World eSports Masters 2008
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WEM 2008
League Information
Series:
Organizer:
Sponsor(s):
Game:
Type:
Offline
Location:
HangzhouFormat:
Group Stage (Bo1)
Single-Elimination Bracket (Bo3)
Single-Elimination Bracket (Bo3)
Prize Pool:
$67,000 USD
Start Date:
2008-10-26
End Date:
2008-11-02
Teams:
8
Liquipedia Tier:
Maps
de_nuke • de_dust2 • de_inferno • de_dust • de_train • de_aztec • de_clan1_mill • de_cpl_strike • de_cpl_fire • de_cpl_mill
About[edit]
For 2008 the event formerly known as WEG became the World e-Sports Masters (WEM) and permanently settled in Hangzhou, China. It would now be a cooperation with the government of Hangzhou, as it was officially organised by the Hangzhou eSport Culture & Sport Communication Company, Ltd. The trend of the 2006 event was continued as the tournament this time took its shortest time period ever: a week.
This year's edition boasted by far the best field in the tournament's history, with five of the world's top six or seven teams in the field. The team who would prove to be the most dominant that year, mTw.dk, won the tournament after taking down fnatic in the semi-final and mouz in a three map final. mouz's second place finish helped add a final touch to a successful year for the German team, added to their IEM II Finals and IEM III Dubai titles.
eSTRO had finished runners-up at both the IEM II finals and ESWC but managed to slay fnatic in the third place game to secure a solid top three finish. Their semi-final matchup had been a tough one, forced to play the same mouz who had bested them in the IEM II final. Elsewhere SK Gaming and ESWC champions MYM.pl failed to impress, the latter even losing to the Chinese team Dragon.
Format[edit]
- Group Stage: October 26th - October 28th, 2008
- Two single-elimination format Groups (4 teams each)
- All matches are Bo3
- Top two teams from each group advance to the Playoffs
- Playoffs: October 30th - November1st, 2008
- Single-Elimination bracket
- All matches are Bo3
- 3rd Place Match
Prize Pool[edit]
$67,000 USD are spread among the teams as seen below:
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
Participants[edit]
Results[edit]
Groups[edit]
Group A[edit]
| Group A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| October 26, 2008 - 18:00 CST | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. | mTw
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2-1-0 | 47-26 | +21 | 7p | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. | e-STRO
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1-2-0 | 46-35 | +11 | 5p | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. |   SK Gaming
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1-1-1 | 37-42 | -5 | 4p | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. |  wNv Teamwork
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0-0-3 | 21-48 | -27 | 0p | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Group A Matches
Group B[edit]
| Group B | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| October 26, 2008 - 18:00 CST | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. | mousesports
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3-0-0 | 48-29 | +19 | 9p | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. | Fnatic
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2-0-1 | 46-33 | +13 | 6p | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. |  Team Dragon
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1-0-2 | 26-44 | -18 | 3p | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. |  Meet Your Makers
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0-0-3 | 37-42 | -5 | 0p | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Group B Matches
Bracket[edit]
Semifinals
Semifinals
Semis
SF
Grand Final
Grand Final
Final
GF
Third Place Match
Third Place Match
3rd Place
3rd
Additional Content[edit]
Previews[edit]
- 2008-10-25 | World e-Sports Masters coming up by nix0n of HLTV
Interviews[edit]
- 2008-10-31 | whimp before the final by nix0n of HLTV