Just like in previous years, ESWC will split teams and players into seeding pools to help decide the groups. WC3 will be split into five pools: top seeds, high seeds, medium seeds, seeds and the euphemistically named "challengers."

From there the players will be split into four groups of seven. Each group will have one randomly drawn member of each seed pool and three randomly drawn players from the challenger pool. The top three players from each group will then go on to a second group stage.

The full list of seedings looks like this:

Top seeds
Sung Sik 'ReminD' Kim
June 'Lyn' Park
Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang
Manuel 'GrubbY' Schenkhuizen

High seeds
Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu
Hyo Sub 'FoCuS' Eom
Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin
Pedro 'LucifroN' Moreno Durán

Medium seeds
Jiankai 'Yumiko' Yu
Thomas 'ThomasG' Glinski
Marcus 'Thorzain' Eklöf
Juan 'VortiX' Moreno Durán

Seeds
Lin 'Wulin' Wu
Nikita 'Nicker' Pomadov
Vincent 'Monster' Lao
Daniel 'Xlord' Spenst

Challengers
Alexandr 'VeryB1gman' Syomin
Heinrich 'S.o.K.o.L' Rennert
Viktor 'p1nke' Gregurek
Aleksandar 'Aca' Zivkovic
William 'SyDe' Rochet
Shahriar 'Demigod' Shaki
Przemek 'Paladyn' Wadoń
'Tas'
Valentin 'Majestic' Kosorovcev
Jos 'Zerter' Buyvoets

The actual groups themselves are due for release tomorrow (June 28).