Weiliang "Fly100% Lu and Xuwen "Infi" Wang will go head to head in the International eSports Festival tomorrow. This after both going easily through the group stage and pulling through the eight-man playoff.
The Chinese invitational event had in the end 19 players split up in four groups. While somewhat overshadowed by the International eSports Federation tournament in Korea, boasting with a "Olympic" touch, the tournament still held some of the very top players from Asia mixed with some European stardom.
Infi went through the brackets defeating Lyn and TH000 to reach the final, while Fly100% outplayed Blast and Nicker.
TH000 defeated Nicker in the third place match, making sure top three placings go to home nation China.
The tournament had invited in the former Swedish Night Elf superstar Kim "SaSe" Hammar and the French Human virtuoso Yoan "ToD" Merlo. Sadly for their hopeful fans, neither of them advanced to the playoffs, albeit ToD defeating group winner Dong-Hwan "ViOlet" Kim. SaSe won against ToD, but lost his remaining matches.
One of the favorites to go all the way, Jae-Ho "Moon" Jang, was surprisingly eliminated already in the group stage. This after having lost to both June "Lyn" Park and Xiang "TH000" Huang in what was labeled the group of death. Advancing instead were TH000 and Lyn, leaving Moon and Sky behind as spectators for the playoff.
Zhuo "TeD" Zeng, ranked 14th in the GosuGamers ranking, also missed the playoff after losing to Orc player Yuzong "E3_Blast" Wang.
GOSUBET: Place your bets on Infi vs. Fly100%, taking place tomorrow morning at 04:00 CET.
Links
GosuGamers.net - Group stage results
GosuGamers.net - Playoff results