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We are moving through the Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B schedule. The tournament, with 16 clubs playing, is playing for 7 spots to the Shanghai Major 2024, the main event of the season.
Among the contenders to qualify for the Major are BIG and Sashi Esports. They will start their way to the main tournament with a face-to-face Bo1 match.
Let's try to find out who will be stronger in this match and earn important points ahead of the distribution of places at Shanghai Major 2024.
Let's go.
BIG Form
Let's open the BIG vs Sashi Esports match with an analysis of BIG's form. In this match they will play as favourites with odds to win at around 1.5.
In the 2023 season, BIG have competed at a lot of championships, but there have not been many decent results. They started top-9 at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2023, and went on to top-16 at IEM Extreme Masters Katowice 2023.
There was also an appearance at ESL Pro League Season 17 with a top-20 there. The failures partially managed to cap off the Top-4 at the Elis Invitational Winter 2023, where the team reached the Top-4.
In the middle of the year, the Germans failed to qualify for BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023, finishing top-11 at RMR Europe and then top-3 at qualification. In the second half of the year they started playing CCT Series championships, where it is worth noting CCT Online Finals #1, with TOP-4, CCT West Europe Series $4 with TOP-2.
Back to the S-Tier tournaments with BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023 with Top-9, and then Top-24 at IEM Cologne 2023.
- BIG lineup: tabseN, Krimbo, syrsoN, JDC, rigoN.
Before the ESL Pro League Season 18 Long Convergence, the team played at Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #1 with a top-2 finish. There was also a top-8 at CCT East Europe Series #7 and a win at CCT Europe Series #7.
At ESL Pro League Season 18 they debuted with a match against Monte. The Ukrainian club fought honourably, but in the end they were defeated by Ledgeil with the score 1-2, putting BIG in the semi-finals of Group B at ESL Pro League Season 18.
In the previous match, BIG made perhaps the biggest sensation of the tournament. The Germans defeated Heroic, sending them to the bottom of the group.
Next, BIG played another big European club - ENCE. The Finns failed to win (1-2), but BIG made it to the play-offs, straight into the second round. That's where their ESL Pro League Season 18 journey came to an end.
BIG Ledge and Eternal Fire in the second round of play-offs with the score 0-2. Thus, the Germans took the EPL S18 top-12.
In the match before that, BIG played against 9INE. The Germans defeated their visions quite easily, closing the match with a score of 2-0.
Afterwards, BIG outplayed ENCE and advanced to the finals of BLAST Premier: Fall European Showdown 2023. However, BIG were not enough for the final as C9 won 2-0.
Prior to the Roobet Cup 2023, BIG played two CCT tournaments. It was CCT North Europe Series #8 and CCT East Europe Series #3. They finished in the top 16 at the latter, but won the North European tournament, beating Spirit 2-0 in the grand final.
The Roobet Cup 2023 ended quite well for BIG. The team finished in the top 8, and repeated that result at Thunderpick World Championship 2023. They also played at CCT Online FInals #4, where they finished in the top 3.
In the first match at CCT Online Finals #5 BIG played Zero Tenacity. "The Germans proved to be stronger, easily defeating ZT. In the next game BIG met Guild Eagles and were stronger, and very confidently - 2-0. Next, BIG faced 9 Pandas and once again the Germans were no match for them. A confident 2-0 against the Pandas led them to the final of the upper grid. There they slammed Aurora without much difficulty and later repeated it in the grand final of the tournament.
BIG started the tournament with a rather lacklustre loss against Vp, but followed it up with a colourful and hard fought win against Heroic. Even more colourful was the victory over Cloud9 in the lower finals match, where BIG shut out the "titular" Americans 2-0. However, it was not possible to come out of their group victorious and Vp repeated their debut success. Next, BIG fought Astralis in the match for the BLAST Premier: Spring Finals 2024, but they failed there as well.
They played at IEM Katowice 2024, where they finished only in the top 20. Before playing at ESL Pro League Season 19, the team visited BLAST Premier: Spring Showdown, where they finished top-8, Skyesports Masters 2023, where they reached top-4 and Thunderpick World Championship 2024 with top-4.
At the ESL Pro League Season 19 BIG got into the group D and qualified there by passing the "middle grid". However, they didn't manage to play long at ESL Pro League Season 19: TOP-16. Before the BLAST Premier, the team played a number of "smaller" tournaments, including IEM Dallas 2024 (TOP-8), YaLLa Compass 2024 (TOP-12) and CCT Season 2 European Series #5 (TOP-8). They also attended BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2024, where they finished in the Top 9-12.
BIG played at IEM Cologne 2024, where they lost in a blowout. There they took TOP-17-20, which is not an acceptable result if you want it to be. Later they visited BLAST Premier: Fall Showdown 2024, where they took TOP-8.
ESL Pro League S20 started with a loss to Imperial (1-2). Later they defeated Rooster (2-0) and Fnatic (2-0). However, they failed to advance far, as they lost to The MongolZ and finished in the top 16.
They also played at YaLLa Compass Summer 2024, where they finished top-8, as well as at CCT Season 2 European Series #12 and finished top-16. Partially breaking the losing streak was ESL Challenger at DreamHack Atlanta 2024, where BIG reached the TOP-2.
At Thunderpick World Championship 2024 BIG became the winners of Group D. However, this didn't help them to achieve good results and at the end of Thunderpick World Championship 2024 the team finished in the top 8. Next up was an appearance at the much more localised YaLLa Compass Fall 2024 and a similar top-8 finish.
BIG Mapple
BIG has 3 of the best maps in their arsenal. They are Overpass, Vertigo and Anubis with 5 matches and 3 wins on each.
The most played map is Ancient. BIG have played 14 matches there and have a 57% win rate.
The most unlucky map is Inferno with two wins and two losses. The worst map is Mirage (9 matches, 33% wins).
Sashi Esports form
We continue our analysis of the match Sashi - BIG with an analysis of Sashi's form. In this match they are playing as a number two with win odds around 2.6.
Sashi Esports is from the pool of those teams at Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B that are unlikely to go far in the tournament. However, it's actually a Major, so anything can happen.
- Sashi Esports lineup: kwezz, IceBerg, Lucky, Cabbi, MistR.
Season 2024 Long Competed at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024, where they finished in the top 64, and at iEM Chengdu, where they finished in the same top 64. They tried to qualify for the Chinese tournament twice and failed both times.
Played extensively at TIR-C tournaments, such as United21 Season 11, where they took TOP-6, and also TOP-16 at European Pro League Season 15: Division 2, with TOP-16. The minimum A Cross in Sashi Esports' performance was seen in the middle of the year. Wins at the ComeOn Nordic Showdown, and also the YaLLa Compass Spring 2024, which was a much more significant win. And that's really where the season's successes ended.
Prior to Long Sogpeg PW Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR Sashi Esports finished top-15 at YaLLa Compass Summer 2024, top-6 at ESL Challenger League S48: Europe, and top-15 at YaLLa Compass Fall 2024.
Sashi Mapple
The most successful map for Sashi remains Inferno - 7 wins and 2 losses. Next is Vertigo with 7 wins and 5 losses.
Nuke (12-10) and Ancient (6-5) are among the cards with positive winrates.
The least optimal options for the game are Mirage (7-8) and Anubis (5-13).
History of head-to-head meetings between Sashi and BIG
Previously, the teams have not played each other in official meetings.
Predicted result of BIG vs Sashi at PW Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B
In this match I expect BIG to win. I'm sure the German club won't go far, but they should beat Sashi in their opening match.
Bottom line: Sashi wins.
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