Call of the Abyss VI NA-EU Qualifiers

The Crawling Chaos

The **COA VI NA-EU Qualifiers** is a competitive event that will be held to determine which teams from the NA-EU region will get to compete in the Call of the Abyss VI main event. There will be eight competitors and two winners.

## Qualififcation

The process of qualifying for COA VI began during the Preliminary Phase, known as *The Whisperer in the Snow*. During this phase, which lasted from December 29, 2022, to January 12, 2023, all teams were able to compete in Abyss Quick Matches and Abyss Rank Matches to earn Club Points.

The players' Individual Tier, Battle Results, Individual Deduction Points, and whether they participated in Ranked Matches would affect the final Club Points. The highest Hunter Points in the Club would first be multiplied by 2, then added to the sum of the four highest Survivor Points of the other members to calculate a club's points. The top 50 teams in the Club Point ranking would advance to the Playoff Phase, known as *The Binary Star*.

The Online Qualifiers phase of COA VI is known as *The Crawling Chaos*. During the *Binary Star* phase, players would continue to earn points under the same system, but with a much shorter cap on the number of matches a player could participate in. For NA-EU teams, the top 8 in the *Binary Star* points ranking would earn an in-game reward and the opportunity to participate in *The Crawling Chaos*.

## Format and schedule

The COA VI NA-EU Qualifiers are a simple elimination tournament. Two brackets made up of 3-4 rounds each were played each day, with six brackets in total. The tournament's starting time is 18:00 EST, with the second brackets scheduled for roughly around 20:00 EST.

After the end of the qualifiers, tournament officials will contact the winning teams to confirm whether or not they wish to participate in the tournament. If more than one member is not a citizen or holder of valid permanent residency in their registered region, that team will forfeit the right to advance. If a team refuses to participate or cannot do so, the next one in line will receive a chance to participate. It is unknown under what logic of the two runner-up teams would be chosen over the other in this scenario.

The schedule for the event is as follows:

 20:00 (EST)

## Summary

### Day 1

#### RV vs CH4

Thanks to the Survivors' kiting abilities and CH4\_Ling's skill with their specialty hunters, Axe Boy and Bloody Queen, CH4 showed complete dominance up until the final match of the bracket. CH4\_Nato's kite and dungeon escape are also standouts. Even still, the RV Survivors put up a great fight and 7Luo got to show off their skills with Clerk in the final match, even if it wasn't enough to recover from the previous losses. CH4\_Ling was the MVP with 10.5 average knockdowns.

#### IFs vs B4U

Despite the IFL Survivors' best efforts, B4U\_Sprintzer totally dominated in this matchup with his impressive use of Wax Artist and Clerk to secure B4U the win. On the Survivor side, the highlight was B4U\_Paulblems' 129.6 second kite against IFs\_Elysia's Axe Boy in the first match of the bracket, as well as the powerful support of his Female Dancer extending B4U\_Schmiddy's kite. The MVP was Paulblems with an average 109.3 seconds of containment time.

## Official links

* Day 1: YouTube, English / [1] Twitter, English
* Day 2: YouTube, English / Twitter, English
* Day 3: YouTube, English / Twitter, English / YouTube, Japanese

## Trivia

* Out of all the COA VI qualifier events, this is the only one with more tha one winner, with NA-EU being the only region without a tournament league to be allowed more than one seat in COA VI. In the other regions with more than one seat, the others could be obtained by alternative means in previous tournaments such as IJL.
* The English language casters for this event were Chouchou, Eli\_O, Lychee, NelloMello, Pochspice, Sadaoquil, and Veronica. The Japanese language casters were けんまつ (Kenmatsu) and SZ\_SiLia.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://www.identityvgame.com/coa6/rule/en/
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/gameidentityv