



The May qualifier is one of four monthly tournaments that is part of the Asian Qualifier for GCS 2018 Summer.



The winner receives a small prize, as well as important points in the race to qualify for the Main Event.

Format [ edit ]

Preliminary rounds [ edit ]

The 32 players invited for the preliminary round.

Top 32 Asian players from the NetEase ladder at May 10th qualify for the preliminary rounds:

players are divided into 4 groups of 8 players each,

the groups are played as double elimination,

all matches are best-of-three,

top 4 qualify for the groupstage.

Groupstage [ edit ]

16 players are divided into 4 groups of 4 players each,

the groups are played as double elimination,

all matches are best-of-three,

top 2 qualify for the playoffs.

Playoff stage [ edit ]

The Playoffs are a double elimination bracket :

the winners of the 4 groups face the runner-ups,

semi-final losers are crossed into losers' round 2,

early rounds are best-of-3,

Losers' round 3, WB-Final and LB-Final are best-of-5,

Grand Final is best-of-7.

Preliminary rounds (32 into 16): group A: May 17th, group B: May 18th, group C: May 19th, group D: May 20th.

Groupstage (16 into 8) : May 24-25th

Playoffs: May 26-27th

Prize Pool [ edit ]

¥ 5,800 (≃ $ 908) are divided among participants as follows :

Results [ edit ]

Group Stage [ edit ]

Group A [ edit ] Semifinals Lyn 2 Colorful 1 Sok 0 WFZ 2 Winners' Finals Lyn 1 WFZ 2 1st qualified WFZ Losers' Round 1 Colorful 1 Sok 2 Losers' Finals Lyn 2 Sok 0 2nd qualified Lyn Group B [ edit ] Semifinals Moon 2 tbc_bm 0 Chaemiko 0 Fly100% 2 Winners' Finals Moon 1 Fly100% 2 1st qualified Fly100% Losers' Round 1 tbc_bm 1 Chaemiko 2 Losers' Finals Moon 1 Chaemiko 2 2nd qualified Chaemiko Group C [ edit ] Semifinals Infi 2 Zhou_Xixi 0 LawLiet 2 FoCuS 0 Winners' Finals Infi 0 LawLiet 2 1st qualified LawLiet Losers' Round 1 Zhou_Xixi 2 FoCuS 0 Losers' Finals Infi 2 Zhou_Xixi 1 2nd qualified Infi Group D [ edit ] Semifinals TH000 2 Free 0 Soin 1 Romantic 2 Winners' Finals TH000 2 Romantic 1 1st qualified TH000 Losers' Round 1 Free 0 Soin 2 Losers' Finals Romantic 2 Soin 1 2nd qualified Free Romantic and Soin have been disqualified. [1]

Playoffs [ edit ]

Quarterfinal LawLiet 2 Chaemiko 0 TH000 0 Lyn 2 Fly100% 2 Free 1 WFZ 2 Infi 1 Semifinals LawLiet 0 Lyn 2 Fly100% 2 WFZ 1 Winners' Finals Lyn 3 Fly100% 1 Losers' Round 1 Chaemiko 0 TH000 2 Free 0 Infi 2 Losers' Round 2 WFZ 2 TH000 1 LawLiet 2 Infi 0 Losers' Round 3 WFZ 1 LawLiet 3 Losers' Finals Fly100% 3 LawLiet 2 Grand Finals Lyn 4 Fly100% 1

Map statistics [ edit ]

VODs [ edit ]