Qualified Players for the 2018 World Championships

The following is a list of players who qualified for the 2018 Pokémon VGC World Championships! At the conclusion of a long, hard-fought season, these players have performed exceptionally enough to earn their spot at the World Championships. As shown below, players in different regions had different Championship Points requirements to earn invites to the World Championships. 

Below are the players who met their region's requirements. Players who finished top 4 or better at the 2017 World Championships earned a Day 1 invite to the 2018 World Championships. Players who earned Day 2 invites also received paid trips to compete and represent their country at the World Championships.

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US and Canada

Players were required to earn at least 400 Championship Points to qualify for Day 1 of the World Championships. Players who finished in the top 8 qualified for Day 2 meaning they would start playing on Saturday instead of Friday.

#	FLAG	PLAYER	CP	INVITE
1		Jeremy Rodrigues	1782 CP	Day 2
2		Carson Confer	1750 CP	Day 2
3		Alberto Lara	1704 CP	Day 2
4		Ashton Cox	1670 CP	Day 2
5		Stephen Mea	1343 CP	Day 2
6		Justin Crubaugh	1260 CP	Day 2
7		Brady Smith	1158 CP	Day 2
8		Paul Chua	1061 CP	Day 2
9		Nick Navarre	1002 CP	Day 1
10		Alex Underhill	960 CP	Day 1
11		James Baek	840 CP	Day 1
12		Brian Youm	827 CP	Day 1
13		Leonard Craft III	818 CP	Day 1
14		Matt Tidd	799 CP	Day 1
15		Justin Burns	712 CP	Day 1
16		Matthew Greaves	710 CP	Day 1
17		Dylan Salvanera	681 CP	Day 1
18		Jake Muller	622 CP	Day 1
19		Fiona Szymkiewicz	600 CP	Day 1
20		Zheyuan Huang	580 CP	Day 1
21		Brendan Zheng	579 CP	Day 1
22		Tommy Cooleen	575 CP	Day 1
23		Daniel Thorpe	571 CP	Day 1
24		Joseph Selmer	564 CP	Day 1
25		Jackson Finch	551 CP	Day 1
26		Ben Grissmer	549 CP	Day 1
27		Kevin Swastek	537 CP	Day 1
28		Patrick Smith	531 CP	Day 1
29		Corey Esmeier	522 CP	Day 1
30		Kamaal Harris	504 CP	Day 1
31		Jean-Marc Hébert	503 CP	Day 1
32		Bridger Snow	496 CP	Day 1
33		Don Czech	489 CP	Day 1
34		Mark Elson	487 CP	Day 1
35		Brandon Meckley	484 CP	Day 1
36		Ethan Simpson	479 CP	Day 1
37		Nathan Wright	477 CP	Day 1
38		Giovanni Costa	477 CP	Day 1
39		River Davis	472 CP	Day 1
40		Jake Smith	472 CP	Day 1
41		Ben Omnes-Norton	467 CP	Day 1
42		William Marks	459 CP	Day 1
43		Demitrios Kaguras	47 CP	Day 1
44		Greg Rowson	457 CP	Day 1
45		Wolfe Glick	455 CP	Day 1
46		Adam Nguyen	455 CP	Day 1
47		Justin Frys	452 CP	Day 1
48		Daravone Souphommanychanh	449 CP	Day 1
49		Gary Qian	445 CP	Day 1
50		Chuppa Cross IV	442 CP	Day 1
51		Adrian Sigler	437 CP	Day 1
52		Raghav Malaviya	437 CP	Day 1
53		Jake Skurchak	437 CP	Day 1
54		Nicholas Borghi	434 CP	Day 1
55		Emilio Estrada	433 CP	Day 1
56		Martin Gajdosz	431 CP	Day 1
57		Nathaniel Innocenti	430 CP	Day 1
58		Collin Heier	427 CP	Day 1
59		Hugo Cortez	426 CP	Day 1
60		Alvin Hidayat	425 CP	Day 1
61		Diana Bros	425 CP	Day 1
62		Patrick Donegan	422 CP	Day 1
63		Cedric Bernier	420 CP	Day 1
64		Rajan Bal	418 CP	Day 1
65		Kyle Houston	418 CP	Day 1
66		Sandy Martinez	417 CP	Day 1
67		Emilio Forbes	416 CP	Day 1
68		Jeremy Odena	415 CP	Day 1
69		Alexandre Lebel	415 CP	Day 1
70		Allan Martinez	415 CP	Day 1
71		Emily Golub	414 CP	Day 1
72		Logan Mazur	414 CP	Day 1
73		Nick Sefranek	414 CP	Day 1
74		Jeremy Shacket	413 CP	Day 1
75		William Hall	412 CP	Day 1
76		James Eakes	410 CP	Day 1
77		Sébastien Biagé	409 CP	Day 1
78		Jonathan Evans	408 CP	Day 1
79		Riley Factura	407 CP	Day 1
80		Karim Dabliz	407 CP	Day 1
81		Mihrab Samad	406 CP	Day 1
82		Alex Collins	405 CP	Day 1
83		Andrew Nowak	404 CP	Day 1
84		Case Bongirne	404 CP	Day 1
85		Alex Williams	403 CP	Day 1
86		Nate Munroe	401 CP	Day 1
87		Tyler Miller	401 CP	Day 1
88		William Sepesi	Day 1: Top 4 Worlds (SR)
89		Beau Berg	Day 1: Top 4 Worlds (SR)

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Europe

Players were required to earn at least 300 Championship Points to qualify for Day 1 of the World Championships. Players who finished in the top 16 qualified for Day 2 meaning they would start playing on Saturday instead of Friday.

#	FLAG	PLAYER	CP	INVITE
1		Alessio Yuri Boschetto	2272 CP	Day 2
2		Nico Davide Cognetta	1439 CP	Day 2
3		Alex Gómez	1349 CP	Day 2
4		Arash Ommati	1345 CP	Day 2
5		Eduardo Cunha	1286 CP	Day 2
6		Alessio Vinciguerra	1248 CP	Day 2
7		Jamie Boyt	1200 CP	Day 2
8		Flavio Del Pidio	1175 CP	Day 2
9		Michele Gavelli	1044 CP	Day 2
10		Eric Rios	1035 CP	Day 2
11		Jens Arne Mækinen	975 CP	Day 2
12		Davide Cauteruccio	966 CP	Day 2
13		Andrea di Francesco	963 CP	Day 2
14		Luca Lussignoli	961 CP	Day 2
15		Barry Anderson	956 CP	Day 2
16		Simone Sanvito	953 CP	Day 2
17		Lukas Muller	952 CP	Day 1
18		Jonas Wiegel	858 CP	Day 1
19		Serkan Tas	811 CP	Day 1
20		Leonardo Bonanomi	735 CP	Day 1
21		Rob Akershoek	731 CP	Day 1
22		Davide Carrer	647 CP	Day 1
23		Jamie Dixon	591 CP	Day 1
24		Lorenzo Silvestrini	544 CP	Day 1
25		Ben Kyriakou	515 CP	Day 1
26		Matteo Agostini	511 CP	Day 1
27		Lorenzo Semeraro	489 CP	Day 1
28		Bartosz Ekiert	484 CP	Day 1
29		Diego Montes	481 CP	Day 1
30		Matthias Suchodolski	472 CP	Day 1
31		Roberto Porretti	472 CP	Day 1
32		Pontus Westerlund	467 CP	Day 1
33		Max Waterman	464 CP	Day 1
34		Fabian Braun	459 CP	Day 1
35		Dominic Scheffler	457 CP	Day 1
36		Daniel Oztekin	444 CP	Day 1
37		Aurélien Lefebvre	432 CP	Day 1
38		Mathias Grauer	420 CP	Day 1
39		Alessandro Fantinato	419 CP	Day 1
40		Ben Markham	412 CP	Day 1
41		Lee Provost	409 CP	Day 1
42		Rafa Montes	406 CP	Day 1
43		Heinz Heckmann	404 CP	Day 1
44		Francesco Pardini	404 CP	Day 1
45		David Koutesh	398 CP	Day 1
46		Riccardo Rispoli	397 CP	Day 1
47		William Tansley	397 CP	Day 1
48		Leonardo Di Re	396 CP	Day 1
49		Richard Hodge	386 CP	Day 1
50		Alessio Cremonini	379 CP	Day 1
51		Nathan Aubert	378 CP	Day 1
52		Markus Stadter	368 CP	Day 1
53		Adrian Baumann	365 CP	Day 1
54		Alexandre Lissardy	364 CP	Day 1
55		Enrico Grimaldi	357 CP	Day 1
56		Giuseppe Mussico	360 CP	Day 1
57		Riccardo Appamea	359 CP	Day 1
58		Nicole Saeed	358 CP	Day 1
59		Luca Ceribelli	357 CP	Day 1
60		Alessandro Weiler	356 CP	Day 1
61		Matteo Marinelli	355 CP	Day 1
62		Giuseppe Cangemi	354 CP	Day 1
63		Nils Dunlop	340 CP	Day 1
64		Ruben Pereira	335 CP	Day 1
65		Teemu Mankinen	334 CP	Day 1
66		Manuel Manzari	331 CP	Day 1
67		Stefano Manera	331 CP	Day 1
68		Yazid Nassouri	330 CP	Day 1
69		Francisco Nicolás Rodríguez Moral	327 CP	Day 1
70		Alban Badin	320 CP	Day 1
71		Piotr Kedziora	317 CP	Day 1
72		Jose Cabre Coll	314 CP	Day 1
73		Eden Batchelor	313 CP	Day 1
74		David Mizrahi	311 CP	Day 1
75		Jorijn Raymakers	311 CP	Day 1
76		Javier Señorena	309 CP	Day 1
77		Alekso Letexier	309 CP	Day 1
78		Marco Bertoni	308 CP	Day 1
79		Ernest Azanza	308 CP	Day 1
80		Roberto Ceglia	308 CP	Day 1
81		Miguel Marti de la Torre	307 CP	Day 1
82		Lorenzo Paleari	307 CP	Day 1
83		Nabil Lakehal	307 CP	Day 1
84		Alberto Hernández	306 CP	Day 1
85		Edo Betani	306 CP	Day 1
86		Christoph Bley	306 CP	Day 1
87		François-Xavier de Lageneste	306 CP	Day 1
88		Thomas Plater	306 CP	Day 1
89		Gilberto Goracci	305 CP	Day 1
90		Mark Duò	305 CP	Day 1
91		George Onyejekwe	305 CP	Day 1
92		Alessio Astrea	305 CP	Day 1
93		Guilherme Martins	304 CP	Day 1
94		Matteo Moscardini	304 CP	Day 1
95		“LordSpadaX”	304 CP	Day 1
96		Thomas Gravouille	304 CP	Day 1
97		Pedro Lima	304 CP	Day 1
98		Manfredi Insinga	303 CP	Day 1
99		Nils Dierauer	303 CP	Day 1
100		Akira Petrolini	302 CP	Day 1
101		Giovanni Piscitelli	302 CP	Day 1
102		Filipe Azevedro	302 CP	Day 1
103		Frans Sikkes	302 CP	Day 1
104		Andrea Sala	302 CP	Day 1
105		Alvaro Carrasco Sánchez	302 CP	Day 1
106		Pau Sánchez	301 CP	Day 1
107		Baris Akcos	301 CP	Day 1
108		Alessandro Caliri	301 CP	Day 1
109		Enrico Mostallino	300 CP	Day 1
110		William Bassolino	300 CP	Day 1
111		Miguel González	300 CP	Day 1

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Latin America

Players were required to earn at least 400 Championship Points to qualify for Day 1 of the World Championships. Players who finished in the top 8 qualified for Day 2 meaning they would start playing on Saturday instead of Friday.

#	FLAG	PLAYER	CP	INVITE
1		Javier Valdés	2064 CP	Day 2
2		René Alvarenga	2046 CP	Day 2
3		Juan Naar	1930 CP	Day 2
4		Renzo Navarro	1653 CP	Day 2
5		Dorian Andre Quiñones Vallejos	1558 CP	Day 2
6		Federico Turano	1558 CP	Day 2
7		Felipe Méndez	1506 CP	Day 2
8		Paul Ruiz	1447 CP	Day 2
9		Jean Paul López Buiza	1317 CP	Day 2
10		Diego Ferreira	1105 CP	Day 2
11		Heriberto Pacaje	1025 CP	Day 2
12		David Rodriguez	819 CP	Day 2
13		Abel Yantorno	808 CP	Day 2
14		Estephan Valdebenito	668 CP	Day 2
15		Victor Vargas	652 CP	Day 2
16		Agustín De Cicco	634 CP	Day 2
17		Rafael Tavarez	627 CP	Day 1
18		Enrique González	619 CP	Day 1
19		Alejandro Diaz	614 CP	Day 1
20		David Samanez	594 CP	Day 1
21		Sebastián Reyes Villagra	588 CP	Day 1
22		German Ortiz	577 CP	Day 1
23		Juan Pablo Martinez	572 CP	Day 1
24		Gustavo Gonzalez	558 CP	Day 1
25		Charly Pastrana	558 CP	Day 1
26		Kitaro Javier	553 CP	Day 1
27		Laura Prada	552 CP	Day 1
28		Emiliano Reyes	549 CP	Day 1
29		Ivan Inostroza	546 CP	Day 1
30		Juan C. Ortiz	542 CP	Day 1
31		Giovanni Andrea	524 CP	Day 1
32		Wagner Queiroz	517 CP	Day 1
33		Diego Paredes	517 CP	Day 1
34		César Reyes	516 CP	Day 1
35		Omar Acuña	502 CP	Day 1
36		Juan Andrés Samayoa	498 CP	Day 1
37		Pablo Godoy	498 CP	Day 1
38		Federico Enciso	497 CP	Day 1
39		Jorge Coria	488 CP	Day 1
40		Francisco Trigo	485 CP	Day 1
41		Sergio Miranda	480 CP	Day 1
42		Boris Paredes	479 CP	Day 1
43		Javier Martínez	498 CP	Day 1
44		Gustavo Braz	471 CP	Day 1
45		Max Morales Castro	470 CP	Day 1
46		Israel Suaste Guende	470 CP	Day 1
47		Javier Parada	470 CP	Day 1
48		Esteban Hernández Beita	469 CP	Day 1
49		Gabriel Agati	458 CP	Day 1
50		Rafael Gonzalez	455 CP	Day 1
51		Sebastian Bisbal	451 CP	Day 1
52		Kyara Zepeda	449 CP	Day 1
53		Gabriel Menegon	448 CP	Day 1
54		Ecuador Acevedo	445 CP	Day 1
55		Galvarino Collihuin	445 CP	Day 1
56		James Stevan Arango Ramirez	443 CP	Day 1
57		Diego Llanes	442 CP	Day 1
58		Julio Morales	442 CP	Day 1
59		Diego Dos Santos	441 CP	Day 1
60		Yamid Rodriguez	440 CP	Day 1
61		Joan Mena	440 CP	Day 1
62		Joaquin Reyes	438 CP	Day 1
63		Matias Roa	435 CP	Day 1
64		Victor Manuel Gonzalez Garcia	434 CP	Day 1
65		Martín Muñoz Suárez	433 CP	Day 1
66		Camilo Andres Esquivel	432 CP	Day 1
67		Francisco Alca Chacon	431 CP	Day 1
68		Nicolas del Campo	431 CP	Day 1
69		Aldo Roberto	431 CP	Day 1
70		Alex Terrazas	431 CP	Day 1
71		Steven Robles	426 CP	Day 1
72		Cristofher Solís Jiménez	425 CP	Day 1
73		Catalina Castilla	425 CP	Day 1
74		Enio Fonseca	424 CP	Day 1
75		Christian Ramirez	423 CP	Day 1
76		Ernesto Serpa	422 CP	Day 1
77		Gilberto Espejel	420 CP	Day 1
78		Jason Lopera Arango	419 CP	Day 1
79		Juan-Pablo Rodriguez	417 CP	Day 1
80		Carlos Beingolea	415 CP	Day 1
81		Felipe Ide	414 CP	Day 1
82		Pablo Aldana	413 CP	Day 1
83		Alberto Renero	413 CP	Day 1
84		Sergio Oyarzun	413 CP	Day 1
85		Kelvin Yavi	411 CP	Day 1
86		Esteban Molina Avilla	409 CP	Day 1
87		Roman Villanueva	408 CP	Day 1
88		Jorge Peraza	408 CP	Day 1
89		Alexis Hernández	407 CP	Day 1
90		Hiram Espinosa	407 CP	Day 1
91		Fredy Vanegas	407 CP	Day 1
92		Roberto Najle Fairlie	407 CP	Day 1
93		Andres Parada	407 CP	Day 1
94		Matias Vivaceta	406 CP	Day 1
95		Paulo Miranda	405 CP	Day 1
96		Guillermo Naranja	405 CP	Day 1
97		Alexander Camacho	404 CP	Day 1
98		Jose Luis Pando	403 CP	Day 1
99		Naxo Sepulveda	403 CP	Day 1
100		Gabriel Alejandro Quevedo Zuazo	402 CP	Day 1
101		Yostin Rojas	402 CP	Day 1
102		Diego Gutierrez	401 CP	Day 1
103		Franco Sportelli	401 CP	Day 1
104		Abraham Orta	400 CP	Day 1
105		Guido Micheli	400 CP	Day 1

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Oceania

Players were required to earn at least 300 Championship Points to qualify for Day 1 of the World Championships. Players who finished in the top 8 qualified for Day 2 meaning they would start playing on Saturday instead of Friday.

#	FLAG	PLAYER	CP	INVITE
1		Melvin Keh	1680 CP	Day 2
2		Christopher Kan	1135 CP	Day 2
3		Alister Sandover	1123 CP	Day 2
4		Nicholas Bingham	873 CP	Day 2
5		Wei Wen Ang	869 CP	Day 2
6		Chelsea Tan	864 CP	Day 2
7		Chris Giagozoglou	845 CP	Day 2
8		Yoko Taguma	790 CP	Day 2
9		Benjamin Tan	784 CP	Day 1
10		Khalid Alhuraiz	755 CP	Day 1
11		Mitch Kendrick	743 CP	Day 1
12		Jirawiwat Thitasiri	645 CP	Day 1
13		Graham Amedee	632 CP	Day 1
14		Eike Marvin Gilcher	585 CP	Day 1
15		Isaac Lam	571 CP	Day 1
16		James Katsaros	527 CP	Day 1
17		Marco Yuen	524 CP	Day 1
18		Joel Lee	493 CP	Day 1
19		Jasdil Deo	449 CP	Day 1
20		Ka Kok Lee	445 CP	Day 1
21		Wai Yin Low	440 CP	Day 1
22		Malcolm Mackellar	421 CP	Day 1
23		Jang-Ting Liu	420 CP	Day 1
24		Ben de Ridder	407 CP	Day 1
25		Wilson Foong	405 CP	Day 1
26		Chien-Chien Tsai	400 CP	Day 1
27		Lewis Foong	396 CP	Day 1
28		Guntur Prabowo	389 CP	Day 1
29		Chen Wu	388 CP	Day 1
30		Zhengle Tu	376 CP	Day 1
31		Edward Kh Cheung	359 CP	Day 1
32		Henry Rich	355 CP	Day 1
33		Lam Tsz Hin	349 CP	Day 1
34		Jie-Ru Lin	348 CP	Day 1
35		Alan Chia	341 CP	Day 1
36		Rayne Tay	328 CP	Day 1
37		Mi Gu	327 CP	Day 1
38		Brian Amedee	321 CP	Day 1
39		Kevin J.	320 CP	Day 1
40		Chun Ho Oscar Tang	313 CP	Day 1
41		Yang-Jie Huang	312 CP	Day 1
42		Stephen Tan	310 CP	Day 1
43		Pak Hei Leung	309 CP	Day 1
44		Kevin Ngim	305 CP	Day 1
45		Ismat Myron Beg	304 CP	Day 1
46		Matthew Hui	304 CP	Day 1
47		Pui Yin Kwok	304 CP	Day 1
48		Shawn Tang	303 CP	Day 1
49		M Hafidz Syahril	302 CP	Day 1
50		TL Tsang	301 CP	Day 1
51		Fu Chi Yuen	300 CP	Day 1
52		Sam Pandelis	Day 1: 2nd Place Worlds

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Russia

Players in Russia could qualify by finishing top 4 at Russia Nationals. However, due to an error in players obtaining US visas, invites were instead awarded based on who already earned their visa from Nationals.

#	FLAG	PLAYER	INVITE
1		Sergei Salov	Day 1
2		Pavel Podkorytov	Day 1
3		Irina Tyurina	Day 1
4		Nikolay Kucherenko	Day 1
5		Timur Galiev	Day 1
6		Kirill Shishov	Day 1
7		Ksenia Shestopalova	Day 1
8		Sergey Derendeev	Day 1

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Japan

Players in Japan could earn a Day 1 invite by making Top Cut at Japan Nationals. Players who made it to the Top 8 would earn Day 2 invites.

#	FLAG	PLAYER	INVITE
1		Hirofumi Kimura	Day 2 Invite
2		Ryosuke Kosuge	Day 2 Invite
3		Yuya Tada	Day 2 Invite
4		Kiyoshiro Arai	Day 2 Invite
5		Tomohiro Seki	Day 2 Invite
6		Oogushi Kazuki	Day 2 Invite
7		Hikito Kihara	Day 2 Invite
8		Masayoshi Ichigi	Day 2 Invite
9		“Ryuzaki”	Day 1 Invite
10		“Rin”	Day 1 Invite
11		“Faitu”	Day 1 Invite
12		“Sun”	Day 1 Invite
13		“Meteor”	Day 1 Invite
14		Koutaro Nakagome	Day 1 Invite
15		“Kouhei”	Day 1 Invite
16		“Yamanaka”	Day 1 Invite
17		“Terun”	Day 1 Invite
18		“Sepal”	Day 1 Invite
19		Yusei Matsuno	Day 1 Invite
20		Teru Nakajima	Day 1 Invite
21		Ryosuke Kondo	Day 1 Invite
22		“Mackey”	Day 1 Invite
23		“Rising”	Day 1 Invite
24		“Suica”	Day 1 Invite
25		“West”	Day 1 Invite
26		“Side”	Day 1 Invite
27		“Picasso”	Day 1 Invite
28		“Yuuki”	Day 1 Invite
29		“Mobu-Chara”	Day 1 Invite
30		“Ansena”	Day 1 Invite
31		“Alcana”	Day 1 Invite
32		“Shiranui”	Day 1 Invite
33		“Akanuma”	Day 1 Invite
34		“Elf”	Day 1 Invite
35		“Mintia”	Day 1 Invite
36		“Katsumi”	Day 1 Invite
37		“Nathaniel”	Day 1 Invite
38		Shoma Honami	Day 1 Invite
39		Daichi Kumabe	Day 1 Invite
40		Shohei Kimura	Day 1 Invite
41		Ryota Otsubo	Day 1: World Champion
42		Tomoyuki Yoshimura	Day 1: Top 4 Worlds
43		Yuki Wata	Day 1: Top 4 Worlds

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South Korea

Players in South Korea could earn a Day 1 invite by making Top Cut at Korea Nationals. Players who made it to the Top 4 would earn Day 2 invites.

#	FLAG	PLAYER	INVITE
1		Suwoong Cheong	Day 2 Invite
2		Keunwoo Kim	Day 2 Invite
3		Daegun Jeong	Day 2 Invite
4		Juyoung Hong	Day 2 Invite
5		Jaebeum Choi	Day 1 Invite
6		Junha Choi	Day 1 Invite
7		Jinho Park	Day 1 Invite
8		Wonsoek Jung	Day 1 Invite
9		Jungyonug Park	Day 1 Invite
10		Yeongwoong Kim	Day 1 Invite
11		Subin Yoon	Day 1 Invite
12		Sejun Park	Day 1 Invite
13		Sanghwan Lee	Day 1 Invite
14		Hyeongjun Kwon	Day 1 Invite
15		Joongyu Baek	Day 1 Invite
16		Junwoo Lee	Day 1 Invite
17		Jinwoo Lee	Day 1 Invite
18		Minsu Lee	Day 1 Invite
19		Sanghoo Park	Day 1 Invite
20		Jiwoo Kim	Day 1 Invite
21		Jungin Jang	Day 1 Invite
22		Jihyun Ryu	Day 1 Invite
23		Seungyoon Kwon	Day 1 Invite
24		Sangyoon Jung	Day 1 Invite
25		Wonsoek Jang	Day 1 Invite
26		Donguk Jung	Day 1 Invite
27		Kyeongmin Jeon	Day 1 Invite
28		Jeonggyu Choi	Day 1 Invite
29		Taeseok Rho	Day 1 Invite
30		Minha Cho	Day 1 Invite
31		Minsoo Kim	Day 1 Invite
32		Daekyeong Oak	Day 1 Invite