The # of players is reduced from 32 to 24 this time, with 8 seeded players having a bye.

The results so far:

Round 1
Mi Yuting beat Lee Changseok
Chen Qirui beat Hong Seongji
Tao Xinran beat Heo Yongho
Kang Dongyun beat Xie Erhao
Kim Myounghoon beat Xie Ke
Kim Jiseok beat Ida Atsushi
Tan Xiao beat Park Jinsol
Weon Seongjin beat Hsu Chiayuan


Round 2
Mi Yuting beat Lee Donghoon
Shin Jinseo beat Tao Xinran
Shin Minjun beat Kang Dongyun
Byun Sangil beat Kim Myounghoon
Park Junghwan beat Tan Xiao

Still to be played:
Ichiriki Ryo vs. Chen Qirui
Ke Jie vs. Weon Seongjin
Yang Dingxin vs. Kim Jiseok

Ichiriki Ryo beat Chen Qirui
Ke Jie beat Weon Seongjin
Yang Dingxin beat Kim Jiseok

Pretty amazing game between Ke and Weon, and Michael Redmond did a live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBUipQ1-VUo.

Quarterfinal matches:

Byun Sangil vs. Mi Yuting
Park Junghwan vs. Ke Jie
Shin Jinseo vs. Ichiriki Ryo
Shin Minjun vs. Yang Dingxin

One of the strongest quarterfinal fields we'll ever see, with 7 of the top 9 players at Gorating + the current LG Cup title holder.

Wow, Ke-Weon match was so crazy! Great broadcast by Redmond, though at 7 hours I spent a good amount of time fast-forwarding...