Shaping up to be an excellent tournament.
My current thoughts on what the Final 16 will look like.
Past champs who are in at least unless some contractual bs
Grigorian
Superbon
Zuev
Nagbe (qualified)
Drai (qualified)
In the next qualifier tournaments and likely to win
Moiseev/Ben Moh
Larsen/Noppakaw (?)
Tuinov/Baitar
Ayman/Toutouh
Perhaps likely kind of names in the remaining qualifier tournaments and who could be capable of winning them, 2 out of this pool
Kuliaba/Pashporin/Kulebin/Dzhaniev
Then 5 picked by Kunlun, likely kind of names
Kiria (basically a lock)
Ristie/Gogokhia/Buakaw/Petrosyan (these maybe not all so likely but a mystery pick who's somehow notable enough to be teased. My money on Ristie at this point)
Yod (unless he's in Wu Lin Feng?)
Jomthong (probably in if he wants to)
Mezouari/Manhoef (or maybe one/both of them still have to fight a qualifier tournament?)
What'd be great is if Kunlun and Glory somehow were in an arrangement of some sort and the mystery pick was Sitthichai so they had all the champs there