Riot has announced finalized plans for this year's VCT Ascension Pacific, which will be held in Jakarta.
The event was initially scheduled to be held in Tokyo but was relocated due to “significant event production delays and tournament quality concerns,” according to Riot. The event will now be held in Jakarta at the BritAma arena, which has a capacity of 5,000.
With the announcement, Riot also announced a finalized version of the ten-team, double-elimination format.
Riot says that teams were “grouped and drawn into brackets based on their region's results from last year's Ascension.”
Teams from the Singapore/Malaysia region and the Japan region also received byes as BLEED BLEED Inactive and SCARZ SCARZ Japan Rank #12 Medusa An Min-cheol (안민철) Anthem Yoshitaka Enomoto LOB Lim Byung-gun (임병건) Satwoshi Yoshiii John Yoshiharu Kawakami were the finalists from both regions last year. Additionally, teams from Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea, and India finished at the bottom of last year's group stage, meaning they were seeded as the lowest four teams in this year's competition.
The competition kicks off on Friday, September 20, and three matches will be played per day until the lower quarterfinals. All matches will be best-of-three, while the lower and grand finals will be best-of-five.
The winner of the grand finals on Sunday, September 29 will earn a spot in the VCT Pacific League next year.
The ten teams qualified for Ascension are:
- 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
- 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)
- Revenant Esports Revenant Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #11 skillZ Jayanth Ramesh
- FULL SENSE FULL SENSE Asia-Pacific Rank #6 JohnOlsen Chanawin Nakchain Leviathan Thanyathon Nakmee aLerT Wattanachok Yingnakorn Potter Sutthichai Promsrikaew Sushiboys Panyawat Subsiriroj
- 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 Mojer Jerome Literal Nexi Nathaniel Cabero
- 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
- Disguised Disguised Asia-Pacific Rank #4 Vera Rodman Yap STYRON Tidus Goh crazyguy Ngô Công Anh Deryeon Derrick Yee wayne Wayne Chang
- Oblivion Force Oblivion Force Asia-Pacific Rank #13 riyabtw CHIMEI Wong Chun Wai (王俊煒) Kiuuuu Yung Tsz Kiu (容子翘)
- Justice For Tomorrow Justice For Tomorrow Inactive kiss murza RAMEN IKANA ANDY