The Clans were seeded first based on their average TG-rate of the past 90 days. These TG-rates were calculated per player per Clan and the average of the top 4 players of a Clan is taken as Clan average. The Clan leaders of the original top 12 seeded Clans were asked to seed at least the top 20. On top of these 12 Clan Leaders another 10-odd people were asked for their seed. All the submitted seeds were close to each other and without extreme differences. The average of all these submissions along with the average TG-rate as tie-breaker has seeded the teams for the group stage.