With 2022 coming to an end, Asia has one major tournament up their sleeves following the end of the latest AsiaFortress Cup 20 - featuring the very first Asia Nations Cup tournament in the region. The tournament spans across an entire weekend and will commence this month on the 15th and 16th of October.
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Format
Taking place on a weekend, the Nations Cup will kick off with a Swiss stage for Day 1, where nine countries will play each other in a 5-round tournament bracket. With an odd number of teams in the Swiss stage, at least one team will get a bye round for this stage. This also means that multiple teams may have the same amount of win-loss ratio, and this tie-break will be determined by the Median-Buchholz system automatically on Challonge.
On Day 2, the top 4 teams at the end of Day 1 will proceed to the playoffs in a double-elimination bracket format. The Round 1, Upper Bracket, and Losers’ Round 1 matches will be played in the Best-of-1 format due to time constraints. The Lower Bracket on the other hand is played in a Best-of-3, and the Grand Finals will be played in a Best-of-5.
Map Pool
The Swiss stage will have fixed maps for each match. The map fixtures are:
- Round 1: Process
- Round 2: Gullywash
- Round 3: Clearcut
- Round 4: Snakewater
- Round 5: Sunshine
Playoffs however will allow teams to pick and ban maps from the AsiaFortress Cup 20 map pool with the addition of Bagel. The map pool is:
- Process (cp_process_f11)
- Gullywash (cp_gullywash_f9)
- Snakewater (cp_snakewater_final1)
- Sunshine (cp_sunshine)
- Reckoner (cp_reckoner_rc6)
- Clearcut (koth_clearcut_b15d)
- Product (koth_product_final)
- Bagel (koth_bagel_rc5)
Schedule
Time Zone is GMT+8.
Day 1 (Saturday, October 15th):
- 6:00 PM - Round 1
- 6:45 PM - Round 2
- 7:30 PM - Round 3
- -Break-
- 8:45 PM - Round 4
- 9:30 PM - Round 5
Day 2 (Sunday, October 16th):
- 4:00 PM - Playoffs Round 1 between 1st and 2nd seed.
- 4:45 PM - Playoffs Round 1 between 3rd and 4th seed.
- 5:30 PM - Upper Bracket and Losers' Round 1.
- 6:15 PM - Lower Bracket Best-of-3.
- -Break-
- 8:15 PM - Grand Finals Best-of-5.
Which Asian country will reign supreme as the best country in the region? Tune in to CappingTV and Lego's Twitch stream this weekend to find out!