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The race for Shanghai Major 2024 is heating up. Starting on 17 November, Long will host Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B, where 16 teams will play for 7 slots at the Major .
Eternal Fire and Aurora are among the contenders to qualify for the main tournament. They will play their debut match against each other.
We're trying to figure out who will be stronger in this match and earn the first win of what may be the most important championship of the year for these two teams.
Let's go.
Eternal Fire uniforms
We open our breakdown of the Eternal Fire vs Aurora match with an analysis of Eternal Fire's form. In this match, the Turkish club will play the first number one with odds to win at around 1.4.
The 13-team world ranking team has been experiencing difficulties throughout the season. Despite the huge number of matches, achieving success has been rare.
At the beginning of the year Eternal Fire won ESL Pro League Season 17: European Conference, thus securing their place at EPL S17. The Main Event ended miserably - only top 20 and no group.
Participated in BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR B. There they took TOP-14, which was not enough to reach the only Major of the season.
In the middle of the year, Eternal Fire showed their best form. The Turks finished in the top 4 twice, but did so at TIR-B tournaments. They broke into the top four at CCT North Europe Series #7 and Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #1.
- Eternal Fire roster: XANTARES, Calyx, MAJ3R, Wicadia, woxic.
Before the ESL Pro League Season 8 Long Round, MAJ3R's team played on CCT Central Europe and Pinnacle Cup V. Both championships ended for them on top 8.
Eternal Fire played their debut match at ESL Pro League Season 18 against Cloud9. They played as the number two and got a natural result: 0-2, but with 11 and 12 rounds respectively.
In the first match of the lower grid Eternal Fire played against 9INE. The Turks were clearly on form, as they managed to run over a pretty tough competitor without much difficulty. The match ended with a score of 2-0 in favour of Eternal Fire. As a result, the ESL Pro League Season 18 run ended very well: the team barely qualified for the play-offs of the tournament, where they managed to win two series. EF left Astralis and BIG behind, but Ledge and Natus Vincere.
EF later made the Top 16 at Roobet Cup 2023, where they finished Top 16 and Top 2 at PARI, Please. In 2024, Eternal Fire attended PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European Qualifier B, where they finished in the Top 2, advancing to European RMR A.
IEM Katowice 2024 started with the Play-In stage. By the way, they passed it very easily: 13-1 against BB Team and 2-0 against Rebels Gaming allowed them to get into the group stage. In the first match of the group stage they also easily defeated Falcons (13-9; 13-6), and then showed a very cheerful CS in the match against the top-2 team of the world FaZe Clan, but Ledge were defeated on three maps (1-2). At the end of IEM Katowice 2024 Eternal Fire took the top 12, and then started to play at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR A.
At the qualifying tournament, the Turks finished in the top 8, which gave them the opportunity to qualify for the PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024, which is true in the first stage.
At PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024 Eternal Fire are feeling very good so far. The Turks have 2 wins and 1 loss: they beat Mongolz and Pain, but lost to Heroic 0-2 in the match for the next stage. However, they succeeded in their next attempt: they defeated GL with a score of 2-1.
Eternal Fire debuted in the legends stage with a surprise win against Vitality. However, in the second round they lost to MOUZ, which brought them to 1-1 score. And then there was a real sensation: 13-1 against FaZe Clan and 2-1 score for the Turks.
Eternal Fire got into the play-offs of the tournament after the victory over Vp. The match ended with the score 2-1. However, they failed to move beyond the first round, as NaVi were stronger than the Turks and closed the series with a score of 2-0.
They also attended ESL Pro League Season 19, where they failed, and quite seriously. The Turkish team took TOP-21-28. Then diametrically opposite situation at CCT Season 1: Global Finals and then - not leaving the group at YaLLa Compas 2024.
Eternal Fire got to IEM Cologne 2024 thanks to the ESL world ranking. However, they failed to earn any results: XANTARES and company finished in the top 20.
Eternal Fire performed much better at ESL Pro League Season 20. In the group stage, the team took the top 2 of Group B, and later surprised in the play-offs by beating Vitality in the quarter-finals with a score of 2-1. Then they defeated MIBR and almost defeated NAVI in the grand-final, but Ledgeili with the score 2-3. But at the Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2024, where Eternal Fire played later, the team failed to achieve such results: there the team took the TOP-12 position without showing any game.
Eternal Fire also attended ESL Challenger Katowice 2024, where they finished in TOP-6, losing to B8.
Eternal Fire's mappool
The best map is Nuke. There are 4 matches and 4 wins.
Anubis (7 matches, 85% wins), Mirage (4 matches, 75% wins) are doing very well. Vertigo - 71% wins in 7 matches, Inferno and Overpass - 3 wins in 5 matches.
Aurora Form
We continue our breakdown of the Aurora vs Eternal Fire match with an analysis of Aurora's match form. In this match they will play in the status of an outsider with odds to win around 4.
Some of the standout performances are the ubiquitous CCT tournaments, where Aurora have done really well. For example, they won CCT South Europe Series #2 and CCT South Europe Series #3. If we talk about more prestigious championships, then everything was much worse there.
Aurora participated in BLAST.tv Paris Major 202: European RMR, and twice. And both times they failed the qualifying stage for the only Major, being ranked first TOP-11 and then TOP-6. They also failed to qualify for Gamers8 and IEM Sydney 2023.
- Aurora line-up: Lack1, Norwi, KENSI, lattykk, SELLTER.
Prior to the Long Convergence Roobet Cup 2023, the team made an appearance at the ESL Challenger at DreamHack Winter 2023: European Qualifier. And again the top 4.
Where they were lucky was at Skyesports Championship 2023: European Qualifier. We defeated TSM in the final, thus getting a slot to the main tournament.
Roobet Cup 2023 is going well for Aurora so far. The team made it through the group stage with confidence, leaving Heroic and Eternal Fire behind.
The current Roobet Cup 2023 continues to be the centrepiece of the 2023 tournament for the club. In the first round of the play-offs, Aurora stepped over OG very confidently, outscoring them 2-0.
However, Roobet Cup 2023 remained one of Aurora's main, if not the main, achievement. The team managed to make it to the play-offs and semi-finals before being knocked out by Monte.
Then there was a series of not very successful local tournaments. These included CCT Central Europe Series #8, with a top 8, CCT Online Finals #4 with a top 16, Pari, Please with a top 6 and finally qualifying for BetBoom Dacha with a top 4.
Aurora made their debut at CCT Onilne Finals #5 with a match against ALTERNATE aTTaX. The Germans were unable to put up a fight and Aurora advanced to the next round without a single problem, giving their opponent only 9 rounds per match.
In the semi-final match Aurora faced sAw. The Portuguese gave a great fight, but they were not enough for more than one map. Next, they knocked out G2, but lost to BIG in the grand finals.
In the 2024 season, Aurora kept trying to play in title tournaments, but rarely got there. Of the "big championships" there was an appearance at Dacha Belgrade 2024 #1 with a final top 8 and CCT Season 1 Global Finals with a similar result. The rest of the tournaments where Aurora played were TIR-B and at best TIR-A.
Before playing at European RMR B, Aurora played at Thunderpick World Championship 2024, where they finished in the Top 16.
Aurora Mapple
Some of Aurora's best maps include Anubis and Overpass. The former has 6 maps and 100% wins, while the latter has 5 maps and 100% wins.
Next is Inferno with 13 matches and 10 wins. Nuke (7-4) and Ancient (3-3) are playing.
Worst of all is Vertigo. There are 2 defeats there.
History of head-to-head meetings Aurora - Eternal Fire
In the season 2024 the teams have played each other once and the victory was celebrated by EF.
Predicted result of Eternal Fire vs Aurora at PW Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B
In this match, my bet is on EF. Compared to Aurora, this is a top tier team and a club that can qualify for the Major.
Bottom line: Eternal Fire wins.
