IEM Shanghai groups drawn
The groups for IEM Shanghai 2018, which offers $250,000 in cash prizes, have been revealed.
The groups for the last significant LAN tournament before the player break have been announced. IEM Shanghai 2018 will take place on August 1-6 with eight teams in attendance.
The tournament in China will have two groups of four teams with a GSL format. The top two teams from both groups will move on the the single-elimination, best-of-three playoffs at the end of which the champions will earn $125,000.

Group A features NRG, HellRaisers, and Virtus.pro while Gambit and TYLOO headline Group B. The opening matches in the group stage will be best-of-ones while the rest of the games get played as best-of-threes.
The full group draw can be found below:
The opening matches at IEM Shanghai will be:
IEM Shanghai 2018






Kyrylo 'ANGE1' Karasiow
Özgür 'woxic' Eker
Bence 'DeadFox' Böröcz
Issa 'ISSAA' Murad
Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov
Sean 'Gratisfaction' Kaiwai
Erdenetsogt 'erkaSt' Gantulga
Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand
Damian 'daps' Steele
Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov

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