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.
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!