{"id":60718,"date":"2024-01-03T11:17:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T03:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=60718"},"modified":"2024-01-03T11:17:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T03:17:38","slug":"blacklist-international-team-secret-other-filipino-esports-teams-gun-for-victories-at-asia-pacific-predator-league-2024-grand-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2024\/01\/03\/blacklist-international-team-secret-other-filipino-esports-teams-gun-for-victories-at-asia-pacific-predator-league-2024-grand-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Blacklist International, Team Secret, other Filipino esports teams gun for victories at Asia Pacific Predator League 2024 Grand Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>It is all systems go for the highly anticipated Asia Pacific Predator League 2024 Grand Finals at the SM Mall of Asia Arena on January 13 and 14. Twenty-six (26) teams from across the Asia Pacific region will compete in Dota 2 and VALORANT for the coveted Predator Shield and their share of the $200,000 prize pool.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The question is: How will Filipino teams fare in the tournament?<br><br>For Dota 2, iconic teams Blacklist International, Execration, and defending Asia Pacific Predator League champions Polaris Esports will be joined by the winners of the Philippine qualifiers, Made in Philippines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For VALORANT, Team Secret, one of the most renowned teams in the VCT Pacific League, will be alongside Oasis Gaming and ZOL Esports, who both qualified during the Philippine Finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt will be anybody\u2019s game. Predator League is the stomping ground of the region\u2019s up-and-coming esports talents. We are excited to see who is hungry enough for the victory to overcome the competition and win the Predator Shield,\u201d said Sue Ong Lim, General Manager at Acer Philippines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two-day event will be filled with action-packed gaming, meet-and-greet sessions with Predator ambassadors, and performances by top Filipino artists, including Acer ambassadors Sarah Geronimo and SB19. \u201cJanuary 13 and 14 will be an esports and entertainment spectacle like no other. We have prepared so many exciting activities and awesome surprises that everyone will surely enjoy,\u201d said Princess Laosantos, Senior Marketing Manager at Acer Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-six (26) teams from across the Asia Pacific region will compete in Dota 2 and VALORANT for the coveted Predator Shield and their share of the $200,000 prize pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":60725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[58,34],"class_list":["post-60718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-acer","tag-gaming-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}