The 19-year-old saw himself in a comparably tough half bracket with three of his team-mates Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li, Hao 'suhO' Su and Zhuo 'TeD' Zeng as well as Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu of Mousesports and Zhengkun 'Guangmo' Guo of eXpertise in the knockout phase after topping his group in previous group stage.

Following a 2-0 defeat of Night elf player Wang 'Tree' Li in Round 16, he only had to win one match to qualify as seven berths in next January’s event were up for grabs in the qualifier, but luck was not by his side this time. He lost 1-2 in both matches against Fly100% and suhO in spite of getting off a perfect start by leading 1-0, before he was eventually knocked out by another World Elite player Kejing 'Like' Li 2-0.

Chinese qualifiers for PGL Season IV
Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu
Zhen 'HopeStar' Xu
Kejing 'Like' Li
Yanchao 'Lyc' Lu
Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li
Hao 'suhO' Su
Lin 'Wulin' Wu

These players compete for the total prize purse of USD 27,760 with the following invitees in Chengdu, China right in the new year from January 1 to 10.

4 Korean invites
June 'Lyn' Park
Du Seop 'WhO' Chang
Dae Hui 'FoV' Cho
Hyeong Ju 'Check' Lee

Winner and runner up of Season III
Xiang 'TH000' Huang
Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang

3 Europe or USA invites
Manuel 'GrubbY' Schenkhuizen
Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin
Mykhaylo 'HoT' Novopashyn