A new online tournament called Rising Stars Asia has been unveiled, featuring $1,000 and four teams from the Asian continent.

Rising Stars Asia is a new monthly online tournament hosted by E-frag.net and sponsored by Hitbox that is aimed at giving CS:GO teams from this continent more exposure and the opportunity to make some money in the process.

The tournament will use a double-elimination format, with every match using a best-of-three system except the final, which will use a best-of-five system with a one-map advantage for the team coming from the Upper Bracket.

For the first edition of the tournament, running from January 23-25, the organisation invited Chinese trio of Defuse - who feature two members of the pow team that attended ESWC 2014 -, NFace and ZZCY, as well as Vietnamese side Team Skyred.

Below you can find the line-ups of the four teams in attendance:

Defuse	NFace
Quanqing "⁠qz⁠" Wu	Zhuo "⁠advent⁠" Liang
Yuanzhang "f0restwOw" Sheng	Wei "⁠Reaction⁠" Peng
YuLun "⁠Summer⁠" Cai	WeiJie "⁠zhokiNg⁠" Zhong
Hui "⁠DD⁠" Wu	Zhenghui "⁠z8z⁠" Liu
Howen "somebody" Xu	Qifang "karsa" Su
ZZCY	Team Skyred
Zhaoheng "813"Yu	NgoCong "crazyguy" Anh
Xiyu "xy" Shen	Hoang "⁠cLb⁠" Nguyen Vu
Di "diyy" Liu	Ngoc "⁠Zac⁠" Thien Nguyen
Nan "fly" Wang	Tuan "⁠TuKoN⁠" Tu Nguyen
Chuang "mark" Zhao	Hoang "darklord" Giang

Rising Stars Asia #1 full schedule:

Friday, January 23:
11:00	Defuse	vs.	ZZCY
13:45	Team Skyred	vs.	Nface
Saturday, January 24:
11:00	Upper Bracket Final
13:45	Lower Bracket Final
Sunday, January 25:
11:00	Consolidation Final
13:45	Grand Final

Quanqing 'qz' Wu Age: 23 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 14 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.70 Hui 'DD' Wu Age: 20 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 16 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.67 Ngoc 'Zac' Thien Nguyen Age: 20 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.17 Maps played: 1 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.70 Zhenghui 'z8z' Liu Age: 25 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.00 Maps played: 0 KPR: 0.00 DPR: 0.00 YuLun 'Summer' Cai Age: 17 Team: TYLOO Rating 1.0: 1.12 Maps played: 9 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.65 Zhuo 'advent' Liang Age: 22 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.81 Maps played: 10 KPR: 0.54 DPR: 0.67 WeiJie 'zhokiNg' Zhong Age: 21 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 10 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.78 Time is adjusted to your selected timezone Tuan 'TuKoN' Tu Nguyen Age: 24 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.89 Maps played: 1 KPR: 0.56 DPR: 0.74 Wei 'Reaction' Peng Age: 20 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.17 Maps played: 10 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.65 Hoang 'cLb' Nguyen Vu Age: 24 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.83 Maps played: 1 KPR: 0.48 DPR: 0.56