The Publisher of League of Legends & Valorant wrote: “Challengers plays an important role in developing talent for the VCT Pacific tournament. We have seen players from the Challengers ecosystem moving to the higher tournament, such as Free1NG, Hyunmin, Jitboys and Wildoryoo.
We want to continue digging deeper and expanding the potential to develop this talent. Therefore, starting from the following year, we will combine the academy teams into our Challengers tournaments across APAC ….. However, we still intend to continue giving opportunities to new teams to participate in VCT Pacific. Therefore, although the academy teams can participate in Challengers, they will not be eligible to participate in Ascension Pacific. “
With the fact that Southeast Asia will merge next season, the APAC area has 4 main tournaments: Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia and South Asia. The youth teams will attend the Challengers, including:
– Challengers Korea
Drx
Gen.g
T1
– Challengers Japan
Zeta division
Detonation Focusme
_ Challengers Southeast Asia
Rex reum qeon
Talon esports
Team Secret
– Challengers South Asia
Global Esports
In addition to the above announcement, Riot Games also mentioned the season after the Challengers will have 3 seasons and the Academy teams will only play in this tournament without going to play at Ascension. However, this is still a great opportunity for young talents to play in a professional environment to find new talents for the tournament.
