The $100,000 event taking place in Shanghai, China kicks off tomorrow with the group stage action.
The sixteen team tournament will be held from October 19-22, featuring teams from various Asian countries. The last year's champions ViCi will be taking part to defend their title and take home $40,000.
Savage & company will be in Group B
The action will kick off with four groups of four teams. The group stage will have a GSL format with best-of-one opening, elimination, and winners’ matches . The decider games will be played as best-of-threes.
* Update:vRn were supposed to be in Group A but their visa issues prevented them from travelling. SCARZ Absolute, who were set to face the Pakistani team in their opening match, will directly advance to the winners' match.
You can find the groups below:
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Kings
ViCi
Recca
BOOT-d[S]
KhARUM
Fire Dragoon
UTM
Entity
SCARZ Absolute
Beyond
NASR
Eclipse
vRn
TALON
Flash
Mineski
The top two teams from each group will move on to the best-of-three, single elimination playoffs. Saturday will feature the quarter-final games while the semis and the grand final will be played on Sunday.
The full schedule is below:
Thursday, October 19th
05:00
ViCi
vs. Beyond
BO1
05:00
Fire Dragoon
vs. TALON
BO1
06:30
BOOT-d[S]
vs. Entity
BO1
06:30
Eclipse
vs. Mineski
BO1
08:00
Recca
vs. NASR
BO1
08:00
UTM
vs. Flash
BO1
09:30
Kings
vs. KhARUM
BO1
Friday, October 20th
04:00
Group B winners' match
BO1
04:00
Group D winners' match
BO1
05:30
Group C winners' match
BO1
05:30
SCARZ Absolute
vs. KhARUM/Kings
BO1
07:00
Group B elimination match
BO1
07:00
Group D elimination match
BO1
08:30
Group C elimination match
BO1
08:30
Group A elimination match
BO1
10:00
Group A decider match
BO3
10:00
Group B decider match
BO3
13:00
Group C decider match
BO3
13:00
Group D decider match
BO3
Saturday, October 21st
04:00
Quarter-final #1
BO3
07:00
Quarter-final #2
BO3
10:00
Quarter-final #3
BO3
13:00
Quarter-final #4
BO3
Sunday, October 22nd
05:00
Semi-final #1
BO3
08:00
Semi-final #2
BO3
12:00
Grand final
BO3
The $100,000 in offer will be distributed accordingly: