Tournament format
The event will commence on November 30th at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Centre where the Opening and Elimination Stages will be held. The Opening Stage will be held from November 30th to December December 3rd, featuring 16 teams in a Swiss group stage. The first match each team will play will be a best-of-one match, from where advancement and elimination matches will be best-of-one. Eventually, the top eight teams from this stage will progress to the Elimination Stage, while the bottom eight will be eliminated.
The Elimination Stage will be held at the same venue from December 5th to December 8th, featuring 16 teams in total, 8 that qualified from the foregoing Opening Stage and 8 who already secured their spots as the top seeds in the RMR. Similar to the Opening stage, the first match will be a best-of-one to save time and the more crucial advancement or elimination matches will be held as best-of-three. Here, only the top eight teams will qualify for the Playoffs, while the bottom eight will have their Major dreams crushed.
For the Playoffs, the audience will shift over to the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center from 12th to 15th December. The Playoffs will be a simple elimination bracket with the best of the best going head to head in best-of-three matches until one is crowned the champion.
Broadcast talent
The Major has a cast of talented individual to keep viewers at home and on stage entertained.
Desk Hosts
Richard "Richard Lewis" Lewis
Sam "Tech Girl" Wright
Stage Host
James "BanKs" Banks
Analysts
Alex "Mauisnake" Ellenberg
Janko "YNk" Paunović
Sudhen "Bleh" Wahengbam
Dustin "dusT" Mouret
Casters
Jason "moses" O'Toole
Adam "Dinko" Hawthorne
Hugo "Hugo" Byron
Harry "JustHarry" Russell
Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill
Alex "Machine" Richardson
Mohan "launders" Govindasamy
Conner "Scrawny" Girvan
Content/Interviews
Pala "Pala" Gilroy Sen
Zhang "Dove" Tiange
Prize Pool
The Perfect World Shanghai Major boasts an immense one million dollar prize pool, with it being distributed amongst participants based on placement:
1. $500,000
2. $170,000
3-4. $80,000
5-8. $45,000
9-16. $20,000
17-24. $10,000
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