IEST 2007: China prelim first groupstage

The first stage of the Chinese qualifier for IEST was played yesterday. There were no huge surprises. Most the players that are well known in the western community made it through to the second group stage. Now the players will enter the second groupstage before single elimination.

When I said it was the first stage, that's not entirely true. There was a qualifier to get to here as well. It was split into a pro qualifier and an amateur qualifier. The most interesting thing here was that Phoenix66 played in the amateur one. On to the results.

IEST Chinese qualifiers 1st Group stage
Group A
Player	Win-Draw-Loss	Qualified
So.K-LK	1-1-0	Q
BeT.LeiLei	1-1-0	Q
Star.www	0-0-2
Group B
WE.Pj	1-2-0	Q
Yoke.Net_Zk	1-2-0	Q
CWS.RushGoon	1-1-1
BeT.Vulture	0-1-2
Group C
Shine	1-1-0	Q
Ehome.Super	1-1-0	Q
Star.com	0-0-2
Group D
Chinatttt	3-0-0	Q
[SvS]Fengzi	2-0-1	Q
[S.Top]Beckham	1-0-2
=Y.J=Stronger	0-0-3
Group E
BeT.Legend	2-1-0	Q
=PNZ=Hyandpp	0-3-0	Q
SCI)Dp_R	0-2-1
Yoke.Net_BugZerg	0-2-1
Group F
[S.Top]Phoenix66	2-1-0	Q
Yoke.Net_Zdy	2-0-1	Q
ZzR	0-2-1
ReGoG	0-1-2
Group G
GoldTel.621	1-2-0	Q
MYM.F91	1-2-0	Q
=A.G=GoL	0-3-0
GP).Eva	0-1-2
Group H
=Y.J=JiFeng	1-1-0	Q
=PNZ=OnlyCc	1-1-0	Q
SexyFrie	1-1-0
[S.Top]Cos	0-3-0

In the groups that required it there were played best of one tiebreakers. The players who qualified now made it into the second group stage and after that there's single elimination. As you can see in the table to the right there's not only prizes in the main tournament, but also in the qualifier. The hardest group was perhaps group D and that was also the only group that saw a player, Beckham, who is really well known to the western community get knocked out.

Second group stage
Group A	Group B
Shine	[S.Top]Phoenix66
So.K-LK	BeT.Legend
[SvS]Fengzi	Yoke.Net_Zk
Yoke.Net_Zdy	=PNZ=Hyandpp
Group C	Group D
=Y.J=JiFeng	WE.Pj
Chinatttt	GoldTel.621
=PNZ=OnlyCc	Ehome.Super
[S.Top]LeiLei	MYM.F91

Lets all hope that a few of the Zerg players make it through to the grand final as MYM.Blackman is the only Zerg there so far. GosuGamers will keep you updated on this tournament as it progresses.

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