PW Shanghai Major Day Three Recap: Complexity and Wildcard still have hope
The third day of the Perfect World Shanghai Major has come to an end with Wildcard eliminating Virtus.pro in the 1-2 bracket, keeping their hopes of advancing to the next stage alive, just like Complexity, who eliminated Cloud9 earlier in the day.
Complexity ride the momentum and send Cloud9 packing
After a 0-2 start to the Opening Stage, Complexity easily eliminated Imperial yesterday and, despite it being a more balanced series, sent Cloud9 packing with another 2-0 series win.
Vertigo featured a huge 10-2 comeback from the North American side to send the map to overtime, where Complexity took the 16-13 win. Ancient followed and it wasn't really a close map despite the 13-8 score line, as COL led from round one all the way until the very end.
Cloud9Complexity| Cloud9 |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Sergey 'Ax1Le' Rykhtorov |
41 - 38 | +3 | 89.0 | 68.0% | 1.13 |
 Kaisar 'ICY' Faiznurov |
30 - 30 | +0 | 65.6 | 70.0% | 0.97 |
| Kirill 'Boombl4' Mikhailov |
30 - 37 | -7 | 64.9 | 72.0% | 0.93 |
 Nikita 'HeavyGod' Martynenko |
24 - 38 | -14 | 67.5 | 70.0% | 0.81 |
| Timofey 'interz' Yakushin |
28 - 39 | -11 | 62.6 | 64.0% | 0.78 |
| Complexity |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski |
45 - 29 | +16 | 91.9 | 80.0% | 1.39 |
 Håkon 'hallzerk' Fjærli |
44 - 32 | +12 | 83.4 | 72.0% | 1.25 |
| Michael 'Grim' Wince |
37 - 31 | +6 | 98.8 | 80.0% | 1.25 |
| Ricky 'floppy' Kemery |
31 - 27 | +4 | 74.9 | 80.0% | 1.10 |
 Johnny 'JT' Theodosiou |
25 - 34 | -9 | 59.4 | 72.0% | 0.92 |
Wildcard convincingly eliminate Virtus.pro
The road has been tough for Wildcard, as the team has lost some very close best-of-one matches, but, after dropping another winnable map to start the series against Virtus.pro, Wildcard took control of their fate and managed to turn the series in their favor, eliminating VP with a 2-1 series win.
Virtus.pro dealt the first blow on Ancient, winning it 13-10, but Love "phzy" Smidebrant put the team on his back and led Wildcard to a 13-7 Inferno win and a crucial 13-8 victory on Anubis.
WildcardVirtus.pro| Wildcard |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Love 'phzy' Smidebrant |
48 - 35 | +13 | 84.6 | 70.3% | 1.20 |
 Peter 'stanislaw' Jarguz |
41 - 47 | -6 | 79.2 | 75.0% | 1.09 |
| Tim 'susp' Ångström |
39 - 50 | -11 | 78.9 | 71.9% | 0.98 |
| Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek |
38 - 44 | -6 | 63.8 | 70.3% | 0.93 |
| Josh 'JBa' Barutt |
37 - 37 | +0 | 47.6 | 73.4% | 0.89 |
| Virtus.pro |
K - D | +/- | ADR | KAST | Rating 2.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petr 'fame' Bolyshev |
56 - 43 | +13 | 89.3 | 78.1% | 1.29 |
| David 'n0rb3r7' Danielyan |
51 - 34 | +17 | 74.0 | 78.1% | 1.17 |
| Evgenii 'FL1T' Lebedev |
39 - 41 | -2 | 70.9 | 76.6% | 0.98 |
| Denis 'electroNic' Sharipov |
28 - 46 | -18 | 66.4 | 82.8% | 0.86 |
| Dzhami 'Jame' Ali |
36 - 40 | -4 | 51.6 | 68.8% | 0.82 |
Standings
Here are the overall standings for the Opening Stage after day three:
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Liquid (3-0, advanced)
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The MongolZ (3-0, advanced) -
GamerLegion (3-1, advanced) -
FURIA (3-1, advanced) -
paiN (3-1, advanced)
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FlyQuest (2-2) -
BIG (2-2) -
Passion UA (2-2) -
MIBR (2-2)
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Wildcard (2-2)
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Complexity (2-2)
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Cloud9 (1-3, eliminated)
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Virtus.pro (1-3, eliminated)
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Rare Atom (1-3, eliminated) -
Fnatic (0-3, eliminated)
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Imperial (0-3, eliminated)
North America is close to having all of its teams in the Major advance to the Elimination Stage. Complexity will have to beat BIG and Wildcard need to defeat Passion UA to accomplish that. Day four begins at 10:00PM.
