The ESWC Masters reigning champion, defeated rival WeMade FOX’s Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang at ESWC Masters of Athens in the Final last October, hit his top form early in the competition as he came out on top of his group with successive victories over Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li, Daniel 'ixi' Spenst and Pedro 'LucifroN' Moreno Durán.

The SK Gaming player went on to storm past mTw’s Orc player Du Seop 'WhO' Chang in the Quarter-finals to book a Semi-finals meeting with Evil Geniuses’ Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin, who continued to shine at offline events after knocking out former Meet Your Makers duo Manuel 'GrubbY' Schenkhuizen and Moon.

However the outcome is not exactly something he relishes as he had to eliminate fellow Korean to preserve his title pursuit, he pledges to win the whole thing for his country. He told Fomos.kr, “I don't want to meet another Korean player, but he finished second in his group so i had to play with him. Since I defeated a Korean player, I must win this tournament.” adding, “it is going to be a hard match [against Happy], but I will do my best to beat him.”

Another player who has yet to be beaten so far in the competition is the Mousesports’ Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu. The red-hot Orc player beat Grubby, Happy, Deok Man 'SocceR' Youn and Zhuo 'TeD' Zeng en route to the Semi-finals, and he is looking good to put hands to his second title this year after PGL Season IV this January.

June 'Lyn' Park, lost three out of five meetings with Fly100% in the past, hence hopes his Spanish group opponent LucifroN to end the Orc mirror specialist’s terrific run, "I want to meet LucifroN in Final because Fly100% is very good at Orc mirror."