WESG Finals dates announced

20-12-2016 02:01

The WESG Finals will be held from the 12-15th January at the Olympic Center in Changzhou, China. The prize pool consists of a whopping $1,500,000 with 24 teams participating.

The World Electronic Sports Games Finals will have teams from all regions in the world competing in a BO2 round robin format. The 24 teams will be split into four groups of six teams each and the first-placed team will proceed straight to the quarter-finals, while the second and third-placed teams will battle it out for the last four playoff spots.

This format is very similar to the one we saw used at EPICENTER: Moscow in terms of the group stage. The quarterfinals and onwards will be standard fare in the form of a BO3 single-elimination bracket.

Virtus.pro will be favorites to win in China

There will be familiar names among the players attending, but as the tournament organizer have an 'only same nationality' rule in place for the participating rosters, some of them will appear in some new constellations. Virtus.pro, Envy, and GODSENT will be playing in full lineup among others though.

The full list of teams can be seen below:

Virtus.pro	Envy	ex-Dignitas	.Russia
Kinguin	GODSENT	Ukraine	iGame.com
TYLOO	VG.CyberZen	K23	FIVE
JYP	Signature	ENZO	Selfless
subtLe	QuetzaL	TeamOne	Force of Nature
Colombia	Space Soldiers	Bravado	DarkPassage

The prize pool distribution will be as follows:

1. - $800,000
2. - $400,000
3. - $200,000
4. - $60,000
5-8. $10,000

ez for ex-dignitas again

2016-12-20 02:02

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ex for ez-dignitas

2016-12-20 02:39

21 replies

EZ 4 ENCE.ASUSROG btw this prizepool is stupidly huge. Most of these teams are nonamers. Chinese people have too much money to throw away?

2016-12-20 03:04

20 replies

"Virtus.pro will be favorites to win in China" Why the fuck should they be favourites?

2016-12-20 03:31

9 replies

VP envy dignitas Who else would win it?

2016-12-20 06:02

2 replies

Ez for iGame

2016-12-20 10:30

homesent ?

2016-12-27 09:01

Because the other top teams will be playing with stand-ins.

2016-12-20 09:43

Cos EnvyUs is EnvyUs.. Dignitas will be using Aizy instead of Rubino. The only team i see suprising those three teams, is Godsent (they might also lose to any team :D).

2016-12-20 10:13

dignitas is not using aizy msl said this in an interview

2016-12-22 13:15

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Well... It doesnt really change anything though. Same story. Its probably Valde then..

2016-12-22 20:22

why the fck shouldnt they? you ever watched cs mate?

2016-12-20 11:04

Dignitas needs a stand in due to wesg rules Thats probably why

2016-12-20 22:40

Fuck the prizepool .... welcome Tier4 team to earn money

2016-12-20 04:13

Dude Virtus-Envy-ExDig are the favorites so the money is not thrown away lmao

2016-12-20 06:03

they definitely have so much money to throw, look around the world,most of them are filled with them .even my aussie friend have so much MingLee around his house

2016-12-20 06:41

There are 24 teams, and it seems that only top-8 places get all the money.

2016-12-20 07:51

Alibaba the biggest online store in the world, forget Amazon and ebay etc

2016-12-20 10:28

yeah thats sooooooo fucking stupid

2016-12-20 11:00

Marketing. Read a book about it ;)

2016-12-20 20:07

these gamers thinks that corporate sponsors are making huge profit margin in Sweden compared to other regions.

2016-12-22 09:49

Aye ^_^

2016-12-23 08:51

The organizer is one of the biggest internet company in china, I'm not surprised with this huge of prize pool.

2016-12-21 15:10

Ez for PELITALO

2016-12-20 06:34

that dignitas with aizy is the best lineup...

2016-12-20 15:50

aizy isnt playin according to msl bc he is practicing fir major

why is dig playing with aizy?

2016-12-20 16:40

5 replies

Wesg rules state 4 players of same nationalty needed. So rubino isnt allowed for dig

2016-12-20 22:41

4 replies

aizy isnt playin according to msl bc he is practicing for major

2016-12-22 13:16

3 replies

Yeah lets see who does!

2016-12-23 08:53

maybe valde

2016-12-26 01:38

They dropped out :( Would have been great though!

2016-12-27 08:33

tyloo

I'm pretty excited at least for how it will be when the Chinese teams play in front of home crowd.

2016-12-20 02:19

They got their ass whooped against Epsilon in front of home crowd

2016-12-20 07:29

and heroic....more than once....they lost to fnatic academy...they seem to lose to every non tier 1 eu team

2016-12-20 18:09

GO VP!

2016-12-20 02:03

ez for godsent

nice teams

finafuckingly

when the europe tournament is better than the full thing

coz it sux to be #9. Going back home with no prize :|

2016-12-20 13:32

They already get the money from the qualifier. I think its their responsible to help alibaba to promote esport in china?

2016-12-20 14:35

JACK MA fucks the world! haha

2016-12-21 10:41

ez ex-dignitas

ez 4 igaem

800k 1st 400K 2nd LUL

why LUL? 800k>400k is pretty sick

2016-12-20 09:48

24 team Attempts to the Tournament. Only 8 of them gets money For example : Lower the 1-2-3-4 money . And pay them to the others

2016-12-20 10:37

16 teams will play for fun

2016-12-20 10:47

Best pricepool! Shitty teams always get money for nothing just for flights.... Now they have to do the best to get some money!!!

2016-12-20 12:20

yeah, i like it

2017-01-02 21:27

1.5 mil for no names wow

With that prize distribution the no namers are most likely just competing for 40k, that is 5-8th place. Maybe some random team can break in to top 4 but I doubt it

2016-12-20 10:18

Blame the ones who didn't participate in the qualifiers or did not qualify for the qualifiers

2016-12-20 11:02

Every NA-only tournament ever.

2016-12-20 12:52

Greece anything LUL

2016-12-20 18:10

Atleast I admit it. Also: Greek Doto > NA Doto Edit: Greek LoL >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> NA LoL

2016-12-20 18:11

dayum that prize money, guaranteed 200k for VP is insane

gl to all of the teams, this should be a interesting event.

800k sounds like a good start into the year for a team.

Horrible lineup due to the horrible rules. Blasphemy of a tournament, which is taking steps backwards in developing the scene.

2016-12-20 02:06

+1 such a joke

2016-12-20 02:49

I disagree, tournaments like this was my favorit in 1,6. No superteams allowed. THis is a battle of the best rosters of your country.

2016-12-20 03:27

no rng :(

Ez for Virtus Pro, they can win only events like this with bunch of t4 teams.

2016-12-20 02:04

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eleague t4 tournament

2016-12-20 02:15

Yeah, everybody knows which team would win E-League season 1 HAHAHA But NA teams fucked up with everything.

2016-12-20 03:16

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You mean the same team that failed to win 20 next tournaments choking against t3 teams in finals? nt favela but SK would lose e-league exactly like they lost everything after the Cologne major

2016-12-20 09:45

They still placed Top 4 consistently despite losing.

2016-12-20 13:46

Actually they got eliminated by NA orgs in E-League Season 1 then they won ESL Cologne Major HAHAHA Wtf are you saying, they were pratically unbeatable HAHA

2016-12-20 14:44

Yes that's why sk didn't win anything since the major

2016-12-20 10:22

That's why what? Everybody knows the true winner of E-League Season 1. They rekt everybody on group stage then they got eliminated by NA "cryers" orgs because they changed their org. But actually i'm not crying, it's just hilarious that E-League Season 1 is the single title that VP won this year HAHAHAHAHAHAHA And guess what? The didn't beat the best team in the tournament HAHAHA

2016-12-20 14:47

U mean Fnatic right?

Yeah the best team in the world in that occasion was Fnatic, right? Haha don't make me laugh! Luminosity just got eliminated by NA orgs, they were the best team in the world in that moment and they would win so easily E-League Season 1 HAHAHA

2016-12-20 14:42

Yes that's why they can't win tier2 event .

2016-12-20 15:16

.Russia have destroyed VP before, and they're gonna do it again. hltv.org/match/2305572-russia-virtuspro-..

2016-12-20 10:14

so much money for tier 10 teams

Sadly t11 teams such as sk didnt even quali uhuh

2016-12-20 12:41

they didn't even participate bro

2016-12-20 20:43

Daamn. 1st place more than in the major. I'd focus on this tournament than the major

wow 800k first place n1

2016-12-20 02:05

This is srsly just retarded.. strange prizepool; 800k first, 10k 5-8, 24 teams which of at least 15-20 are crap

Finals in China? LUL long delay expected LUL

imagine if tyloo won this :O

2016-12-20 02:07

inb4 envy vp godsent dignitas are going to dodge this and focus on major

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2016-12-20 02:11

Nah I don't think so. They went to an actual LAN qualifier to get in. It should be an ok warm-up for the most of the teams.

2016-12-20 02:17

Both of them actually will be traveling to Changzhou for playing WESG.

2016-12-20 02:18

both of 4? : D D D D

Exactly

2016-12-20 03:42

There is a extra "g" in your name.☜

winning 800K in an easy tourney or winning 500k in a hard tourney.

2016-12-20 13:48

lol, but the question is, will the winners even be given their prize?

2016-12-20 02:09

6 replies

haha!

It's funded by the eSports section of Alibaba, which is like the Chinese version of Amazon. Also the guy that owns it, he's the richest man on China and top10 in the world. Should be paid :P

2016-12-20 02:12

Are you going there error?

If everything goes alright, yes.

isnt 800 k more than first place on major? LOL

2016-12-20 02:23

I believe so.

China is taking over CS GO !! lol !! What a crazy prize pool!

olypmic centre? 800k for winner? sick

2016-12-20 02:13

ez 800k for JW and flusha

GO FON <3

2016-12-20 02:16

...and time of space soldiers. ez for XANTARES:

800k????? Wtf

800k holy fuck

tier 4 tournament with $1,500,000 prize pool aight then

2016-12-20 02:20

CS GO NOW 0NLY FUCKING PIDERAST'S !!! HELL L0W KIDS

2016-12-20 02:24

FUCK U G3X, HOW YOU DIDN'T QUALIFI FOR THIS?

2016-12-20 02:25

same for JonY BoY

2016-12-20 02:30

Miami Flamingos will win the major, they don't need WESG

2016-12-20 02:34

what if i win both? :D

2016-12-20 02:44

When will we see you guys in action?

2016-12-20 07:41

you mean Flamingos or This tournament? xD

2016-12-20 10:26

you did a nice job

2016-12-20 02:33

WTF IS THIS, TIER 999 TEAMS IN $1,500,000 TOURNAMENT 4Head LUL

Second place gets $400k which is $100k less than winning the major. Sick.

2016-12-20 02:26

ez for envyus

2016-12-20 02:27

Signature and ENZO are there but not Mongolz #FeelsBadMan

2016-12-20 02:29

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2016-12-20 06:44

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2016-12-20 09:12

looks like $800.000 in the bank for VP

2016-12-20 02:35

sickest pricepool

2016-12-20 02:36

Force of Nature is now rEAK

2016-12-20 02:37

Would be awesome if tyloo wins that money will make them happy

nice to see a huge list of teams you don't see that often when it's about a such high graded tourny.

joke event but whatever idc

2016-12-20 02:50

EZ4GODSENT

2016-12-20 02:57

Team ONE! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! <3 Kreygasm

2016-12-20 03:03

Godsent will win Wow, never thought I'd say that.

2016-12-20 03:07

why the fuck is the lineup so bad? yes there was the nationality restriction but where are the likes of fnatic, Renegades and Immortals?

2016-12-20 03:14

How else would the Chinese have a chance at winning?

2016-12-20 03:38

They didn't participate, union rules. It's the team's fault they didn't get to play. Wesa player union.

2016-12-20 05:21

EnVyUs? Virtus.Pro?

2016-12-20 07:39

Those are the rumours being spread. Why else would sk fnatic nip not participate? Same rumours about not allowing C9 to play with standins or mix teams. VP are not in the core of wesa, just a member, faze fnatic nip etc are core members of wesa Astralis lost to godsent in qualifying, they had karrigan. Any sensible team would have attended, considering that the qualifiers were on lan

2016-12-20 11:09

wtf dat prize pool ez money 4 VP and Godsent

2016-12-20 03:24

Basically fuck NA teams

2016-12-20 03:26

ez for Team One

1,5mln LAN for 99% tier99 teams what should play in some 100$ online tournaments winer take to home fuckign 800.000$ this is biggest prize pool in CS:GO history ! so you say VP cant quali to ECS lan final with 250k for 1st place or ESL with 200k for 1st place hahahahahahahahahahahaahhhhhhahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahbhuhbuhuhuhbubhbhuhuhbuuhbhbuhbuuhuuhbuhbu

2016-12-20 03:39

lol yeah, i realized it just now, biggest prize pool in cs history

2016-12-20 03:32

Valve open your eyes!

2016-12-20 03:28

kazakh trio of gambit wont attend supposedly, otherwise top 8 guarantee and top 4 maybe [*]

2016-12-20 03:41

lol

2016-12-20 04:32

I hope there will be english stream ;)

2016-12-20 03:46

1. - $800,000 2. - $400,000 3. - $200,000 :o

2016-12-20 03:47

dig are having aizy stand in for rubino btw

Nope. Aizy has more important things to do than helping dignitas. Like praccin to major WITH HIS team

2016-12-20 07:20

Except he has guaranteed minimum $40k for just attending those finals with dig and likely more so maybe he'll consider.

2016-12-20 08:26

Yeah.. no

2016-12-20 08:41

No what?

He will practice with his team>40k

2016-12-20 11:33

i believe rosters are locked in (?) so more than likely aizy will play with dig for WESG

2016-12-20 12:37

Yeah, because he'd rather practise for a more difficult tournament with a lesser prize pool than this tier 3, $1500,000 one, they are the second best team in the tournament the $400k is almost guaranteed

2016-12-22 13:11

Its not all about money. He wont be playin with ex dick

2016-12-22 13:55

why not?

2016-12-22 21:01

holy shit

2016-12-20 04:01

proxure crack aweonao

2016-12-20 04:15

Jyp pls stop choking

2016-12-20 04:18

they are not even good team anyway

2016-12-20 11:50

Where the fuck is Cloud9? '-' ;-;

2016-12-20 04:35

with a Canadian

2016-12-20 06:01

800k and 400k for 2nd, where's fnatic?

2016-12-20 04:39

VP EnVyUS Godsent ex-dignitas

2016-12-20 05:12

All those faggots saying so much money for tier 4, should note that the tournament was open to all. The other teams chose not to participate, their loss really. Could have been easy money

2016-12-20 05:22

1.6 mayors in China were pretty sick hope this delivers GL SA

2016-12-20 05:52

gl dp & ss this is ur time to show urself

2016-12-20 05:56

VP was at the last tournament and they said they were paid. I think they pay since it is a partnership between Chinese government + Alibaba. WCA doesn't pay but these guys do. The tournament is sponsored by the Chinese eSports ministry or some shit. It is all government subsidies and they make it "nationality only team" so a lot of teams are already eliminated and the Chinese have a better chance.

2016-12-20 06:17

Source?

2016-12-20 06:26

1 milion just not enough to "tiny" level of Alibaba.how the fuck they willnt pay

2016-12-20 14:21

SpaceSoldiers vs DarkPassage final confirmed

Wont watch

2016-12-20 06:24

K23 easy

2016-12-20 06:27

no THE Mongolz really sea TOP 3 asian trash teams fucking wesg zail apai pisda utaa baguuud opchoood bxad mongolz bxagui gutapmaap ym we psda

2016-12-20 06:42

GL TYLOO

2016-12-20 06:48

EZ for Epsilon in china... oh wait

2016-12-20 07:00

Ez4VP

2016-12-20 07:14

why isnt SK and Astralis on this championship?

1. ask SK wiki.teamliquid.net/counterstrike/World_.. 2. because GODSENT beat them in the round of 12 wiki.teamliquid.net/counterstrike/World_..

2016-12-20 07:36

ty for answer

2016-12-21 03:19

Why china lans always big prizepool but shitty teams and streams

2016-12-20 07:21

Because China second richest country?

2016-12-20 07:24

That is the reason why shittiest teams and streams?

2016-12-20 07:43

Shittiest teams because they make rules that help Chinese teams. Streams? I don't know. We'll see about this one. Do you watch Chinese or English stream? Maybe first one is better?

2016-12-20 08:29

In 2016 there is no much delays anymore in good t1 english stream lans but in china lans still huge delays and shitty streams.

2016-12-20 08:42

WESA forced nip fnatic sk to boycott, no reason as to why else they did not play. Astralis lost in the qualifiers There were lan qualifiers for this, with the qualifiers also have 75k prize pool

2016-12-20 10:57

that more prize pool than major, in a huge stadium, this gonna be crazy

2016-12-20 07:27

EZ K23

2016-12-20 08:25

good prep for major for EU top teams

2016-12-20 08:31

lets gooo virtus prooo btw somehow i have a feel we might see .Russia in the finals

2016-12-20 08:37

I was about to say that I would not have VP as favourites since they'll most likely focus on the major instead, and bomb out early like only VP can do when they don't care. But then I saw the pricepool lol. Imagine if they win both this and the major in just a few weeks

2016-12-20 08:38

It's already hard to imagine them in the finals of either tournaments after knowing they've signed 4 years contracts. +their recent form is dogshit

2016-12-20 10:25

SS vs DP final confirmed!

VP, nV or GODSENT

2016-12-20 08:39

This is bonkers. I see VP making a lot of cash and second would be ex-dignitas or godsent. Envy not goung to finals

2016-12-20 08:51

ez for bvd

2016-12-20 08:54

1.VP 2. Kinguin Eazzy

2016-12-20 09:07

Go-go .Russia - hoochiemama ftw!

2016-12-20 09:13

should be good

2016-12-20 09:16

lets go vp <3

2016-12-20 09:35

holy fucking shit $800,000 for 1st place LOL still $1mln on majors xD

2016-12-20 09:42

rip vp .Russia EASYYYYYYYYY

2016-12-20 09:44

how the fuck this tier99 lan has the biggest prizepool

2016-12-20 09:53

Ppl saying tier99 tourney which is not true.Expect NaVi players every other players try to get in to finals And ofc Turkish final inc Dp vs Ss gonna be mind blowing !!!!

2016-12-20 10:01

The prize pool is so crazy for tournament like this.. Easy money for the top teams.. VP/Dignitas/Envyus/Godsent/Kinguin/Russia/TyLoo/and one random lucky team to get the last spot in the top8. Easy money for Dignitas or VP..

2016-12-20 10:10

Sk, nip, fnatic did not participate even though they were free at the time, shot teams like selfless won the na slot. Astralis did not qualify It was open for all teams. Blame the wesa union

2016-12-20 10:58

When WESG qualif. was happen at the same point it was WESG TWC and 1 more event.

2016-12-20 13:59

Yeah and which players of Immortals fnatic sk nip were playing twc ? None. And the other event that was going on in asia was a low tier event with no good teams. Doesnt make a difference.

2016-12-20 14:00

Finally

2016-12-20 10:12

This will be very entertaining to watch. Teams around the world

Biggest tourney in cs history

2016-12-20 10:15

Ez kinguin boyzzz

1. VP 2. ex-dignitas 3. GODSENT 4. EnVyUs

2016-12-20 10:39

Easy for vp ex-dignitas playing with stand-in

2016-12-20 10:41

Wtf are you talking about ? ex-dig will have their full lineup

2016-12-20 10:49

Nope, rubino ain't from Denmark

Aww forgot about that rule my bad :( Aizy to stand-in righr ?

2016-12-20 11:01

Yeah, most probably

2016-12-20 11:12

Or valde

2016-12-20 16:03

It's gonna be aizy as he already stood in at Regional Finals

2016-12-20 16:34

Not likely

2016-12-20 19:10

800k WESG ARE YOU KIDDIN ME ?? this is the biggest prize fir 1st place in csgo history

ez4BRAVADOGAMING #BRAVADOGAMINGTOP1WORLD

Except Sonic can't run as fast on lan.

2016-12-21 08:04

who needs major when you got wesg with worse teams in it, lmao

2016-12-20 10:51

ez for flusha

2016-12-20 11:53

Vp won here, 1 week later out in group stage on major Kappa

2016-12-20 12:08

The biggest pricepool ever? oO 800k for the first place it's like "international"

2016-12-20 12:23

Actually I don't believe that...

2016-12-20 12:30

Go Brazil #RunTeamOne

2016-12-20 12:56

ez Team One LUL

2016-12-20 13:27

finally some news on WESG... can't wait!!

2016-12-20 13:38

ez pablo escobar

omg 800k, gj VP

2016-12-20 13:40

As a solid player back in 1.6, im considering to be professional in Cs:go at the age of 28. Amazing prize money indeed. I wish SS takes top3 place. At least 200k money would be good for their improvement and investments. It will also be a great succes for DP to take place in top8.

sea asia top team THE MONGOLZ where? bullshit

2016-12-20 13:50

cant qualify..

2016-12-20 14:01

okey XMM :(

2016-12-20 14:03

Wtf these teams with this prize pool....

2016-12-20 13:57

So many retards hate china for making so big prizepool? Funny shit

2016-12-20 14:28

ez for maluk3, sk maluk3 incoming

2016-12-20 14:31

I played with SecretAgent from Queztzal on CEVO he was toxic af and cried after every round xD hope he gets raped there

2016-12-20 14:45

lol what are the chances of them actually paying this? Always be aware of ching chongs.

2016-12-20 14:53

The lan qualifier of every continent had a 75k prize pool and it was paid soon after the qualifier. This is a legit event hosted by alibaba

2016-12-20 18:07

$1.500.000? wait what?

2016-12-20 15:10

It was known before qualifiers started that it was 1.5 million for csgo and 1.5 million for dota2,yet sk immortals nip fnatic did not participate and astralis lost to godsent and got eliminated

2016-12-20 18:08