MIBR were eliminated after failing to take advantage of a 2-0 start in the playoffs.

Brollan had an excellent performance against MIBR after having a rather lackluster performance at the Major up to this point.

MOUZ officially entered the top 8 strongest teams at the Perfect World Shanghai Major after taking down MIBR in a dominant series in the deciding match.

MOUZ was once one of the top teams at risk of early elimination when they fell into a 1-2 position after close losses to The MongolZ and FaZe in the playoffs. However, this international team turned things around in the best-of-three series, overcoming 3DMAX and MIBR respectively to avoid elimination and win tickets to the playoff round.

On the contrary, MIBR will regret leaving the Shanghai Major in the knockout round, despite a promising 2-0 start thanks to wins over 3DMAX and Natus Vincere. However, they quickly slipped when entering the best-of-three matches, suffering losses to Vitality and Liquid, before facing MOUZ in the final match of the tournament.

The series between MOUZ and MIBR started with the Mirage map, MOUZ's choice to exploit MIBR's weakness – the team only had a 14% win rate on this map before the tournament.

Felipe "insani" Yuji singled out the Mirage as a weakness in an interview, asserting that this is "a problem that the team continuously tries to fix by all means."

Yet, despite their efforts, this series only continued MIBR's string of poor results on the Mirage. Some moments of individual brilliance from insani and Rafael "saffee" Costa helped the team win a few rounds on the CT side, but not enough to form a significant winning streak. MOUZ easily controlled this map with a score of 13-4.

The Nuke map was made even more difficult for MIBR as Ludvig "Brollan" Brolin, who performed excellently on Mirage, continued his impressive form with support from Dorian "xertioN" Berman. The dominance of the main players helped MOUZ quickly lead 11-1, before winning 13-6 after a little resistance from MIBR on the defensive side. This result sent international team MOUZ into the playoff round.