WESG World Finals venue and format announced

2-3-2018 16:33

The format and venue for the WESG World Finals, which will take place March 13-18, have been announced by the tournament organizer.

The WESG World Finals, which are set to kick off in Haikou, Hainan, China, on March 13, will have a prize pool of $1,500,000—the lion's share for the champion being $800,000. The team roster for this year has been increased from last year's edition, with 32 teams up from 24.

Ukraine will be Europe's top seed after winning the CIS & EU Qualifier

The tournament, which will be hosted by Alisport and Haikou's Municipal People's Government, will be held at the Haikou International Convention & Exhibition Center on the island province of Hainan, across the Qiongzhou Strait from mainland China.

The 32 qualified teams will play one preliminary best-of-one round-robin group stage with eight groups of four teams, with the top two of each group moving on to a second round-robin group stage with four groups of four teams battling it out in best-of-twos. Then, the top two of each group will move to a best-of-three single bracket playoff.

The competing team list is the following:

AGO	BOOT-d[S]
Belgium	BIG
Bravado	Cloud9
EMC	Envy
fnatic	GODSENT
Isurus	Limitless
MAX	MVP PK
New4	NOREG
NSPR	ORDER
Parallax	Recca
Russia	SK
Space Soldiers	subtLe
Swole Patrol	SCARZ Absolute
TeamOne	The Onliners
Ukraine	ViCi
Viva Algeria	Wololos

The full prize pool distribution for the WESG World Finals is:

1. $800,000
2. $300,000
3. $150,000
4. $70,000
5-8. $25,000
9-16. $10,000

Finally, will be a sick event for sure.

2018-03-02 16:35

30 replies

cool

2018-03-02 16:36

8 replies

ez for EatMyChips XD

2018-03-02 17:22

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EZ SK they were saving strats for so long to the real major aka the CSGO World Cup, that I thought they were actually becoming a bad team!!! #RUNSKG

2018-03-02 19:44

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How do you need strats for this poop? xD like 4-5 relevant teams, rest is trash Ez 800k for SK.

2018-03-03 00:51

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+1 but this is china bro automatically rigged

2018-03-03 00:54

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If China wins this then yes, because I see not a single one that should be able to even get top 8 xD

2018-03-03 00:56

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Indeed

2018-03-03 08:36

+1 I want see they in major, i want a sticker .

2018-03-02 21:23

With the world-class talent “fagger” leading the line

2018-03-02 22:23

china no1 china no1 china no1 china no1 china no1 china no1

2018-03-02 16:37

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CHINA NUMBA WAN!1!1!! *hey li wanna eat dog after the game?*

2018-03-02 18:36

Trust me. Very delicious!

2018-03-02 19:27

don't argue with me about stranger food. we have a food name "kokorec" which is made out of intestine(it's delicious)

2018-03-02 19:39

it's common seen in china

2018-03-02 20:56

We also eat. Just not that healthy and too fatty.

2018-03-02 21:57

wesg tournament sick LUL sure actually it will be a diarrhea shit

2018-03-02 17:19

Just like extatus

2018-03-03 08:49

Extatus would be top 16 team in here

2018-03-03 13:42

Love wesg it's what the majors should be where everyone gets to compete and qualify with so many teams

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You know everyone gets to compete at majors?

2018-03-02 19:14

At least try to qualify

2018-03-02 19:15

I guess he means the capacity of teams at the major (only 16) while WESG has 32. Still like majors more because we get to see real competetion and not troll teams like EatMyChips

2018-03-03 12:22

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It’s still a very commercial event in which they try to get other people than csgo fans to watch the major. If the games are boring because a team like EatMyChips competes, that’s not good for viewership and makes the event way longer which they don’t want either

2018-03-03 12:34

+1 longer is not always better (hehe)

Exactly, i mean, i don’t have to worry about that (in two ways, hehe), because i’ll watch it anyway, but then i won’t watch everything

2018-03-03 12:35

Yup. I will never take my time and watch every single match e.g. I will probably not watch a single map of Group H (ORDER, NOREG, EMC, MAX), while I nearly watched every single map of the major (and got no drop reeeeee).

2018-03-03 13:10

i got one, during the faze vs c9 final, but it was a RUSH signature so i sold it, i literally would keep it from every player but him

2018-03-03 14:52

lmao

2018-03-03 15:12

Could be even better with no nations rules, but still a good event. A lot of oportunities for low tier teams play in a big stage and against good teams. Helps a lot to develop some regions, like africa/middle east and even south america.

2018-03-02 21:19

0/8

2018-03-03 02:49

nice

2018-03-02 16:34

So EZ for AGO

2018-03-02 17:24

first

2018-03-02 16:44

where TYLOO?

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There is just mononational teams. Tyloo have players from Indonesia and China

2018-03-02 16:38

Oh... ty... but fucken gg

2018-03-02 16:41

and poland

2018-03-02 17:06

and Monako

2018-03-02 17:16

didnt qualify, lost in round of 16 I think

2018-03-02 16:42

TYLOO > 2017-2018 = TYLOOOOOOL is not old TYLOO fnatic STYLE beat Navi beat Luminosity ps. i Like oldTYLOO now TYLOO is SHIT!

nope

2018-03-02 17:00

Tyloo lost at quarter final WESG China Qualifier. China region is allocated with 4 spots on this final event.

2018-03-02 17:29

Ez money for NA/EU team.

2018-03-02 21:59

Wait if China gets 4 spots why is there only 3 Chinese teams on the list?

2018-03-03 00:52

that prizepool lmao

Nice

subroza abstence again

lll

Ez swole patrol

Go Isurus!

recca should loan bntet and xccurate to at least advance to the 2nd group stage

xccurate will play for recca, this is also would be his last tournament with recca

2018-03-03 02:06

i thought he would only play for them in the quals, just checked their fb page, anyways. thanks for the info

2018-03-04 18:37

nice one

ez for teams

Wtf katowice RIGGED round??? C9 - Faze OMEGALUL i want my money back

ez belgium ex6 all the time in the world to make all the fancy strats

ez 4 fnatic

FINALLLYYYYYYY, YEEY, NO VP INVITED HERE

They didn't qualify, no invites here, everyone qualified lost in EU regional finals

2018-03-02 16:40

well, still no surprise :)

2018-03-02 19:30

almost unbelieveable that these shitters couldnt even qualify even though they just had to make top 3 in their group liquipedia.net/counterstrike/World_Elect..

2018-03-03 00:46

this the best format i think

This is fast format, not best

2018-03-02 22:36

i would prefer Bo3 but would take too long

2018-03-03 00:20

GO ISURUS

GO ISG

Too ez for space soldiers

2018-03-02 16:39

1.5m$ , should be good motivation for lower tier teams.

Wololo

FINALLY a tournament with a lot of teams. Nostalgia

yes but a lot of trash teams. This event only has a large prize pool the rest is really questionable.

2018-03-02 16:43

back in early-mid 1.6 it was usual with 64 team LANs :p like many of the CPL events. And only bo1 haha. It's not a good system, but it's different from what we have today which is always fun to see

2018-03-02 16:51

yes good some teams are getting a chance. Todays big events are always the same big names.

2018-03-02 16:54

agree. events now are boring . Young people dont know CPL events with 128 teams brackets, good times and best events with many matches and a windows to watch new rising stars.

2018-03-02 20:41

open quals for major has 128 or 256 teams

2018-03-02 22:38

+1 favourite event of 2018 inc

2018-03-03 00:45

Ez wololos <3

run isurus TOP 1 SA ez tbh

lol 800k for winner from t10 event. i guess easy money for sk fnatic or c9

2018-03-02 16:45

this is like old WCG, i like this kind of a tournaments. When we can see lower tier teams playing and maybe we see some good new players who knows :)

2018-03-02 16:47

wesg 2016 was t20 btw

2018-03-02 17:12

wtf denmark didn't have any spots in wesg?

2018-03-02 16:53

They did have teams at the EU and CIS finals, but north and astralis didn't try qualifying

2018-03-02 17:25

what about heroic?

2018-03-02 17:39

They have moddi Who is swedish

2018-03-02 17:42

ah yes forgot about that

2018-03-02 17:43

#GoIsurus

nv to play 4v5? xD Ex6's chance to prove he's not washed up completely

2018-03-02 16:55

So easy for The Onliners

2018-03-02 16:58

Onliners in lan LUL

2018-03-02 17:01

300k for the SECOND PLACE. omfg!

2018-03-02 17:03

Parralax and order both have sico ?

2018-03-02 17:04

Ez 4 swole patrol

2018-03-02 17:05

zeus makeloff edward nostalgic af

2018-03-02 17:08

Markeloff is back to main awp too HOLY FUCK

2018-03-02 18:02

It will be cool to see if the Ukraine/RU teams can find sucess.

2018-03-02 17:09

Ukraine is very good actually. I expect them to at least make the quarterfinals

2018-03-02 17:26

ez s1mple 1vs120

2018-03-02 17:14

CSGO TI , ez for SK

2018-03-02 17:20

Easy money for SK

ez Ukraine

Why only 1 nationality allowed? Quite silly IMO.

Think of it this way: it's like the World Cup or the Olympics

2018-03-02 17:27

But they're still representing individual teams, not their countries. There is a world cup type thing but it's a whole different organisation.

like WCG

2018-03-02 17:56

Each team has players of one nationality. So they ARE representing their countries. And an international team in this event would be fucking stupid. The whole point is to promote esports to Olympic level.

2018-03-02 18:04

ez 4 EMC and NSPR

When will the groups be announced

who is scream gonna play for envy or belgium ?

belgium

2018-03-02 17:32

belgiym. rule is that team members must from the same country, and he already played for belgium in the eu finals.

2018-03-02 17:37

Easy wololos

hainan is a beautiful island, should be a great venue for sure

2018-03-02 17:31

Very expensive

2018-03-02 21:07

If the prize pool are so big (1,5 mil$!?), why isnt teams like Astralis, FaZe, G2, Liquid etc not in this tournament? Also, how come there is a mixture between national teams like ''Ukraine'' and ''Belgium'' and the regular like SK and Cloud9? Thanks in advance.

2018-03-02 17:34

I think astralis was getting ready for the major when the european qualifers happend

2018-03-02 17:38

And faze is an international team and in this tournament all members should be from one country . Just like olympics since the goal of wesg is to promote esport and list it as a game in the olympics

2018-03-02 17:40

Okay, thank you for your response. I just find it odd that teams like North, Astralis, G2 etc with all homegrown teams hasnt even tried qualifying when the avg. strength in the teams are weaker and prize pool higher than in a Major eg.

2018-03-02 19:35

believe me major has more than a prize pool if we count the sticker money if they get top 8 in major people would buy their stickers in order to play the pick em challenge and they would get more money and also would get legend status is more important than 800k

2018-03-02 19:37

This is an Olympic level event. Can't have international teams. This is where true homegrown teams can shine

2018-03-02 18:01

Like others said. teams must consists of players from one nation. Also, Astralis, G2. North and NIP were at Blast Pro Series during EU qualifier, so they couldnt compete.

2018-03-02 20:10