WECG to feature CS:GO

31/7/2014 - 21:12

The organisers of the World e-Sports Championship Games have announced that this year's event circuit will feature CS:GO as a promotional title.

Following the disbandment of the organisation behind the World Cyber Games events, Bory Jun, a former WCG COO, launched a new festival called the World e-Sports Championship Games (WECG), while maintaining the olympic spirit that was unique to its predecessor.

This means that teams will have to come from the national qualifiers that are held all over the world to get the chance to represent their country at the global finals.

WECG chiefs were involved with WCG

For the first edition of the WECG festival, however, the organisers have introduced two new events: continental championships, which will serve as a regional preliminary round, and global challenges, where teams can take part regardless of their nationality.

The 2014 WECG Grand Finals will take place in December in China, with five cities currently being considered to host the event: Chengdu, Shanghai, Kunshan, Chongqing and Huaxi.

"I am very pleased and look forward to hosting the first WECG Grand Final in China," said WECG co-founder Bory Jun.

"China is the world's biggest market in the gaming industry and has become an e-Sports hub. It is the best place to begin the WECG journey. We look forward to contributing to the growth of e-Sports in China."

A provisional game list for the 2014 event circuit has been released, and it includes CS:GO as a promotional title. It is still unclear which events, if any, apart from the Global Finals, will feature Valve's FPS title as details remain slim about how this new festival will be structured.

Below you can find the current game list for WECG 2014:

Official Game Titles

StarCraft® II: Heart of the Swarm® (Blizzard) / RTS
Hearthstone™: Heroes of Warcraft™ (Blizzard) / Digital CCG
DOTA2 (Valve) / Action RTS
Ultra Street Fighter® IV (Capcom) / Fighting

Mobile Official Game Titles

Crisis Action (CMGE) / FPS
Dance Everyday (CMGE) / Dance & Rhythm

Promotional Game Title

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Valve) / FPS)

For more information about WECG, check out the event's official website.

nice

2014-07-31 21:13

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Glad to see the very first WECG is hosted in China. Hope organization will be professional enough :)

2014-08-01 02:35

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It will remain in China. Just as how wcg was basically the Chinese cyber games wecg will be the same

2014-08-01 02:51

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I know. I feel it will be more like an Asian Scene tournament. With CSGO just promotion title, I feel that it will be placed by some low game next time. But we will see.

2014-08-01 17:02

NICE!

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whats up with this n1 shit everytime? im noob someone explain

2014-07-31 21:47

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That are the people who are refreshing hltv.org 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 51 weeks a year (everyone needs a week off right), until they see a new newspost and just strongly feel the desire to be the #1 guy to post a comment. But because they dont have the time to write something usefull (keep in mind there are others luring on that #1 spot), they just write "n1" or "nice". I hope you understand.

2014-07-31 22:06

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thanks broeder

2014-07-31 22:14

np broeder

2014-07-31 22:16

2014-07-31 22:19

i dont understand wtf are you want dude?

2014-07-31 23:48

n1 means nice one o_O

2014-08-01 12:58

I know...

2014-08-01 15:22

2014-08-02 09:22

retard, gtfo

2014-07-31 23:08

where is my lesson?

2014-08-01 00:39

VP to take this!

Nice one!

2014-07-31 21:14

cool.

'Promotional Game Title' what does it mean? also will eu teams go to this tournamentt?

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it should mean that the tournament will feature a smaller prize purse and fewer teams, when compared to an official game.

2014-07-31 21:16

nice, something at least. :D

2014-07-31 21:21

we dont care about WECG prize! we have Valve, we have skins :D

2014-08-01 01:08

if not mistaken, should be 8 team available.

2014-08-01 02:55

Iuuuupi

Hope they remove the rule that says all the players should be from the same country

2014-07-31 21:15

2014-07-31 21:18

Not only them a lot of teams like Titan, NaVi, HellRaisers wont be able to attend, thats why it was boring in the last WCG in 1.6

2014-07-31 21:19

as you said before edit: BYE BYE iBP, coL, HR, Titan, NaVi, mouz and more

2014-07-31 21:20

mouz not good enough anyway inb4 med mouz fanb0yz

2014-07-31 22:22

i know but i was just giving examples :D

2014-07-31 22:25

"and global challenges, where teams can take part regardless of their nationality."

oh, I skipped that part! really nice

Afaik Global Challenges are not the same as the main tournament, just like IEM used to hold IEM Guangzho or whatever they were like side tournaments

This is the thing we voted on right? Nice

oh yeah, but wasnt csonline massively in the lead or something, cant remember

csonline is that cheap spin off that's popular in Asia right? Don't know honestly, I remember you could vote on that. Glad cs go made it :P

sick !

Nice

nice, but im skeptical after they stopped supporting cs

their twitter has 100followers...

2014-07-31 21:17

I don't think that prize money will be that big. So if prize will be small then less good teams will attend. But great that we have more tournaments. :)

FPS on Mobile? How to play competitive games on mobile? :D

with controller obviously ;]

2014-07-31 21:22

one can play literally everything competetivly

2014-07-31 22:02

promising, maybe.

Promotional Game Title I would rather have CS:GO as a main game than some shitty hearthstone.

2014-07-31 22:08

Then it is quite a shame they didn't consult you. But something tells me they never will.

2014-07-31 23:14

If CS:GO could make a proper entry into China that would be big

It will not cuz not F2P.

2014-07-31 22:32

asians love micro transactions and half-hour taxing. 1.6 died just to be reborn as a "pay by the hour" fps :\

2014-07-31 22:36

also they like female chars and shining and glimmering weapons. So basicly a F2P game with things to pay ing which give you an advantage.

2014-07-31 23:29

sweet :D

2014-07-31 21:23

great news

2014-07-31 21:26

yay

very n1

2014-07-31 21:28

very very n1

2014-07-31 21:29

big news for the asian cs scene, hopefully this kickstarts more events in the region!

2014-07-31 21:30

2014-07-31 21:32

nice, cs go growing

2014-07-31 21:38

that's awesome to hear :) gogo go'

2014-07-31 21:51

I love this!! cs:grow :)

2014-07-31 21:55

maybe they are going to do something like Intel Extreme Masters did. 5 stops, 1 euro finals and then grand finals

2014-07-31 21:56

n65

2014-07-31 22:03

Atleast there's no LoL

2014-07-31 22:09

Because riot wants to do it all them selves. And 99% of the LoL teams are from different countrys

2014-07-31 22:48

Hearthstone aka 99%RNGgame with official tournament. lolz

2014-07-31 22:17

top135-07887978078078078098

2014-07-31 22:18

wecg sounds like a chinese fake of WCG :D

2014-07-31 22:26

syka, dymal tam WESGG

2014-07-31 22:33

csgo + sc2. gonna watch for sure.

Promotional Game Title means that money is involved to be on the games list? eheheh

2014-07-31 22:52

No, Valve aren't Riot.

2014-08-01 17:50

WECG without de_tuscan and de_forge?

2014-07-31 23:10

Finally

2014-07-31 23:20

good news for gaming i guess but having CS:go as a 'promotional' title is a joke. this is supposed to focus on international teams, not just the asian market, right? no reason not to have an FPS as an 'official' title...

2014-07-31 23:37

YEAAJJ

2014-07-31 23:38

wow, since cg:go will be just a promotional at this event, I gonna cheer for Dota :D

2014-08-01 00:09

Excellent news. If all goes well (and with the amount of viewers and competitors CSGO has atm it should go well) then it could become a main title.

2014-08-01 02:05

Nice! Glad to see tyloo in lan

2014-08-01 02:19

2014-08-01 02:43

F*cking NICE

2014-08-01 04:16

tekken > streetfighter

2014-08-01 04:43

Yep, but SF and MvC have more tournaments.

2014-08-01 14:27

If teams doesn't have the expenses covered. No one will go to China. The top 2 NA teams can barely make it EU LAN's and the same thing with the EU teams going to NA for ESEA. Should be expensive as fuck to send a full team to China for who knows what prize pool. Good luck with that !

2014-08-01 04:52

Teams find a way.

2014-08-01 05:16

The top 2 NA teams are from poor organisations or organisations that don't want to pay the money to send them to events. Top tier EU teams have no issues traveling. VP, Navi & NiP can go to China. The exposure you get going to China is probably worth more than the price money.

2014-08-01 13:18

with 2,000,000 rmb (250,000 euro) at stake I think some teams will be happy to make this investment

2014-08-02 18:44

I hope this brings up a good scene in China, for a real growth we also need the Asian market to be interested in the game enough.

2014-08-01 06:52

CS growin

2014-08-01 07:03

NAIZZZ

2014-08-01 08:08