{"id":18106,"date":"2024-12-09T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T13:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=18106"},"modified":"2024-12-09T13:49:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T13:49:56","slug":"perfect-world-shanghai-major-playoff-stage-overview-schedule-teams-and-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/perfect-world-shanghai-major-playoff-stage-overview-schedule-teams-and-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect World Shanghai Major Playoff Stage Overview: Schedule, Teams And Format"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As both<strong> <\/strong>the<strong> Opening Stage<\/strong> and <strong>Elimination Stage <\/strong>came to their conclusion now, the tournament determined its <strong>Playoff Stage<\/strong> competitors. The best team in the world, <strong>Natus Vincere<\/strong>, didn\u2019t make it to the<strong> Playoff Stage<\/strong> as they fell off in an elimination match against <strong>HEROIC<\/strong>. Another team that surprised many in a good way was <strong>TheMongolZ, <\/strong>who made it to the <strong>Playoff Stage<\/strong> without losing a single match, and now this team, who was a dark horse at some point, looks like a real contender here. The <strong>Playoff Stage <\/strong>will be held from <strong>December 12 <\/strong>to <strong>December 15<\/strong> at Shanghai Oriental Sports Center. Since two teams with the top players made it here, <strong>Spirit <\/strong>and <strong>Vitality <\/strong>with their star players <strong>\u2018ZywOo\u2019 <\/strong>for <strong>Vitality <\/strong>and <strong>\u2018donk\u2019 <\/strong>for <strong>Spirit<\/strong>, the results of this tournament and their own individual scores might decide who will end up as the top player in the world of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Playoff Stage Format<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Single-Elimination bracket<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Seeded using final Elimination Stage ranking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All matches are Bo3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Playoff Stage Teams<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXeZ2SSW0-Gc6hXmLArgXDJGGZGZvgj1FrE49ASyPbhkzNO8CDRXLEVFVGwc2kWMf0m5XvxfuyLmuG4fZsLHHwaXJjUcWlXDiLDyErtddl0rrShm2Fr6kT24fp1ZSZjsDGizVhUt?key=4o3h2CygmrJ6zOGTg5e8woky\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>TheMongolZ<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Team Spirit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>G2 Esports<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Team Vitality<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MOUZ<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Team Liquid<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>HEROIC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FaZe Clan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matches Schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 12<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>TheMongolZ <\/strong>vs. <strong>MOUZ <\/strong>starting at <strong>07:00 CET<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Liquid <\/strong>vs. <strong>Spirit <\/strong>starting at <strong>10:00 CET<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 13<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>G2 Esports <\/strong>vs. <strong>HEROIC <\/strong>starting at <strong>07:00 CET<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>FaZe Clan <\/strong>vs. <strong>Team Vitality <\/strong>starting at <strong>10:00 CET<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 14<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Semi-final #1<\/strong> (Winner of <strong>TheMongolZ <\/strong>vs. <strong>MOUZ <\/strong>against the winner of <strong>Liquid <\/strong>vs. <strong>Spirit<\/strong>) starting at <strong>07:00 CET<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Semi-final #2<\/strong> (Winner of <strong>G2 Esports<\/strong> vs. <strong>HEROIC <\/strong>against the winner of <strong>FaZe Clan <\/strong>vs. <strong>Vitality<\/strong>) starting at <strong>10:00 CET<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">December 15<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Grand Final starting at 10:00 CET<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We will make our predictions for every playoff stage match and you can find it at <a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/category\/cs2-predictions\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/category\/cs2-predictions\/\">our predictions page<\/a> soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Keep up with our coverage for more insights on the latest esports news and updates.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview As both the Opening Stage and Elimination Stage came to their conclusion now, the tournament determined its Playoff Stage competitors. The best team in the world, Natus Vincere, didn\u2019t make it to the Playoff Stage as they fell off in an elimination match against HEROIC. Another team that surprised many in a good way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":18088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,11,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-18106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-cs2","9":"tag-cs2-news","10":"tag-cs2-tournaments"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18108,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18106\/revisions\/18108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}