Gear up for the Indian League of Pokémon UNITE Asia Champions League 2023
Pokémon UNITE Asia Champions League 2023 is the crowing tournament for Asia’s best Pokémon UNITE team. The tournament features three different regions that will conduct their respective leagues to determine the teams that will qualify for the Finals. It is set to take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on the 18th and 19th of March.
As you all know, each region is hosting its regional leagues, which will act as a qualifier for the main event. The top two teams from each league will make their way to the Finals, as of now East Asia is underway with its league. The Indian League is all set to commence on the 8th of January with a total of 5 Indian Pokémon UNITE teams.
Know the teams
The five teams that will compete in the India League are Revenant Esports, Gods Reign, S8UL, Marcos Gaming, and True Rippers. These teams will go head-to-head against each other and the best two teams will make it.
Team Lineups
Revenant Esports will compete with a talented roster of 5 players mainly –
- Crowley aka Raunak Sen
- BlizzarD aka Balaji Ramnarayan
- Swifty aka Jeet Kundra
- Novaa aka Anklesh Satelkar
- XesoL aka Vishnu Khatri
The roster for Gods Reign will include –
- OMEN aka Omkar Sawardekar
- Noxy aka Gunjan Joshi
- Divine aka Shahab Saleha
- ScepTer aka Om
- VixzeN
S8UL will begin with this line up
- Cursed aka Prashant Bora
- Might aka Manmohan Singh
- Darbari aka Sanchit Darbari
- Ghoul aka Piyush Dutta
- Tensei aka Lokesh Kumawat
The Marcos Gaming roster for the tournament will have –
- Snowyy aka Dev Patel
- Meruem aka Hayrambh Monga
- Kyurem
- VoxZ
- Volc
True Rippers will go ahead with
- Ego aka Abhinav Verma
- Devesh aka TR Devesh
- Daksh aka Daksh Prashar
- Kyo aka Kamil Khan
- Saif aka P Saif
East Asia League highlights
Two matches were played in the East Asia League, match 1 was played between T2 vs Hi5. The best of 3 games ended in a win for Hi5 with a score of 158-986 and 462-783.
The second match was played between Secret Ship vs Eternity. Game 1 ended with 810-87 and Secret Ship was the winner. Later Eternity won back-to-back games with a score of 485-565 and 400-441.
Eternity leads the standings followed by Hi5 in the East Asia League.
The Main Event of Pokémon UNITE Asia Champions League 2023 will include a prize pool of USD 84,500 and these teams are inbounding for the Regular Season: Stage 2 and Finals. The event will be live-streamed on different social media in English and Hindi. This will be a great moment for the Indian teams to gain experience.