See all the best highlights from Shanghai CS2 Major here.
The Perfect World Shanghai CS2 Major is underway, and we already have plenty of incredible highlights to talk about.
Many players showed impeccable form on the first day of the tournament, so we decided to reunite all great Shanghai Major highlights in one place. In case you couldn’t pay attention to all the matches, here are the best plays made at the Chinese Major thus far.
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The best highlights of Shanghai Major Opening Stage
paiN nqz’s USP-S ace versus FlyQuest
Lucas “nqz” Soares single-handedly shut down FlyQuest in the first pistol round of Inferno. The AWPer hit five headshots to stop FlyQuest from planting on the A Bombsite.
jackasmo and fear help Passion UA move to 2-1 pool
The match between Passion UA and MIBR had a myriad of clutches go in favor of the former team.
In-game leader Rodyon “fear” Smyk and the rifler Nikita “jackasmo” Skyba had more than one highlight versus MIBR. Without them popping off, the Ukrainian team likely would not advance to the 2-1 pool.
skullz wins a crucial round from FURIA versus Imperial
It looked like the round was in Imperial’s bag as FURIA practically had no time to plant the bomb on the A Site on Anubis.
The round would put Imperial on map point territory but Felipe “skullz” Medeiros crushed their hopes with a triple AK kill. Turns out that sometimes you don’t need to plant the bomb at all.
FURIA went on to win the map, and push Imperial to the 0-2 pool of the Elimination Stage.
paiN kauez pulls off an unbelievable ace against Imperial on Dust 2
One of paiN Gaming’s riflers, Kaue “kauez” Kaschuk, possibly made the best highlight of the whole Shanghai Major.
The youngster hit three crispy one-deags on an eco, and followed up with two quick M4A1-S kills to complete the ace against Imperial in the first match of the Opening Stage. The way he rushed Catwalk with the Desert Eagle in hand will definitely inspire our average matchmaking teammates.
paiN snow hits an AWP collateral versus Imperial on Dust 2
AWP collaterals are just a beauty and paiN Gaming’s young star João “snow” Vinicius hit one in a very difficult retake attempt against Imperial on Dust 2.
Had the Imperial players not aligned for snow, who knows if paiN would win the round or even the game as Imperial never recovered from it.
Twistzz crushes Cloud9 with an astonishing triple kill on Ancient
Liquid pulled a hell of a comeback against Cloud9 in the Shanghai Major Opening Stage first round. And, of course, the IGL and star Russel “Twistzz” Van Dulken played a huge part in it.
The “Magician” single-handedly retook Ancient’s B Bombsite numerous times with doubles and triples, as shown in the clip below. This was Twistzz’s best highlight because Liquid were 6-9 behind when he got an impossible triple kill.
Sonic aces Fnatic to put Wildcard on match point
Even though Fnatic only had pistols, we can’t downplay Aran “Sonic” Groesbeek’s ace versus them.
Had he not gotten the trade on Freddy “KRIMZ” Johansson and killed the players rushing Connector, Fnatic could have won the round and the series versus Wildcard in the first round.
That’s all for now. Stay tuned to esports.gg for more Shanghai Major coverage.