No Counter-Strike at WEM 2012

8-9-2012 17:44

Regardless of earlier rumours of World E-Sports Masters 2012 including Counter-Strike 1.6, the event has announced StarCraft 2 and League of Legends as the only official titles.

World E-Sports Masters or WEM, formerly known as World E-Sports Games or WEG in the earlier seasons, has been supporting Counter-Strike 1.6 since its inaugural season in the beginning of 2005.

WEG started as a league lasting up to two months in Seoul, but as WEM was reduced to a week's length in China. Now due to a smaller amount of sponsor money, the event will be ran in three days and can only feature two game titles.

WEM 2010 was the last event to feature Counter-Strike for now

According to PCgames.cn, WEM organizers stated that due to many CS 1.6 teams retiring or switching to CS:GO, it would have been impossible to invite eight top teams for a season, which ultimately led to CS 1.6 not being included as a title.

Source: PCgames.cn

Fuck off.

2012-09-08 17:45

9 replies

+1. Mayans were right, CS will die at 2012. xD! At least in competitve scene, because I-WILL-NEVER-STOP-PLAYING-THIS-SH*T.

2012-09-08 18:08

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its like when source has been created, cs:go will fail, a lot of top teams and players will return to 1.6... MAYBE !

2012-09-08 18:59

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tbh i think either does cs:go succed or counter strike will die in total. 1.6 is not coming back

2012-09-08 21:38

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Wise words.

2012-09-09 09:39

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Wise words.

2012-09-10 12:23

this. when source appeared 1.6 still had good prize money and enough people watching it, from what i remember the scene was not so weak like it was this time before cs:go. so either cs:go or no more cs in big tourneys.my opinion:D

2012-09-09 14:36

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exactly

2012-09-09 14:51

My 1st thought exactly :]

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2012-09-10 18:52

Sad

2012-09-08 17:45

sad :(

2012-09-08 17:46

mmm

2012-09-08 17:47

RIP 1.6 :D

2012-09-08 17:47

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idiot..

2012-09-09 17:11

Nab much?

2012-09-10 18:52

expected

2012-09-08 17:48

time to delete my hltv.org account

2012-09-08 17:48

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Finally!

2012-09-08 18:03

delete please :D

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+ 1

2012-09-08 20:27

CS 1.6 its the main reason why i have a hltv.org acc, maybe i should do this...

2012-09-08 20:57

+1 my brother

2012-09-08 23:21

wow i was hoping this would at least be the last CS 1.6 tournament - yeah ive been visiting less frequently my self :(

2012-09-09 04:25

would actually have more impact that saying "csgo sucks "

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2012-09-10 01:13

lol...

2012-09-10 10:36

+11111111111111111111111137

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2012-09-10 19:41

sadder than sad :(

2012-09-08 17:48

expected

2012-09-08 17:51

expected

2012-09-08 17:51

Look at it this way, there's now a huge top skill level drop in 1.6, so now you can actually be the best like you always dreamed!

2012-09-08 17:52

What a surprise!

2012-09-08 17:53

the end but dont be sad remember the good times :(

2012-09-08 17:54

fuck U WEM 2k12 :(

2012-09-08 17:54

fuck WEM!

2012-09-08 17:55

totally expected.

2012-09-08 18:01

No worries, I remember that some user said that If he win lottery , he will make a tournament with milions in price pool. WE ARE STILL ALIVE , JUST WAIT FOR HIM TO WIN IT :D

2012-09-08 18:02

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Keep on dreaming. And, that's a blatant lie.

2012-09-09 23:27

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hahahahahahhaa no fucking way!

2012-09-10 16:00

GOOD! :D

2012-09-08 18:03

"According to PCgames.cn, WEM organizers stated that due to many CS 1.6 teams retiring or switching to CS:GO, it would have been impossible to invite eight top teams for a season, which ultimately led to CS 1.6 not being included as a title." How smart, better remove CS1.6 from all tournaments games list so organisations will try to pay salaries for not playing games. HELLO?!

2012-09-08 18:04

what did you expect? Go CS:GO

2012-09-08 18:05

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+1337

2012-09-08 18:07

LoL, CS:GO has only 16k playing for the last 2 days, that's the worst record I've ever seen for a new game, even single player games had more players for a longer time. 70,409 70,409 Dota 2 56,914 56,914 Team Fortress 2 38,117 38,117 Counter-Strike 31,287 31,287 Football Manager 2012 26,308 26,308 Counter-Strike: Source 22,183 22,183 Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 - Multiplayer 17,971 17,971 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 16,992 16,992 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 15,222 15,222 Sid Meier's Civilization V 6,091 6,091 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer store.steampowered.com/stats/

2012-09-08 18:16

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the stats are not working from yesterday morning, now stfu

2012-09-08 18:20

get lost. tournament organisers dont give a fuck about steam stats.

2012-09-08 18:20

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hahah, they care about how many people play the game, just look at how much CS:Source failed, the same is happening with CS:GO right now.

2012-09-08 18:23

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u mad bro? :D tell me what can u do with that 38k+ CS1.6. Ye the answer is nothing :D cya

2012-09-08 18:26

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the answer is 2x of what you can do with 16k, bye. btw, there are more than 200k playing 1.6 non steam right now.

2012-09-08 18:34

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amazing how dumb u r :D according to math 2x0=0 and as i said nobody cares about this. there is no 1.6 tournaments left no matters how many playing it. tho case left. 1. cs:go will success. yay we got an FPS title. 2. cs:go will fail. no more FPS title. have fun with watching sc2, LoL, DotA2

2012-09-08 18:42

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actually, I enjoy watching DotA 2 and SC2 HotS a lot more than CS:GO at the moment, in fact, I hate watching CS:GO, feels incredibly casualized.

2012-09-08 18:47

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So why do you watch it then? I don't get it. You hate on CS:GO every day but it won't change anything anyways. Pro/semi pro players are maybe 1-2% or even less from the steam stats it doesn't matter if it's DotA, Cs 1.6, CSS or CS:GO.

2012-09-09 16:56

dbie won't understand that

2012-09-08 18:37

number wise source did not fail rofl, source nearly always has as much as 1.6

2012-09-08 18:32

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but it wasn't a competitive game, it was focused on pub players and pretty much died as a casual game. exactly the same is happening with CS:GO, thats why you don't see more people playing.

2012-09-08 18:36

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Actually the only people playing csgo right now are pro players lol, 1.6 has hardly any more pro teams only the same old pub players.

2012-09-08 18:38

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who will watch the pro players play? other pro players? you need a community of all kind of players and for that the game needs to greatly improve and soon. CSS failed because it was a casualized version of 1.6, we have to avoid that with CS:GO or else it won't succeed. people wants a FPS game with a high skill ceiling, exactly like 1.6 is.

2012-09-08 18:44

Every CSS server I've been to has 90% of the players screaming in their mics with high pitched voices as much as they can, tells enough to me. Oh, and aren't 50% of the servers jailbreak? herpity derp!

2012-09-08 18:44

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People like you make me feel ill.

2012-09-10 16:03

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How so?

2012-09-10 17:38

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Stupid.

2012-09-10 21:08

and how many casuals who never heard about any community website or about csgo? who dont wanna switch a game because they prefere play ffa?

2012-09-08 18:30

they are desperate.. nice valve ahahhaa

2012-09-08 18:07

yep, doesnt matter, i still fuck go

2012-09-08 18:11

bye.

2012-09-08 18:11

Wall of text inc.. funny that both source and 1.6 got more players playing than csgo according to steam stats, and dont whine about that it's a new game.. when skyrim was released, it had around 200thousand players playing for a month after release, while csgo got less than 20000 players playing half a month after its release?? And dont whine that Skyrim had a bigger fanbase, you know 1.6 and source was two of the most popular fps games ever made! so the pro teams failed a bit when switching to csgo! csgo was one of if not the bigges fail by valve to this day! attack me grammar nazis!

2012-09-08 18:13

CS 1.6 is already dead, and for me the whole Counter-Strike franchise is dead. GG WP.

2012-09-08 18:15

ok, cs 1.6 died in 2012, but no problem because the world will die in 2012 too :D

2012-09-08 18:20

it is a bullshit,Any game can't be perfect than CS 1.6.

2012-09-08 18:20

SAD, BUT there is only 1 way, and it is called CS:GO!

2012-09-08 18:22

#9 +1

2012-09-08 18:27

fuck !

2012-09-08 18:46

okok, FUCK U WEM

2012-09-08 18:47

Do u really care about statistics how many people play on public servers in csgo/ the main thing is competitive scene takes the best players for championships, cups, tournaments etc. so continue to see how many players have fun in csgo, retards.

2012-09-08 18:53

Interesting how teams dropped because tournaments dropped 1.6 and now apparently tournaments are dropping because teams have dropped?

2012-09-08 19:02

i like how everyone is going "fuck wem" .... ungrateful kids ...if a tournament decided to host your game for 5 years, then stop cus it's DEAd, i guess the tournament deserves your insults?

2012-09-08 19:09

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It's like dropping 1.6 for runescape, get the picture? FUCK WEM!!!

2012-09-08 19:16

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Runescape graphics are something like 1.6

2012-09-08 21:48

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Yeah, we're talking about graphics! not.

2012-09-08 21:49

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If the graphics would be better in 1.6 maybe not all tournaments would be dropping the poor the game

2012-09-08 21:53

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Why don't they upgrade the graphics then? Good god..

2012-09-08 21:55

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Well they are doing it by making cs:go

2012-09-08 21:56

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Which receives massive criticism.. And actually CS:GO is supposed to be more like source, not 1.6.

2012-09-08 21:57

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Its supposed to be a new game and experience to players. And there aren't many people with a legit "criticism". And there will be updates

2012-09-08 21:59

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But so far improving 1.6 would be way more succesful than doing so for CS:GO.

2012-09-08 22:01

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Improving an 10 year old game would be a waste of time

2012-09-08 22:03

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You can't seriously be THAT dumb?

2012-09-08 22:04

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And here we go. Been nice talking to you how 1.6 is dead

2012-09-08 22:05

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CS 1.6 still has more players than Globally Obnoxious. Good riddance!

2012-09-08 22:06

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The only example i can give you about 1.6 with upgrade graphics is Promod. And every one knows how thats going on

2012-09-08 22:08

By improving I believe he means that CS:GO should've been based on 1.6, which would definitely have made it more popular. SC2 and Dota 2 are great examples. And yes, even though a lot of people still think SC:BW and Dota 1 are better, most of them still like SC2 and Dota 2.

2012-09-10 18:06

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Some people forgot what Counter Strike is if they want everything to be exactly as 1.6. That would be a waste of time and money

2012-09-10 18:18

yay! CS:GO ftw!

2012-09-08 19:31

fuck this shit!

2012-09-08 19:35

you dont say

2012-09-08 19:47

Nothing new...

2012-09-08 20:01

CS 1.6 IS STILL ALIVE! CS:GOWNO

2012-09-08 20:19

csgo aims at beginners who heard "cs" and played for 1 or 2 times.the crowd is really big and valve knows they can earn much money.that is why they dont copy cs1.6 but creat a new game. valve will get money but ruin "cs". yeah,they don't care.

2012-09-08 20:36

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The only thing that would ruin Counter Strike is 1.6. Valve are doing the best they can to make a game with a different experience to play it

2012-09-08 21:46

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If I understood right, it was supposed to be a game that would unite the previous CS communities. But that didn't happen. It just made things worse.

2012-09-08 21:53

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1.6 players, Source players, and even Cod player play it

2012-09-08 21:55

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And now there's about 15 thousand people playing it, what a great success!!

2012-09-08 21:56

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Its not like the number will not increase in time. Especially with the 1 million tournament

2012-09-08 21:57

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Maybe it will, but so far, it's just a pile of garbage.

2012-09-08 21:58

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It will improve during time. And tournaments witch every week are more, wouldn't even pick the game if it would be bad

2012-09-08 22:01

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Well, most people don't "pick" the game, you see there's a problem there...

2012-09-08 22:02

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It was released a few weeks ago. Its not like anybody will buy 1.6 from steam these days

2012-09-08 22:04

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Yeah, it had ~50k players in the first day, and then on it went, downhill like crazy, that's a good start!

2012-09-08 22:06

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But they have a number of players playing it and it will increase eventually

2012-09-08 22:06

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They already had 50k, seems to me like 35 thousand out of those 50 didn't like the game enough to play it more than a few hours :D...

2012-09-08 22:07

step one : ruined by source. step two : ruined by global offensive. valve is not uniting,what they were doing in the last few years is trying to make a easier game(more beginners to come)with better graphic quality(associate with hardware company for money). technic is shit.if they provide high reward for Minesweeper.people will also come to "compete".

2012-09-09 13:22

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Whatever Valve are doing. they are doing the right way

2012-09-09 13:28