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
NRG

Virtus.pro

HellRaisers

5POWER
Group B
Gambit

TYLOO

BOOT-d[S]

Grayhound
The opening matches at IEM Shanghai will be:

NRG

HellRaisers

Gambit

Grayhound vs.

5POWER
vs.

Virtus.pro
vs.

BOOT-d[S]
vs.

TYLOO


Grayhound #39


Christopher 'dexter' Nong

Sean 'Gratisfaction' Kaiwai

Erdenetsogt 'erkaSt' Gantulga

Liam 'malta' Schembri

Ollie 'DickStacy' Tierney


Gambit #21


Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev

Mihail 'Dosia' Stolyarov

Rustem 'mou' Telepov

Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov

Nikolay 'mir' Bityukov
![BOOT-d[S] BOOT-d[S]](https://img-cdn.hltv.org/teamlogo/A4xH0MX3yekEnWtPlXc-jM.png?ixlib=java-2.1.0&w=100&s=ec7508071cdfe241d505373773f81672)

BOOT-d[S] #55
![BOOT-d[S] BOOT-d[S]](https://img-cdn.hltv.org/teamlogo/A4xH0MX3yekEnWtPlXc-jM.png?ixlib=java-2.1.0&w=100&s=ec7508071cdfe241d505373773f81672)

Nevin 'splashske' Aw

Benedict 'Benkai' Tan

Anthony 'ImpressioN' Lim

Kumaresan 'Tommy' Ramani

Alikhan 'w1nt3r' Kopzhanov


5POWER #90


Gan-Erdene 'dobu' Batbold

Bat-Enkh 'kabal' Batbayar

ZhiHai 'QKA' Fu

Peng 'xiaosaGe' Song

Wei 'shuadapai' Wang


Virtus.pro #22


Filip 'NEO' Kubski

Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski

Paweł 'byali' Bieliński

Michał 'MICHU' Müller

Piotr 'morelz' Taterka



NRG #8



Damian 'daps' Steele

Jacob 'FugLy' Medina

Vincent 'Brehze' Cayonte

Ethan 'Ethan' Arnold

Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov


HellRaisers #17


Kirill 'ANGE1' Karasiow

Vladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchuk

Özgür 'woxic' Eker

Bence 'DeadFox' Böröcz

Issa 'ISSAA' Murad


TYLOO #12


Ke 'captainMo' Liu

Hui 'DD' Wu

Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand

HaoWen 'somebody' Xu

Kevin 'xccurate' Susanto
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