The group draw yesterday placed Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li in Group B together with Mousesports’ in form Xiang 'TH000' Huang, in addition to two of his team-mates in World Elite, Xiang 'Panxiang' Pan and Hao 'suhO' Su. Despite a first round win over their academy player Panxiang, Sky failed to get the better of Night elf duo suhO and TH000 in the following games.

After ESWC Asia Masters of Cheonan and GomTV World Invitational, it is the third time in the space of two months that the two-time World Cyber Games winner fell flat in the group stage.

In his recent blog entry, Sky expressed his frustration of his inability to act according to specific circumstances as he could all but think of planned strategy throughout a game. The national final for this year’s World Cyber Games is looming. Should him not recover from recent downturn, his dream of winning his third WCG title on home soil could be in danger.

In the meantime, TH000’s team-mate Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu advanced from Group A alongside group winner Nan 'ForDream' Xie, another World Elite academy player Wenrui 'Kenshin' Zeng and Lin 'Wulin' Wu overcame Haoyang 'Goblin' Jin in the tiebreaker in Group C to advance, while World Elite duo Xuwen 'InFi' Wang and Zhuo 'TeD' Zeng did not face much challenge in their advance from Group D.

Quarterfinals will get underway soon, but likely with concern to poor internet connection on the scene, there will be no live stream covering the event.