VCT Ascension EMEA kicks off June 22 between the 18 best teams of the region's Challenger Leagues. The last team standing after the end of this month-long competition will participate in the next two years of the VCT.
The 18 best teams are equally split between the nine leagues of EMEA, meaning each league drafted its two best teams to Ascension. The regional champions have been placed in the Ascension stage, while the second-best teams will have to go through the Play-Ins, hosted from June 22 to 27.
Play-Ins
The nine Play-Ins teams are evenly split in three groups, where each will play a Bo1 single round-robin. The best team from each group moves directly to the semifinals of Play-Ins, while the second-placed squads fight in another Bo1 single round-robin to determine the fourth team.
The semifinals will be Bo3 and the grand final Bo5. The winner of the Play-Ins will round out the Ascension teams lineup, as they will be the 10th team heading into the final rounds of the competition.
The Play-Ins groups are:
Group A
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FOKUS
FOKUS Europe Rank #27 Lime Jacob Foster bucher Maximilian Bucher SEIDER Mathias Seider al0rante Felix Brandl YaBoiLewis Lewis Hughes (Polaris)
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Team RA'AD
Team RA'AD MENA Rank #3 Shalaby Mohamed Shalaby Shniider Yousef Osama chrollo Omar Hussein Depyro Nour Sherif SkaNoodles Yousef Mohamed Yassien Yassien Ahmed (MENA)
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GMT Esports
GMT Esports Inactive N A I S Alessandro Montanari AFoxx Fábio Veigas (Italy)
Group B
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MOUZ
MOUZ Europe Rank #8 xuss Tselmeg Tsolmon Obnoks Nico Garczarczyk iluri Ilari Puranen Fizzy David Figueiredo starki Krzysztof Lewandrowski (DACH)
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S2G Esports
S2G Esports Europe Rank #109 Patrui Göktuğ Uyan AsLanM4shadoW Ali Osman Balta russ Batuhan Malgaç (Turkey)
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GTZ Esports
GTZ Esports Europe Rank #162 Cal Callum Burgoyne H4te Rodrigo Ribeiro Caim Hugo Fonseca (Portugal)
Group C
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Team Queso
Team Queso Inactive mezoky Boom Daniel Jiménez (Spain)
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Mandatory
Mandatory Europe Rank #30 CyvOph Clement Millard SoOn Terence Tarlier HyP Damien Souville thebigfiz Julien Auberton AKUMAAAAA Alex Lo Bello Goaster Tony Richard (France)
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Enterprise Esports
Enterprise Esports Inactive LUKYYY Cantzer Václav Jan Stezka SH0UTyy Michal Glacner Hasaa Radim Haša Enrik Michal Vejvoda patagod Patrik Bojkovský (East)
Ascension
Once the 10th team has been selected, Ascension will follow a similar format. The 10 teams will be distributed between two groups of five, where a Bo3 single round-robin will let just four teams through to the playoffs. The groups will be played between June 30 and July 5
The final stage of Ascension EMEA will be hosted in the VCT EMEA Coliseum in Messe Berlin from July 13 to 17, with Bo3 semifinals and a Bo5 grand final.
The Ascension groups are:
Group A
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CGN Esports
CGN Esports Europe Rank #10 elllement Dragan Milanović aNguiSt Ross Pendleton DaviH David Cruz BennY Benjamin Domgörgen Vince Vincent Kranz (DACH)
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Digital Athletics
Digital Athletics Europe Rank #191 DeepMans Yiğithan Kesici wezzy Arda Celbiş WerlasS Metin Ünal audaz Soner Ekiz cttpckwN Efekan Yorulmaz (Turkey)
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Acend
Acend Europe Rank #11 ALIVE Gilad Hakim musashi Alessio Xhaferi pyrolll Artur Minin cullumx Nikolaj Cullum Andersen chiwa Egor Stepanyuk (East)
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DSYRE
DSYRE Europe Rank #3 caydeN Yari Olmi Tag Alessandro Voci wackie Rikardo Birjukov waddle Wadir Taraki Filu Dawid Czarnecki (Italy)
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SAW
SAW Europe Rank #9 Fragger Henrique Correia brk Bruno Ferreira GrTw Tiago Costa Addicted Eduardo Torres Cunha20 David Cunha (Portugal)
Group B
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Apeks
Apeks Europe Rank #5 hype Tautvydas Paldavicius kaajak Kajetan Haremski MOLSI Michał Łącki soulcas Dom Sulcas AvovA Auni Chahade (Polaris)
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Case Esports
Case Esports Inactive (Spain)
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Gentle Mates
Gentle Mates Europe Rank #25 TakaS Jonathan Paupard K4DAVRA Thomas Johner beyAz Beyazit Körpe nataNk Nathan Bocqueho Wailers Wailers Locart logaN Logan Corti (France)
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Team Falcons
Team Falcons MENA Rank #1 Sand Mark Emad stand-in Akai SpYzera Abed Doughan Moh Mohammad Bin Oti KHaaLiD Khalid Al Talib (MENA)
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The winners of the VCT Ascension EMEA will be awarded with a two-year pass to the VCT EMEA League, which will pivot to a two-split format from next year. The organization will receive similar benefits to the 10 VCT partners, while the team itself will have an equal opportunity to qualify for Masters and Champions in their two-year stint in Tier 1.