WCA 2017 APAC Qualifiers announced

World Cyber Arena returns for 2017 after the former Epsilon roster crushed VG.CyberZen in the 2016 edition, taking home ~$87,000. The online Asia-Pacific open qualifier will allow up to 512 teams from the region to participate, held on Singaporean servers from July 14-15. 

The top two teams from the open qualifier will progress to the closed stage held on July 24-31, where they will meet seven other invited teams from the region in a best-of-one round-robin format. 

Singaporean B.O.O.T roster has received an invitation to the closed qualifier

The top four teams from the closed qualifier will advance to the online best-of-three double-elimination playoffs, which will commence from August 1-3, to determine the winner.

Here are the invited teams for the closed qualifier:

The MongolZ	Recca	BOOT-d[S]	Signature	7642
Chiefs	Grayhound	Open Qual.	Open Qual.

The ~$37,400 prize distribution for the qualifier looks as follows:

1. 150,000 RMB (~$22,000) + slot for WCA 2017 Finals
2. 75,000 RMB (~$11,000) + slot for WCA 2017 Finals
3. 30,000 RMB (~$4,400)

If you're from the Asia-Pacific region, you can register for the open qualifiers held on the FACEIT platform, by filling in this private form here.