Riot Games has announced significant changes to Ascension Pacific, including a location change and format change. Pacific Ascension will now be held in Jakarta, Indonesia. A specific venue has not been announced yet.

Riot Games cited “significant event production delays and tournament quality concerns,” for the change. The event was originally scheduled to take place at the Ariake GYM-EX in Tokyo, where Challengers League 2024 Japan: Split 2 took place.

In the grand final between RIDDLE ORDER RIDDLE ORDER Japan Rank #1 Aace JoXJo Cho Byung-yeon (조병연) Caedye Amon Mateus Okakura Seoldam Park Sang-min (박상민) yatsuka and FENNEL FENNEL Japan Rank #2 GON CLZ SyouTa Xdll Yuto Mizomori , an hour-long technical pause would see play suspended for an hour on map three. The five-map match lasted over seven and a half hours.

The previous format for the ten-team tournament would have seen two different modified double-elimination groups, with the top-three finishers of each group advancing to a six-team, single-elimination knockout stage, where the top teams would earn a bye into the semifinals.

Riot announced that the new format will be “a more straight-forward, competitive experience.”

The tournament will be a ten-team double-elimination bracket, played across eight tournament days.

“This is a simpler format that will allow for lower bracket opportunities until the grand finals,” Riot said in their statement. “Matches will be played in a best-of-three format before switching to a best-of-five for lower and grand finals.”

The event was also originally slated to kick off Sept. 13, but will now be held from Sept. 20-29. Riot has not yet announced information on how the teams will be seeded.

The teams participating at Ascension Pacific are: