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We continue to watch the action at PW Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B. The first day of play is heating up there.
Let's talk about the 0-1 basket. Here we have a match between B8 - Aurora in bo1 format.
We are trying to figure out who will be stronger in this match and earn an important victory ahead of the determination of slots at the Major .
Let's go.
Form B8
Let's open the B8 vs Aurora match with an analysis of B8's form. In this match they will play as favourites with odds to win at around 1.7.
B8 can be characterised as a real workhorse. The team is at the crossroads between TIR-3 and TIR-2, but they are consistently "shining" at some pretty big tournaments. It also plays a lot, as is often the case with TIR-2 teams on the Counter-Strike competitive scene.
During the 2024 season B8 had several big achievements by the standards of the club. The team finished in the top 4 at RES Eastern European Masters: Spring 2024 and a similar place at RES European Series #2. In the middle of the year there were also victories at TIR-B tournaments. Thus, B8 became the champions of CCT Season 2 European Series #2 and Elisa Invitational Spring 2024, and also won CCT Season 2 European Series #5.
Unfortunately for B8 and their fans, the victories at the aforementioned tournaments did not turn into a stable win streak. At the same CCT the team finished top-8 at Series #12 and top-8 at Series #13.
- B8 lineup: cptkurtka023, npl, esenthial, headtr1ck, baz, alex666.
Before playing at ESL Challenger Katowice 2024, the team played at YaLLa Compass 2024, where they had bad luck and finished in the top 18. Next was an appearance at CCT Season 2: European Series #12, CCT Season 2, European Series #13 with TOP-8.
Just before the Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B they played Elisa Masters Espoo 2024, where they took TOP-4 and ESL Challenger Katowice 2024, where they took TOP-2.
At the PW Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B, the B8 Long team was defeated by Spirit, which is a pretty logical result.
B8 Mapple
B8 has two 100% maps. They are Nuke with 9 wins in 14 matches, and Anubis with 5 matches and 4 wins.
They also play Ancient (66% wins in 3 matches). Still playing Mirage (9 matches, 4 wins). Vertigo with 2 wins and 3 losses and Overpass (2 wins in 7 matches).
Inferno are not playing.
Aurora Form
We continue the analysis of the match Aurora - B8 with the analysis of Aurora's form. In this match the team will play as an outsider with odds to win at 2.1.
From the brightest performances can be noted except for the ubiquitous CCT series tournaments, where Aurora really showed themselves well. For example, they won CCT South Europe Series #2 and CCT South Europe Series #3. If we talk about more prestigious championships, then everything was much worse there.
Aurora participated in BLAST.tv Paris Major 202: European RMR, and twice. And both times they failed the qualifying stage for the only Major, being ranked first TOP-11 and then TOP-6. They also failed to qualify for Gamers8 and IEM Sydney 2023.
- Aurora line-up: Lack1, Norwi, KENSI, lattykk, SELLTER.
Prior to the Long Convergence Roobet Cup 2023, the team made an appearance at the ESL Challenger at DreamHack Winter 2023: European Qualifier. And again the top 4.
Where they were lucky was at Skyesports Championship 2023: European Qualifier. We defeated TSM in the final, thus getting a slot to the main tournament.
Roobet Cup 2023 is going well for Aurora so far. The team made it through the group stage with confidence, leaving Heroic and Eternal Fire behind.
The ongoing Roobet Cup 2023 continues to be the centrepiece of the 2023 tournament for the club. In the first round of the play-offs, Aurora stepped over OG very confidently, outscoring them 2-0.
However, Roobet Cup 2023 remained one of Aurora's main, if not the main, achievement. The team managed to make it to the play-offs and semi-finals before being knocked out by Monte.
Then there was a series of not very successful local tournaments. These included CCT Central Europe Series #8, with a top 8, CCT Online Finals #4 with a top 16, Pari, Please with a top 6 and finally qualifying for BetBoom Dacha with a top 4.
Aurora made their debut at CCT Onilne Finals #5 with a match against ALTERNATE aTTaX. The Germans were unable to put up a fight and Aurora advanced to the next round without a single problem, giving their opponent only 9 rounds per match.
In the semi-final match Aurora faced sAw. The Portuguese gave a great fight, but they were not enough for more than one map. Next, they knocked out G2, but lost to BIG in the grand finals.
In the 2024 season, Aurora kept trying to play in title tournaments, but rarely got there. Of the "big championships" there was an appearance at Dacha Belgrade 2024 #1 with a final top 8 and CCT Season 1 Global Finals with a similar result. The rest of the tournaments where Aurora played were TIR-B and at best TIR-A.
Before playing at European RMR B, Aurora played at Thunderpick World Championship 2024, where they finished Top 16.
They started PW Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B with a loss to Eternal Fire.
Aurora Mapple
Some of Aurora's best maps include Anubis and Overpass. The former has 6 maps and 100% wins, while the latter has 5 maps and 100% wins.
Next is Inferno with 13 matches and 10 wins. Nuke (7-4) and Ancient (3-3) are playing.
Worst of all is Vertigo. There are 2 defeats there.
History of head-to-head meetings B8 - Aurora
This season the teams have already played each other twice and both times Aurora won.
Predicted result of Aurora vs B8 at Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B
I'm expecting a close game in this matchup. Despite Aurora's advantage in the head-to-head breakdown, both teams look about the same to me. It's a coin toss here, but I'll bet on B8.
Bottom line: B8 wins.
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