The following players advanced to main tournament.

Korea; Park Younghoon, Han Woonggyu, Song Taegon, Seo Bongsoo, Oh Jeonga,
Lee Minjin
China; Niu Yutian, Qiu Jun, Li Xuanhao, Lian Xiao, Fan Yunruo, Gu Lingyi, Wu Guangya, Tuo Jiaxi, Shi Yue, Ke Jie, Tang Weixing
Japan; Komatsu Hideki
World: Eric Lui

Seeded;
Korea:Park Junghwan, Kim Jiseok, Lee Sedol, Choi Cheolhan, Cho Hanseung, Kang Dongyoon, Ahn Seongjoon
China:Chen Yaoye, Zhou Rouyang, Gu Li
Japan: Yuki Satoshi, Takao Shinji

Wild card (selected by sponsor)
Chang Hao

Main tournament
Date 9/2/13
Place Shanghai
Method Double elimination

I wonder how Japan will fair in this tournament. It's noticeable that Iyama Yuta isn't playing, but Takao also did well in the LG cup, so maybe he can do well in the Samsung cup as well. I also hope Choi Cheolhan does well too, I've always liked watching him play.

I always wonder where this "Chun Guangya" thing came from initially. This Chinese player is 邬光亚 (Wu Guangya, see http://senseis.xmp.net/?WuGuangya). The incorrect pronunciation is not even close.

I've copied that name from igokisen. I wasn't sure if it was correct.
It is fixed.

Eric Lui from the USA also has a seat in this event.

I posted another thread before I saw this thread

Korean news: http://baduk.or.kr/info/report_view.asp?gul_no=784

Well,it is regrettable that Iyama doesn't play. I also hope to see Koro Rin, as his recent performance is quite good, beat Fan Tingyu in LG Cup,currently lead Iyama in Gosei Tournament and make through the challenger deciding's match (lost to Iyama) of the Meijin.

Maybe these 2 don't play because there is a conflict with the Gosei Tournament (they could reschedule that tournament in another day...)

However, both Takao and Yuki did good in recent international match. The former advanced to the quaterfinal of LG Cup and the latter is the only hope left of Japan in Milky Cup.

Let's wait and see.

It is very likely to also interfere with Meijin which is hard to reschedule since they book facilities in advance and many people plan around those times being fixed.

Well,I assume that's why top Japanese pro don't play international preliminaries, because they won't be sure whether they could participate the final stage.

And therefore the representative team is decided to avoid conflict with domestic tournament?

Iyama is still looking for his 7-crown,so it seems that we won't see him very active in international tournament?

Seo Bongsoo is in, who some people posted some interest about back in this thread: http://lifein19x19.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=8679