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We continue to follow the action at Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A. There are three participants left to be determined for the main event - Shanghai Major 2024 itself.
Among the contenders for passage are sAw and BB Team. Both teams at Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A have a score of 2-2.
Let's try to find out how this close match will end and who will be the new participant of Shanghai Major 2024.
Let's go.
Form sAw
Let's open the sAw vs BB Team match with an analysis of sAw's form. In this match the Portuguese club will play with a minimal advantage with odds to win at 1.8.
sAw are ranked at number 30 in the HLTV world rankings. This is thanks to their performance at many tournaments of different calibre.
They started the year with qualifications for ESL Pro League Season 17: European Conference. There we shared the top 1. Then there were two Top 4s at CCT South Europe Series #2 and OMEN WGR Challenge 2023.
There were also appearances at major championships, such as ESL Pro League Season 17. However, it was not possible to get a high result, only TOP-28, but the experience of the game.
Later sAw took the top 8 at CCT North Europe Series #4, top 4 at ESL Challenger League Season 44: Europe. In April 2023, sAw played at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR A, but failed to rise above the TOP-16. But they managed to do it later, at local tournaments.
This was the case at Masters League Portugal Season 11: Online, where sAw won the trophy by beating For the Win in the final. This was the case at ESL Masters Espana Season 13: Onilne Stage, ESL Masters Espana Season 13, CCT West Europe #4.
- Composition sAw: MUTiRiS, rmn, ewjerkz, story, arrozdoce.
Before taking part in CCT Online Finals #5 sAw played a lot of championships and, to be fair, they were good almost everywhere. They took top 2 at Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #2, CCT North Europe Series #6, Aveiro Techdays Cup 2023, Master League Portugal Season 12: Online Stage.
We also played in big tournaments, such as Thunderpick World Championship 2023, where unfortunately for us we couldn't rise above TOP-12. At the end of November we won Master League Portugal Season 12 and XL Games Clash 2023.
CCT Online Finals #5 sAw Long Sogpeg were very confident. They easily ran over Team Space in the first round of the top set, winning 2-0. What happened next was more difficult.
In the second round of CCT Online Finals #5 sAw met Aurora, who were stronger than the Portuguese. The match lasted 3 maps and sAw even won the first one, but it didn't go any further and as a result Aurora reached the semi-finals winning their series 1-2.
In the match for the third round of play-offs CCT Online #5 sAw met Zero Tenacity. The Portuguese had no trouble getting past their vis-a-vis, closing out the series with a score of 2-0. However, Fnatic could not be defeated and sAw finished in the top 4.
Next was Top 4 at ESL Challenger at DreamHack Atlanta 2024 and a similar place at ESL Challenger League Season 48: Europe. Before playing at Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A, sAw won ESL Challenger Katowice 2024.
PW Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A, sAw started with a loss to SINNERS, but then won Dynamo Eclot and Falcons. However, they failed to beat NaVi in the match for a Major slot and ended up 2-2.
Mappool sAw.
The most successful map for sAw is Nuke, where the Spaniards have 3 wins and 1 loss. Followed by Vertigo with a score of 2-1 and Ancient with a score of 3-2.
Neutral choices are Inferno and Anubis. Both maps have been played 4 times and on both maps the stats are 2-2.
The worst situation is on Overpass, where sAw won 2 matches out of 6.
Mirage are not playing
BB Team Form
We continue the analysis of the match BB Team vs sAw with the analysis of BB Team's form. In this match they play as an outsider with odds to win at around 1.9.
BB Team are ranked 16th in the HLTV world rankings. They managed to achieve this result thanks to their performance at all sorts of local events of dubious quality.
In general, in 2023 they managed to play in 12 tournaments, including 3 qualifying tournaments. We started the last year with an appearance at IEM Sydney 2023. Later 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, danistzz.
They managed 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 beat Team 500 in the grand finals. This marked BB's second win of the season.
At Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A, BB Long Sogpeg started off with a win over UNITY and then faced Vitality and Fnatic, where they earned two losses. In the match of a lifetime, defeated Nemiga Gaming.
Map BB Team
The best map BB 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 the statistics 4-5 and Ancient with the total score 3-5.
History of BB - sAw
In the 2024 season sAw defeated BB at DreamHack Atlanta 2024.
Predicted result of sAw vs BB Team at PW Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A
In this match my bet is on sAw. They are the more experienced team and should be able to handle the nerves in the exit match.
Bottom line: sAw wins.
