CS:GO Asia Summit set to start

The $60,000 tournament is set to kick off tomorrow in Shanghai, China.

Perfect World has invited four teams from the Asia-Pacific region to take part in the one-day event, including local favourites TYLOO after winning StarLadder ImbaTV Invitational Chongqing 2018 recently.

The tournament will feature a BO3 single-elimination format, with the winner securing fifty percent of the total prize pool.

TyLoo is aiming to win back-to-back events on home soil

The four-team competition consists of:

TYLOO	MVP PK
Grayhound	BOOT-d[S]

Here is the full schedule:

04:00	CAS Howl	vs. CAS Lore	BO1
05:30	BOOT-d[S]	vs. MVP PK	BO3
09:30	TYLOO	vs. Grayhound	BO3
13:30	Grand Final		BO3

The organizer has decided to hold a best-of-one showmatch before the actual matches start, consisting of two players from each team attending the event and two invited guests. The rosters for the showmatch can be found below:

CAS Howl	CAS Lore
Hansel "⁠BnTeT⁠" Ferdinand	Ke "⁠captainMo⁠" Liu
Benjamin "⁠moxie⁠" Kou	Benedict "⁠Benkai⁠" Tan
Sean "⁠Gratisfaction⁠" Kaiwai	Ollie "⁠DickStacy⁠" Tierney
Hyun-Pyo "⁠XigN⁠" Lee	Keun-Chul "⁠solo⁠" Kang
QiFang "⁠Karsa⁠" Su	BingYuan "⁠tb⁠" Li

PGL have confirmed the following English broadcast talent for the Chinese event:

Joona "⁠natu⁠" Leppänen - Host
Bogdan "Boogie" Carp - Commentator
Neils "rizc" Topp - Commentator

The prize distribution is as follows:

1. $30,000
2. $15,000
3-4. $7,500
3-4. $7,500

All matches will be broadcasted in English on PGL's Twitch channel and in Chinese on Huomao.

Ke 'captainMo' Liu Age: 28 Team: TYLOO Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 546 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.67 MVP PK #29 Keun-Chul 'solo' KangMin-Soo 'glow' KimMin-Seok 'zeff' ParkHyun-Pyo 'XigN' LeeHae-Sung 'HSK' Kim Grayhound #70 Christopher 'dexter' NongCallum 'BURNRUOk' HendersonSean 'Gratisfaction' KaiwaiErdenetsogt 'erkaSt' GantulgaOllie 'DickStacy' Tierney BingYuan 'tb' Li Age: 27 Team: ViCi Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 427 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.65 Joona 'natu' Leppänen Age: 32 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.88 Maps played: 189 KPR: 0.61 DPR: 0.71 BOOT-d[S] #56 Nevin 'splashske' AwBenedict 'Benkai' TanAnthony 'ImpressioN' LimKumaresan 'Tommy' Ramani Ollie 'DickStacy' Tierney Age: 20 Team: Grayhound Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 255 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.67 Keun-Chul 'solo' Kang Age: 30 Team: MVP PK Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 204 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.67 Benedict 'Benkai' Tan Age: 21 Team: BOOT-d[S] Rating 1.0: 1.14 Maps played: 299 KPR: 0.80 DPR: 0.67 Benjamin 'moxie' Kou Age: 25 Team: BOOT-d[S] Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 222 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.61 Hyun-Pyo 'XigN' Lee Age: 21 Team: MVP PK Rating 1.0: 1.16 Maps played: 303 KPR: 0.80 DPR: 0.66 Sean 'Gratisfaction' Kaiwai Age: 22 Team: Grayhound Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 350 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.61 QiFang 'Karsa' Su Age: 26 Team: EHOME Rating 1.0: 0.94 Maps played: 237 KPR: 0.62 DPR: 0.64 Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand Age: 22 Team: TYLOO Rating 1.0: 1.28 Maps played: 310 KPR: 0.87 DPR: 0.62 Time is adjusted to your selected timezone TYLOO #20 Ke 'captainMo' LiuHui 'DD' WuHansel 'BnTeT' FerdinandHaoWen 'somebody' XuKevin 'xccurate' Susanto