World Electronic Sports Games

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World Electronic Sports Games
AliSports

World Electronic Sports Games (WESG) is an international

AliSports.[1] The first edition has a total prize pool of over US$5.5 million. The finals were held in December 2016.[1]

The World Electronic Sports Games heavily bases itself on the

single-elimination rules.[citation needed
]

Games

The following games were featured.[1] In 2017, WESG expanded Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Hearthstone to include female tournaments.

Tournament history

2016

As of March 2016, qualifying rounds for the first edition were expected to begin in April 2016.[1] The event took place in Shangai.

Despite the large prize pools, many top contenders were not at the event, especially with CS:GO's first major of 2017 right around the corner. WESG 2016 for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) was the last premier tournament before the

Space Soldiers before booking a ticket to Atlanta
for the major.

In Dota 2, the Filipino team TNC Pro Team downed Denmark's Cloud9 to take the grand prize. Alliance from Sweden took down Peru's hopeful Infamous to take the bronze.

In Starcraft 2, Koreans dominated as expected as Jun "TY" Tae-yang defeated compatriot Cho "Maru" Seong-ju. In the third place match, America's Alex "Neeb" Sunderhaft took down Tobias "ShoWTimE" Sieber of Germany.

Hearthstone's champion was the Philippines's Euneil "Staz" Javiñas took down Sweden's Jon "Orange" Westberg in a close grand final. The third-place match featured two Germans, and it was Raphael "BunnyHoppor" Peltzer to topple Sebastian "Xixo" Bentert.

Results
Game Prize Pool Winner Runner-up Third Fourth
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive[citation needed] US$1,500,000
Team EnVyUs
 Poland Team Kinguin Poland Virtus.pro
Space Soldiers
Dota 2[citation needed] US$1,500,000 Philippines TNC Predator Denmark Cloud9
Alliance
 Peru Infamous
Starcraft 2[citation needed] US$402,000 South Korea TY South Korea JAGW | Maru United States ting | Neeb Germany Arma | ShoWTimE
Hearthstone[citation needed] US$300,000 Philippines PHA | Staz
[A]
| Orange 		Germany VP | BunnyHoppor Germany CLG | Xixo

2017

Despite being called WESG 2017, the event took place in March 2018, with the location being Haikou.[citation needed]

In CS:GO, with the major already past, more top teams showed up. However, teams such as

Space Soldiers
from Turkey to take home the WESG 2017 title for Fnatic's second straight premier tournament win.

Team Russia stopped the

Cinderella story
of Team One in the third-place match. Dota 2 saw Team Russia take out Brazil's paiN Gaming. Team Hellas from Greece shut down the hometown Rock.Y from China in the third-place match.

South Korea dominated again in Starcraft 2 as Maru redeemed himself from last year after being the runner-up to winning the title after taking down compatriot Park "Dark" Ryung-woo. Kim "Classic" Doh-woo could not make it three Koreans in a row as he fell to Finland's

Joona "Serral" Sotala
in the third-place match.

Hearthstone saw Turkey's Kaan "Fujitora" Çekli defeat Michael "Luker" Luker from Canada to take home the grand prize. The unknown posesi from Japan took third place after defeating Thailand's Kantaphon "ScreaM" Suwanmalee. CS:GO's female grand final saw a close series as Russian Forces scraped past LLG Gaming of China to take home all but US$100,000 of the prize pool. In the third place match, Those Damn Canadians defeated the experienced Team Sweden. Hearthstone's female grand final featured the two Chinese qualifiers as GLHuiHui defeated Lioon. Cordelia "Scarakye" Chui from the UK lost HongKong's Ip Yan in the third-place match.

Results
Game Prize Pool Winner Runner-up Third Fourth
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive[citation needed] US$1,500,000 Sweden Fnatic
Space Soldiers
 Russia Team Russia Brazil Team One
CS:GO Female[citation needed] US$170,000 Russia Russian Forces China LLG Gaming Canada Those Damn Canadians Sweden Team Sweden
Dota 2[citation needed] US$1,500,000 Russia Team Russia Brazil paiN Gaming Greece Team Hellas China Rock.Y
Starcraft 2[citation needed] US$402,000 South Korea JAGW | Maru South Korea Dark
Serral
 South Korea Classic
Hearthstone[citation needed] US$300,000 Turkey RB | Fujitora Canada TGS | Luker Japan posesi Thailand AR | ScreaM
Hearthstone Female[citation needed] US$51,000 China GLHuiHui China Liooon Hong Kong Yan United Kingdom Scarakye

2018

Despite being called WESG 2018, the event took place in March 2019, with the location being Chongqing.[citation needed]

The WESG 2018 tournament started only a week after

MIBR managed to participate as well, despite reaching the semi-finals in the major. This meant that they flew from Poland to China only a few days before the event. The jetlag caused an early but expected exit from the tournament in the quarter-finals, where they lost against Windigo. In the semi-finals, Polish AGO defeated fnatic and Windigo defeated G2 to advance to the grand-final. The third place decider between French G2 and Swedish fnatic was won by the French team. In the grand-final, Bulgarian Windigo won against AGO to become champion. The prize money of US$500,000 was received more than a year after the tournament ended.[citation needed
]

Results
Game Prize Pool Winner Runner-up Third Fourth
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive[citation needed] US$890,000 Bulgaria Windigo Poland AGO France G2 Sweden fnatic
CS:GO Female[citation needed] US$105,000 United States CLG Red Russia Lazarus fe Canada Those Damn Canadians Australia Carnage fe
Dota 2[citation needed] US$890,000 Philippines TNC Predator China Keen Gaming Russia White-Off Ukraine Team Ukraine
StarCraft 2[citation needed] US$240,000 South Korea TR | iNnoVation
Serral
 South Korea JAGW | Maru Canada Newbee | Scarlett
Hearthstone[citation needed] US$300,000 Canada GO | purple Taiwan MalygosTW Japan Alex United States justsaiyan
Hearthstone Female US$35,000 South Korea 다롱이 Belgium BabyBear United States Justine China yogurt

2019

The 2019 event was scheduled to take place in the first quarter of 2020, with the location being Chongqing,[3] but was postponed to an unknown date due to COVID-19. Some regional qualifiers had already taken place.[citation needed] The one-nationality rule was softened in 2019.[2]

As of June 2023, the tournament is not yet officially cancelled, but no announcement regarding the continuation of the tournament hasn't been made either.

Results
Game Prize Pool Winner Runner-up Third Fourth
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive[citation needed] US$1,000,000 TBD TBD TBD TBD
Dota 2[citation needed] US$800,000 TBD TBD TBD TBD
StarCraft 2[citation needed] US$300,000 TBD TBD TBD TBD

References

  1. ^ a b c d C. Custer (March 31, 2016). "Jack Ma and Alibaba just dove headfirst into the world of competitive video games". Tech In Asia. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Announcement of WESG 2019-2020 Online Qualifiers | all games". wesg.ucan.company.
  3. ^ "WESG 2019 will be held in Chongqing | all games". wesg.ucan.company.

External links

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