With $700,000 on the line and a LAN stage, here’s what you need to know about one of the most anticipated tournaments in Asia.
The Clavision Masters 2025: Snow- Ruyi is one of the most anticipated tournaments in Asia. Also, it’s one of the few tournaments left before The International – an opportunity for teams to fine-tune their strategy and drafting ideas.
Unfortunately, some Tier 1 teams, such as Team Spirit or Falcons, will not be participating in the tournament. However, this leaves an opportunity for other fan-favorite organizations to join the event. This is the list of confirmed teams for this edition of the USD 700,000 tournament:
- Xtreme Gaming (CN)
- Team Tidebound (CN)
- Yakult Brothers (CN)
- Nigma Galaxy (WEU)
- Tundra Esports (WEU)
- Gaimin Gladiators (WEU)
- BetBoom Team (EEU)
- Team Yandex (EEU)
- PARIVISION (EEU)
- BOOM Esports (SEA)
Clavision Masters 2025 starts on July 28 and ends on Aug. 03. Also, it’s happening at the Bo Ao Indoor Stadium, located at the Hebei North University in Zhangjiakou. The format includes a three-day group stage, where two groups of five teams each will compete for play-off seedings. Thus, no team will be eliminated during this stage. However, the bottom two teams of each group will play a direct elimination bracket, while the top two teams will advance straight to the Upper Bracket Semifinals.
Clavision Masters 2025: Snow-Ruyi groups and matches
During the group stage, two best-of-three (Bo3) matches will be played simultaneously, and the first game will start at 10 p.m. PT, and you can watch the streams in English on the following channels:
- Primary: Bkop’s Twitch Channel
- Secondary: mal1bujesus’ Twitch Channel
Primary stream schedule (Group A):
July 27
- 7 p.m. | PARI 2-1 Tundra
- 10 p.m. | BOOM 0-2 Nigma
- 1 a.m. | PARI 2-1 XG (next day)
July 28
- 7 p.m. | BOOM 1-2 Tundra
- 10 p.m. | Nigma 2-1 XG
- 1 a.m. | PARI 2-0 BOOM (next day)
- 4 a.m. | XG 1-2 Tundra (next day)
July 29
- 7 p.m. | PARI 1-2 Nigma
- 10 p.m. | XG 2-0 BOOM
- 1 a.m. | Nigma 2-0 Tundra (next day)
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Secondary Stream Schedule (Group B)
July 27
- 7 p.m. | BB 2-0 GG
- 10 p.m. | Yakult 0-2 TideBd
- 1 a.m. | BB 2-1 Yandex (next day)
July 28
- 7 p.m. | Yakult 0-2 GG
- 10 p.m. | TideBd 2-1 Yandex
- 1 a.m. | BB 2-0 Yakult (next day)
- 4 a.m. | Yandex 1-2 GG (next day)
July 29
- 7 p.m. | BB 0-2 TideBd
- 10 p.m. | Yandex 2-0 Yakult
- 1 a.m. | TideBd 2-1 GG (next day)
Playoff stage: How to advance and prize money distribution
Only the first place of each group is directly qualified for the upper bracket semifinals of the Clavision Masters 2025: Snow-Ruyi event. Then, the second place faces the third of the opposite group, and the fourth and fifth place play an elimination round to advance. Additionally, this stage is performed in front of a live audience.
July 30
- 7 p.m. | Tundra 2-1 BB Team
- 10 p.m. | GG 2-0 PARI
- 1 a.m. | Yakult 0-2 XG (next day)
- 4 a.m. | BOOM 2-0 Yandex (next day)
July 31
- 7 p.m. | PARI 0-2 XG
- 10 p.m. | BB Team 2-1 BOOM
- 1 a.m. | Nigma 1-2 Tundra (next day)
- 4 a.m. | GG 0-2 TideB (next day)
Aug. 1
- 7 p.m. | Nigma 0-2 XG
- 10 p.m. | GG 0-2 BB Team
- 1 a.m. | Tundra 2-0 TideB (next day)
- 4 a.m. | XG 2-1 BB Team (next day)
Aug. 2
- 7 p.m. | TideB 2-0 XG
- 10 p.m. | Tundra 2-3 TideB
This edition features a $700,000 USD prize pool, distributed as follows:
Place Prize Team(s) | 1st $213,500 Team Tidebound | 2nd $126,000 Tundra Esports | 3rd $87,500 Xtreme Gaming | 4th $63,000 BetBoom Team | 5th - 6th $43,750 Nigma Galaxy Gaimin Gladiators | 7th - 8th $36,750 PARIVISION BOOM Esports | 9th - 10th $24,500 Yakult Brothers Team Yandex |
The champion of last year’s edition of the Clavision Masters 2025: Snow-Ruyi was Xtreme Gaming. They defeated Team Spirit with a 3-1 score. For this season, XG is still a strong candidate to play the Grand Finals. But the strongest team in the list, according to results and placements, is still PARIVISION.
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