Early Chip Count Updates
Level 1
| Team Germany | Team Canada | |||
| 25,400 | George Danzer | vs. | Jonathan Duhamel | 14,600 |
| 32,000 | Ole Schemion | vs. | Andrew Chen | 8,000 |
| 18,000 | Marvin Rettenmaier | vs. | Marc-Andre Ladouceur | 22,000 |
| Team Italy | Team Ukraine | |||
| 23,500 | Andrea Dato | vs. | Oleksandr Gnatenko | 16,500 |
| 22,000 | Dario Sammartino | vs. | Eugene Katchalov | 18,000 |
| 26,000 | Giuliano Bendinelli | vs. | Igor Yaroshevsky | 14,000 |
| Team Russia | Team France | |||
| 23,500 | Vladimir Troyanovskiy | vs. | Sylvain Loosli | 16,500 |
| 12,000 | Anatoly Filatov | vs. | Paul Tedeschi | 28,000 |
| 29,000 | Ivan Soshnikov | vs. | Bertrand Grospellier | 11,000 |