World Electronic Sports Games

Tournament history

Qualifying rounds for the first edition were expected to begin in April 2016, and the event took place in Shanghai. Despite large prize pools, many top contenders were absent, particularly with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's first major of 2017 approaching. WESG 2016 for CS:GO was the last premier tournament before the ELEAGUE Major 2017; France's Team EnVyUs defeated Poland's Team Kinguin for the largest CS:GO prize pool, while Poland's number one team took third by beating Turkey's Space Soldiers. In Dota 2, the Filipino team TNC Pro Team downed Denmark's Cloud9 for the grand prize, and Alliance from Sweden took bronze over Peru's Infamous. Hearthstone's champion was the Philippines' Euneil "Staz" Javiñas, who defeated Sweden's Jon "Orange" Westberg; the third-place match saw Germany's Raphael "BunnyHoppor" Peltzer topple Sebastian "Xixo" Bentert.

WESG 2017 took place in March 2018 in Haikou. In CS:GO, with the major past, more top teams appeared, but SK Gaming from Brazil (world number two) and Cloud9 from the United States (reigning major champions and world number three) were knocked out early, while teams like MVP PK from South Korea and Team One from Brazil advanced further than expected. Sweden's Fnatic came back from a large deficit against Space Soldiers to win the title. Team Russia stopped Team One's Cinderella run in the third-place match. In Dota 2, Team Russia defeated Brazil's paiN Gaming, and Team Hellas from Greece shut down China's Rock.Y for third. South Korea dominated StarCraft 2 again: Maru redeemed himself from runner-up to champion by defeating compatriot Park "Dark" Ryung-woo, while Finland's Joona "Serral" Sotala took third over Kim "Classic" Doh-woo.