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Shanghai Majors: Steak Gaming gets burned but Vegetable eSports still going

The first Shanghai Major Open Qualifier for Europe attracted an immense crowd of 939 teams, but this evening the remaining teams will be whittled down to a single survivor.

The first set of Open Qualifiers for all four regions end later today, with SEA and China already both done and dusted. The Chinese Qualifiers were won by CDEC.A, which is a team formed recently from the highest ranking players in the CDEC League.

show Chinese Qualifiers grid

Meanwhile the SEA Qualifier was won by Mineski-X, a new team which includes Chan 'Xtinct' Zhan Leong, former Fnatic player Fadil Bin 'Kecik Imba' Mohd Raziff and commentator and analyst Chan 'Winter' Litt-Binn. Winter registered himself as a substitute for Fnatic during the Winter Major transfer window, and him playing for Mineski now presumably means he forfeits that role.

Quarter-Final (Bo1)

Bangkok
Phoenix

0
1

2015
Xtrmst

0
1

Elunes
Pang5

0
1

Min.X
WG.Unit

1
0

Semi-Final (Bo3)

Phoenix
Xtrmst

0
2

Pang5
Min.X

0
2

Final (Bo3)

Xtrmst
Min.X

1
2

Europe attracts huge attention

The number of teams for the European qualifier completely dwarfed those of the other three regions, with an incredible 939 teams signing up to compete for just a single slot in the Regional Qualifiers. STEAK GAMING were one team to do well, with the public still unsure on how seriously to take the team that sees Troels 'syndereN' Nielsen make a return to competitive Dota 2.

Steak Gaming made it all the way to the final 16, but did not progress to the quarter-finals after defeat to Kaipi. Meanwhile, Mamas Boys's, formerly known as 4C&L, are thus far into the semi-finals.

Quarter-Final (Bo1)

STARK
KP

0
1

PXP
KGB

0
1

MB
El_one

1
0

E-LAB
BeWater

0
1

Semi-Final (Bo3)

KP
KGB

2
0

MB
BeWater

2
0

Final (Bo3)

KP
MB

1
2

Vegetable eSports Club still cooking

In the American Qualifiers the Vegetable eSports Club, who's roster was tweeted out by Jacob 'Maelk' Toft-Andersen in response to the announcement of Steak Gaming last year, has in fact survived the first four rounds of the competition and are still in with a chance of qualifying for the Regionals. The roster for VEC is: Maelk, Capitalist, Purge, Merlini and Monib.

Merlini received some love on Reddit for not dying a single time in VEC's 4 matches so far, holding a total KDA record of 45-0-32, which according to Nahaz is "actually the top KDA among all players (over 5,000 total) in day 1 of the Shanghai Open Qualifiers."

You can follow the remainder of the Qualifiers #1 from the quarter-finals onwards on joinDOTA, but if you wish to look over the entire grid then head to the FACEIT Dota 2 homepage. 

 

Original Post/Source : joinDOTA