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. 5POWERvs. Virtus.provs. BOOT-d[S]vs. 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 |
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