ZeroPanda is good to go, with all 5 members getting their visas. The other Chinese representation is a Frankenstein team, with members from eStar Gaming and Super Perfect Team.
Last year at BlizzCon, China's strongest team, eStar Gaming, was unable to attend due to players not being able to obtain visas. This meant that a team had to be constructed from players who could obtain visas in order to have two Chinese teams. This is one of the main reasons why last year's BlizzCon was not considered definitive proof that Cloud9 was the best team in the world.
Fortunately, this year that won't be a problem...kind of. According to this reddit thread, ZeroPanda will be at full strength at BlizzCon, as they all were able to obtain visas. However, Super Perfect Team was able to lock down visas for only two of the five players. In light of this, Netease and Blizzard has negotiated three eStar Gaming members, XingC, Tiger and Tumi to join them.
This 'new' team are definitely full of talent and international experience, as the three members of eStar Gaming played at both the Spring and Summer Global Championship. Seeing that the team was thrown together in a hurry though, team synergy may be lacking, and that is not something to be taken lightly.
On the other hand, the Frankenstein Chinese team at BlizzCon performed surprisingly well, knocking out Tempo Storm (back when it was a North American Team).
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