Shanghai Major: Other teams
If your favourite team haven’t been mentioned yet, it’s important to remember that ‘no news is good news’.
Then forget we said that because we’re going to tell you about them anyway. But they’re probably not out yet, except they also might be by the time you read this.
Glad you all understand.
Passion UA is somehow still making it happen. It seemed certain that the high of the RMR was their peak, and financially, it probably still is. But they once more sit one BO3 away from salvation.
An opening-round loss to BIG, who beat them in the RMR, wasn’t ideal, but they kicked Complexity down to 0-2 and then soundly beat MIBR to put themselves in the 2-1 bracket.
The last round against Complexity was intensely yet morbidly, amusing. Jackasmo hit three one deags, including two in a 3v4, to turn the round and leave Jambo to hit another to win the game.
FURIA just about sneaked past a Wildcard team who continue to impress, but find themselves 1-2. FURIA continue to baffle, surprise and entertain in equal measure.
ICY might still be putting up silly numbers, but right now, it doesn’t matter all that much. C9 have lost to both Liquid and paiN and have only beaten fnatic, which in hindsight isn’t as good of a win as we might have thought.
ICY still has a 1.57 rating, by the way. His team are 1-2.
paiN now sit one game from the main stage, and this clip from kauez is one of the best you’ll see in a long, long, long time. Just pixel perfect. Watching it feels like finally getting to the toilet when you’ve needed a wee for two hours.
Finally, BIG beat Virtus.pro in a game that, quite predictably, went all 24 rounds. The only surprise is that it finished at all.
Dante’s eighth circle of hell is watching BIG vs VP in infinite overtimes.

