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World e-Sports Games
SportEsports
Founded2004
Ceased2010

The World e-Sports Masters (WEM) was an international

competitive gaming
event organized by the Hangzhou eSport Culture & Sport Communication Company, Ltd. Prize money are awarded to winning individuals and teams. It was first held in 2005 under the World e-Sports Games.

The World eSports Games, Inc. was founded in 2004 by Paul Chong. Headquartered in

rightsholder
to the World e-Sports Masters franchise.

History

World e-Sport Games

The inaugural World e-Sports Games took place in 2005 from January 30 through March 20.

Li "Sky" Xiaofeng
. The prize purse for both competitions totalled US$138,000. Eight Counter-Strike teams and sixteen WarCraft III players participated.

The second edition took place from May 30 to July 1, 2005[3] and was in most aspects comparable to the first edition except that qualifiers to determine the attendees took place in South Korea.

The third edition took place from October 19 to December 11, 2005.[4] It was in most aspects comparable with the first two editions except that only the top three of the second edition was invited with the remainder of participants having to qualify. This edition also clashed with the World Cyber Games, causing several notable players to decline participating including Gediminas "WinneR" Rimkus the third-place finisher in the WarCraft III competition of the second edition.

The number of WarCraft III players attending was reduced from sixteen to twelve in the third edition.

WEG Masters and WEG e-Stars

A renewed version of the World e-Sports Games featuring Counter-Strike, StarCraft and WarCraft III was to take place in Seoul, South-Korea in August 2007.[5]

World e-Sports Masters

Another edition of the World e-Sports Games titled 'World E-Sports Masters' was held in

Hangzhou, China. As of 2012, the tournament hosts competitions for Starcraft 2 and League of Legends.[6]

Results

Counter-Strike

Gold Silver Bronze
WEG I
NoA
 4Kings
Mousesports
WEG II Begrip.swe Catch-Gamer 4Kings
WEG III wNv.gm project_kr team9.no
WEG Masters wNv.gm
compLexity
 hacker.project
WEM 2008 mTw.dk
Mousesports
 eSTRO
WEM 2009 Fnatic Power-Gaming TyLoo
WEM 2010
WeMade FOX
 SK Gaming FX

League of Legends

Gold Silver Bronze
WEM 2012 Team WE Invictus Gaming Team Acer

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

Gold Silver Bronze
WEM 2012 Lee "Leenock" Dong Nyoung Park "JYP" Jin Young Han "aLive" Lee Seok

WarCraft III

Gold Silver Bronze
WEG I
Moon
 Zacard
Sky
WEG II
Moon
 Gostop WinneR
WEG III
Sweet
 Gostop Lucifer
WEG Masters ToD Grubby
Sky
WEM 2008 Infi
Lyn
Grubby
WEM 2009 Grubby
Moon
 SocceR
WEM 2010 TH000
Lyn
 TeD

References

  1. ^ "SK Gaming - WEG2005". Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2007-06-14.
  2. ^ "History of WEM". Team Acer. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
  3. ^ "SK Gaming - WEG 2 WC3 Coverage". Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2007-06-14.
  4. ^ "SK Gaming - WEG3 WC3 Coverage". Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2007-06-14.
  5. ^ "SK Gaming | WEG e-Stars 2007 announced". Archived from the original on 2007-10-08. Retrieved 2007-06-14.
  6. ^ "World eSports Masters 2012". in2LoL. 29 September 2012. Archived from the original on 9 April 2013. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
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