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*note* i am not translating the entire article because it is full of PR and business terms. This is merely a translation of its main points.
In a press conference on 30th March in Shanghai, Ali Sports, of Alibaba.com introduces its E-sports division and announces the creation of its World Electronic Sports Games (WESG).
This event aims to attract 100 countries/regions all over the world to register and compete.
The first round of games players will be competing in are: DOTA2, CS:GO, SC2:LOTV, Hearthstone. Some of the most popular competitive games in the world right now.
The global prize pool will total up to 5.5million USD. (*no mention of specific game prize pool)
The event will start in April and the global finals will be held in China in December.
They are also accepting applications from countries around the world in hosting next year's event.
As this is Ali Sports's first Global Tournament, this event strives to differentiate itself from other E-sports events. Besides publishing a Rulebook for WESG (coughs coughs Blizzard), the event will also have complete and special regulations that include players age and nationalities, Anti-doping, Moral etiquette and Punishments/Appeals.
The aim is to protect the rights of every competitor and to uphold the integrity of the event, in order to promote the development of Global E-sports.
Besides WESG, Ali Sports also indicated that they would be organizing other E-sports tournaments and everything from user registering, tournament details, player registering, service integration, streaming, e-commerce will all be on its own E-sports platform.
source : http://www.alisports.com/cn/view_30.html
Brief Intro of Alibaba.com
Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals. It also provides electronic payment services, a shopping search engine and data-centric cloud computing services.
In 2012, two of Alibaba's portals handled 1.1 trillion yuan ($170 billion) in sales.
At closing time on the date of its initial public offering (IPO), 19 September 2014, Alibaba's market value was US$231 billion. However, the stock has traded down and market cap was about $212 billion at the end of December 2015.
Alibaba's consumer-to-consumer portal Taobao, similar to eBay.com, features nearly a billion products and is one of the 20 most-visited websites globally. The Group's websites accounted for over 60% of the parcels delivered in China by March 2013, and 80% of the nation's online sales by September 2014.
Alibaba reported sales of $14.32 billion on China's Singles' Day on 11 November 2015, up 60 percent from 2014.
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alibaba_Group
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