Riot Games has announced the groups and schedule for the Pacific Ascension tournament, alongside the venues where the event will take place.
Ten teams from a multitude of regions across Asia will compete in an offline event in Bangkok, Thailand to decide who will be promoted to the VCT Pacific league for the next two years beginning in 2024. This will include the victors of each respective VCL tournament in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Oceania, and East Asia.
The tournament will begin with a group stage separated into two groups of five over a week of play from June 28 to July 4 in Pullman Grande Sukhumvit Hotel.
The two groups consist of:
Group A
- XERXIA Esports XERXIA Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #88 aLerT Wattanachok Yingnakorn Potter Sutthichai Promsrikaew b3ta Puwadon Jaisuekul siraphop Siraphop Honghirun
- 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
- ONE Team Esports ONE Team Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #5 YanLi W1nner Tsai Hong-wei (蔡宏偉) ChiaWei Rainy Li Guo-Shuo (李國碩) XyuS
- 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
- NAOS NAOS Asia-Pacific Rank #6 JA John Timothy Arone PapiChulo Federico Evangelista Mojer Jerome Literal Emman Emmanuel Morales Nexi Nathaniel Cabero
Group B
- SCARZ SCARZ Japan Rank #11 MrTenzouEz Lumo Maxim Demianovskikh tixx Nick Quinn Yotaa Yota Kaouachi Yoshiii John Yoshiharu Kawakami
- BLEED BLEED Asia-Pacific Rank #10 sScary Nutchapon Matarat Zest Kim Ki-seok (김기석) Retla Jorell Teo Deryeon Derrick Yee
- Dplus Esports Dplus Esports Korea Rank #11 Yyy NGen Lee Jae-hong (이재홍) Hermes Ahn Byeong-wook (안병욱) SeliG Um Hyun-sung (엄현성) freeing No Ha-jun (노하준) iNTRO Kang Seung-gyun (강승균) exy Park Geun-cheol (박근철)
- Bonkers Bonkers Inactive Minimise Jackson White tixx Nick Quinn Maple Elvin Sun Dragon Nicholas Aleksandrovsky LEW Luis Hibbert
- Orangutan Orangutan Asia-Pacific Rank #106 Makaveli Nikhil Chettri Ri0 Atharv Ahire tryst Jit Choudhury trinxty Naqshab Khan DcRulz Daivik Chauhan saun Saunskar Sane
Following the end of the group stage matches, the top three teams in each group will then go on to a single elimination playoffs bracket, with a first-round bye granted for the highest placing team in each group. Playoffs will take place from July 7-9 in Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, where all matches leading up to the finals will be BO3s, while the grand final will be a BO5.
The full Ascension schedule can be found below.
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