Invites to $300,000 Hero Esports ACL announced

14-3-2025 13:22

The Asian competition, which doubles as an Esports World Cup qualifier, will have the likes of FlyQuest and TYLOO in attendance.

TYLOO have been invited to the $300,000 regional competition

The organizers of Hero Esports Asian Champions League (ACL) have announced the list of teams invited to the $300,000 competition, which will also serve as a qualifier for the Esports World Cup.

Four of the top-seven teams on the Asia Valve Regional standings as of February 3 have been invited to the eight-team main event: FlyQuest, Lynn Vision, The Huns and TYLOO.

The top two teams on the Asian ranking, The MongolZ and Liquid, supposedly declined the invite, while fourth-ranked ATOX have been disqualified due to their provisional suspension by ESIC.

ATOX disqualified from ECL & barred from EFG events after ESIC's provisional suspension

The other four main event spots will go to teams advancing from the closed qualifier, to which a further 12 teams have been invited, including the likes of Rare Atom and Rooster. The final four closed qualifier teams will come from the ongoing open qualifiers in China.

Main event

Closed qualifier

Closed qualifier

Open qualifier

The entire competition, including the second stage of the two-phase Chinese open qualifiers as well as the closed qualifier, will be held on LAN.

The double-elimination closed qualifier will take place from April 17-27 and the group stage of the main event from May 6-11 in Yancheng, China. The winners of each group will then face off for the title and the runners-up in the third-place decider in the grand finals in Shanghai, China, on May 16.

The full prize distribution for the main event can be found below. A further $4,000 will go to each team taking part in the second phase of the Chinese qualifiers.

1. $100,000 + Esports World Cup spot
2. $60,000
3. $40,000
4. $30,000
5-6. $12,000
7-8. $7,000

2025-03-14 13:22

VRS boost gonna go crazy

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Won't matter for the Major.

2025-03-14 13:39

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True, just for t1 events that use VRS global rankings :)

2025-03-14 14:38

nobody cares

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I do

2025-03-14 13:29

Indonesian CS Fans present 🔥

2025-03-14 14:42

yeap, you're a nobody xd

2025-03-14 13:32

same goes for u too buddy

2025-03-14 13:41

great for asian teams to get VRS points

2025-03-14 13:23

niiiiiiice JamYoung will smurf this

NiP is joining soon :D

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they cant

sarcasm not detected

2025-03-14 13:30

sorry

2025-03-14 13:31

tyloo will decimate

not really. Tyloo has been losing to Asian opposition

You underestimate Tyloo lan buff.

2025-03-14 15:51

nah i just watched asian cs

2025-03-14 15:55

And now you'll watch Asian CS again, with Tyloo at the top. Witness and kneel.

2025-03-14 15:56

Where is Drillas invite?

2025-03-14 13:25

Does he know?

2025-03-14 13:52

these were known at least one weak before?

cheating fest lmao

2025-03-14 13:26

Did you even read the article? It's all on LAN.

2025-03-14 13:54

Meh

Only one word is the weirdest roster ever lol

SemperFi better be there

2025-03-14 13:28

nope they wont be cause the only qualifer thats there is for china from the open ones

guess they bouta hop on a plane and play the quals from china

2025-03-14 15:33

would be 100% a good idea but idk if they will be allowed to play we will see

2025-03-14 15:35

How is The Huns about Rare Atom on invite?

The invites are from the 3rd of February and at that time The huns and tyloo were above Rare atom in the Asian VRS Ranking excluding Mongolz and Atox 1. Flyquest 2. LVG 3. The Huns 4. Tyloo 5. Rare Atom

2025-03-14 13:33

Just Swing goat mspaint logo

ez for The Huns

This is Extremly massive for the Asian scene

2025-03-14 13:34

where is EF asjdjadsjas :)

2025-03-14 13:40

Big problem with VRS. Just pump the event with money (doesn't even have to be a lot) and you inflate teams VRS points. Asian teams after this will have very inflated VRS NIP and other shit teams going to shit events like Fragadelphia, Lvl up Lund, after seeing how bluejays got +30 spots into #36 after winning frag with 10k prize pool. only 10k prize pool now wait for this 300k event. Flyquest gonna be top 10 vrs after this event if they don't choke watch.

2025-03-14 13:47

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The main thing here are the LAN wins. I think it's great that TOs all over the world will be incentivized to set up LANs with decent prize pools.

2025-03-14 13:57

Nah its good asian teams have the chance to earn some VRS points finally.

2025-03-14 14:21

it's 100k first place, will be more like #15 VRS.

2025-03-14 15:32

Ok and

2025-03-14 17:47

you are part of the problem

2025-03-14 17:49

If theres an exploit and there is no way to change it since its from the very top then just exploit it to the very best until the top sees it and says somthing is wrong. Why complain about it

2025-03-14 17:52

complaining is healthy

2025-03-14 17:54

Yeah but like for example, you complain about VAC when you know they dont care or at best they have their own vision that they dont share. Its just pointless to complain at a brick wall.

2025-03-14 18:00

Tyloo winning this and EWC confirmed

2025-03-14 13:51

noice

Nice! I will take any Asian team i get. Altough i dont like that they have 4 Chinese qualifiers, i bet there are some Southeast Asian, Central Asian or West Asian teams that could have a shot at making the qualies. Also those god damn AU mixes with inflated VRS points...

2025-03-14 14:12

yeah agree, but knowing esl it's good that they didn't gave those 4 spots to au

2025-03-14 14:51

At least the Oceania teams have to play against actual competition here. This event should be great.

2025-03-14 16:25

I would prefer Oni Clan or ROG, the only two Southeast Asian teams and both look quite good against Asian opposition

2025-03-14 16:27

I agree, but I guess this event isn't going to make that happen.

2025-03-14 16:28

Well no1 makes that fucking happen SEA has always been the black sheep of a region from a black sheep of a region

2025-03-14 16:29

Before the RMRs became a thing there used to be dedicated SEA qualifiers, but a lot has changed since those days. hltv.org/events/3760/asia-minor-faceit-m..

2025-03-15 17:38

Its unlucky but oh well its the first iteration of this event. Maybe next year it will be extremesland like amd we get to see more variety.

2025-03-14 17:53

If they go the EXTREMESLAND route i'll cry out of joy i swear

2025-03-15 12:32

tyloo will humble dexster

what r u talking about? No more Dexter in FlyQuest!

2025-03-14 14:49

ahh well rip xd

2025-03-14 14:54

Ez event for rooster #FEARTHECOCK

2025-03-14 14:24

no SemperFi? :(

2025-03-14 14:39

They only recently even got a ranking and this is using an old (February) invite date.

2025-03-14 16:26

ATOX RIP!

2025-03-14 14:48

i don't even understand what they could've fixed on that epl, it doesn't make sense

2025-03-14 14:52

I think they were just purposed to lose, and bet on themselves to make money. Tell u what the Mongolian teams like Atox, The Huns, and IHC, teammates can only get salary with 300 dollars per month cuz they don't have too many sponsors

2025-03-14 15:29