Invites to $300,000 Hero Esports ACL announced

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.

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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

Asia Closed qualifier
Asia Closed qualifier
Asia Closed qualifier
Asia Closed qualifier

Closed 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

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Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Twistzz | 
Poland Ilaald
W
2025-03-14 13:22
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#2
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Estonia Kizma
VRS boost gonna go crazy
2025-03-14 13:22
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Won't matter for the Major.
2025-03-14 13:39
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#42
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Estonia Kizma
True, just for t1 events that use VRS global rankings :)
2025-03-14 14:38
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#3
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Romania cala07
nobody cares
2025-03-14 13:22
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#16
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Poland Menyato
I do
2025-03-14 13:29
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#44
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Germany HSV_isses
Indonesian CS Fans present 🔥
2025-03-14 14:42
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yeap, you're a nobody xd
2025-03-14 13:32
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#28
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Romania cala07
same goes for u too buddy
2025-03-14 13:41
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great for asian teams to get VRS points
2025-03-14 13:23
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niiiiiiice JamYoung will smurf this
2025-03-14 13:23
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#6
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Czech Republic starycs
NiP is joining soon :D
2025-03-14 13:23
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#17
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Poland Menyato
they cant
2025-03-14 13:29
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#19
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Czech Republic starycs
sarcasm not detected
2025-03-14 13:30
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#22
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Poland Menyato
sorry
2025-03-14 13:31
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#7
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United States |Scy|
tyloo will decimate
2025-03-14 13:23
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#18
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Poland Menyato
not really. Tyloo has been losing to Asian opposition
2025-03-14 13:30
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#59
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United States |Scy|
You underestimate Tyloo lan buff.
2025-03-14 15:51
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#60
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Poland Menyato
nah i just watched asian cs
2025-03-14 15:55
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#61
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United States |Scy|
And now you'll watch Asian CS again, with Tyloo at the top. Witness and kneel.
2025-03-14 15:56
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#8
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United States Schwabies_
Where is Drillas invite?
2025-03-14 13:25
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1 reply
Does he know?
2025-03-14 13:52
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these were known at least one weak before?
2025-03-14 13:25
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cheating fest lmao
2025-03-14 13:26
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1 reply
Did you even read the article? It's all on LAN.
2025-03-14 13:54
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Meh
2025-03-14 13:26
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Only one word is the weirdest roster ever lol
2025-03-14 13:26
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SemperFi better be there
2025-03-14 13:28
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Poland Menyato
nope they wont be cause the only qualifer thats there is for china from the open ones
2025-03-14 13:31
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Australia Skycap
guess they bouta hop on a plane and play the quals from china
2025-03-14 15:33
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#58
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Poland Menyato
would be 100% a good idea but idk if they will be allowed to play we will see
2025-03-14 15:35
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How is The Huns about Rare Atom on invite?
2025-03-14 13:28
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Poland Menyato
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
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Just Swing goat mspaint logo
2025-03-14 13:29
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#20
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Israel mcnamaras_EEEdiots
ez for The Huns
2025-03-14 13:31
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#25
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Poland Menyato
This is Extremly massive for the Asian scene
2025-03-14 13:34
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Netherlands uHR
where is EF asjdjadsjas :)
2025-03-14 13:40
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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
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Nah its good asian teams have the chance to earn some VRS points finally.
2025-03-14 14:21
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it's 100k first place, will be more like #15 VRS.
2025-03-14 15:32
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Ok and
2025-03-14 17:47
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you are part of the problem
2025-03-14 17:49
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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
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complaining is healthy
2025-03-14 17:54
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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
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Tyloo winning this and EWC confirmed
2025-03-14 13:51
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noice
2025-03-14 13:57
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#36
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Korea syjeon
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
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#47
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Ukraine Galandec
yeah agree, but knowing esl it's good that they didn't gave those 4 spots to au
2025-03-14 14:51
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#63
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United States MrNorwood
At least the Oceania teams have to play against actual competition here. This event should be great.
2025-03-14 16:25
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#66
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Korea syjeon
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
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#67
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United States MrNorwood
I agree, but I guess this event isn't going to make that happen.
2025-03-14 16:28
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#68
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Korea syjeon
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
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United States MrNorwood
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
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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
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Korea syjeon
If they go the EXTREMESLAND route i'll cry out of joy i swear
2025-03-15 12:32
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tyloo will humble dexster
2025-03-14 14:21
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#46
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Samoa nuuuuucky
what r u talking about? No more Dexter in FlyQuest!
2025-03-14 14:49
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ahh well rip xd
2025-03-14 14:54
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Vanuatu aZZtec
Ez event for rooster #FEARTHECOCK
2025-03-14 14:24
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#43
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Equatorial Guinea Karlheinz
no SemperFi? :(
2025-03-14 14:39
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#64
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United States MrNorwood
They only recently even got a ranking and this is using an old (February) invite date.
2025-03-14 16:26
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#45
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Samoa nuuuuucky
ATOX RIP!
2025-03-14 14:48
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#48
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Ukraine Galandec
i don't even understand what they could've fixed on that epl, it doesn't make sense
2025-03-14 14:52
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#52
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Samoa nuuuuucky
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
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#62
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Ukraine Galandec
yes, but to who, they were super underdog in all their matches, so it's weird
2025-03-14 16:10
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#50
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Yugoslavia lapace
finally an event which tyloo can actually win.
2025-03-14 14:56
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#51
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Lithuania onthemoon
did semperfi decline the invite? they're above some teams that are in the closed quals in vrs
2025-03-14 15:22
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#53
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Brazil 7akemeout
i was wondering that too, but I didn't find the in the vrs. Also, kinda sad that the only qualifiers are going to be chinese
2025-03-14 15:31
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#57
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Nepal ekadeshma
I think when the invites were sent out, semperfi were not a ranked team.
2025-03-14 15:35
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#65
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United States MrNorwood
They used the February invite date.
2025-03-14 16:27
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Lithuania onthemoon
kinda dumb ngl
2025-03-14 17:42
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Because the chinese open qualifiers start in feb thats why
2025-03-14 18:01
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No eu? cringe and not interested, give me navi 2-3 months and i wont forget
2025-03-14 15:34
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#71
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Poland Menyato
bro this is literally an asian qualifer like of course there will be no EU
2025-03-14 17:44
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#69
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China halflife2
They put Major contender RA to Close qualifier! LOL interesting!
2025-03-14 17:24
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Can nip get an invite?
2025-03-14 18:16
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Liquid is not eligible for Asian invitation.
2025-03-14 18:22
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good to see more asia only events
2025-03-14 20:08
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