While most European fans were sleeping in bed, the intense competition of IEF Masters had already broken out in China. Compared to the CEG Changchun Tour, which provided no stream to itching audiences around the world. IEF Masters is much better, with live streams and 'Magicyang' commentary.

Since the World Cyber Games 2007 in Seattle, Lyn and SoJu have had to play against each other in group stage twice, this being another occasion. In the same group we can also find the legendary Orc player 4Kings.Intel Grubby, as well as Chinese stars WE.suhO and Colorful.Wulin. SoJu continued his winning run and handsomely finished the group stage first.

Meanwhile Lyn was not performing so convincingly. He threw away a 1-0 lead and got only a draw against Grubby and lost to SoJu afterwards. Though he beat suhO and Wulin later on, he could still be knocked out by Grubby if the latter also won against suh0 and Wulin since Grubby earned a point from SoJu. After winning the first game versus Wulin, Grubby had already one step in the second group stage. But the Chinese youngster proved himself not a defwin as he won the second map against his Orc idol. Lyn could therefore join SoJu in the second group stage which will start tomorrow.

On the other hand, ReMinD lost ground in his group. Like from World Elite surprised everyone by winning all of his opponents (Sky forfeited his match versus Like) and top Group D.

Picture by Replays.net (Wu Fan)