With $6,300 up for grabs, the up and coming season of PPLive Race War will run from 12 July through to 19 July as Team Orc looks to retain the title they snatched from Team Night elf last April, and by looking at their line-up, they have every reason to do so.

Weiliang 'Fly' Lu of Mousesports and June 'Lyn' Park of SK Gaming will continue to operate for the holders, while Du Seop 'WhO' Chang will fill the void left by Liwei 'xiaOt' Sun, who called it quits last winter. Last season’s Most Valuable Player Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen is going to play on paper, but it remains to see how it pans out.

Pedro 'LucifroN' Moreno Durán, compared to his compatriot Andrés Iniesta by Zechs in his latest column Esports' Iniesta stars in el año del español, set to sit out the competition. Organiser Weicheng 'MaRs' Zhou told SK-Gaming that his appearance is marred by the undesirable internet latency between Spain and Asia, wherein the majority of participants reside.

Line-up of Team Human arrives with little surprise. The Chinese trio Xuwen 'InFi' Wang, Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li and Xiang 'TH000' Huang are arguably the very top three Human players on international stage for the time being after France maestro Yoan 'ToD' Merlo retired two months ago. They will be aided by Korea veteran Sung Yeon 'Myth' Kim.

Other than Team Orc, Team Undead will likely field their best possible line-up as well. Dmitriy 'Happy' Kostin, Seo Woo 'ReiGn' Kang, and Zhuo 'TeD' Zeng are currently among top ten in NGL ONE, and Dae Hui 'FoV' Cho is progressively discovering his touch as of late. Similar to his Evil Geniuses team-mate, Happy may not be able to feature, and Sung Hyun 'Space' Park could fill the bill in case.

Sung Sik 'ReMinD' Kim, who climbs to the second place in our ELO Ranking by virtue of his astounding performance in recent months, is the only Night elf player remaining in their squad from last season. He will be joined by Hyeong Ju 'Check' Lee, Chenglong 'Sai' Zhou and Chul Woo 'Shy' Park. Nicked the Fifth race, Jae Ho 'Moon' Jang will not participate in the tournament for the second time in a row.