The draw was conducted per the WCF's Block Separation by Grade method (the method now used at the GC World Championship). I was unable to update the rankings, so pre-tournament ranking grades were used.

GROUP 1 (BLOCK WINNERS)

1.1 A Robert Fletcher 2781
1.2 C Matthew Essick 2576
1.3 D Tom Balding 2493
1.4 B Kyle Maloof 2359

GROUP 2 (BLOCK RUNNERS-UP)

2.1 D Euan Burridge 2467
2.2 C Harry Dodge 2419
2.3 B Danny Huneycutt 2249
2.4 A Zack Watson 2219

GROUP 3 (BLOCK 3RDS)

3.1 B Edmund Fordyce 2613
3.2 A Mal Fletcher 2384
3.3 C Greg Fletcher 2349
3.4 D Tamer Hatata 2334

GROUP 4 (BLOCK 4THS)

4.1 B Brian Lozano 2407
4.2 D David Maloof 2327
4.3 A Guy Scurfield 2091
4.4 C Shane Hettler 2080

When placing the players per Block Separation by Grade, the following exceptions occurred:

Group 2 exceptions

2.4 Zack Watson can't go to #8, swaps #8 for #7 (Danny Huneycutt)

Group 3 exceptions

3.1 Edmund Fordyce can't go to #9, goes to #10 (line 14)
3.2 Mal Fletcher can't go to #9, goes to #11 (line 11)
3.4 Tamer Hatata can't go to #12, swaps #12 for #9 (Greg Fletcher)

Group 4 exceptions

4.1 Brian Lozano can't go to #13, goes to #14 (line 10)
4.2 David Maloof goes to #13 (line 7)