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We continue to follow the action at Shanghai Major 2024 European RMR. We're just a short time away from the biggest and most successful CS2 region on the competitive scene.
Soon 16 teams will compete in Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A for 7 slots to the main event of autumn - Shanghai Major 2024. Among the contenders for the Chinese Major are BB and Unity.
Let's try to figure out who will be stronger in this bo1 confrontation and earn important points ahead of the slot distribution.
Let's go.
Form BB
Let's open the BB vs Unity match with an analysis of BB's form. In this match they play as favourites with odds to win at around 1.6.
BB Team are ranked 16th in the HLTV world ranking. They achieved this result thanks to their performance at all sorts of local events of dubious quality.
In total for 2023 they managed to play at 12 tournaments, including 3 qualifiers. They started last year with an appearance at IEM Sydney 2023. Later they played at CCT East Europe Series #2, where they finished in the top 16.
In October 2023 they played at the only S-tier tournament of the year. It was Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023, where BB showed a very sane result: they managed to reach TOP-6, where Ledge and Complexity, the future TOP-2 of the tournament.
After a very confident Australian event BB returned to play at more down-to-earth tournaments. That was CCT East Europe Series #3 with absolutely failed result in TOP-16, but then CCT Central Europe Series #8 - with TOP-1, improved the situation a bit.
- BB Team: nafany, KaiR0N, s1ren, zorte, Magnojez.
It was possible to climb to the TOP-16 of the world ranking from HLTV thanks to a series of successful performances at the end of the year. Then BB took TOP-2 at A1 Gaming League Season 7, TOP-4 at BB Dacha and YaLLa Compass Fall 2023.
The last tournament before IEM Katowice 2024 was PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European Qualifier A. There BB managed to reach TOP-5, which was enough to qualify for European RMR A. At Katowice itself BB failed miserably: TOP-21-24.
After failing at one of the tournaments of the IEM series, BB attended several other major events. These included qualifying for IEM Dallas 2024 and ESL Pro League Season 19. At the former, BB finished in the top 8, and at EPL S19 they finished in the top 16.
In the second half of the year BB played tournaments at a lower level than Katowice, Dallas and ESL Pro League, but the performance there was the same as at the previous events. For example, they attended Dacha Belgrade 2024 #2, where they finished in the top 12, there was also Thunderpick World Championship 2024: European Series #2 with top 4. Just before PW Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A, the team played at YaLLa Compass Fall 2024, where they defeated Team 500 in the grand finals. This marked BB's second win of the season.
BB Team Mappool
The best BB map is Vertigo. There the team has 100% wins with 2 games. Among very successful maps Overpass with 8 matches and the only loseom.
Anubis is also in plus winrate, where BB won 5 matches out of 9 played. Nuke can be considered as an acceptable map, as BB have 4-4 statistics there.
The most failed maps are Mirage with 4-5 stats and Ancient with 3-5 overall score.
Unity Form
We continue the BB vs Unity match with an analysis of Unity's form. In this match they will play in Underpassdog status with odds to win at around 2.7.
Unity is one of the teams that is unlikely to make it far in PW Shanghai Major: European RMR A. At least, it seems so before the Long Sogpeg event, given the performance and overall fighting experience of the roster.
- Unity lineup: Levi, Pechyn, M1key, K1-F1Da, blogg1s.
As befits most Tier-2 teams, Unity play everywhere they can and almost everywhere they fail. Such was the case at the 2024 Long Season, when Unity failed seemingly every qualification they participated in or even passed. The team finished top-32 at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: Qualifiers, top-16 at RES Eastern Europe and top-32 at IEM Dallas 2024.
The breakthrough, if it can be called that, came with TOP-4 at TIpsport Cup Winter 24: Online Stage and TOP-6 directly at Tipsport Cup 2024. Then came the classic Top-16 situation at European Pro League S15 and Top-32 at Esports World Cup 2024: Open Qualifier.
In the middle of the year, Unity earned their biggest win of the season. They became the champions of ESEA S49: Main Division - Europe. And when it comes to the biggest prize money, it was Tipspot Cup Fall 2024, where the Czech team finished in the top 1 and earned 8,000.
Before playing at Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024, Unity visited YaLla Compas Fall 2024. There, the team did not manage to open up at all and at the end of the tournament they finished in the top 23.
At PW Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A Unity got through open qualification. The team managed to make it to the top 4, thus earning a slot at RMR.
Unity Mapple
The best map for Unity remains Anubis, where the team has 5 wins and 3 losses. Next comes Nuke with 5 wins and 4 losses, followed by Mirage, which has been played the most, with 8 wins and 8 losses.
Among the "uncomfortable" cards are Dust 2, Ancient and Vertigo, where Unity has a minus winrate.
BB - Unity head-to-head history
The teams have not played each other in official matches before.
Predicted result of BB vs Unity at Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A
In this bo1 match I'm betting on BB. The team has more experience playing at major championships and they are better individually, no matter how you look at it. The only thing that gives Unity a chance is the bo1 format, but it's a bit of a gamble to rely on that alone.
Bottom line: BB wins.
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