The Ascendancy North American Cup, in conjunction with Topfrag, will be a weekly online tournament for North American teams with $750 in cash prizes each week.

Similar to Europe's DingIt.tv weeklys as well as the QuickShot Arena series, the newly announced Ascendancy Cup will bring weekly cups to North American shores with $750 up for grabs each week. Teams that ply their trade in ESEA Pro, Premier, and Main leagues are up for invitations.

The format of the Ascendancy Cup will be double elimination with four teams, the upper bracket will be best-of-three and the lower bracket best-of-one matches.

The grand final will be a best-of-three with a one map advantage for the winners' final victor.



A Premier team like ptr's ex-eLevate crew is eligible for the weekly Cup

Two teams for the first week have already been announced: Quintic (playing in ESEA Main) and Gosu (ESEA Main as well).

With two more teams to be announced, a tentative schedule for the first week (and a general format for future weeks) is as follows:

Friday, October 23 02:00 Team A Team A vs. Team B Team B 05:00 Team C Team C vs. Team D Team D Saturday, October 24 23:00 Lower Bracket Round 1 00:00 Upper Bracket Final 03:00 Consolidation Final 04:00 Grand Final

The prize-pool breakdown each week will be:

1. - $500

2. - $250

The tournament will be covered on Azubu.tv as the first Ascendancy Cup kicks off this Friday. Interested teams for future weeks can email ascendancycup@gmail.com.

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