The seven-team Pacific LCQ bracket has been released. The Pacific LCQ runs from July 18 to 23 and will qualify one team to Champions 2023.

Pacific LCQ bracket Image by Riot Games

The Pacific LCQ's format places seven teams in a modified double-elimination bracket. Talon Esports Talon Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #13 Crws Thanamethk Mahatthananuyut JitBoyS Jittana Nokngam Surf Thanachart Rungapajaratkul lenne Lim You Xiang Lionel ban Joseph Seungmin Oh Governor Peter No and DetonatioN FocusMe DetonatioN FocusMe Japan Rank #5 Medusa An Min-cheol (안민철) neth Yusuke Matsuda Meiy Ibuki Seki SSeeS Tomonori Okimura Anthem Yoshitaka Enomoto , the lowest-placed squads of the league, will play the first match of the tournament. The loser will be eliminated, and the winner will play against Gen.G Gen.G Korea Rank #2 Munchkin Byeon Sang-beom (변상범) t3xture Kim Na-ra (김나라) Meteor Kim Tae-O (김태오) Lakia Kim Jong-min (김종민) Karon Kim Won-tae (김원태) with elimination still on the line. Rex Regum Qeon Rex Regum Qeon Asia-Pacific Rank #33 xffero David Monangin Lmemore Hagai Kristen Yesyurun Jemkin Maksim Batorov Estrella Park Gun (박건) fl1pzjder Saibani Rahmad and Global Esports Global Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #44 blaZek1ng Gary Dastin Lightningfast Abhirup Choudhury Polvi Niko Polvinen Benkai Benedict Tan Russ Russel Mendes will play the other eliminating quarterfinal, and only then does the Pacific LCQ move into its double-elimination format.

Every match in this bracket is a Bo3, with the exception of the lower bracket final and the grand final, which will be Bo5. The tournament kicks off on July 18 with the bout between Talon and DetonatioN FocusMe. The full bracket and schedule can be found here.

Like the Americas, the Pacific LCQ will only qualify one team to Champions 2023. The LCQ winner will fly to Los Angeles alongside the three Pacific teams that attended Masters Tokyo: Paper Rex Paper Rex Asia-Pacific Rank #1 mindfreak Aaron Leonhart Jinggg Wang Jing Jie f0rsakeN Jason Susanto d4v41 Khalish Rusyaidee something Ilya Petrov , DRX DRX Korea Rank #1 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) BuZz Yu Byung-chul (유병철) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) Foxy9 Jung Jae-sung (정재성) BeYN Kang Ha-bin (강하빈) , and T1 T1 Korea Rank #3 Sayaplayer Ha Jeong-woo (하정우) Rossy Daniel Abedrabbo Carpe Lee Jae-hyeok (이재혁) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) xccurate Kevin Susanto . In total, there will be four teams from the Pacific at Champions 2023.

VCT Champions 2023 will be held in Los Angeles, between August 6 and 27. The tournament will kick off in the Shrine Auditorium, while the Kia Forum will host the final rounds of the capstone event. Tickets are still available for several days and can be found here.