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We continue to watch the action at Shanghai Major 2024: RMR-s. More specifically, we're talking about the European region matches, which is split into Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR A and B. We will be talking about Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B.
In one of the matches we will see a match between Spirit and B8. The winner of Spirit is one step closer to the Shanghai Major 2024.
We are trying to find out which team will be stronger in this match.
Team Spirit uniforms
We open the Spirit vs B8 match with an analysis of Team Spirit's form. In this match they will play as favourites with odds to win at 1.3.
The 2023 season has been a busy one for Spirit. The Serbian club has played wherever they can, but they haven't managed to get any significant results.
They started the previous season with an appearance at IEM Master Katowice 2023, where they finished in the top 12. Then there was the local CCT Central Europe Malta Finals 2023, where they finished in the top 6.
One of the biggest tournaments of the 2023 season for Spirit was ESL Pro League Season 17, where the Dragons finished in TOP-28. They tried to make it to the Major in Paris, but again all in vain.
From the middle and up to the end of the year Spirit played at local events of small calibre. And they were quite successful, it is worth mentioning: TOP-1 at CCT North Europe Series #6, TOP-2 at CCT Online Finals #2, victory at Dunav Party LAN and Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #2.
- Team Spirit roster: chopper, zont1x, sh1ro, donk, magixx
At the end of the year they won the BB Dacha. In 2024, BLAST Premier: Spring Showdown 2024 was the first major event for the Dragons. Spirit played frankly poorly there: they finished in the top 16 at their debut BLAST Championship, advancing to the Spring Showdown.
At IEM Katowice 2024 Spirit started their performance at the Play-In stage. There they beat Apeks 13-0 without a chance, and then confidently (except for 2 maps) beat MongolZ 2-0, thus qualifying for the group stage. The group stage was not a problem for Spirit either: after giving up only 1 map to NaVi, they easily made it to the play-offs by beating CoL and FaZe Clan 2-0. The IEM Katowice 2024 play-offs confirmed Spirit's dominance, as they easily shut down Falcons (2-0) and it was even easier against FaZe in the grand finals (3-0).
After the triumph at Katowice 2024, Spirit made it to PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024, where they managed to reach the play-offs, but Ledge and FaZe Clan in the first round of the main stage. In doing so, Spirit finished in the top 8.
Spirit had a kind of successful performance at BB Dacha, but a 0-3 loss to MOUZ in the grand finals spoilt things a bit.
At IEM Dallas 2024 Team Spirit had a very easy time in the group stage, not giving up a single map in the B basket. However, they didn't manage to beat everyone in the play-offs: Vitality intervened at the TOP-4 stage and knocked Spirit out of the tournament.
Later Spirit won the BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2024. And then came a string of poor performances, including Top 8 and Top 16 at Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2024.
ESL Pro League Season 20 Team Spirit started with Group B, where they defeated Ledge and MIBR in the second round of the upper grid and after dropping below, they had no trouble beating The MongolZ and 3DMAX, which allowed them to advance to the play-offs, where they beat FURIA 2-0 in their first match. Later they ran into NaVi, after their defeat they finished the pro league.
Spirit played at BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2024, where they did not find success either. They only finished in the top 6.
At BLAST Premier: World Final 2024 Spirit started their journey from Group B, where they fought against G2 Esports, Team Spirit, Vitality and Liquid. They went 1-1, beating Vitality but losing to G2 in the playoffs seeding match. In the play-offs itself Spirit made it directly to the grand finals, but there without a chance Ledgeili G2 Esports with a score of 0-3.
Team Spirit Mapple
The best map of Team Spirit is Vertigo, where the Brazilians played 5 times and won in 3 maps. Next comes Mirage, already with 7 games and 4-3 statistics.
The neutral choice for Team Spirit will be Nuke and Ancient. The Brazilians have 6 maps and 3-3 score on each.
The worst is Overpass (2-3) and Inferno (1-2).
B8 Form.
Let's continue the analysis of the match B8 vs Team Spirit with the analysis of B8's form. In this match they play as an outsider with odds to win around 5.
B8 can be characterised as a real workhorse. The team is at the crossroads between TIR-3 and TIR-2, but they are consistently "shining" at some pretty big tournaments. It also plays a lot, as is often the case with TIR-2 teams on the Counter-Strike competitive scene.
During the 2024 season B8 had several big achievements by the standards of the club. The team finished in the top 4 at RES Eastern European Masters: Spring 2024 and a similar place at RES European Series #2. In the middle of the year there were also victories at TIR-B tournaments. Thus, B8 became the champions of CCT Season 2 European Series #2 and Elisa Invitational Spring 2024, and also won CCT Season 2 European Series #5.
Unfortunately for B8 and their fans, the victories at the aforementioned tournaments did not turn into a stable win streak. At the same CCT the team finished top-8 at Series #12 and top-8 at Series #13.
- B8 lineup: cptkurtka023, npl, esenthial, headtr1ck, baz, alex666.
Before playing at ESL Challenger Katowice 2024, the team played at YaLLa Compass 2024, where they had bad luck and finished in TOP-18. Next was an appearance at CCT Season 2: European Series #12, CCT Season 2, European Series #13 with TOP-8.
Just before playing at Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B, they played Elisa Masters Espoo 2024, where they took TOP-4 and ESL Challenger Katowice 2024, where they took TOP-2.
B8 Mapple
B8 has two 100% maps. They are Nuke with 9 wins in 14 matches, and Anubis with 5 matches and 4 wins.
They also play Ancient (66% wins in 3 matches). Still playing Mirage (9 matches, 4 wins). Vertigo with 2 wins and 3 losses and Overpass (2 wins in 7 matches).
Inferno are not playing.
History of head-to-head meetings between B8 and Team Spirit
Previously, the teams have not played each other in official matches.
Predicted result of Team Spirit vs B8 at Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B
In this match my bet is on Spirit. Still, the level of the teams is too different and B8 will win only in bo1 format, and I doubt it.
Bottom line: Spirit wins.
