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 #28
- Fancy United Esports Fancy United Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #14 YESicaN Đinh Đình Đạt foxy Crus Lư Tiến Huy Hyuse tok1o Nia twilight
- ONE Team Esports ONE Team Esports Inactive YanLi Rainy Li Guo-Shuo (李國碩) ngk XyuS SecreT KiNo
- BOOM Esports BOOM Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #1 dos9 Zhumagali Dastan Famouz Fikri Zaki Hamdani Shiro Hildegard Arnaldo NcSlasher Sheldon Andersen Chandra BerserX Rizkie Adla Kusuma
- NAOS NAOS Asia-Pacific Rank #5 xavi8k Xavier Juan JA John Timothy Arone Mojer Jerome Literal Nexi Nathaniel Cabero
Group B
- SCARZ SCARZ Japan Rank #11 Medusa An Min-cheol (안민철) Anthem Yoshitaka Enomoto LOB Lim Byung-gun (임병건) Satwoshi Yoshiii John Yoshiharu Kawakami
- BLEED BLEED Inactive
- Dplus Esports Dplus Esports Korea Rank #17 NGen Lee Jae-hong (이재홍) Bangnan Jung Min-u (정민우) RedLight Kim Eun-soo (김은수) kAyle Jung Soo-yong (정수용) Only1 Park Dan-il (박단일)
- Bonkers Bonkers Inactive Minimise Jackson White tixx Nick Quinn Maple Elvin Sun Dragon Nicholas Aleksandrovsky LEW Luis Hibbert
- Orangutan Orangutan Asia-Pacific Rank #18 Makaveli Nikhil Chettri Venka Venkatesh Sharma deecee Daivik Chauhan Techno Shravana Kumar Sahoo hellff Sagnik Roy Hoax Aman Yadav
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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