TYLOO will be amongst the participants of the ESF 2016 playoffs as the only directly invited side. They will be joined by two teams coming from two rounds of qualifiers open to all Asian teams, and one coming from a Hong Kong qualifier.  TyLoo invited to another local event
The Asian qualifier will start off with an open stage, played in a single-elimination, best-of-one format, for which teams can still register here. Top two sides will then join five invited teams and the winner of a ~$2,500 Taiwan offline qualifier in the closed stage. Teams invited to the closed qualifier are following: VG.CyberZen | Signature | EDG | MVP Project | The MongolZ | Taiwan offline qualifier | Asian open qualifier | Asian open qualifier |
From July 26th to August 13th teams from Hong Kong will fight in their own single-elimination, best-of-one qualifier, which will give out one spot for the main event and a total of 35,000 HKD (~$4,500). The ESF 2016 playoffs, played on August 21st, will have 150,000 HKD on offer (~$19,500), with a lion's share of 100,000 HKD (~$13,000) going to the champion. The slot distribution looks as follows: TYLOO | Hong Kong qualifier | Asian closed qualifier | Asian closed qualifier |
 VG.CyberZen #57  Bin 'Savage' Liu BingYuan 'tb' Li Zhuo 'advent' Liang WeiJie 'zhokiNg' Zhong KunHua 'LOVEYY' Bai  MVP Project #104  Hyun-Pyo 'XigN' Lee Hae-Sung 'HSK' Kim Hyung-Ju 'Sound' Nam Jung-Hyeon 'rindA' Jeon Soon-Woo 'Argency' Kwon  TYLOO #21  Ke 'captainMo' Liu Hui 'DD' Wu YuLun 'Summer' Cai YuanZhang 'Attacker' Sheng HaoWen 'somebody' Xu   The MongolZ #91   Temuulen 'Zilkenberg' Battulga Tsog 'Tsogoo' Mashbat Gan-Erdene 'dobu' Batbold Erdenetsogt 'element' Tengis  EDG #156  MinHui 'sPiNacH' Sun Yi 'gas' Ding HaiBo 'Surge' Jiang Xin '1ke' Wei MingHeng 'Mh' Song  Signature #94  Kitsada 'bnwGiggs' Pookamroong Tosapol 'TOR' Saekow Phoomphat 'qqGOD' Phodjanat Peeratch 'Olivia' Ingkudanonda Patiphan 'CigaretteS' Posri |