A handful of China and Korea's best talents are ready to rumble as the main event of the Nexus Cup Summer 2017 commences today. Four Chinese and four Korean teams will compete for their share of the 80,000 CNY ($11,760 USD) prize pool in this online event.

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The Nexus Cup series has become a regular fixture on the Asian Overwatch calendar and this Summer event will run from the 17th-26th July. Teams will compete in a double elimination bracket where the upper and lower bracket rounds one to three will be a best-of-three maps, the lower bracket final will be a best-of-five and the grand final will be a best-of-seven. The victor of the upper bracket final will earn a one map point advantage in the Grand Final. All matches will start off on Horizon Lunar Colony.

Teams

The four Korean teams were invited, while the four Chinese teams had to qualify from a field of sixteen hopefuls. We've already seen big names like LGD Gaming and Lucky Future fall short in qualification.

Schedule

A full schedule for the qualifiers can be found below:

Monday - July 17th

Tuesday - July 18th

Wednesday - July 19th

  • 06:00 EDT / 12:00 CEST / 18:00 CST - Lower Round 1 - TBD vs TBD
  • 07:00 EDT / 13:00 CEST / 19:00 CST - Lower Round 1 - TBD vs TBD

Thursday - July 20th

  • 06:00 EDT / 12:00 CEST / 18:00 CST - Upper Semifinal - TBD vs TBD
  • 07:00 EDT / 13:00 CEST / 19:00 CST - Upper Semifinal - TBD vs TBD

Monday - July 24th

  • 06:00 EDT / 12:00 CEST / 18:00 CST - Upper Final - TBD vs TBD
  • 07:00 EDT / 13:00 CEST / 19:00 CST - Lower Round 2 - TBD vs TBD
  • 08:00 EDT / 14:00 CEST / 20:00 CST - Lower Round 2 - TBD vs TBD

Tuesday - July 25th

  • 06:00 EDT / 12:00 CEST / 18:00 CST - Lower Round 3 - TBD vs TBD
  • 07:00 EDT / 13:00 CEST / 19:00 CST - Lower Final - TBD vs TBD

Wednesday - July 26th

  • 06:00 EDT / 12:00 CEST / 18:00 CST - Grand Final - TBD vs TBD

Prize Distribution

The 80,000 CNY ($11,760 USD) prize pool will be distributed as shown below:

  • 1st: ¥ 40,000 ($5,880 USD~)
  • 2nd: ¥ 20,000 ($2,940 USD~)
  • 3rd: ¥ 15,000 ($2,205 USD~)
  • 4th: ¥ 5,000 ($735 USD~)

The event will give the viewers the chance to preview the rosters of teams that will be competing in the next season of APEX, such as RunAway and Kongdoo Uncia, as well as witness competition between Chinese and Korean teams. You can tune in to matches live at cc.163.com/nexuscup and keep track of the scores at the event page.