The organizing committee has announced 56 teams participating in the Major qualifiers in Europe, America and Asia-Pacific.
As previously announced, the Falcons have registered s1mple for the RMR European qualifiers.
Perfect World has announced the roster list of 56 teams that will compete for 24 spots to attend the Shanghai Major in Europe, America and Asia from November 11 to 24.
There aren't many big surprises on this list, but a few changes have been confirmed since teams were directly invited to RMR and online qualifiers took place. Several notable reserve players have also been added.
In the RMR Europe region, the following players have been added as substitutes, reflecting transfer moves after teams were unable to change their submitted core squad, and are expected to join when the starting event: Casper "cadiaN" Møller in Astralis, Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev in Falcons, André "Ag1l" Gil in SAW, Tim "nawwk" Jonasson in fnatic, Sebastian "Tauson" Tauson Lindelof in GamerLegion and William "sirah" Kjærsgaard in TSM.
Timofey "interz" Yakushin was also named as a substitute on the Cloud9 roster in place of Ilya "Perfecto" Zalutskiy, which was necessary for the closed qualifiers so that the team could receive a ranked invitation based on the team's results. previous core shape.
Lucas "Lucaozy" Neves was also added to MIBR in the Americas region, and Gan-Erdene "dobu" Batbold was loaned to Alter Ego in the Asia region RMR.
It's important to note that subs who qualify for the Major will not receive player sticker signatures, regardless of whether they played the entire qualifying round with the team or not. Players who are part of the core squad will receive stickers, Perfect World confirmed to HLTV.
Furthermore, in teams without reserves, the coach can be used as a substitute.
Other notables include the bench players: Drin "makazze" Shaqiri in Natus Vincere, Andreas "Xyp9x" Højsleth in MOUZ, Adam "NEOFRAG" Zouhar in ECLOT, Anthony "CLASIA" Kearney in Complexity, Ignacio "meyern" Meyer in BESTIA and Sener "SENER1" Mahmuti (as well as coach ohnePixel) in DRILLAS.
All 56 registered squads for the Shanghai Major RMR can be found below. Substitute players marked in bold are expected to play in place of players marked in italics.