No Counter-Strike at WEM 2012
By: lurppis
Time: 2012-09-08 17:44
Game: Counter-Strike 1.6

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 17:45:44
+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 18:08:45
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 18:59:36
tbh i think either does cs:go succed or counter strike will die in total. 1.6 is not coming back
2012-09-08 21:38:12
Wise words.
2012-09-09 09:39:23
Wise words.
2012-09-10 12:23:52
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 14:36:19
exactly
2012-09-09 14:51:35
My 1st thought exactly :]
2012-09-08 18:18:52
+1
2012-09-10 18:52:32
by: Kwas
#2
Sad
2012-09-08 17:45:47
sad :(
2012-09-08 17:46:13
mmm
2012-09-08 17:47:31
RIP 1.6 :D
2012-09-08 17:47:36
idiot..
2012-09-09 17:11:33
Nab much?
2012-09-10 18:52:45
expected
2012-09-08 17:48:21
cu
2012-09-08 17:48:21
time to delete my hltv.org account
2012-09-08 17:48:28
+1
2012-09-08 17:53:13
+1
2012-09-08 17:56:06
+1
2012-09-08 17:59:14
Finally!
2012-09-08 18:03:30
delete please :D
2012-09-08 18:03:54
+1
2012-09-08 18:04:00
+1
2012-09-08 18:05:36
+1
2012-09-08 18:10:18
+1
2012-09-08 18:11:42
+1
2012-09-08 18:12:24
+1
2012-09-08 18:59:52
+1
2012-09-08 19:45:20
+ 1
2012-09-08 20:27:26
CS 1.6 its the main reason why i have a hltv.org acc, maybe i should do this...
2012-09-08 20:57:03
+1 my brother
2012-09-08 23:21:52
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 04:25:46
would actually have more impact that saying "csgo sucks "
2012-09-09 09:57:23
+1
2012-09-09 10:24:19
+1
2012-09-09 22:06:01
+1
2012-09-10 01:01:41
+1
2012-09-10 01:13:09
lol...
2012-09-10 10:36:19
+11111111111111111111111137
2012-09-10 18:53:12
+1
2012-09-10 19:41:43
sadder than sad :(
2012-09-08 17:48:37
We all knew this,all the top teams are having fun running with a p90 and owning
2012-09-08 17:49:54
P90 is/was exactly the same in 1.6. Just the fact that you can wallbang with other weapons made it not worth buying it. Keep talking bullshit.
2012-09-08 17:52:35
Hahahahahahaha... cant even be compared. P90 is awful in 1.6 and OP in CS:GO simple as that
2012-09-08 17:59:33
Awful? You easily can kill 5 guys with it if they have an eco. Nothing else you do in CS:GO.
2012-09-08 18:02:01
FFA yep, but surely not pros :)
In GO you will not even recognize the moment when someone p90 you :D
2012-09-08 18:21:29
Do you really want to say me that pros wouldn't be able to kill 5 man glock boiZ? Dumb as fuck. Of course they could.
2012-09-08 18:26:25
omg man. we are not talking here about eco rounds. P90 in GO is a monster during full rounds, too...
2012-09-08 18:31:13
It's quite good yeah but still AK and M4 are way better. Just saying.
2012-09-08 18:32:07
Please stop talking, lol. Do everyone a favour.
2012-09-10 16:02:24
Actually, you win $900 for each P90 kill in CS:GO.
2012-09-08 18:38:28
I know, it's a silly thing that has to get fixed. I ahve to say I'm not sure about the P90, werent it only the shotguns and stuff.

Post edited 2012-09-08 18:40:13
2012-09-08 18:39:46
SMG's also apparently
2012-09-09 06:38:18
expected
2012-09-08 17:51:29
expected
2012-09-08 17:51:54
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 17:52:29
What a surprise!
2012-09-08 17:53:49
the end but dont be sad remember the good times :(
2012-09-08 17:54:28
fuck U WEM 2k12 :(
2012-09-08 17:54:44
fuck WEM!
2012-09-08 17:55:19
totally expected.
2012-09-08 18:01:13
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 18:02:09
Keep on dreaming. And, that's a blatant lie.
2012-09-09 23:27:50
hahahahahahhaa no fucking way!
2012-09-10 16:00:12
GOOD! :D

Post edited 2012-09-08 18:03:19
2012-09-08 18:03:00
by: Mizk
#33
"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 18:04:01
what did you expect?

Go CS:GO
2012-09-08 18:05:05
+1337
2012-09-08 18:07:29
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

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
2012-09-08 18:16:45
by: usk1
#50
the stats are not working from yesterday morning, now stfu
2012-09-08 18:20:34
get lost. tournament organisers dont give a fuck about steam stats.
2012-09-08 18:20:41
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 18:23:30
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 18:26:59
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 18:34:50
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 18:42:28
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.

Post edited 2012-09-08 18:47:30
2012-09-08 18:46:58
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 16:56:18
dbie won't understand that
2012-09-08 18:37:13
number wise source did not fail rofl, source nearly always has as much as 1.6
2012-09-08 18:32:24
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 18:36:24
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 18:38:42
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.

Post edited 2012-09-08 18:44:42
2012-09-08 18:42:51
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!

Post edited 2012-09-08 18:44:42
2012-09-08 18:40:20
People like you make me feel ill.

Post edited 2012-09-10 16:03:52
2012-09-10 16:03:44
How so?
2012-09-10 17:38:38
Stupid.
2012-09-10 21:08:38
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 18:30:53
they are desperate.. nice valve ahahhaa

Post edited 2012-09-08 18:07:54
2012-09-08 18:07:25
Fuck cs:go !! ; (

1.6 Forever <3.
2012-09-08 18:08:30
yep, doesnt matter, i still fuck go
2012-09-08 18:11:19
bye.
2012-09-08 18:11:32
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 18:13:20
CS 1.6 is already dead, and for me the whole Counter-Strike franchise is dead. GG WP.
2012-09-08 18:15:14
ok, cs 1.6 died in 2012, but no problem because the world will die in 2012 too :D
2012-09-08 18:20:51
it is a bullshit,Any game can't be perfect than CS 1.6.
2012-09-08 18:20:56
SAD, BUT there is only 1 way, and it is called CS:GO!
2012-09-08 18:22:16
#9 +1
2012-09-08 18:27:10
fuck !
2012-09-08 18:46:32
okok, FUCK U WEM
2012-09-08 18:47:37
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 18:53:44
Interesting how teams dropped because tournaments dropped 1.6 and now apparently tournaments are dropping because teams have dropped?
2012-09-08 19:02:58
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 19:09:35
It's like dropping 1.6 for runescape, get the picture? FUCK WEM!!!
2012-09-08 19:16:08
Runescape graphics are something like 1.6
2012-09-08 21:48:02
Yeah, we're talking about graphics!




not.
2012-09-08 21:49:39
If the graphics would be better in 1.6 maybe not all tournaments would be dropping the poor the game
2012-09-08 21:53:56
Why don't they upgrade the graphics then? Good god..
2012-09-08 21:55:10
Well they are doing it by making cs:go
2012-09-08 21:56:08
Which receives massive criticism.. And actually CS:GO is supposed to be more like source, not 1.6.
2012-09-08 21:57:08
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 21:59:28
But so far improving 1.6 would be way more succesful than doing so for CS:GO.
2012-09-08 22:01:46
Improving an 10 year old game would be a waste of time
2012-09-08 22:03:18
You can't seriously be THAT dumb?
2012-09-08 22:04:16
And here we go. Been nice talking to you how 1.6 is dead
2012-09-08 22:05:22
CS 1.6 still has more players than Globally Obnoxious. Good riddance!
2012-09-08 22:06:51
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 22:08:42
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.


Post edited 2012-09-10 18:06:32
2012-09-10 18:06:06
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 18:18:06
yay! CS:GO ftw!
2012-09-08 19:31:26
fuck this shit!
2012-09-08 19:35:03
you dont say
2012-09-08 19:47:16
Nothing new...
2012-09-08 20:01:57
CS 1.6 IS STILL ALIVE! CS:GOWNO

Post edited 2012-09-08 20:19:02
2012-09-08 20:18:31
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 20:36:23
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 21:46:01
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 21:53:39
1.6 players, Source players, and even Cod player play it
2012-09-08 21:55:02
And now there's about 15 thousand people playing it, what a great success!!
2012-09-08 21:56:05
Its not like the number will not increase in time. Especially with the 1 million tournament
2012-09-08 21:57:07
Maybe it will, but so far, it's just a pile of garbage.
2012-09-08 21:58:12
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 22:01:42
Well, most people don't "pick" the game, you see there's a problem there...
2012-09-08 22:02:22
It was released a few weeks ago. Its not like anybody will buy 1.6 from steam these days
2012-09-08 22:04:24
Yeah, it had ~50k players in the first day, and then on it went, downhill like crazy, that's a good start!

Post edited 2012-09-08 22:06:13
2012-09-08 22:05:45
But they have a number of players playing it and it will increase eventually
2012-09-08 22:06:36
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 22:07:34
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".

Post edited 2012-09-09 13:22:44
2012-09-09 13:21:39
Whatever Valve are doing. they are doing the right way
2012-09-09 13:28:30
No one forces them to play
2012-09-08 22:10:36
by: MJS
#121
^^^ get a room both of you...
2012-09-08 22:52:46
fuck e-sports im done with it.
2012-09-09 02:36:08
sad :(
2012-09-09 03:32:54
Why Am I Not Surprised?
2012-09-09 04:17:32
dh bucharest last tournament
2012-09-09 04:51:54
I I I cry :'(
2012-09-09 05:06:10
fuck you
2012-09-09 08:19:27
saD :((((
2012-09-09 10:32:50
nice! move to csgo, kids.

Post edited 2012-09-09 11:32:46
2012-09-09 11:32:38
HAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAAHAAHAAA in your face poor GO haters time to upgrade ur pc! :DD
2012-09-09 13:49:22
I have 250 fps ing GO. Still sucks. Im going to GW 2
Bye 1.6.
2012-09-09 23:53:19
CS : GO TO HELL
2012-09-09 22:39:24
sad
2012-09-10 10:55:29
Damnt it. Maybe we won't to see 1.6 in every events. It comes quickly, that's true.
2012-09-10 17:58:59
absolutely expected
2012-09-10 19:45:59
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