Riot Games has announced the groups and schedule for the Pacific Ascension tournament, alongside the venues where the event will take place.
Ten teams from a multitude of regions across Asia will compete in an offline event in Bangkok, Thailand to decide who will be promoted to the VCT Pacific league for the next two years beginning in 2024. This will include the victors of each respective VCL tournament in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Oceania, and East Asia.
The tournament will begin with a group stage separated into two groups of five over a week of play from June 28 to July 4 in Pullman Grande Sukhumvit Hotel.
The two groups consist of:
Group A
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XERXIA Esports
XERXIA Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #12 RoLEX Warittorn Kalanukan aLerT Wattanachok Yingnakorn LBY Eisuke Kuraoka xZe Tanawat Kannark siraphop Siraphop Honghirun
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Fancy United Esports
Fancy United Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #7 YESicaN Đinh Đình Đạt Suka Nguyễn Văn Tiến Crus Lư Tiến Huy f1cio Hoàng Ngọc Sơn gin Phan Văn Gin
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ONE Team Esports
ONE Team Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #10 YanLi W1nner Tsai Hong-wei (蔡宏偉) ChiaWei Rainy Li Guo-Shuo (李國碩) XiaoShi77 XyuS
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BOOM Esports
BOOM Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #4 Famouz Fikri Zaki Hamdani Shiro Hildegard Arnaldo m0rea Oliver Budi Wangge NcSlasher Sheldon Andersen Chandra BerserX Rizkie Adla Kusuma
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NAOS
NAOS Asia-Pacific Rank #5 JA John Timothy Arone Witz Riley Go PapiChulo Federico Evangelista Nexi Nathaniel Cabero tesseract Jon Michael Piga
Group B
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SCARZ
SCARZ Japan Rank #1 TORANECO Jusei Saito Jemkin Maksim Batorov Yoshiii
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BLEED
BLEED Asia-Pacific Rank #2 sScary Nutchapon Matarat Deryeon Derrick Yee crazyguy Ngô Công Anh yay Jaccob Whiteaker Egoist Javier Chua
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Dplus Esports
Dplus Esports Korea Rank #2 NGen Lee Jae-hong (이재홍) Wenty Yang Geon-mo (양건모) exy Park Geun-cheol (박근철)
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Bonkers
Bonkers Inactive Minimise Jackson White rDeeW Riley Wilkinson
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Orangutan
Orangutan Asia-Pacific Rank #6 frostmind Muhammad Rafi Diandra azys Azis Nandang RvK Rishi Vijayakumar Antidote Sabyasachi Bose rawfiul Akram Virani
Following the end of the group stage matches, the top three teams in each group will then go on to a single elimination playoffs bracket, with a first-round bye granted for the highest placing team in each group. Playoffs will take place from July 7-9 in Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, where all matches leading up to the finals will be BO3s, while the grand final will be a BO5.
The full Ascension schedule can be found below.
Images by Riot Games