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CS2 Huge Change Major Pickem Update ! Unlimited Souvenirs & Shanghai Winners !

New CS2 Update!


The Counter-Strike Shanghai Major brings together the top 24 teams worldwide, including legendary favorites, seasoned veterans, and new challengers. With the new update for the majors dropping on 28/11/2024 you have 2 more days until you lock in your final pickem challenge, this article will help you navigate on what you need to know for this new CS update.


Is the Pickem Challenge Free?


Unlike CSGO, in the early days where you had to purchase individual team stickers for Pick'Ems, CS2 introduces a free-to-play Pick'Em Challenge making it really easy to lock in so what are you waiting for!


For the collectors and Pickems enthusiasts, know that players can still upgrade their Shanghai 2024 Coin for extra Souvenir Packages by activating the Viewer Pass.


Latest CS News:


As the perfect world major is coming to an end there is a couple of things that are to be highlighted, Pasha Biceps makes an entrance on the stage with the trophy. Fan favorites NAVI previously the first CS2 major winners didn't qualify to the final stage of the majors, Heroic has been out as well losing to G2 and The Mongolz fan favorite lost to MOUZ, Team spirit beat Team liquid as anticipated but the performance from team liquid was top tier and finally unexpected heated game between vitality and Faze where the Faze roster popped off completely showing the strength of what it means to be in Faze clan, the finals will kick off on Sunday the 15th of December to mark history for CS2 as the final tournament of the year before 2025 era begins


Apart from the majors, what is going on in the cs scene?


  • Dev1ce to stay with Astralis after stepping down due to stress and bro's contract has been mutually terminated
  • Jame benched from Virtus Pro, other vp rosters might come
  • NIP benched maxter and jocab might step in
  • One of the HLTV awards is for the best event of the year, yes IEM Dallas is not on the least although fan favorite but that's simply because an organizer can have 2 events max, and yes YaLLaCompass is Nominated!

How much is the shanghai 2024 viewer pass for?

As you see there is 2 types of viewer pass options you can choose from either the normal Shanghai 2024 Viewer Pass or the Viewer pass with additional 3 Souvenir Tokens
The price here is either 10 dollars for the normal pass or 19 dollars for the upgraded version

Is It Worth Purchasing The Shanghai 2024 Viewer Pass?

A couple of things to note for you to decide if it's worth is the additional features and benefits that come with the viewer pass

Hey if you got a favorite team you're rooting for then you should know that 50% of proceeds from CS2 stickers, graffiti and other items are shared with participating players and organizations, supporting the competitive community.

Fans can also place picks, use graffiti to show allegiance, and support their favorite teams and players directly through purchases and participation and non the less A new Active Pass Leaderboard allows comparison of Pick'Em performance with friends which could always be fun.

How does the Shanghai 2024 Coin look like ?

Is it a dragon lore, a howl ? its even better it looks like the howl in a dragon form and given that it is the year of the dragon I smell a legacy about to kick off and this sure will make grinding for that diamond Pickem coin worth the effort
Shanghai Major format:
There will be an opening stage which starts on november 30 so make sure all your pickems are locked by then, later on the elimination stage starts and finally the playoffs for the grand finale
Shanghai 2024 Major Schedule & Finals :

Saturday - 2024-12-14 featuring semi finals between MOUZ vs SPIRIT in a bo3 and the game after it will be on the same date featuring a game between G2 vs Faze


Shanghai perfect world major grand final is scheduled for Sunday - 2024-12-15

and any of these 4 teams can be seen as the champion and finalist to have a tale of legends to tell for the future of counter strike



Shanghai 2024 Legends Sticker Capsule:
This Sticker Capsule incapsulates the legends of the tournament that made it to the CS2 Shanghai Majors which includes the following teams
  • G2 esports
  • Natus Vincere / Navi
  • Vitality
  • Team Spirit
  • MOUZ
  • Faze Clan
  • HEROIC
  • 3DMAX
This is how the following stickers look like

Shanghai 2024 Challengers Sticker Capsule:
This Sticker Capsule incapsulates the Challengers of the tournament that made it to the Shanghai CS2 Major which includes the following teams
  • Fnatic
  • Virtus Pro / VP
  • Team Liquid
  • Complexity
  • BIG
  • Furia
  • The Mongolz
  • Pain Gaming
This is how the following stickers look like

Shanghai 2024 Contenders Sticker Capsule:
This Sticker Capsule incapsulates the Contenders of the tournament that made it to the Shanghai CS2 Major which includes the following teams
  • Gamer Legion
  • MIBR
  • Cloud9
  • FlyQuest
  • Passion UA
  • Wildcard
  • Rare Atom
  • Imperial Esports
This is how the following stickers look like

Player autograph Sticker capsules & D0nk Sticker scrape off:
you can find player autograph capsules along side the team sticker capsules,


and if you are wondering what they might look like, here is an example of D0nk sticker scraped off a bit

Team Furia Autograph Stickers are in Chinese:
Nothing less expected from professor Fallen who shaped the scope of Brazilian counter strike, this is a very strong message and token of respect from team Furia, non the less this was a very creative idea that even Chinese players didn't think of.
Unlimited Shanghai 2024 Souvenir Packages?
It has always been engraved in the culture of the CS2 esports community when it comes to the majors a large chunk of the player base have always been trying to farm souvenir packages, you must remember the hype back when we had cobble stone and everyone had the lottery winner feeling just by getting a chance to get the dragon lore souvenir skin, However with this update, the souvenir packages can be bought for 3 dollars and you can select which match you want the souvenir from which wasn't the case in CSGO as it would be a random drop via watching on twitch. Given that previously these were very rare and limited, does this mean now you can just purchase as many as you want with no consequences?
Team Graffiti:
Apart from the Pickems & Souvenir Hype, these graffiti's have a unique touch, it speaks out perfect world shanghai 2024
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