Preview of the closed qualifiers for BLAST SLAM IX in China: format, rosters, and Day 1 schedule

Format

Bracket Seeding

• Quarterfinals:
  • Team Tidebound vs. Resp Gaming;
  • Team Resilience vs. ZENITH;
  • Xtreme Gaming vs. Cloud Dawning;
  • Yakult Brothers vs. Novus Gaming.

Team Rosters

• Guo “shiro” Xuan Yang
• Cheng “NothingToSay” Jinxiang
• Zhou “Yang” Haiyang
• Lin “planet” Hao
• Zhang “y`” Yiping

• Zhang “xiao8” Ning (coach)

• Wang “Ame” Chun-yu
• Ge “Xm” Hongcheng
• Nicholas “zeal” Lim
• Zhao “XinQ” Zixing
• Ye “BoBoKa” Zhibiao

• Wang “Maps” Yutian (coach)

• Lu “lou” Zhen
• Zhou “Emo” Yi
• Xiang “Beyond” Zhenghong
• Hu “Kaka” Liangzhi
• Jiang “Tianming” An

• Wang “Yakult” Hao (coach)

• Yang “Erika” Shaohan
• Shu “Echo” Ziliang
• Li “niu” Kongbo
• He “TK” Bo’yi
• Zhang “zzq” Ziqian

• Xie “Super” Junhao (coach)
• Cai “Lilian” Haonan (analyst)

• Wang “Ulu” Jiakai
• Tri “MamangDaya” Dayya Pamungkás
• Li “Xiang Yu” Longwu
• Tang “CatYou” Xiaolei
• Lloyd “LOyd” Jung

• Du “Monet” Peng
• snow
• Zheng “JT-” Junwen
• Federico “Rico” Ye
• pta

• ZQHY
• Gu “Han” Jiahan
• jyy
• Jiang “Chola” Shihao
• setsuna

• Sun “ukiyo” Haochen
• Ni “ButterflyEffect” Weize
• Xiao “Shengsi” Yihu
• Giulio “Juju” Gunawan
• Cui “qyqx” Chenyang

Schedule for Day 1 of Play

• 5:00 a.m. — Team Resilience vs. ZENITH;
• 08:00 — Yakult Brothers vs. Novus Gaming;
• 11:00 — Team Tidebound vs. Resp Gaming;
• 2:00 p.m. — Xtreme Gaming vs. Cloud Dawning.