During this year’s Perfect World Counter-Strike 2 Major in Shanghai, the regional qualifying events will not feature open qualifiers for Europe, North America or South America for the first time in the Majors’ illustrious history.
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Tournament organizer Perfect World released the full schedule for the Shanghai Counter-Strike Major early this morning, revealing that Europe, North America, and South America will have closed qualifiers in August, but no open qualifiers. Smaller regions such as Oceania, the Middle East, East Asia, and host China will still have one open qualifier, followed by another closed qualifier.
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These changes reflect changes to Valve's Major Rulebook, which now states that Major closed qualifier teams will be determined solely by the developer's own regional standings. However, in the event that there are not enough teams from the regional standings to fill a closed qualifier, such as in the smaller regions mentioned above, an open qualifier may be held. However, given the number of teams in the regional standings in the three major regions, this means that there will be no open qualifier.
