ASUS Republic of Gamers crowned the Champions in the ROG Masters 2017 – Singapore Qualifiers Grand Finals at STGCC

Marking their first step of their
journey to the road to masters, as the top teams will be representing Singapore
at the Asia-Pacific Qualifiers in Philippines

Team One Time
Wonder (left) and Team ABC (right) from CS:GO and Dota 2 respectively crowned
as the champion teams

Singapore (15 September 2017) —
ASUS
Republic of Gamers (ROG) finally concluded its ROG Masters 2017 – Singapore
Qualifier after a month of intense battles from over 40 teams from both Dota 2
and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO). Team One Time Wonder from CS:GO
and Team ABC from Dota 2 emerged as the champions, and will be representing
Singapore at the ROG Masters Asia-Pacific Regional Qualifiers at Manila,
Philippines this coming October. As part of the Singapore Qualifier, all the
champion, first and second runner up teams have also won a total prize pool of
over SGD20,000 of the Singapore Grand Finals, which was held last Saturday at
the Singapore Toy Game and Comic Convention (STGCC) at Marina Bay Sands.

The
registration for the ROG Masters 2017 – Singapore Qualifier for both Dota 2 and
CS:GO first started back in August, where a total of 89 teams registered within
the two weeks period. Since the start of the
Singapore Qualifier, Team One Time Wonder from CS:GO and Team ABC from Dota 2
have put on impressive gameplay throughout their matches from the knockout
rounds to the grand finals, thus making them the favourites of many fans who have
caught the livestream of the qualifier matches on ASUS Singapore Facebook Page
and ROG Singapore Twitch Channel.

In preparation for their
matches in the Asia-Pacific Regional Qualifiers, Team One Time Wonder and Team
ABC will be undergoing dedicated training sessions starting in October till
they depart for the regional finals.

Following next in the road to
masters, the Asia-Pacific region will be hosting an offline qualifier at SMX
Convention Centre, Manila, Philippines from 26 – 29 October, featuring 12 teams
per game title which had found success in the Open Qualifiers from each of the
participating countries like Singapore – this is where the best from the
Asia-Pacific will be crowned, proceeding to the regional finals.

ROG is constantly working towards
engaging the local gaming scene through activities and exclusive collaborations
to deepen its interaction with the e-Sports community. The ROG Masters 2017 –
Singapore Qualifier Grand Finals which was held at the STGCC at Marina Bay
Sands would not have been a success without the support from STGCC, the
official venue partner and MyRepublic, the official network provider for the
event.

“We are extremely honoured to
host the Singapore Finals for ROG Masters this year, and would like to thank
our partner ASUS and Gam3.Asia for making this happen. e-Sports has come a long
way and is slowly gaining recognition as a legitimate form of sports, and
Singapore has no shortage of talents in this area. We, at GGXP, believe that
Singapore has what it takes to make an impression at e-Sports on the global
stage,” said Karen Leong, Project Director for STGCC, Reed Exhibitions Singapore.

“We are really thankful to
have this opportunity to work with STGCC as we are very honoured and delighted
to be able to hold the ROG Masters 2017 – Singapore Finals here at this amazing
event. At ROG, we believe in not just to build a brand for ROG, but what we
want is to build a community around it, which STGCC did very well in doing so.
We look forward to deepen our ROG presence and engagement with the local gaming
communities through more ROG activities,” said Emma Ou, Country Manager, ASUS
Singapore.

Being
part of the republic is all about the exclusivity of what the ROG users can
enjoy. In conjunction with the launch of the ROG Zephyrus GX501, ROG is honoured to announce the collaboration between ROG and Casio
G-Shock – the world’s renowned watch maker of the ultimate tough watch. As part
of this collaboration, ROG and G-Shock have designed and produced a limited
edition G-Shock Watch – ROG Masters 2017 Edition, available exclusively in
Singapore with only 500 pieces worldwide which will be given away with every
purchase of the ROG Zephyrus GX501 for a limited time period. To learn
more about the promotion, please proceed to ASUS Singapore website at https://www.asus.com/sg/event/ROGxG-Shock/.