WESG APAC finals schedule released

8-11-2016 19:19

Conflicting with ROG Masters Asia at the same time, World Electronic Sports Games (WESG) has released its schedule for the Asia-Pacific Finals beginning from November 10-13.

Based in Goyang of South Korea, several teams from the Asia-Pacific region will travel to the Korea International Exhibition Centre to obtain one of the six spots available for WESG Global Finals and a share of the ~$73,800 prize pot.

Four teams from the recent Asia Minor will be attending this event including VG.CyberZen and MVP Project, who finished third and fourth respectively. K23 consist of three Gambit core players who recently won Predator Masters 3. These three teams will be considered as the favourites to win the regional tournament.

Sound's MVP project will be playing on home soil

The Oceanic region will be sending three teams consisting of two Australian teams and one New Zealand team. They will not be at full strength since their main rosters will not be field, due to nationality rules.

This caused Parallax to be split apart into these three teams. Parallax will still have Razmik "⁠RaZ⁠" Bastadjan and Egor "⁠LONSDALE⁠" Baranov. Joining them for this event are veteran Nicholas "⁠n1ck⁠" Shaw, and TRIDENT's duo, Tom "⁠BlackouT⁠" Richmond and Simon "⁠Sico⁠" Williams, who was a former teammate not too long ago.

Immunity will be using Chris "⁠yellow⁠" McGillivray and Jordan "⁠Hatz⁠" Bajic from Parallax, substituting for Sean "⁠Gratisfaction⁠" Kaiwai and Gareth "⁠gazR⁠" Lynn. In addition, Immunity will be welcoming back 1.6 veteran Benjamin "⁠benoR⁠" O'Reilly, as a stand-in for his former teammate Mark "⁠deStiny⁠" Kagan, who couldn't attend.

Athletico announced via Twitter, that Stuart "⁠sonic⁠" Rayner and Connor "⁠chuch⁠" Morgan will not be able to attend due to school examinations taking priority. Therefore, they will bring in Sam "⁠mizu⁠" Richardson from onestop and Sam "⁠jokes⁠" Molan from Parallax.

HLTV.org's YiFan "⁠Amazing⁠" Liu who is associated with VG.CyberZen as a manager, has revealed that Bin "⁠Savage⁠" Liu will not be attending the event due to a head injury caused at the airport. It has been confirmed that EHOME's taiwanese player Tzu-Chi "⁠Marek⁠" Huang will be his substitute, according to cnFrag.com.

The Vietnamese team known as Vikings.Vortex will not be participating due to visa issues surrounding them. Filling their spot in Group B will be Hong Kong's ENZO, originating from Group D and decreasing that group to 4 teams. Group C will also move down to four, as Iran's GEX are unable to attend.

Now down to sixteen contestants, the teams has been separated into these four groups, as shown:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
VG.CyberZen	MVP Project	FIVE	m0nster
Fire Dragoon	Shukufuku Sunshine	RJ Absolute	Orange
Immunity	Athletico	Signature	K23
Parallax	ENZO	Mineski	Expendables

The groupstage will feature a best-of-two round-robin format, where the top two sides of each group will move on to the best-of-three playoffs. The full schedule can be found below:

Thursday, November 10th
04:30	VG.CyberZen	vs.	Fire Dragoon	BO2		A1
04:30	Immunity	vs.	Parallax	BO2		A2
04:30	MVP Project	vs.	Shukufuku Sunshine	BO2		B1
04:30	Athletico	vs.	ENZO	BO2		B2
06:30	Fire Dragoon	vs.	Immunity	BO2		A3
06:30	VG.CyberZen	vs.	Parallax	BO2		A4
06:30	Shukufuku Sunshine	vs.	Athletico	BO2		B3
06:30	MVP Project	vs.	ENZO	BO2		B4
08:30	VG.CyberZen	vs.	Immunity	BO2		A5
08:30	Fire Dragoon	vs.	Parallax	BO2		A6
08:30	MVP Project	vs.	Athletico	BO2		B5
08:30	Shukufuku Sunshine	vs.	ENZO	BO2		B6
10:30	Group A rematch #1*			BO2
10:30	Group B rematch #1*			BO2
10:30	Group A rematch #2*			BO2
10:30	Group B rematch #2*			BO2
Friday, November 11th
03:00	FIVE	vs.	RJ Absolute	BO2		C1
03:00	Signature	vs.	Mineski	BO2		C2
03:00	m0nster	vs.	Orange	BO2		D1
03:00	Expendables	vs.	K23	BO2		D2
05:00	RJ Absolute	vs.	Signature	BO2		C3
05:00	FIVE	vs.	Mineski	BO2		C4
05:00	Orange	vs.	Expendables	BO2		D3
05:00	m0nster	vs.	K23	BO2		D4
07:00	FIVE	vs.	Signature	BO2		C5
07:00	RJ Absolute	vs.	Mineski	BO2		C6
07:00	m0nster	vs.	Expendables	BO2		D5
07:00	Orange	vs.	K23	BO2		D6
09:00	Group C rematch #1*			BO2
09:00	Group D rematch #1*			BO2
11:00	Group C rematch #2*			BO2
11:00	Group D rematch #2*			BO2
*Note: These are additional matches that may be played if a group tie occurs, to decide who moves on to playoffs.
Saturday, November 12th
03:00	Quarter-final #1				BO3
03:00	Quarter-final #2				BO3
03:00	Quarter-final #3				BO3
03:00	Quarter-final #4				BO3
06:00	Semi-final #1				BO3
06:00	Semi-final #2				BO3
06:00	Relegation match #1	(for 5-6. place decider)			BO3
06:00	Relegation match #2	(for 5-6. place decider)			BO3
09:00	Consolidation final				BO3
Sunday, November 13th
03:00	Grand final				BO3

The distribution of the ~$73,800 prize pool is as follows:

1. ~$29,500 + WESG Global Finals spot
2. ~$17,700 + WESG Global Finals spot
3. ~$8,860 + WESG Global Finals spot
4. ~$5,900 + WESG Global Finals spot
5-6. ~$2,950 + WESG Global Finals spot
5-6. ~$2,950 + WESG Global Finals spot
7-8. ~$2,950
7-8. ~$2,950