As the EUROPEAN RMR slowly comes to an end, the list of teams participating in the PGL Antwerp Major has also been officially determined, with a total of 24 teams officially shortlisted for the PGL Antwerp Major next month. Let's take a brief review of the RMR.
The qualifying teams in the Americas region are as follows
Legendary Group: FURIA
Challenge groups: MIBR, Imperial
Competition group: Complexity, Liquid, 9z
The asian qualifying teams are as follows
Competition group: IHC, Renegades
The teams from Euro Zone Group A qualifying are as follows:
Legends: Heroic, BIG, FaZe, NaVi
Challenge groups: forZe, Vitality
Competition group: Eternal Fire, VP
The teams from Group B in Europe are as follows
Legends: CPH Flames, Cloud9, NIP
Challenge groups: ENCE, G2, Astralis, BNE
Competition Group: Spirit
TYLOO missed major for the first time since 2018
With TYLOO's defeat to Renegades in the life-and-death battle, the PGL Antwerp Major officially failed, and the record of the Chinese team's continuous participation in the Major also came to an abrupt end. For TYLOO, except for the Boston Major in 2018, which could not go because of visas, this team has never missed the last 5 Major matches (not counting the offline Main Qualifier before the main match). From the strong entry into the new legend group of FACEIT London Major to the defeat of G2 in 2019, whether it is winning or losing, this Chinese team once carried the e-sports dreams of domestic fans, and once played the high morale and distinctive style of CNCS. But as far as the last three Majors are concerned, from the 0-3 out of Berlin to the 1-3 in Stockholm, this time even the threshold of Major can not be crossed, while the world CSGO is booming, due to the epidemic hindered the lack of international exchanges of CN CSGO results are obviously reversed, the gap is slowly widening. TYLOO, as an outstanding representative of CNCS, there are still many difficulties to overcome, come on!
Fnatic and NIP – continue to hover and rise rapidly
The two Swedish giants, Fnatic and NIP, have left a strong chapter in Major's history. Whether it's fnatic's miracle of winning the Major three times or NIP's one-timer and four asian titles, no one in Sweden, a traditional powerhouse in esports, can match it. However, the so-called thirty years of Hedong, thirty years of Hexi, Sweden CSGO after experiencing glory, in 2019 began to gradually decline, in the face of the dilemma of no one to follow, the two teams also began to develop the opposite path.
The reconstruction of NIP began with the decentralization of veterans GeT_RiGhT, and in the next period of time, they gradually completed the replacement of the old and new, replaced all the players except REZ, signed device and Brollan, combined with a group of the top young talents in Sweden, completed the reconstruction under the leadership of Hampus, and the team gradually got on track and became a force to be reckoned with at the top level. After many adjustments, fnatic did not improve at all, and after missing two consecutive Majors in Berlin and Stockholm, they once again lost a good game in this RMR and missed out on Major for three consecutive terms. It can't be said that fnatic is necessarily wrong to take the road of internationalization, but compared to the rapid completion of NIP's reconstruction, fnatic is obviously a little slow.
Copenhagen Flame – Wait and burn in Antwerp
Remember that Copenhagen flame on PGL Stockholm last year? They picked out Astralis and BIG in succession in the challenge group stage, laughed to the end in the confrontation with Heroic, and entered the legendary stage with a score of 3-0 while also letting some people's guessing job tick the wrong team. Although even if it did not enter the knockout round in the end, the result in the 9-11th place also made the boss of the team full of confidence and found a financial owner with more financial resources, but it backfired, and after the collapse of the negotiations with the coL, The Little Flame did not find a new home as desired.
Now, this little flame has made a comeback and once again exploded with great energy at this RMR event, slashing Spring and SINNERS in a row, and finally defeating NIP to advance to Major with a score of 3-0. Now that the Major ticket is in hand, I don't know what fate will be waiting for the Copenhagen Flames after the end of the Antwerp Major, and it will all depend on the performance of the Little Flames in Antwerp.
Vitality – there's still time
Vitality ushered in a major change in the history of the team at the beginning of this year, because the talent in France withered, in order to avoid accumulating heavy burdens, Vitality resolutely chose to embark on an international path. There is nothing wrong with choosing this path of reform, but Vitality has been faltering in the past few months, and it is really difficult. After the BLAST Spring Games, both IEM Katowice and EPL S15, Vitality, were eliminated from the group in succession. In the just-concluded RMR event, Vitality also barely managed to retain the Major seat at the last minute.
From the perspective of team performance alone, Vitality still has some progress, especially the team's use of ZywOo has made significant progress compared to before, this time RMR ZywOo's personal performance is outstanding, and the Rating has also come to 1.30, sweeping away the decline of the previous two events. apEX also said in the interview that ZywOo wants to play more like a star player, only in this way can Vitality go further and find its own identity. Fortunately, there are still two weeks left before the PGL Antwerp Major, Vitality is also in the ascending channel, as to how far it can go in the Major, these two weeks are particularly critical for Vitality, which is not yet fully in place.
OG, MOUZ, EG – a bad kick in the door
OG, MOUZ and EG, three not weak teams on paper, have all completed a new round of lineup changes at the beginning of this year, OG has replaced the conductor with nexa, MOUZ has delegated NBK and replaced ropz with new people, while EG has ushered in Stewie2k, and autimatic has tried to complete the reconstruction.
In this RMR event, the three teams were invariably blocked out of major's door, but they were all only one step away from Major. OG continued the previous IEM Katowice state, but had poor luck in the battle to decide the fate, losing to eternal Fire in two 14-16, helpless GG. After getting a 2-1 record, MOUZ was slammed by the Buchholz scoring system, and was swept out by two strong opponents, FaZe and Vitality. EG also did not escape the fate of being abandoned by Lady Luck in the key battle, and could only watch 9z make history.
The new face of Major
After talking about the old people who are sad, let's talk about the new faces on this Major. In this RMR event in each division, there are 5 teams including IHC, 9Z and so on. For the first time, it has entered the highest hall of CSGO, and this number is also the same as the previous one. Among them, Montenegro and Argentina, Chile and Uruguay and several other countries will appear on the stage of Major for the first time.
The statistics are as follows
Americas Region
Asia
European Zone Group A
European Zone Group B