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 TALON Inactive Killua Tanate Teerasawad thyy Anupong Preamsak Crws Thanamethk Mahatthananuyut JitBoyS Jittana Nokngam primmie Papaphat Sriprapha and DetonatioN FocusMe DetonatioN FocusMe Japan Rank #2 Meiy Ibuki Seki SSeeS Tomonori Okimura yatsuka Kazuya Ikeda Caedye Amon Mateus Okakura Akame Yu Gwang-hui (유광희) , 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 #4 Lakia Kim Jong-min (김종민) ZynX Kim Dong-ha (김동하) Ash Ha Hyun-cheol (하현철) Karon Kim Won-tae (김원태) t3xture Kim Na-ra (김나라) with elimination still on the line. Rex Regum Qeon Rex Regum Qeon Asia-Pacific Rank #3 Monyet Cahya Nugraha xffero David Monangin Jemkin Maksim Batorov Kushy Bryan Carlos Setiawan crazyguy Ngô Công Anh and Global Esports Global Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #10 PatMen Patrick Mendoza UdoTan Go Kyung-won (고경원) Kr1stal Savva Fedorov xavi8k Xavier Juan Autumn Kale Dunne 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 invy Adrian Jiggs Reyes Jinggg Wang Jing Jie f0rsakeN Jason Susanto d4v41 Khalish Rusyaidee something Ilya Petrov , DRX DRX Korea Rank #5 Hermes Ahn Byeong-wook (안병욱) yong Kim Ho-yong (김호용) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) free1ng No Ha-jun (노하준) HYUNMIN Song Hyun-min (송현민) BeYN Kang Ha-bin (강하빈) , and T1 T1 Korea Rank #2 stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Meteor Kim Tae-oh (김태오) BuZz Yu Byeong-cheol (유병철) iZu Ham Woo-ju (함우주) Munchkin Byeon Sang-beom (변상범) . 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.