At Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024: Opening Stage, viewers will witness a tense confrontation between Complexity Gaming and BIG. Both teams have a 2:2 record and will play a decisive match in bo3 format to advance to the next stage of the tournament.

Current form of the teams

Complexity Gaming hasn't been playing consistently lately. After a successful performance at the American RMR, the team lost several key matches, including defeats against Passion UA and FlyQuest. Nevertheless, the victories over Cloud9 and Imperial show the team's potential in critical moments. 

BIG is in better shape than Complexity. The German team confidently passed the European RMR, but had mixed results at the Shanghai Major: defeats against FlyQuest and FURIA, but victories over Passion UA and Virtus.pro. 

Team's Map Pool

Complexity Gaming has the best chances with Ancient (55% of wins) and Vertigo (63%), while their Nuke looks weak (36%). Mirage is one of the problematic maps where Complexity has not played at all recently.

BIG, on the other hand, has an advantage on Mirage (40%) and Ancient (64%), while their Anubis (36%) and Inferno (20%) are the weakest maps. Dust2 seems to be a risky map for BIG, although they sometimes play well there (47%).

Probable map choice: Dust2, Ancient and Vertigo.

Complexity Gaming and BIG have already met twice this year. In September, BIG defeated Complexity with a score of 2:1, but five months ago, Complexity won a convincing 1:0 victory.

Prediction.

Given the form of the teams and the mappers, we can expect an interesting confrontation. If Ancient or Vertigo is selected, Complexity has a chance to win thanks to their preparation on these maps. BIG, in turn, will try to use their advantage on Mirage or Anubis. The key factor will be whether BIG will be able to avoid their weak maps, such as Vertigo.

It is expected that the match will end with a score of 2:1 in favor of BIG, thanks to their stable play in recent matches.

Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 is one of the largest Counter-Strike 2 tournaments in the world, with a prize pool of $1,250,000. Teams from all over the world compete for the title of champion, and each match becomes an important step on the way to the final.