[4] The top two teams from each group advanced to the Knockout Stages, the order being determined by total frames won.

[4] If there is a tie in either of the first two places the following rules determine the positions:[4] During the knockout stage, matches were played as best-of-seven-frames.

Group A featured defending champions Ding Junhui and Yan Bingtao representing China A,[8] who won four of their five matches.

The pair lost one match to the Thailand team of Thepchaiya Un-Nooh and Noppon Saengkham.

[11] In the final match of the group, Iran and Hong Kong met with the winner progressing.

The Hong Kong pair of Andy Lee and Cheung Ka Wai won the match 3–2 to progress.

[12][13] Both the Belgian team of Luca Brecel and Ben Mertens and the Scottish team of John Higgins and Stephen Maguire were assured of progressing to the quarter-finals after winning their first four matches in group C.[11] In the dead rubber match, Belgium won 3–2 to top the group on head-to-head record.

[18] This was Scotland's first win at the event since the 1996 World Cup also won by Higgins alongside Stephen Hendry and Alan McManus.

[18] After the final, Maguire commented that he had "never felt nerves like that in any professional match" due to representing a team rather as a singles competitor.

The highest break was made by China B's Liang Wenbo in the third frame of the group stage match against Switzerland.