Singapore Major Seeding: Legacy Skip Stage 1, PARIVISION Do Not
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Legacy sit 14th in the Valve Regional Standings and open the PGL Major Singapore in Stage 3 on December 2. PARIVISION sit 13th and must start in Stage 1 on November 24. HLTV’s event pages show how a one-place gap in the global list turns into two extra Swiss stages.
One rank apart, two stages apart
The November 2 cutoff did not seed teams by global rank. Each team’s entry point depends on its position inside its own region, as our invites guide explains, so stages interleave when the teams are sorted by global VRS rank.
| VRS rank | Team | Region | Starts in |
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| 7 | BetBoom | Europe | Stage 3 |
| 8 | Natus Vincere | Europe | Stage 2 |
| 12 | G2 | Europe | Stage 2 |
| 13 | PARIVISION | Europe | Stage 1 |
| 14 | Legacy | Americas | Stage 3 |
| 15 | 1win | Europe | Stage 2 |
| 16 | MIBR | Americas | Stage 2 |
| 17 | Liquid | Americas | Stage 1 |
PARIVISION are 12th on HLTV’s world ranking and Legacy 13th. On current form they are close. Yet PARIVISION have to come through Stage 1 and Stage 2, two Swiss groups that open with best-of-one matches, before they reach the stage where Legacy begin.
Who gets the free pass
The Stage 3 field has six European teams: MOUZ, Vitality, Spirit, Aurora, Falcons and BetBoom. Two come from the Americas, FURIA and Legacy, and none from Asia-Pacific. The MongolZ finished as IEM Beijing runners-up and rank tenth in the VRS, the highest of any Asia-Pacific team in the field. They still start in Stage 2. Europe supplies 18 of the 32 teams, the Americas nine and Asia-Pacific five, and the free passes follow that weight.
Where the ranking and the field disagree
HEROIC are 17th on HLTV’s list, ahead of Stage 2 entrants Astralis (19th) and MIBR (20th), but they begin in Stage 1 because they are 25th in the VRS. The same cutoff put 9z in Stage 1 at 19th in the VRS, even though HLTV ranks them 28th.
Road ahead: Stage 1 starts on November 24 in Singapore, and Stage 3 opens on December 2. The esports calendar has the full schedule.
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