how will china 2025 ascension work?

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tamashii

theres 8 teams and either xlg or drg will go back to ascension, how will a bracket work for that? will they add a 10th team to make the bracket even?

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Togex

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On liquipedia it says that it will be XLG/DRG + "the Top 7 active and verified teams in NC Circuit Points"

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tamashii

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yeah thats how many teams are attending but i dont see how 9 teams will work in a bracket. riot has made changes in formats with odd numbers in brackets before by giving a team a by game, which is unfair but what else could they do? or by adding another team by an LCQ or by points. just curious what would they be doing for this one

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that's 8 teams total bro

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xlg/drg along with the top 7 in points will compete in either groups of 4 or a bigger bracket kickoff style. There will be 8 teams

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tamashii

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i just dont understand how are there 8 teams when riot has increased ascension slots from 6-8 in 2025. every other region has 8 teams, pacific specifically has 10 because both teams are sent back to ascension. as for emea and americas it is also 8. so why does china have only 7? it should have been 8+ xlg/drg.

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sharrrison

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you can't run a 9 team tourney vro

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If Nongshim were to make it to champs, their slot in ascension wouldve gone to a South-East Asia team instead, which wouldve still resulted in 10 teams.
It's just a different format for each region, that's it.