a strong comeback from Cloud9 (13-11), and FURIA needed overtime to defeat Wildcard (16-14).<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the final best-of-one matches move into the 2-1 pool and will only need one more victory to advance to the elimination stage, while the losers will seek to stave off elimination in the 1-2 pool.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, three more teams will book their spot in the next stage, and another three will be sent home, with six best-of-three series set to take place in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<h2>Monday&#8217;s Shanghai Major matches<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"pageList\">\n<li>Rare Atom ($3.50) vs MIBR ($1.28) @ 11am CST<\/li>\n<li>BIG ($2.10) vs FURIA Esports ($1.66) @ 11am CST<\/li>\n<li>FlyQuest ($2.25) vs paiN Gaming ($1.57) @ 2pm CST<\/li>\n<li>Cloud9 ($2.00) vs Complexity ($1.72) @ 2pm CST<\/li>\n<li>GamerLegion ($2.10) vs Passion UA ($1.66) @ 5pm CST<\/li>\n<li>Wildcard ($2.25) vs Virtus.pro ($1.57) @ 5pm 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 second day of the opening stage at the Perfect World Shanghai Major, two teams advanced and another two were eliminated from the Counter-Strike 2 event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":39135,"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":[1532,3111,195,109,2620,1876,3772,1522,128,3678],"class_list":["post-39889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-complexity","tag-counter-strike-2","tag-flyquest","tag-fnatic","tag-gamerlegion","tag-imperial-esports","tag-perfect-world-shanghai-major","tag-rare-atom","tag-team-liquid","tag-the-mongolz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39889","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=39889"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39910,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39889\/revisions\/39910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}