The groups for the IEST Grand Finals have been drawn with the 12 players being placed into four groups of three. Two players will progress from each group.

SK's June 'Lyn' Park has drawn Yoan 'ToD' Merlo and Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu in Group C. Fly100% put Lyn out of the WCG in the semi-finals last week and is also the IEM Chengdu and IEF champion. Hyeong Ju 'Check' Lee has drawn what appears to be the easiest group of the tournament as he faces off against Chenglong 'Sai' Zhou and Kim 'SaSe' Hammar in Group A.

Group A
Chenglong 'Sai' Zhou
Hyeong Ju 'Check' Lee
Kim 'SaSe' Hammar

Group B
Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li
Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang
Manuel 'GrubbY' Schenkhuizen

Group C
Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu
June 'Lyn' Park
Yoan 'ToD' Merlo

Group D
Hao 'suhO' Su
Sung Sik 'ReminD' Kim
Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin

Matchups and maps:

Sai vs Check/Sky vs Moon/Fly vs Lyn/SuHo vs ReMinD (No.1 vs No.2)
-Maps TM/SV/TR

Sai vs Sase/Sky vs Grubby/Fly vs Tod/Suho vs Happy (No.1 vs No.3)
-Maps MV/TR/EI

Check vs Sase/Moon vs Grubby/Lyn vs Tod/Remind vs Happy (No.2 vs No.3)
-Maps SV/EI/MV

WB First round/LB First round
-Maps EI/TM/SV

WB 2nd round/LB 2nd round
-Maps MV/TR/EI

WB Final
-Maps MV/TR/EI

LB Final & 3rd Place decider
-Maps MV/SV/TR

GrandFinal
-Maps MV/TM/EI (same maps if there is a 2nd bo3)