Groups and schedule for ROG Masters

8-11-2016 13:10

ROG Masters has revealed the groups and full schedule for their $50,000 Asian tournament, taking place from November 10-13.

Located at the Kuala Lumpar Exhibition Centre in Malaysia, the LAN finals will consist of twelve teams from the Asia-Pacific region. The teams have been separated into four different groups, which will use a best-of-three round-robin format.

The top two teams from each group will advance to the playoffs, involving best-of-threes for the quarter-finals and semi-finals, but the Grand final will utilise a best-of-five format instead.

Chiefs looking to improve on their international results for their second event

There has been a few changes since the completion of the qualifiers. The Singaporean's Leapfrog will be using Kumaresan "⁠Tommy⁠" Ramani and veteran Prasad "⁠StrykerX⁠" Paramajothi for the event, instead of Ernie "⁠Ludi⁠" Sim and Benjamin "⁠moxie⁠" Kou, whom they both qualified with.

moxie joins dream[S]cape, replacing Muhammad "⁠dejavux⁠" Faiz Bin Ismam and qualifies for the event again via the Last Chance Qualifier. Unfortunately,BOT will be competing using three stand-ins due to core members prioritizing school and work commitments over the event.

Lastly, the Chinese team 5POWER will be using Shuai "⁠3⁠" Zhang as a stand-in, filling in for Yida "⁠9/S/⁠" Qiao due to visa issues.

The groups are the following:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Taiwan Z	The MongolZ	dream[S]cape	5POWER
Chiefs	BOOT	AVANT	Savor the Fear
Leapfrog	BOT	Sabertooth	Risky

The full schedule can be seen below:

Thursday, November 10th
04:00	Chiefs	vs.	Leapfrog	BO3	A1
04:00	The MongolZ	vs.	BOT	BO3	B1
04:00	AVANT	vs.	Sabertooth	BO3	C1
04:00	Savor the Fear	vs.	Risky	BO3	D1
07:50	Leapfrog	vs.	Taiwan Z	BO3	A2
07:50	BOT	vs.	BOOT	BO3	B2
07:50	Sabertooth	vs.	dream[S]cape	BO3	C2
07:50	Risky	vs.	5POWER	BO3	D2
Friday, November 11th
04:00	Taiwan Z	vs.	Chiefs	BO3	A3
04:00	BOOT	vs.	The MongolZ	BO3	B3
04:00	dream[S]cape	vs.	AVANT	BO3	C3
04:00	5POWER	vs.	Savor the Fear	BO3	D3
07:50	Quarter-final #1			BO3
07:50	Quarter-final #2			BO3
07:50	Quarter-final #3			BO3
07:50	Quarter-final #4			BO3
Saturday, November 12th
03:30	Semi-final #1			BO3
06:55	Semi-final #2			BO3
Sunday, November 13th
03:30	Grand final			BO5

The talent lineup will feature the likes of Paul "⁠ReDeYe⁠" Chaloner, as the host of the event, who will be joined by former Immunity player Iain "⁠SnypeR⁠" Turner, as a commentator. Assisting them will be other local talents from Australia and Malaysia. The broadcast team is as follows:

Paul "⁠ReDeYe⁠" Chaloner - Host

Iain "⁠SnypeR⁠" Turner - Commentator
Ben "SandMan" Green - Commentator
Jordan "Elfishguy" Mays - Commentator

Azrul "Janda Hunter" Anwar - Commentator
Muhammad "Flava" Farouq - Commentator
Ungku "Wenn" Azwen - Analyst