The tournament Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A is about to begin, and in the first round, Team Falcons will face off against ECLOT. Bo3.gg, in collaboration with Andrey "Yukio" Kucherenko, presents an overview, analysis, and forecast for this upcoming match.
Team Dynamics
Despite it being the first match of the tournament, Falcons still appear as the clear favorite due to the players' names and their ranking position. Their gameplay especially improved after Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev joined the team.
Map Preferences
In a BO1 match, map selection is crucial. Both teams have certain maps they prefer and others they avoid. Here is the win rate map statistics for both teams over the past six months:
Falcons:
- Mirage: 38% win rate
- Ancient: 40% win rate
- Anubis: 50% win rate
- Vertigo: 53% win rate
- Nuke: 35% win rate
- Dust2: 53% win rate
- Inferno: usually banned.
ECLOT
- Mirage: 62% win rate
- Ancient: 59% win rate
- Anubis: 54% win rate
- Nuke: 50% win rate
- Dust2: 55% win rate
- Inferno: 52% win rate
- Vertigo: usually banned.
Considering the map preferences, it's likely that the teams will play on Dust 2, as both have good statistics on this map, and it is often chosen for BO1 matches.
Past Encounters
Falcons' results with s1mple have not been very strong, although s1mple's gameplay is excellent. It will be interesting to see how he performs in the second LAN tournament, but their recent tournament results have been poor, with the team finishing last in two tournaments and exiting disgracefully.
ECLOT's situation is similar, though they do not have star players. They confidently advanced to the RMR, but have recently shown inconsistent gameplay. In the last YaLLa Compass Fall 2024, they placed 5th-8th, losing to BetBoom in the quarter-finals of the tournament. However, in the European Pro League Season 20, they played excellently and managed to secure second place, losing to 9 Pandas in the tournament final.
Predict from Yukio
Current analyst/commentator of the Maincast studio Andrey "Yukio" Kucherenko is well-versed in the game and has made an exclusive prediction for us on the upcoming team match. It is worth noting that according to the prediction statistics for our site, he has a 100% success rate.
The outcome of the fight between Team Falcons and Dynamo Eclot is hard to predict. On the one hand, we have Team Falcons, who received a powerful update in the form of s1mple and who has already shown that he has returned to a fairly good form. But he can't compensate for the uncertain play of the rest of the team, which has not yet decided and has not played at least a couple of maps for its stable map pool. Dynamo Eclot can only be praised for their work on themselves so far. Over the past 5 months, they have risen from 97th position in the rankings to 45th, played about 200 cards and have built up a pretty good map pool, which can be a great help in bo1 roulette at RMR. In conclusion, I want to believe that good teamwork in the bo1 format will be the key to victory, so 1:0 in favor of Dynamo Eclot is my prediction.
The matches of Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A will take place from November 17 to 20 in Shanghai, China. The teams will compete for 7 spots at the Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024. You can follow the championship here.
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