After an electrifying Playoff Stage, the Perfect World Shanghai Major has boiled down to a thrilling showdown between FaZe Clan and Team Spirit. These two titans have captured the communities love for counter strike with their journey to the Grand Finals, and with that CS2 2024 has been concluded with a sensational Major.

FaZe Clan’s Road to Glory

FaZe Clan has once again proven their dominance on the international stage. Navigating a challenging Playoff bracket, they secured a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Team Vitality before delivering a commanding 2-0 sweep against G2 Esports. This marks FaZe Clan’s second consecutive appearance in a Major Grand Final where they were the runner ups against NAVI who won the PGL Copenhagen 2024 Major, cementing their status as one of the top contenders in the CS2 scene, with 1 kill away from overtime on the last map, Spirit emerged victorious.

Team Spirit’s Historic Journey

On the opposite side of the bracket, Team Spirit has scripted a Cinderella story of their own. They dismantled Team Liquid in a decisive 2-0 series and edged past MOUZ with a gritty 2-1 victory. This marks Team Spirit’s first-ever appearance in a Major Grand Final, with many aces and clutches from Donk who have showcased high visible stats that might just earned him that juicy MVP award, Team Spirit, stands for their growth and determination throughout the tournament and that's why team spirit won the major.

Grand Finals Details

The ultimate showdown kicks off on December 15th at 01:00 PST, with the highly anticipated Show match preceding the event two hours earlier, could we see a return of cache or cobblestone? Fans worldwide are gearing up for what promises to be an epic clash of strategies, skill, and perseverance its donk, its karrigan its Faze vs Spirit and the battle will be a fearsome one

Grand Finals Showmatch HAI vs BAI on Train

The Shanghai Major had a very immersive and fun to watch show match on Train featuring

Team HAI:

• S1mple: The goat of CS needs no introduction
• Yatoro: The Dota equivalent of donk from team spirit
• Zeus: Major winner, goat IGL who played for NAVI & Gambit
• Jackz: The french CS2 pro player
• Pasha Biceps: Loved by the community known as papito from the Virtus Pro Plow era PashaBicps is the captain of the team

Team BAI:

• Machine: the biggest CS streamer and content creator in China
• Somebody: from Rare Atom
• Summer: Captain of Rare Atom
• ChildKing: from Rare Atom
• Zhou Guanyu: Chinese racing driver known for his formula 1 successful career

Both teams faced off each other with funny challenged like players eating a lemon each and S1mple getting a 4k while singing was fun to watch

Pickems & Stickers:

As the excitement peaks, the Pickems journey comes to an end, and certainly it wasn't an easy pickem journey, with that being said, don’t miss out on stickers rumored to be 25 cents for each capsule as there might be a sticker sale dropping after the games end as well as noting 50% of proceeds go directly to players, teams, and organizations, it’s a great way to support the esports community.

Best of luck to both FaZe Clan and Team Spirit as they battle out for the championship and mark their names in CS2 history.

Best Sticker Capsule Investment:

Closing in the shanghai majors, or any other majors many steam players looking to make a long term return on their investments look into stacking up a bunch of sticker capsules during the sale period to sell a few years later for double the price, based on what was seen in the past, the teams that might not be competing in the majors again usually have the highest price on their stickers for example the TITAN & IBUYPOWER stickers, so hey ? contender stickers? Also champions autograph capsule stickers are coming soon, this is peek CS2 and the counter strike scene will have many more updates to come!