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World E-Sports Games [WESG]
This is a tournament organised by AliSports ( Alibaba.com, aka the "amazon/ebay" of China ). The totoal prize pool for Starcraft 2 is $400,000 (and $1,500,000, $1,500,000, $300,000, for DOTA2, CS:GO, Hearthstone, respectively). Each region has 2-4(?TBC) qualifiers. The global finals will be held in December 2016, in Shanghai, China.
Prize Pool Distribution - SC2 :
Global Finals
Total : $400,000
1. Place : $200,000
2. Place : $100,000
3. Place : $50,000
4-. Place : TBD
Asian Finals
1. Place : $10,000
2. Place : $5,000
3. Place : $2500
EU, NA, and other regions: TBA
Region Qualifiers :
TBA
Map pool :
Blizzard ladder maps
Date :
June 2016-December 2016
Stream :
TBD
Official website (Chinese) :
www.wesg.com
[BTW, so far the official schedule of regional qualifiers other than China is not available. I will keep you updated. Stay tuned.]
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On May 17 2016 06:14 bearhug wrote:
Here is the story:
Upon planning the event, Alibaba asked a popular Chinese SC2 commentator XiaoSe, "what's is the largest prize money so far for SC2 in the world ?"
Xiaose replied "ahh, $200k... ( total prize pool ) ."
Alibaba "Got it. Let's match that. $200k for 1st place. "
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Wtf is this. Koreans banned inc.?
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Canada8988 Posts
Wow that is a huge prize pool, I hope Alibaba don't burn their finger.
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What's up with this? Prize pot is too high!
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On May 17 2016 02:46 Incognoto wrote:
What's up with this? Prize pot is too high!
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Somebody said this is pretty shady though, right?
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If it isn't fake, sOs will win it, if sOs doesn't win it, it's fake.
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On May 17 2016 02:55 Nerchio wrote:
Somebody said this is pretty shady though, right?
I'm sure you'll be able to play your games and everything will be fine, but I could very well imagine that you won't see your prizemoney (if you win any) at all. Not sure if my memory is wrong, though, but there have been similar sounding tournaments in China for WC3 back in the days were no money was paid.
Maybe today this thing doesn't happen anymore tho, idk. Given their huge sponsor I wouldn't be thinking it could happen.
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Canada8988 Posts
On May 17 2016 02:55 Nerchio wrote:
Somebody said this is pretty shady though, right?
Alibaba is one of the biggest compagnie of the world so I would say it is pretty safe but of course I am not the one playing.
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I'm not worried it's fake. Schould I be worried? I think I should be...
I want to be excited but the prizepool worries me a lot actually but hey, first real global event incoming!
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On May 17 2016 02:55 Nerchio wrote:
Somebody said this is pretty shady though, right?
Well the money backer is not shady with Alibaba, I think this event is quite safe.
On May 17 2016 03:14 HolydaKing wrote:Show nested quote +On May 17 2016 02:55 Nerchio wrote:
Somebody said this is pretty shady though, right? I'm sure you'll be able to play your games and everything will be fine, but I could very well imagine that you won't see your prizemoney (if you win any) at all. Not sure if my memory is wrong, though, but there have been similar sounding tournaments in China for WC3 back in the days were no money was paid. Maybe today this thing doesn't happen anymore tho, idk. Given their huge sponsor I wouldn't be thinking it could happen.
You might be talking about WCA, they have not paid out all the prize money afaik.
https://esports.yahoo.com/wca-is-a-chaotic-mess-owes-players-over-half-a-185720718.html
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Flash may have to un-retire and return to SC2..... The return of god is necessary for this....
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