One Korean is present in each group, with June 'Lyn' Park initially drafted into group A, he has been swapped to Group D according to Replays.net, making the groups slightly more balanced.

Two big Chinese-Korean battles will take place in the groupstage with Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang and Zhuo 'TeD' Zeng drawn together in group B, and June 'Lyn' Park and Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li in group D. However, with top two going through Moon and TeD look certain to go through in group B, whereas in group D, Lyn and Sky must compete with Pedro 'LucifroN' Moreno Durán and Daniel 'ixi' Spenst making the possibility for upsets slightly greater.

However, the major news in terms of groups is the fact team-mates Manuel 'GrubbY' Schenkhuizen and Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin must fight against each other in group A, and with four strong players in that group, each map counts. Matches will begin very early tomorrow morning, so you'll have to be up bright and early to catch them.

Group A

Deok Man 'SocceR' Youn
Manuel 'GrubbY' Schenkhuizen
Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu
Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin

Group B

Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang
Zhuo 'TeD' Zeng
Nikita 'Nicker' Pomadov
Eric 'Eric' Marten

Group C

Du Seop 'WhO' Chang
Chanin 'Kumai' Tingruttanasuwan
Xiang 'TH000' Huang
Hjalmar 'DowaQ' Högberg

Group D

June 'Lyn' Park
Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li
Pedro 'LucifroN' Moreno Durán
Daniel 'ixi' Spenst