The $100,000 event taking place in Shanghai, China kicks off tomorrow with the group stage action.

The sixteen team tournament will be held from October 19-22, featuring teams from various Asian countries. The last year's champions ViCi will be taking part to defend their title and take home $40,000.

Savage & company will be in Group B

The action will kick off with four groups of four teams. The group stage will have a GSL format with best-of-one opening, elimination, and winners’ matches . The decider games will be played as best-of-threes.

* Update:vRn were supposed to be in Group A but their visa issues prevented them from travelling. SCARZ Absolute, who were set to face the Pakistani team in their opening match, will directly advance to the winners' match.

You can find the groups below:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Kings	ViCi	Recca	BOOT-d[S]
KhARUM	Fire Dragoon	UTM	Entity
SCARZ Absolute	Beyond	NASR	Eclipse
vRn	TALON	Flash	Mineski

The top two teams from each group will move on to the best-of-three, single elimination playoffs. Saturday will feature the quarter-final games while the semis and the grand final will be played on Sunday.

The full schedule is below:

Thursday, October 19th
05:00	ViCi	vs. Beyond	BO1
05:00	Fire Dragoon	vs. TALON	BO1
06:30	BOOT-d[S]	vs. Entity	BO1
06:30	Eclipse	vs. Mineski	BO1
08:00	Recca	vs. NASR	BO1
08:00	UTM	vs. Flash	BO1
09:30	Kings	vs. KhARUM	BO1
Friday, October 20th
04:00	Group B winners' match		BO1
04:00	Group D winners' match		BO1
05:30	Group C winners' match		BO1
05:30	SCARZ Absolute	vs. KhARUM/Kings	BO1
07:00	Group B elimination match		BO1
07:00	Group D elimination match		BO1
08:30	Group C elimination match		BO1
08:30	Group A elimination match		BO1
10:00	Group A decider match		BO3
10:00	Group B decider match		BO3
13:00	Group C decider match		BO3
13:00	Group D decider match		BO3
Saturday, October 21st
04:00	Quarter-final #1		BO3
07:00	Quarter-final #2		BO3
10:00	Quarter-final #3		BO3
13:00	Quarter-final #4		BO3
Sunday, October 22nd
05:00	Semi-final #1		BO3
08:00	Semi-final #2		BO3
12:00	Grand final		BO3

The $100,000 in offer will be distributed accordingly:

1. - $40,000
2. - $20,000
3-4. - $8,000
5-8. - $4,000
9-16. - $1,000