Astazi vom afla componenta grupelor din primul tur preliminar. La start s-au aliniat 18 echipe din cele 19 calificate. Cele 4 echipe care vor fi cap de serie, la tragerea grupelor ce va avea loc astazi incepand cu ora 17, sunt urmatoarele: HELIOS (Japonia), Gliders (Australia), Oxsy (Romania) si Hermes (Iran). Restul echipelor se vor alege aleator, astfel ca in final vom avea doua grupe a cate 5 echipe fiecare si doua grupe cu 4 echipe. Chiar daca dupa acest prim tur nimeni nu pleaca acasa, obtinerea unui loc bun in aceasta prima runda ofera un traseu mai usor in continuare. O mare surpriza a competitiei de anul acesta este neparticiparea echipei campioane en-titre. Echipa WrightEagle lipseste in acest an pentru prima data dupa 17 participari consecutive incepute in anul 1999. Pentru ca anul acesta echipa noastra este din nou cap de serie, speram cu totii la mai mult. Hai Oxsy!
Lista echipelor calificate pentru acest turneu, in liga Soccer Simulation 2D, poate fi vazuta mai jos:
Gliders2016, University of Sydney and CSIRO, Australia
ITAndroids, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil
FCP_GPR_2016, UTFPR (Federal University of Technology – Parana – Brazil) / University of Porto / University of Minho / University of Aveiro – Portugal, Brazil and Portugal
CSU_Yunlu, Central South University, China
HfutEngine2016, HeFei University of Technology, China
MT2016, Key Lab of Network and Intelligent Information Processing, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Hefei University, China
LeftEagle, AAST, Egypt
FRA-UNIted, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
CYRUS, Shiraz University Of Technology, Iran
FURY, Atomic Energy High School, Iran
Hermes, Alameh Helli Highschool, Iran
MarliK, Hormozgan University, Iran
Shiraz, Shiraz, Iran
Soccereus, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Ziziphus, Islamic Azad University of South Tehran Branch, Iran
HELIOS2016, Fukuoka University, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
HillStone, Tamagawa University, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
Ri-one, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Oxsy, Compa-IT, Romania