A while back, there was voting for international players to attend IEST, and now the player list has been released including many top notch players from Europe and China.

In 2007, IEST was one of the biggest tournaments not only in China, but the whole world, but lack of sponsors kept the tournament from happening in 2008, now it returns to Beijing, immediately following WCG Grand Finals in Chengdu.

The process of adding Chinese players to the tournament is long and strenuous. They hold local qualifiers for a national tournament. The location of the ten tournaments are Shenyang, Wuhan, Nanjin, Beijing, Jinan, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Chengdu.

The most exciting qualifiers thus far have been in Hangzhou and Chengdu. Hangzhou's final came down to Weilang 'Fly100%' Lu vs  Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li which has become the ultimate rivalry in Chinese E-Sports. Sky was the victor 2-1, but World Elite's head manager King said he felt Fly100% underestimated Sky in the final.

Later, Fly100% won a local qualifier in Chengdu over Infi, but both players advanced to the national final through this tournament.

Thus far, the Chinese players qualifier are Xiang 'Th000' Huang, Zhou 'TeD' Zeng, Shenghui 'Future' Li, Nan 'ForDream' Xie, Haibo 'xiaoC' Zhang, Zhen 'Hopestar' Xu, Li Bai Yong. The top two players from each local qualifier will play in the national qualifier, where twenty players will battle for the four slots in IEST.

The international players who are invited to IEST via fan voting are:

 EG.Grubby
 MYM]LucifroN
ToD[M]
 WMF.Moon
 SK.Lyn
 MYM]ReMinD
 SK.Check
 EG.Happy

IEST begins November 20th and lasts for just one day as it comes to its end on 21st with the grand final. A Chinese live stream for all matches will be provided. This makes many players stay in China after the World Cyber Games in order to play this event in Beijing.

The prize money pool is not announced yet though myMYM.com will be present later on with more first hand information.