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:
Group A
NRG
Virtus.pro
HellRaisers
5POWER Group B
GambitTYLOO
BOOT-d[S]
Grayhound The opening matches at IEM Shanghai will be:
NRGHellRaisersGambitGrayhound vs. 5POWERVirtus.proBOOT-d[S]TYLOO 
Grayhound #39 Christopher 'dexter' Nong
Sean 'Gratisfaction' Kaiwai
Erdenetsogt 'erkaSt' GantulgaLiam 'malta' SchembriOllie 'DickStacy' Tierney 
Gambit #21 Dauren 'AdreN' Kystaubayev
Mihail 'Dosia' StolyarovRustem 'mou' TelepovAbay 'HObbit' KhassenovNikolay 'mir' Bityukov ![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] #55 Nevin 'splashske' AwBenedict 'Benkai' TanAnthony 'ImpressioN' LimKumaresan 'Tommy' RamaniAlikhan 'w1nt3r' Kopzhanov 
5POWER #90 Gan-Erdene 'dobu' BatboldBat-Enkh 'kabal' BatbayarZhiHai 'QKA' FuPeng 'xiaosaGe' SongWei 'shuadapai' Wang 
Virtus.pro #22 Filip 'NEO' KubskiJarosław 'pashaBiceps' JarząbkowskiPaweł 'byali' BielińskiMichał 'MICHU' MüllerPiotr 'morelz' Taterka 
NRG #8 
Damian 'daps' SteeleJacob 'FugLy' MedinaVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' Arnold
Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov 
HellRaisers #17 
Kirill 'ANGE1' KarasiowVladyslav 'bondik' Nechyporchuk
Özgür 'woxic' Eker
Bence 'DeadFox' Böröcz
Issa 'ISSAA' Murad 
TYLOO #12 Ke 'captainMo' LiuHui 'DD' Wu
Hansel 'BnTeT' FerdinandHaoWen 'somebody' XuKevin 'xccurate' Susanto (责任编辑：casebattles)
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