Ash Winder and Banana Culture have announced the invites for the A.W Extreme Masters Asia Invitational. Teams from South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand will compete online alongside the four Japanese teams that qualified via the A.W. Pro Invitational.
The Asia Invitational is set to be the most ambitious international competition in Valorant to date, featuring a $50,000 USD prize pool. Fans will be clamoring for a potential rematch between Absolute JUPITER Absolute JUPITER Inactive makiba Miyamoto Akatsuki Laz Ushida Koji crow Maruoka Tomoaki barce Takebayashi Ryo takej Takemori Shogo Reita Oshiro Ryu and Vision Strikers Vision Strikers Inactive stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Rb Goo Sang-min (구상민) Zest Kim Ki-seok (김기석) BuZz Yu Byung-chul (유병철) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관) , the kings of Japan and Korea respectively. The pair recently clashed in the AfreecaTV Asia Showdown, with Vision Strikers coming out on top 2-0.
The following teams will compete in the Asia Invitational:
- T1 Korea T1 Korea Inactive 10X Choi Jin-woo (최진우) R0K3T Kim Ju-yeong (김주영) Esperanza Jeong Jin-cheol (정진철) Harry Kim Han-kyu (김한규) Anaks Ye Sang-jun (예상준)
- No Mercy No Mercy Inactive 777 RyZzi Jung Ki-jin (정기진) eKo Yeom Wang-ryong (염왕룡) Vana exy Park Geun-cheol (박근철) kobra Ha Su-hyun (하수현) JiminHyeok k1sa
- Cloud9 Korea Cloud9 Korea Inactive Bazzi Park Jun-ki (박준기) Munchkin Byeon Sang-beom (변상범) BuZz Yu Byung-chul (유병철) Hate Lee Ye-hun (이예훈) xeta Son Seon-ho (손선호)
- Vision Strikers Vision Strikers Inactive stax Kim Gu-taek (김구택) Rb Goo Sang-min (구상민) Zest Kim Ki-seok (김기석) BuZz Yu Byung-chul (유병철) MaKo Kim Myeong-gwan (김명관)
- ahq e-Sports Club ahq e-Sports Club Inactive Kant Gao Wei-Teng (高偉騰) Milk Lin Chi-Hung (林奇宏) Iyo Li Yi-Ting (李羿霆) Rainy Li Guo-Shuo (李國碩) kilo Huang Zhong-yi (黃中邑)
- Team SMG Team SMG Inactive
- Only One Word Only One Word Inactive FLoydQ TKCC JeffVanb YiuOn Wong Darkkis ChiNam Li jkuro Yong Haochong (杨浩聪) STYHK
- Attack All Around Attack All Around Inactive xcool3 Nuttadet Wijit AloNeFillz Palapoom Thaikum kongared Nantapol Boonying niffy Patcharapon Junman b3ta Puwadon Jaisuekul SantaGolf Chanitpak Suwanaprateep
- Absolute JUPITER Absolute JUPITER Inactive makiba Miyamoto Akatsuki Laz Ushida Koji crow Maruoka Tomoaki barce Takebayashi Ryo takej Takemori Shogo Reita Oshiro Ryu
- DeToNator DeToNator Inactive K1llgrave FifTy
- REJECT REJECT Japan Rank #12 muto JaXe BNN take BRIAN IceBear
- DetonatioN FocusMe DetonatioN FocusMe Japan Rank #7 Meiy Ibuki Seki Art Jinboong Kim Jin-won (김진원) Akame Yu Gwang-hui (유광희) gyen