Today, two weeks before the start of the mega event, the organizers have released the groups of WC3 players. The participants will compete in Best-of-One. The top two of each group will advance to the Round of 8 double-elimination playoffs, where they can play for the record prize money.
 
Group A
Jiankai 'Yumiko' Yu
Xixi 'Zhou_Xixi' Zhou
Tuo 'fantafiction' Ji
Daniel 'Cechi' Cechmanek
    
Group B
Xuwen 'Infi' Wang
Long 'three' Bo
Zi Xiang '120' Guo
Nikita 'nicker' Pomadov
 

Group C
Xiang 'TH000' Huang
Jingyang 'EleGaNt' Ren
Sergei 'HawK' Shcherbakov
Ilya 'Sonik' Malysh
  
Group D
Weiliang 'Fly100%' Lu
Zhang 'ZDR' Day
Fazhen 'WFZ' Wu
Richard 'WarchiefRich' Stuttard
  
 

Prizemoney:
1st place: ~ $48,760
2nd place: ~ $24,380
3rd place: ~$16,250
4th-8th place: ~$1,625