IEM Shanghai groups drawn

27-7-2018 10:03

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.

Dosia's Gambit will compete in Group B

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:

Group A

Group B

The opening matches at IEM Shanghai will be:

vs.

5POWER
vs.

Virtus.pro
vs.

BOOT-d[S]
vs.

TYLOO

GL VP xD

2018-07-27 10:04

17 replies

A tournament VP could win for once

2018-07-27 10:06

11 replies

nt, they going out in groups for sure

10 replies

Only tier 3 teams there, I still have hope for them sometimes ;P

2018-07-27 10:07

9 replies

Gambit, HR, tylul and nrg>>>>vp

2018-07-27 10:14

8 replies

Lol Snax was noy needed for them to take down TyLoo it was byali and now we have morelz and MICHU NRG atm sucks Gambit? You serious? You can't compare them to any team even to VP I can only agree with VP

2018-07-27 10:21

6 replies

we will see theyll probably lose against grayhound too

2018-07-27 10:22

2 replies

Grayhound In my own opinion is an amazing Team i expect them to even beat Gambit but VP until they will not comeback to 2016 times (DH Bucharest) they will be shutdown at this point

2018-07-27 10:55

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Dickstacy top1

2018-07-27 13:05

HR>Tyloo>Gambit>NRG>Grayhound>Virtus.pro>Boot/5power

2018-07-27 10:33

gambit beat hr 2-3 weeks ago without coach and hr with stand in

2018-07-27 11:16

2018-07-27 11:13

GAMBOT sucks LUL

2018-07-27 14:48

stop inviting VP

vp=viewers,crowd,sold tickets,sponsors,community (specially russian)=money for ESL

2018-07-27 19:48

HR and NRG in most cases will qualify from group stage So ... I think nt VP...

2018-07-27 10:13

if ( woxic == not_able ) win = false;

2018-07-27 12:38

Your coding skills are shit, would not hire you. Expected from Poland.

2018-07-28 22:56

Virtus pro ftl

Ezz for NRG!

2018-07-27 10:05

wack

rip vp

Nah, you looked at the matchups ;)

VP is dead lul

ez for NRG

NICE. VERY GOOD GROUP FOR TYLOO! <3 TYLOO YONGYUAN ZAI WO XIN ZHONG <3

5 replies

<3 i love my ruski friendo

2018-07-27 12:52

Wtf slav cingcong

2018-07-27 13:18

3 replies

Why im cant be TyLoo's fan? What's wrong with this world?

2018-07-27 14:55

Hey bro. Just signed up so I can reply to u. everyone can be TyLoo's fan. Don't care what they say. This world is good in most cases. :P

2018-07-27 15:58

support u, dont think about shit

2018-07-28 05:06

EZ4VP

first win tournament for vp this year INC boyzx

I aren't think that

2018-07-27 10:19

Pasha literally tweeted that They have given up lol.

2018-07-27 10:25

VP is almost worst team in this tournament

2018-07-27 10:35

START THE PLOW!

2018-07-27 10:08

Group B...

2018-07-27 10:09

RIP VP [*]

2018-07-27 10:10

Lets go Tylul my bois

2018-07-27 10:11

tylel

2018-07-27 12:53

@hltv for future reference can you fix the matchup section of the article because in mobile it isnt properly aligned, which causes the page to be 4 rows longer. So in mobile i see this: NRg Hr Gambit Grayhound Vs 5power Vs vp Vs kinguin Vs tyloo I can still see the correct version if i tilt my phone 90degrees but still..

2018-07-27 10:12

Get a better phone,it normal for me

2018-07-27 17:34

Xiaomi mi6, that's a good phone. The issue isnt phone quality, but probably scaling Edit:i dont know how you could possibly think a better phone will fix this

2018-07-27 17:44

Tier 3 tournament

Omg, group B is so fckng rigged for Tyloo

looks good for TyLoo i think they will win it

NRG HR TYLOO GAMBIT

ez for tylul

2018-07-27 10:16

ppl talking shit about VP but they are actually shit

2018-07-27 10:17

TIER 3?

2018-07-27 10:20

flair checks out

2018-07-27 11:15

VP gonna get raped by my asian brethren

Ez tournament for gambit, these teams Cant put up a fight vs them. 2-0 final with adren winning The MVP, cuz that biatch be crazy in Shanghai.

2018-07-27 10:24

The clash of tier7 teams

Ez katka for Gambit

2018-07-27 10:31

+1 go cykas

2018-07-27 11:09

this tourney shouldnt even have intel brand in it, no top teams there

I hope VP pull off a miracle.

2018-07-27 10:58

They will pull out from the tournament very early

2018-07-27 11:46

ez grayhound

2018-07-27 11:06

group b lul

2018-07-27 11:07

Prize pool seems low for a tier 1 tournament so I'm glad they still managed to get all of the top teams, it should be entertaining :-)

R I G G E D

NRG, Virtus.pro, BOOT-d [S], TyLoo

2018-07-27 12:16

Ez 4 Gambot

2018-07-27 12:32

Ez 4 VP

2018-07-27 12:50

tyloo win this tournament

2018-07-27 12:59

NRG vs Tyloo final

Tyloo again with the easiest group xaaxaxaxa

2018-07-27 13:15

Tyloo to be the finalist.

2018-07-27 13:16

Rigged for tyloo to get to playoffs, ay lmao. Hope they lose to greyhound

2018-07-27 13:43

possible?

2018-07-29 18:45

HR without GODxic. :/

2018-07-27 14:42

For VP we cheer for VP we cry

2018-07-27 15:01

VP will lose 0-2 to 5POWER

2018-07-27 18:47

NRG or Hellraisers will win this IEM.

2018-07-27 20:52

#GOGOVP

2018-07-27 22:18

FINAL: Vp vs NRG 2-1 for NRG

2018-07-28 09:03

Lets GO Grayhound!!! I'll go to see you in Shanghai and I wish you can sign for me!!!

2018-07-28 11:10

Mental Aussie? XD

2018-07-30 07:41

NRG, HR, Tyloo, Grayhound

2018-07-28 20:43

tyloo will win this IEM

2018-07-29 18:46

1. TyLoo/NRG 2. NRG/TyLoo 3rd - 4th . HellRaisers & Grayhound 5th - 6th. Gambit & 5POWER 7th - 8th. BOOT-d[S] & Virtus.pro

2018-07-29 22:52

1 TyLoo 2 HellRaisers 3 NRG 4 Virtus.pro 5 Gambit 6 Grayhound 7 5POWER 8 BOOT-d[S]

2018-07-30 13:10