The groups of the $100,000 tournament have come to a close with eight teams making it to the quarter-finals, which have been drawn by the organizers. The group stage, played in a GSL format, saw 5POWER, Chiefs, MVP PK, and BOOT-d[S] clinch first places in their respective groups on day one of the event taking place in Shanghai.  On day two, the competition briefly came to a halt when OpTic India's Nikhil "forsaken" Kumawat was caught cheating during their match against Revolution, and the team was immediately disqualified from the tournament. The tournament continued with the elimination and deciding matches, from which NASR, Flash, FrostFire, and TNC came out on top, securing the other four spots in the quarter-finals. Afterward, the bracket was revealed by the organizers, and it looks as follows:
  FrostFire #138 Aiman 'aimaNNN' AzhamAshraf 'acAp' FirdausAzim 'CHAPMAN' ShaharudinKhalish 'd4v41' RusyaideeShamir 'Subbey' Zaman   NASR  Love 'havoK' ParasObaid 'breAker' Al-Muhairi Fayez 'cheK' SaifAbdulaziz 'Nami' Al-HammadiMohammed 'k1tkat' Al-Nuaimi   Revolution Sergey 'malinger' LiAldiyar 'aldikk' Sembiev ![BOOT-d[S]](https://img-cdn.hltv.org/teamlogo/A4xH0MX3yekEnWtPlXc-jM.png?ixlib=java-2.1.0&w=100&s=ec7508071cdfe241d505373773f81672 "BOOT-d[S]")  BOOT-d[S] #65 Nevin 'splashske' AwBenjamin 'moxie' KouAnthony 'ImpressioN' LimKumaresan 'Tommy' RamaniLeslie 'Bobosaur' Soen Nikhil 'forsaken' Kumawat  Age: 23 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.31 Maps played: 27 KPR: 0.89 DPR: 0.62  OpTic India #120 Agneya 'Marzil' KoushikSabyasachi 'Antidote' Bose Lukas 'yb' GröningVishal 'haiVaan' Sharma   5POWER #64  Gan-Erdene 'dobu' BatboldBat-Enkh 'kabal' BatbayarZhiHai 'QKA' FuPeng 'xiaosaGe' SongWei 'shuadapai' Wang Time is adjusted to your selected timezone  Flash #83 YuLun 'Summer' CaiYuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengQiFang 'Karsa' SuKunHua 'LOVEYY' BaiYangYang 'ayaya' Zheng   Chiefs #86 Mohammed 'MoeycQ' TizaniIyengaran 'IyeN' RajuJesse 'InfrequeNt' BarkerSam 'flickz' JonesMatthew 'Texta' O'Rourke   MVP PK #32 Keun-Chul 'solo' KangMin-Soo 'glow' KimMin-Seok 'zeff' ParkHyun-Pyo 'XigN' LeeSeon-Ho 'xeta' Son   TNC #152 Chris 'Pro.' MartirJim 'BORKUM' TimbrezaRiley 'witz' GoDeko 'Papichulo' EvangelistaKenny 'kenzyy' Cruz |