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.
BOOT-d[S] will face Malaysian side Frostfire in the quarter-finals 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:
04:00 -
5POWER vs.
Flash
07:00 -
MVP PK vs.
TNC
10:00 -
Chiefs vs.
NASR
13:00 -
BOOT-d[S] vs.
FrostFire

FrostFire #138 
Aiman 'aimaNNN' Azham
Ashraf 'acAp' Firdaus
Azim 'CHAPMAN' Shaharudin
Khalish 'd4v41' Rusyaidee
Shamir 'Subbey' Zaman 
NASR 
Love 'havoK' Paras
Obaid 'breAker' Al-Muhairi
Fayez 'cheK' Saif
Abdulaziz 'Nami' Al-Hammadi
Mohammed 'k1tkat' Al-Nuaimi 
Revolution 
Sergey 'malinger' Li
Aldiyar 'aldikk' Sembiev ![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] #65 ![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
Benjamin 'moxie' Kou
Anthony 'ImpressioN' Lim
Kumaresan 'Tommy' Ramani
Leslie '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' Koushik
Sabyasachi 'Antidote' Bose
Lukas 'yb' Gröning
Vishal 'haiVaan' Sharma 
5POWER #64 
Gan-Erdene 'dobu' Batbold
Bat-Enkh 'kabal' Batbayar
ZhiHai 'QKA' Fu
Peng 'xiaosaGe' Song
Wei 'shuadapai' Wang Time is adjusted to your selected timezone 
Flash #83 
YuLun 'Summer' Cai
YuanZhang 'Attacker' Sheng
QiFang 'Karsa' Su
KunHua 'LOVEYY' Bai
YangYang 'ayaya' Zheng 
Chiefs #86 
Mohammed 'MoeycQ' Tizani
Iyengaran 'IyeN' Raju
Jesse 'InfrequeNt' Barker
Sam 'flickz' Jones
Matthew 'Texta' O'Rourke 
MVP PK #32 
Keun-Chul 'solo' Kang
Min-Soo 'glow' Kim
Min-Seok 'zeff' Park
Hyun-Pyo 'XigN' Lee
Seon-Ho 'xeta' Son 
TNC #152 
Chris 'Pro.' Martir
Jim 'BORKUM' Timbreza
Riley 'witz' Go
Deko 'Papichulo' Evangelista
Kenny 'kenzyy' Cruz