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We continue to watch the action at Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A. Today is the day of decisive games, and if someone will already prepare for the main part of the tournament PW Shanghai Major 2024, then someone is destined to say goodbye to Shanghai Major 2024.
We are talking about the pair GamerLegion - UNITY Esports. Both teams from the pair have 0-2 statistics, which means that someone from the pair will leave the qualifying tournament.
We are trying to figure out who from the pair GL - Unity will continue to fight for a potential entry to the Major, and who will have to prepare for the next Long Sogpeg.
Let's go.
GamerLegion uniforms
Let's open the GL vs UNITY Esports match with an analysis of GL's form. In this match they play as favourites with odds to win at around 1.3.
After the triumphant Paris Major a GamerLegion gave up in terms of performance. However, they are not weak, otherwise they would look much worse at major tournaments than they do now.
In 2023, GamerLegion didn't show much promise. They played well at local events like Thunderpick Bitcoin Series #2 where they won, CCT West Europe Series #1 where they finished top 2, RES Western European Masters: Spring 2023 where they finished top 2 again.
There was also TOP-1 at Elisa Invitational Winter 2023, but the main achievement happened in May this year. It was then that GamerLegion defied logic and made it to the grand final of BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023, where they defeated the hosts of the tournament - Vitality.
- GamerLegion lineup: acoR, Snax, Keoz, isak, volt.
After a great injury in Paris, GamerLegion lost two of their headliners - siuhy and iM. Newcomers neaLaN and volt are not yet reaching the level of Top 2 Major a, and their KDs are eloquent: 0.64 for the former and 0.78 for the latter.
The first match at IEM Cologne 2023 was against Monte. The Ukrainian club was head to head and shut down their vis-a-vis with a score of 2-0 (16-8 Mirage, 16-11 Overpass).
GamerLegion managed to switch on at the last moment. In the match against TheMongolZ, on the first map GL Ledge were 8-16 up on Mirage, but cameback Inferno (16-8), and closed the series on the dopes with Overpass (19-15).
The International was even more interesting against fnatic. On the first map Vertigo GL lost with the score 5-16, but on Inferno GamerLegion played 16-12, and on Ancient they closed the dopes with the score 19-17.
As a result, IEM Cologne 2023 ended with GL in 8th place. They were knocked out by Cloud9, but the result is a good one considering the lineup change.
At Gamers8 Long Sogpeg were matched against Apeks, the other opener of the Paris Major. Both maps gave GL a serious headache, but after dopes on Mirage and a close fight on Overpass GL made it to the next round. However, that's where GL's G8 journey ended at the Top 8, when they lost to Heroic 1-2.
GamerLegion later attended ESL Pro League Season 18 and IEM Sydney 2023. Both tournaments didn't go well: top-20 at EPL, top-8 at IEM Sydney.
ESL Challenger Jonkoping 2023 GL is going pretty well. First Ledge beat MIBR 9-13, and then beat 3DMAX 2-1 in the match for life. With a race left, GL made it to the top 6, but there Ledgeili Vp.
Towards the end of the year Gamer Legion played at Elisa Masters Espoo 2023, where they got to the top 6, BB Dacha (top 8) and ESL Challenger at DreamHack Atlanta. Top 8 there again.
There were two big tournaments in the 2024 season before RMR's Long Sogpeg - BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024 and IEM Katowice 2024. Both GL championships finished in the top 12, which I would call a pretty good result.
At PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR B GL Long Sogpeg started with a no-hitter against VItality (3-13) before beating Pera (13-6) and losing to ENCE (14-16) on dps. Later Ledgealy and Heroic, as well as 9Pandas in the Decider match, after which they were unable to go to the Major.
However, they ended up in Copenhagen, because 9Pandas couldn't get visas for travelling to Denmark. GamerLegion looked good in Copenhagen, but it was not enough to pass to the Elimination Stage, and GL's way at the first ever Major tournament on Counter-Strike ended on 17-19th line.
GamerLegion also played at ESL Pro League Season 19, where they finished in the top 16. They also played at BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2024, where they could not jump above the top-16.
After ESL Pro League Season 19 GL could not return to playing in TIR-S tournaments. Their maximum in terms of performance was TOP-1 at CCT Season 2 European Series #13.
At Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A, GamerLegion play 0-2, losing to Vitality and Dynamo Eclot.
GamerLegion Mappool
The best map GL is Overpass. The team has 6 wins and 2 losses there.
There was also Ancient with 2 wins and 1 loss. Still have Mirage in the pool (57% wins in 7 matches).
On Inferno they are 2-2. Nuke has 1 try and a loss.
Not playing on Anubis and Vertigo.
UNITY Esports Form
We continue the analysis of the match UNITY Esports - GamerLegion with the analysis of UNITY Esports form. In this match, they are playing as the number two with odds to win at around 3.6.
Unity is one of the teams that is unlikely to make it far in PW Shanghai Major: European RMR A. At least that's how it seems 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. At the championship itself, they played as expected - 0-2 with losses from BB and sAw.
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.
History of head-to-head meetings GamerLegion - UNITY Esports
Previously, the teams have not played each other in official matches.
Predicted result of UNITY Esports vs GamerLegion at PW Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A
You should expect anything in this match. When two outright outsiders play, I always expect a full-fledged Bo3. I'm sure GL and UNITY will put up a real fight and we will see a full-fledged Bo3.
Bottom line: total +2.5.
