Ahead of the Skyesports Champions Series Playoffs – a road to VCT Stage 2 event from May 31, Skyesports has released the official music video titled South Asia Arise featuring VALORANT stars: Global Esports’ SKRossi, Velocity Gaming’s Deathmaker, Enigma Gaming’s Antidote, and Revenant Esports’ Scargod. The video can be viewed here. 

South Asia Arise is a film by Global Esports Studios, produced by Skyesports, directed by Mohit Israney, with music from Karan Kanchan. After a disappointing Stage 1 of the VCT, where the South Asian teams of Global Esports and Velocity Gaming fell in the early stages, South Asia Arise shows as the teams let go of that weight, shatter the jail of their past result, and move forward to conquering in the VCT Stage 2.

Both Global Esports and Enigma Gaming are competing in the playoffs for a shot at making it to the APAC Challengers. Enigma and Revenant, on the other hand, will be vying to make it to Challengers for the first time.

Shiva Nandy, the CEO and founder of Skyesports, said, “Our goal with the SCS is to create a benchmark for South Asian esports and the South Asia Arise music video is just one of the many things we have planned. I would like to thank Global Esports Studios who have a done fantastic job on creating a truly goosebumps inducing video as we head into the SCS Playoffs. I can’t wait to show fans the other surprises we have in store and also unveil the stage we have built here in Chennai.” 

The playoffs for the Skyesports Champions Series (SCS) are scheduled to take place from May 31 to June 5 with six of South Asia’s best VALORANT teams competing for a share of the $30,000 prize pool and two slots to the VCT Stage 2 APAC Challengers. These are Global Esports, Enigma Gaming, Velocity Gaming, Revenant Esports, Orangutan, and Full Power Gaming.

The SCS Playoffs are taking place in Chennai, India in front of a live audience. The six teams will lock horns in a double-elimination bracket to decide who will claim the coveted title of South Asian champion.

The night of 24th May concluded the group stage of the Skyesports Champions Series and we got the six teams that qualified for the LAN. These teams would now battle it out starting 31st May in order to get a chance to represent South Asia at Stage 2 VCT APAC challengers and face the might of SEA.

From Group A we have Engima Gaming, Global Esports, and Revenant esports making it to the playoffs with the last match of Team Valor and Prime 5 going Team Valor’s way putting GE above Revenant. Though we could’ve been able to watch Val Classico on the first day if it were another way around.   

From Group B we have Orangutan, Velocity Gaming, and Full Power Gaming making it to the playoffs with Orangutan as the top seed.

The Playoffs would be played on LAN in Chennai and it would be a double-elimination bracket stage which means each team gets a buffer of one loss and can come back from it to make it to the finals. 

With Enigma Gaming and Orangutan being the top seeds in the tournament they get one bye and would have to face the winner of the Opening matches between the 2nd seed and 3rd seed. The top seeds would only need 2 starting wins to make it to the grand finals while other teams would need to battle against these tops seed to get to it. 

The matches on the first day are between Global Esports (2nd seed Group A) and Full Power Gaming (3rd seed Group B) while Velocity Gaming ( 2nd seed Group B) would take on 

Revenant Esports (3rd seed Group A), With winners facing the top seeds while the losers would have to wait in the lower bracket and make a lower bracket run defeating all the other teams to make it out of the lower bracket.

This makes it important for the team to win since winning all of your games means you would have more time to prepare and relax while losing them means you would have to continuously play with a threat of elimination lurking around.

The winners of the Skyesports Champions series not only get a $15,000 cash prize along with the runner-up of the event represent the South Asian might in the stage 2 VCT APAC challengers, The winning team, like the last time APAC qualifier, would directly qualify to 2nd part of the tournament while the runner-ups have to earn the place in and battle against other teams to qualify. There haven’t been any dates regarding these yet. 

The brackets and the playoffs seem to be anyone’s game at the moment with all of the teams in group B at 4-1 while from Group A despite Enigma Gaming going 5-0 they had difficulties facing the teams. I wish that all games are worth the hype and that all teams come with their best foot forward. 

This would be a first-time LAN experience for a lot of players and there might be a chance we would see some LAN jitters from them but I hope that’s not the case and we get an amazing and hyped playoff with the crowd hyping the players and the players delivering.

We would keep posting as we get any and every information regarding the tournament so make sure to follow our socials and the website for more information. May the best team win and let the battle for the new kings of South Asia begin.

Skyesports Champions Series (SCS) is around the corner, with the entire South Asian (SA) region preparing for the Valorant carnival. For those unaware, it’s only the biggest Valorant event for the region; a tournament that will decide the two representatives for the region at the VCT Stage 2 APAC Challengers for a shot at the two available spots at VCT Stage 2 Masters. And, by the looks of it, Skyesports is pulling out all stops to add to the player experience for the LAN-line* event. SCS is already setting benchmarks in terms of hospitality and the event hasn’t even begun.

Skyesports made sure the players receive the authentic regional treatment by welcoming the said stars participating in the event in true local fashion through garlands and cultural dance routines.

Greeting players with tradition is one of the hallmarks of our region and it is welcoming to see Skyesports continue the same. Skyesports have their headquarters in Chennai and it truly felt like someone welcoming the players into their homes, in this case, their home city.

Then, there is the update that Skyesports have provided teams with respective villas to ensure their preparations are up to the mark, keeping the code of secrecy intact and that they find maximum comfort in their temporary residence.

According to what we have seen and heard through social media, aspiring powerhouses Orangutan have been practicing from their villa itself, which goes to show how helpful the arrangements have been for the team.

The cherry on top was the billboards filled with players’ faces bustling with confidence. Everyone involved in the esports scene has long been waiting for the industry to go mainstream and while it has to a great extent, this serves as a good validation of the same for the PC esports industry that has always felt like a second child in the last few years.

SCS will begin on the 31st of May and we will know the fate of the six teams – Full Power Gaming, Orangutan, Velocity Gaming, Global Esports, Revenant Esports and Enigma Gaming – along with the two available slots by the 5th of June.

A lot is at stake as players fight to be the best. But, it seems the teams are not the only ones striving for greatness.

Note(*): LAN-line is a hybrid term that can be used to refer to an event that is a LAN but has elements similar to online events as well. The word has been used here to corroborate that while SCS is a LAN event, the matches will be played on online servers along with the fact that a team and one player will be in attendance from a remote location due to geopolitical issues.

The playoffs for the Skyesports Champions Series (SCS) are all set to commence from May 31st, and the participating teams have already arrived in Chennai to get acquainted with the city’s atmosphere ahead of the tournament.

The SCS playoffs will essentially lead the road for the South Asian teams to attend the VCT Stage 2. The top two teams from the Skyesports Champions Series will be able to attend the VCT Stage Two APAC Challengers event. 

While India has witnessed its fair share of prestigious Valorant tournaments in the past, none of them had seen its participating players being welcomed in a manner as unique as the city of Chennai greeted the participants of the Skyesports Valorant Series.

In fact, for the first time in the history of South Asian esports, players were greeted with garlands and traditional dances including Karkattam (Tamil ancient folk dance), Mayilattam (Peacock Dance), and Oyilattam (Dance of Grace), giving them a taste of the rich culture and heritage of the beautiful city of Chennai. 

“I couldn’t be more excited to be welcoming South Asia’s best esports athletes to Chennai,” Shiva Nandy, the CEO and founder of Skyesports, said. “The state of Tamil Nadu is one of the oldest civilizations in the world and is rich with culture and heritage. Skyesports is headquartered in Chennai and we hold this very close to our heart. I am glad we

were able to give the athletes a taste of the culture by welcoming them in a traditional fashion with popular regional dance styles.”

On top of this, Skyesports has also put up more than 12 billboards across Chennai to create hype for the upcoming SCS and give some additional recognition to the participating teams and their players.

The playoffs for the Skyesports Champions Series are set to kick off from May 31 and will continue until June 5. The event will see six of the best South Asian Valorant teams – Enigma Gaming, Global Esports,

Revenant Esports, Orangutan Gaming, Velocity Gaming, and Full Power Gaming – battle it out in a double-elimination bracket for a shot at the VCT Stage 2 APAC Challengers.