Riot has released tournament details and group draws for the upcoming VCT APAC: Challengers Playoffs. The three-stage event will run from March 10-27 and host 24 teams battling for their share of the $150,000 prize pool and two slots into the upcoming Masters event.

Play-Ins

The play-in stage will be held from March 10-13 and feature eight teams separated into two GSL brackets. Two teams from each bracket will advance to the group stages.

Bracket A

• Team Big BAAM Team Big BAAM Asia-Pacific Rank #27 invisible LilHieu Lưu Chí Hiếu KimHung2k5
• ONIC G ONIC G Inactive
• FULL SENSE FULL SENSE Asia-Pacific Rank #1 Leviathan Thanyathon Nakmee Laz Kittikawin Jirawatkakan Killua Tanate Teerasawad seph1roth Chinnakrit Phoojaroen Potter Sutthichai Promsrikaew
• Action PH Action PH Inactive SyKo Daddie Shunmar Bellita eugeneS Eugene Serrano Narpim Clark Karoll Landrito SecondLove Sovano Alvin Daniel L. Oronce Worship Ian Ga

Bracket B

• Griffin E-Sports Griffin E-Sports Inactive Fung3 SiuFatBB Pong Gaa Hei (庞加曦) Uta LockM Xing Fuling (邢福凌) sora
• Fancy United Esports Fancy United Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #14 YESicaN Đinh Đình Đạt 16Ch0ps Nguyễn Đức Trí Tín Crus Lư Tiến Huy Hyuse Nia twilight
• No Namers No Namers Inactive bryce Bryce Lee shiba Zhan Teng Toh
• Global Esports Global Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #37 UdoTan Go Kyung-won (고경원) Kr1stal Savva Fedorov kellyS Kelly Sedillo Papi Federico Evangelista Deryeon Derrick Yee

Group A includes some veteran teams of the region with interregional competition experience, while Group B will feature Global Esports alongside three fresh faces.

Group Stage

The group stage will run from March 16-21. The four teams that passed through the prior play-in stage will join 12 teams that qualified from prior Challengers events.

The sixteen teams will again be split into GSL groups with eight teams eventually advancing to the knockout stage.

Group A

• 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
• Made in Thailand Made in Thailand Inactive Kadoom Kantapong Kingthong Killua Tanate Teerasawad cgrs Patiphan Porsi Laz Kittikawin Jirawatkakan seph1roth Chinnakrit Phoojaroen
• CERBERUS Esports CERBERUS Esports Inactive viness Nguyễn Trung Tín alyaL Hoàng Đức Hùng ting2k5 Dường Mạnh Thắng
• Play-Ins Team #1

Group B

• Paper Rex Paper Rex Asia-Pacific Rank #6 mindfreak Aaron Leonhart Jinggg Wang Jing Jie f0rsakeN Jason Susanto d4v41 Khalish Rusyaidee something Ilya Petrov
• Bonkers Bonkers Inactive Minimise Jackson White tixx Nick Quinn Maple Elvin Sun Dragon Nicholas Aleksandrovsky LEW Luis Hibbert
• BOY WITH LOVE BOY WITH LOVE Inactive Flynch Vicky Rudyanto roseau Baskoro Dwi Putra Asteriskk Nanda Rizana Eeyore Kevin Gunawan Famouz Fikri Zaki Hamdani
• Play-Ins Team #2

Group C

• XERXIA Esports XERXIA Esports Asia-Pacific Rank #25
• NAOS NAOS Asia-Pacific Rank #5 sultan Sultan Akbay PatMen Patrick Mendoza PTC Kititkawin Rattanasukol xavi8k Xavier Juan Mojer Jerome Literal
• BLEED BLEED Inactive
• Play-Ins Team #3

Group D

• South Built Esports South Built Esports Inactive azys Azis Nandang Pro Chris Martir flippy Philip Marique
• Velocity Gaming Velocity Gaming Asia-Pacific Rank #17 SkRossi Ganesh Gangadhar Russ Russel Mendes Lightningfast Abhirup Choudhury Madelyn Raven William damaraa Damara Danuardi
• Oblivion Force Oblivion Force Asia-Pacific Rank #19 riyabtw CHAK CHIMEI Wong Chun Wai (王俊煒) Kiuuuu Yung Tsz Kiu (容子翘) Uta
• Play-Ins Team #4

Knockouts

Knockouts will begin on March 24 and will be played in a double-elimination bracket. The top two teams will becoming APAC's representatives at Masters 1.

Matchups have not yet been revealed for the upcoming play-in stage.

Coverage

Play-ins will commence on March 10. You can follow action at the official VeraEsports content hub or VLR.gg's VCT APAC: Challengers Playoffs event page.