Riot has released tournament details and group draws for the upcoming VCT APAC: Challengers Playoffs. The three-stage event will run from March 10-27 and host 24 teams battling for their share of the $150,000 prize pool and two slots into the upcoming Masters event.
Play-Ins
The play-in stage will be held from March 10-13 and feature eight teams separated into two GSL brackets. Two teams from each bracket will advance to the group stages.
Bracket A
- Team Big BAAM Team Big BAAM Inactive Nhatthong2k Nguyễn Nhất Thống BMV Bùi Minh Vũ alyaL Hoàng Đức Hùng P1nA Nguyễn Nam d0rf Phạm Huỳnh Toàn Quốc ViV Hoàng Việt
- ONIC G ONIC G Inactive
- FULL SENSE FULL SENSE Asia-Pacific Rank #2 JohnOlsen Chanawin Nakchain PTC Kititkawin Rattanasukol Leviathan Thanyathon Nakmee foxz Itthirit Ngamsaard Sushiboys Panyawat Subsiriroj
- Action PH Action PH Inactive SyKo Daddie Shunmar Bellita eugeneS Eugene Serrano Narpim Clark Karoll Landrito SecondLove Sovano Alvin Daniel L. Oronce Worship Ian Ga
Bracket B
- Griffin E-Sports Griffin E-Sports Inactive Fung3 SiuFatBB YRSelect LockM Xing Fuling (邢福凌) sora
- Fancy United Esports Fancy United Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #8 YESicaN Đinh Đình Đạt Kishi Ngô Trường Huy Crus Lư Tiến Huy f1cio Hoàng Ngọc Sơn gin Phan Văn Gin
- No Namers No Namers Inactive bryce Bryce Lee shiba Zhan Teng Toh
- Global Esports Global Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #45 blaZek1ng Gary Dastin Lightningfast Abhirup Choudhury Polvi Niko Polvinen Benkai Benedict Tan Russ Russel Mendes
Group A includes some veteran teams of the region with interregional competition experience, while Group B will feature Global Esports alongside three fresh faces.
Group Stage
The group stage will run from March 16-21. The four teams that passed through the prior play-in stage will join 12 teams that qualified from prior Challengers events.
The sixteen teams will again be split into GSL groups with eight teams eventually advancing to the knockout stage.
Group A
- BOOM Esports BOOM Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #4 ZesBeeW Sha Mohtar Famouz Fikri Zaki Hamdani Shiro Hildegard Arnaldo NcSlasher Sheldon Andersen Chandra BerserX Rizkie Adla Kusuma
- Made in Thailand Made in Thailand Asia-Pacific Rank #3 Kadoom Kantapong Kingthong Killua Taned Teerasawad Kntz Krit Chaiprasit cgrs Patiphan Porsi seph1roth Chinnakrit Phoojaroen
- CERBERUS Esports CERBERUS Esports Inactive viness Nguyễn Trung Tín alyaL Hoàng Đức Hùng ting2k5 Dường Mạnh Thắng
- Play-Ins Team #1
Group B
- Paper Rex Paper Rex Asia-Pacific Rank #1 mindfreak Aaron Leonhart Jinggg Wang Jing Jie f0rsakeN Jason Susanto d4v41 Khalish Rusyaidee something Ilya Petrov
- Bonkers Bonkers Inactive Minimise Jackson White tixx Nick Quinn Maple Elvin Sun Dragon Nicholas Aleksandrovsky LEW Luis Hibbert
- BOY WITH LOVE BOY WITH LOVE Inactive Flynch Vicky Rudyanto roseau Baskoro Dwi Putra Asteriskk Nanda Rizana Eeyore Kevin Gunawan Famouz Fikri Zaki Hamdani
- Play-Ins Team #2
Group C
- XERXIA Esports XERXIA Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #89 aLerT Wattanachok Yingnakorn Potter Sutthichai Promsrikaew b3ta Puwadon Jaisuekul siraphop Siraphop Honghirun
- NAOS NAOS Asia-Pacific Rank #6 JA John Timothy Arone PapiChulo Federico Evangelista Mojer Jerome Literal Emman Emmanuel Morales Nexi Nathaniel Cabero
- BLEED BLEED Asia-Pacific Rank #10 sScary Nutchapon Matarat Zest Kim Ki-seok (김기석) Retla Jorell Teo Deryeon Derrick Yee crazyguy Ngô Công Anh
- Play-Ins Team #3
Group D
- South Built Esports South Built Esports Inactive azys Azis Nandang Pro Chris Martir flippy Philip Marique
- Velocity Gaming Velocity Gaming Asia-Pacific Rank #22
- Oblivion Force Oblivion Force Asia-Pacific Rank #18 riyabtw GGHuiii Hui Ying Hon (许英汉) VRI coconut CHIMEI Wong Chun Wai (王俊煒) hypathor Kiuuuu Yung Tsz Kiu (容子翘)
- Play-Ins Team #4
Knockouts
Knockouts will begin on March 24 and will be played in a double-elimination bracket. The top two teams will becoming APAC's representatives at Masters 1.
Matchups have not yet been revealed for the upcoming play-in stage.
Coverage
Play-ins will commence on March 10. You can follow action at the official VeraEsports content hub or VLR.gg's VCT APAC: Challengers Playoffs event page.