from this year probably take break and smell the flowers(source : rumours mills).
Mr Xiong probably focus more on career and sit out this round.
Good to see the battle to decide who go for dogfight in china hanxing next year. Best is close games up to even last round. Based on last year results, normal likely is Master Wu vs Master Huang. Surprise could be those in secret trainings. Good luck to these brothers and sisters.
Also if have tournament system whereby lucky unrated player have chance to upgrade to Master rating in one single year through coming up tournament top will be very motivate for many.
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