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The StarCraft II portion of the 2018 World Electronic Sports Games Grand Finals is set to kick off on March 11th with the group stage of the tournament. Forty-eight players from around the world (4 invited + 38 from regional qualifiers) will participate in a round robin group stage (Mar 11-12), with sixteen players moving onto the single-elimination playoffs (Mar 13-17). A total of $240,000 USD in prize money is on the line, with the champion winning $150,000.
Last year's WESG champion  Maru will defend his title against some of the best players in the world, including 2018 BlizzCon champion Serral, as well as Korean countrymen INnoVation and Dark.
The StarCraft II matches will be streamed on Twitch.TV/wesg_sc2 and Twitch.tv/wesg_main, with the first group stage matches beginning at Monday, Mar 11 5:00am GMT (GMT+00:00).
*Yes, this is the official title, even though the Grand Finals are played in March of 2019.
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This sure does falls on a dry spot after we have been so starved of top starcraft lately
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United States33604 Posts
On March 10 2019 23:52 sneakyfox wrote:
This sure does falls on a dry spot after we have been so starved of top starcraft lately
and we thought Blizzard rigged their tournaments to ensure Maru vs Serral 
more importantly, this is the live, major tournament debut for Has in 2019
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IEM was too long ago. Finally some Starcraft again !
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Best prize pool distribution ever 
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On March 11 2019 00:02 Elmonti wrote:Best pool prize distribution ever
not to mention that last year WESG prize pool was 400k$ while this year it shrak to 240k$...
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China6331 Posts
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Last years format was so much better. Single elim ro16 bracket with prize pool distribution like this is a joke. Some of Maru/Serral/INno/Dark/Neeb will end up meeting in the ro8, at least last year all four top players ended up in the ro4.
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According to Incontrol in Pylon show, apparently the personality/casting crew recruitment/condition won't be as good/smooth as some of other tournaments like IEM and dreamhack but every year I enjoyed WESG thoroughly, especially the prizepool, it's insane for the players. I remember one year Maru got easy $100k+ with maybe 2-3 REAL top tier koreans playing. But this is 2019 and it's def gettin bigger and a lot more 'known' players like Serral, Neeb, Steph, Scarlet, Reynor, even Ptit, Mana, Time, Sortof etc. GOnna be another IEM in the same month, so excited and feelin spoiled so much SC2 nowadays.
And I hope WESG keeps having sc2 in 2020 and beyond.
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Canada8990 Posts
On March 11 2019 00:09 batatm wrote:not to mention that last year WESG prize pool was 400k$ while this year it shrak to 240k$...
Well let's be honest it's an obsurd amount of money for what it actually is, so let's not complain to much.
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RIP Group A competitors...
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WESG has some of the worst production quality and probably 90% of all games won't even be broadcasted.
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wtf why is group A so stacked when so many of these other groups are so bad.
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On March 11 2019 01:09 KappaKingPrime wrote:
WESG has some of the worst production quality and probably 90% of all games won't even be broadcasted.
Just hope the players are in a functional hotel this time
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Reminds me of WCG Brood War days. It's not about watching top players duking it out, it's about international SC players meeting and having fun.
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Where do we find all the details about who exactly is playing today?
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http://2018.wesg.com/en/
If you scroll down and click Starcraft II you can see times for the matches, I saw Rotti say on his stream last night that he thinks it might just end up a bit of a free for all though.
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United States33604 Posts
On March 11 2019 02:59 Jatlantis1 wrote:http://2018.wesg.com/en/If you scroll down and click Starcraft II you can see times for the matches, I saw Rotti say on his stream last night that he thinks it might just end up a bit of a free for all though.
yeah, the match-order is up on their site and liqupedia, but there's no telling which games will end up being streamed from the various blocks of games (8~10+ going on at once)
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Would be interesting to read more about experiences of past WESGs. How they have been for the players.
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Yeah I find it interesting that there is 0 coverage from the event.. no person or organization, even TeamLiquid, does any journalism over there 
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Czech Republic12129 Posts
Hmm, I wonder if Maru/Innovation prepared. Dark vs foreigners not named Serral... hmm xD
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Well, probably WESG organizers are mainly aiming at chinese audience, I guess?
And then I don't that it is the job of TL.net to provide a promo service for tournament organizers without them doing anything for it themselves. TL.net is still mainly driven by fandom, not so much by highly paid journalists, as far as I know.
But yeah, more coverage would be awesome.
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It is a bit silly how stacked Group A is, however looks like a sick tournament overall!
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On March 11 2019 04:51 fronkschnonk wrote:
Well, probably WESG organizers are mainly aiming at chinese audience, I guess?
And then I don't that it is the job of TL.net to provide a promo service for tournament organizers without them doing anything for it themselves. TL.net is still mainly driven by fandom, not so much by highly paid journalists, as far as I know.
But yeah, more coverage would be awesome.
It's just funny that there isn't any news site covering SC2 eSporta... I don't know how it is in other eSports but back in the days, at least in Germany we had readmore and fragster covering major tournaments on site with fotos, interviews and so on.. pretty interesting to see how all that changed and how nowadays something like that doesn't exist...
But well.. b2t.. I hope the Koreans.. actually 50 bucks on one of them. I read on Twitter that Serral got sick after IEM.. that gives me a lot of hope.
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On March 11 2019 05:17 SlammerIV wrote:
It is a bit silly how stacked Group A is, however looks like a sick tournament overall!
No kidding, most people from that group would have a decent chance of getting out of many other groups, and Showtime and Neeb are the top 2 foreign protosses to boot
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Twitch.TV/wesg_sc2 and Twitch.tv/wesg_main anyone know what we can expect? It's fully chinese stream? if so, is anyone covering in english or atleast later in the tournament?
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On March 11 2019 12:03 ordeal11 wrote:
Twitch.TV/wesg_sc2 and Twitch.tv/wesg_main anyone know what we can expect? It's fully chinese stream? if so, is anyone covering in english or atleast later in the tournament?
There will be an English cast with Rotterdam, Lowko, Wardi and Rapid.
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Hopefully there’s enough information that TL can keep all the matches and their map results up to date. Anyone know if they’ll be keeping a replay pack at least? WESG’s treatment of everything SC2 related leading up to this has been pretty comically bad so far.
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China6331 Posts
TakeTV, Ogaming and Crank are likely covering this in their respective languages, if things went well.
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United States33604 Posts
On March 11 2019 13:29 digmouse wrote:
TakeTV, Ogaming and Crank are likely covering this in their respective languages, if things went well.
hopefully this allows for a broad coverage of games!
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they'll have to use cleanfeed, though...
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United States33604 Posts
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Has vs ZP ? That's doable
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i never saw worse groups in my whole life sad life for everyone in A
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I wanted to watch WESG this year but didn't know what time zone the brackets were in on the WESG official website, doesn't say.
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Goddamn this has to be the most grandiose eSports ceremony I've seen.
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