After a year of competition in Challengers, Americas Ascension 2025 is set to kick off on Oct. 14 at the Riot Games Studio in São Paulo, Brazil. Nine teams across North America, Latin America, and Brazil will compete for the right to ascend to VCT Americas in 2026 with one spot open to be claimed.

Teams

The following nine teams qualified to Americas Ascension:

Graphic showing the nine qualified teams The nine teams attending Americas Ascension 2025. (Image by Riot Games)

Qualification was determined through different systems for each region. In Brazil, Stellae Gaming qualified via circuit points, and Team Solid and RED Canids qualified by placing top two at the Challengers Brazil Last Chance Qualifier. For Latin America, all three teams were determined through the top three placements at the Challengers Latin America Finals, which pitted the top two teams from LATAM North and LATAM South based on Stage 2 performance and circuit points against each other. Lastly, TSM qualified by winning Challengers North America Stage 3, while ENVY and Winthrop qualified through circuit points.

Format

The event will begin with a one-day play-in on Oct. 14. The third seeds from each region of Winthrop, Six Karma, and RED Canids will play a single round robin of best-of-three matches, with the top two teams moving on to the Swiss stage.

The eight-team Swiss stage is structured the same way as those featured at Masters Madrid and Masters Bangkok. Teams with the same win-loss records will be matched against each other, with 2-0 and 2-1 teams moving on to the playoffs and 0-2 and 1-2 teams being eliminated. All matches will be best-of-three. Opening matchups will be drawn at random after the conclusion of the play-in, with no same-region matchups.

The four-team playoffs will be a standard double elimination bracket. The lower and grand finals will be best-of-five, with all other matches being best-of-three.

Prize Pool

With G2 Esports G2 Esports North America Rank #2 jawgemo Alexander Mor BABYBAY Andrej Francisty trent Trent Cairns valyn Jacob Batio leaf Nathan Orf retaining their spot in VCT Americas by qualifying for Champions Paris and 2Game Esports 2Game Esports Brazil Rank #7 gobera Vitor Gobo spike Rodrigo Lombardi silentzz Caio Morita pryze Luis-Henrique Viveiros being automatically relegated after finishing the season in the bottom four, there is one vacancy in VCT Americas to play for, which will be awarded to the Ascension winners.

Teams will also play for a $100,000 prize pool distributed as follows:

  • 1st: $34,000
  • 2nd: $22,000
  • 3rd: $13,000
  • 4th: $8,000
  • 5th-6th: $6,000
  • 7th-8th: $4,000
  • 9th: $3,000

Schedule

The full schedule for the event is listed below. Specific start times adapted to your time zone can be found on each match page. Tickets are still available for purchase for most days.

Play-In

Swiss Stage

Playoffs

Broadcast

Americas Ascension 2025 will feature live broadcasts across multiple platforms and languages, which are linked on each match page. The main streams are: