Riot Games has announced significant changes to Ascension Pacific, including a location change and format change. Pacific Ascension will now be held in Jakarta, Indonesia. A specific venue has not been announced yet.
Riot Games cited “significant event production delays and tournament quality concerns,” for the change. The event was originally scheduled to take place at the Ariake GYM-EX in Tokyo, where Challengers League 2024 Japan: Split 2 took place.
In the grand final between RIDDLE ORDER RIDDLE ORDER Japan Rank #1 JoXJo Cho Byung-yeon (조병연) Minty Daiki Kato Caedye Amon Mateus Okakura Seoldam Park Sang-min (박상민) yatsuka and FENNEL FENNEL Japan Rank #1 GON Kento Hara Aace Souta Itou Hals neth Yusuke Matsuda MrTenzouEz , an hour-long technical pause would see play suspended for an hour on map three. The five-map match lasted over seven and a half hours.
The previous format for the ten-team tournament would have seen two different modified double-elimination groups, with the top-three finishers of each group advancing to a six-team, single-elimination knockout stage, where the top teams would earn a bye into the semifinals.
Riot announced that the new format will be “a more straight-forward, competitive experience.”
The tournament will be a ten-team double-elimination bracket, played across eight tournament days.
“This is a simpler format that will allow for lower bracket opportunities until the grand finals,” Riot said in their statement. “Matches will be played in a best-of-three format before switching to a best-of-five for lower and grand finals.”
The event was also originally slated to kick off Sept. 13, but will now be held from Sept. 20-29. Riot has not yet announced information on how the teams will be seeded.
The teams participating at Ascension Pacific are:
- Revenant Esports Revenant Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #10 SkRossi Ganesh Gangadhar skillZ Jayanth Ramesh tricky Prish Valvani Paradox Kasif Sayyed
- FULL SENSE FULL SENSE Asia-Pacific Rank #4 JohnOlsen Chanawin Nakchain Leviathan Thanyathon Nakmee aLerT Wattanachok Yingnakorn Potter Sutthichai Promsrikaew Sushiboys Panyawat Subsiriroj
- Rapid Lofi Rapid Lofi Asia-Pacific Rank #26 TRIPCIEW Vữ Minh Cường albus Trần Phúc Thiên Pr0digy Suka Nguyễn Văn Tiến gin Phan Văn Gin BánhMj
- Disguised Disguised Asia-Pacific Rank #6 Vera Rodman Yap STYRON Tidus Goh crazyguy Ngô Công Anh Deryeon Derrick Yee wayne Wayne Chang
- Sin Prisa Gaming Sin Prisa Gaming Inactive Persia Yang Zi-on (양지온) margaret Kim Ji-woo (김지우) Dambi Lee Hyuk-kyu (이혁규) Francis Kim Mu-bin (김무빈) Ivy Park Sung-hyeon (박성현)
- RIDDLE ORDER RIDDLE ORDER Japan Rank #1 JoXJo Cho Byung-yeon (조병연) Minty Daiki Kato Caedye Amon Mateus Okakura Seoldam Park Sang-min (박상민) yatsuka
- Oblivion Force Oblivion Force Asia-Pacific Rank #13 riyabtw ckuma CHAK CHIMEI Wong Chun Wai (王俊煒) Kiuuuu Yung Tsz Kiu (容子翘)
- NAOS NAOS Asia-Pacific Rank #5 xavi8k Xavier Juan JA John Timothy Arone Mojer Jerome Literal Nexi Nathaniel Cabero
- BOOM Esports BOOM Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #2 dos9 Zhumagali Dastan Famouz Fikri Zaki Hamdani Shiro Hildegard Arnaldo NcSlasher Sheldon Andersen Chandra BerserX Rizkie Adla Kusuma
- Justice For Tomorrow Justice For Tomorrow Inactive kiss murza RAMEN IKANA ANDY