Perfect World announces CAC 2025 with no Asian slots
Perfect World has announced CS Asia Championship 2025, that will take place in Shanghai, China. The $1,00,000 tournament will run from October 14 through 19, and have invited several top teams.
The tournament accommodates a total of 16 teams, out of which the 9 directly invited teams have been announced by Perfect World. FaZe, who are ranked 9th in the VRS are directly invited, among other top teams. The list of invited teams include:
FaZe
TYLOO
3DMAX Lynn Vision
paiN Gaming
Virtus.Pro
Liquid Legacy
B8
Main Event Schedule
Group Stage
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October 14-16
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Double-Elimination
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2 Groups GSL
Playoffs
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Single-elimination bracket
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Grand Final: Bo5
Complexity's GM messioso pointed out that the Asian slots are replaced by Chinese slots, meaning we won't be seeing Mongolian, Australian, or teams from Rest of Asia. The remaining seven slots will be filled by three Qualifiers:
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Europe: 4 America: 1 China: 2
Open Qualifier Schedule
Europe
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Registration: Aug 4-9
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Matches: Aug 10-11
Americas
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Registration: Aug 11-15
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Matches: Aug 16-17
China
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Registration: Sept 12-18
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Matches: Sept 19-21
Europe has an extra slot gained over an Americas slot, which will only feature Brazilian teams. messioso also raised concerns over TOs inviting teams according to the VRS date and slots of their choice, as PW announced the VRS invites from July without mentioning the slot distribution beforehand.
HLTV's Editor in chief, Striker, further pointed out the fact that PW have broken the Valve's rule of announcing the VRS invites 2 months prior to the event, with the Additional Info provided atleast 30 days before.
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