The players will be drawn against their respective opponents prior to the kickoff of this phase. They will play against each other on best of three basis through a double elimination playoffs. The 4 winners of second round will join a similar number of automatic entrants in the individual knockout phase.

Fixtures

5 January 2009 09:00 - 16:00 (CET) - Round 1
6 January 2009 11:00 - 16:00 (CET) - Round 2

Lineup
Hyeong Ju 'Check' Lee
Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin
Zhen 'HopeStar' Xu
Mykhaylo 'HoT' Novopashyn
Xuwen 'InFi' Wang
Yanchao 'Lyc' Lu
Du Seop 'WhO' Chang
Lin 'Wulin' Wu

Schedule
Upper bracket start: 09:30, Mon 5th
Lower bracket start: 12:00, Mon 5th


Attending players
Zhen 'HopeStar' Xu
Xuwen 'InFi' Wang
Yanchao 'Lyc' Lu
Lin 'Wulin' Wu
Hyeong Ju 'Check' Lee
Du Seop 'WhO' Chang
Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin
Mykhaylo 'HoT' Novopashyn