World Electronic Sports Games

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World Electronic Sports Games
WESG2017LOGO.png
StatusActive
Genre Esports tournament
Location(s) Shanghai (2016)
Haikou (2017)
Chongqing (2018, 2019)
CountryChina
Years active4
InauguratedDecember 2016 (2016-12)
Organized by AliSports

World Electronic Sports Games (WESG) is an international esports championship tournament based in Shanghai and organized by AliSports. [1] The first edition has a total prize pool of over US$5.5 million. The finals were held in December 2016. [1]

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The World Electronic Sports Games heavily bases itself on the Olympic Games. In the first 3 years, teams had to be composed of players of the same nationality to emphasize national pride, making it unique in the esports world. As a result of this, some national teams were formed only to play in WESG. This rule was softened for the 2019 edition (and possibly onwards), with teams being allowed to have 2 foreign members. [2] The event also has separate tournaments for men and women. Tournaments generally follow 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 ELEAGUE Major 2017. France's Team EnVyUs beat out Poland's Team Kinguin to take home the majority of CS:GO's biggest prize pool while Poland's number one took third place by defeating Turkey's 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
GamePrize PoolWinnerRunner-upThirdFourth
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive[ citation needed ]US$1,500,000 Flag of France.svg Team EnVyUs Flag of Poland.svg Team Kinguin Flag of Poland.svg Virtus.pro Flag of Turkey.svg Space Soldiers
Dota 2[ citation needed ]US$1,500,000 Flag of the Philippines.svg TNC Predator Flag of Denmark.svg Cloud9 Flag of Sweden.svg Alliance Flag of Peru.svg Infamous
Starcraft 2[ citation needed ]US$402,000 Flag of South Korea.svg TY Flag of South Korea.svg JAGW | Maru Flag of the United States.svg ting | Neeb Flag of Germany.svg Arma | ShoWTimE
Hearthstone[ citation needed ]US$300,000 Flag of the Philippines.svg PHA | Staz Flag of Sweden.svg [A] | Orange Flag of Germany.svg VP | BunnyHoppor Flag of Germany.svg 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 SK Gaming from Brazil, which was the second most decorated team in CS:GO and world number two, and Cloud9 from the United States, which was the reigning major champions and world number three, were knocked out earlier than expected while teams such as MVP PK from South Korea and Team One from Brazil, two teams that hadn't even qualified for the major, made it much further into the bracket than expected. Sweden's Fnatic came back from a large deficit against the 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
GamePrize PoolWinnerRunner-upThirdFourth
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive[ citation needed ]US$1,500,000 Flag of Sweden.svg Fnatic Flag of Turkey.svg Space Soldiers Flag of Russia.svg Team Russia Flag of Brazil.svg Team One
CS:GO Female[ citation needed ]US$170,000 Flag of Russia.svg Russian Forces Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg LLG Gaming Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Those Damn Canadians Flag of Sweden.svg Team Sweden
Dota 2[ citation needed ]US$1,500,000 Flag of Russia.svg Team Russia Flag of Brazil.svg paiN Gaming Flag of Greece.svg Team Hellas Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Rock.Y
Starcraft 2[ citation needed ]US$402,000Maru Flag of South Korea.svg Dark Serral Flag of South Korea.svg Classic
Hearthstone[ citation needed ]US$300,000FujitoraLuker Flag of Japan.svg posesiScreaM
Hearthstone Female[ citation needed ]US$51,000 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg GLHuiHui Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liooon Flag of Hong Kong.svg Yan Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 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 IEM Katowice 2019, the first CS:GO major of 2019. This made it impossible for most top teams to participate. The only top teams in the tournament were G2, who got eliminated early from the major and fnatic, who failed to qualify to the major. Brazilian 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
GamePrize PoolWinnerRunner-upThirdFourth
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive[ citation needed ]US$890,000 Flag of Bulgaria.svg Windigo Flag of Poland.svg AGO Flag of France.svg G2 Flag of Sweden.svg fnatic
CS:GO Female[ citation needed ]US$105,000 Flag of the United States.svg CLG Red Flag of Russia.svg Lazarus fe Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Those Damn Canadians Flag of Australia (converted).svg Carnage fe
Dota 2[ citation needed ]US$890,000 Flag of the Philippines.svg TNC Predator Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Keen Gaming Flag of Russia.svg White-Off Flag of Ukraine.svg Team Ukraine
StarCraft 2[ citation needed ]US$240,000iNnoVation Serral Maru Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Newbee | Scarlett
Hearthstone[ citation needed ]US$300,000purple Flag of the Republic of China.svg MalygosTW Flag of Japan.svg Alex Flag of the United States.svg justsaiyan
Hearthstone FemaleUS$35,000 Flag of South Korea.svg 다롱이 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg BabyBear Flag of the United States.svg Justine Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg 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
GamePrize PoolWinnerRunner-upThirdFourth
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive[ citation needed ]US$1,000,000Flag of None.svg TBDFlag of None.svg TBDFlag of None.svg TBDFlag of None.svg TBD
Dota 2[ citation needed ]US$800,000Flag of None.svg TBDFlag of None.svg TBDFlag of None.svg TBDFlag of None.svg TBD
StarCraft 2[ citation needed ]US$300,000Flag of None.svg TBDFlag of None.svg TBDFlag of None.svg TBDFlag of None.svg TBD

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