A new major Chinese event, the World e-Sports Masters, is due to take place from October 26th to November 2nd in Hangzhou, China. The competition features Counter-Strike 1.6 as well as a quintessential Asian RTS, Warcraft III.

The tournaments will feature congruent formats where the first three days consist of an eight team group stage to determine the top two teams or players for each of two groups.

The second half of the event pits the top four teams/players in each discipline against each other in a single-elimination best-of-three bracket play which includes a third place run-off match.

Good news for those of you with abnormal sleeping habits, the action kicks off at 6:00am EST/3:00am PST

Notice: While WEM will be unable to provide HLTV access to their matches, all demos will be available for download following the event. In the meantime, if HLTV is made available, it will be posted ASAP.

Click Here for Counter-Strike Melee.

Individual and Team Group Draws

Counter-Strike

	Group A	Group B

	wNv.CN	fnatic
	mTw.AMD	mouz
	SK-Gaming	Meet Your Makers
	eSTRO	Dragon

Warcraft III

	Group A	Group B

	WE.Pepsi.infi	mYm]Grubby
	SK.Lyn	WE.Pepsi.Sky
	WE.Pepsi.TeD	mTw.AMD.WhO
	Gravitas.ToD	mYm]Moon

Prize Money

Counter-Strike 1.6		Warcraft III

1st.	$30,000 USD	1st.	$15,000 USD
2nd.	$15,000 USD	2nd.	$7,500 USD
3rd.	$10,000 USD	3rd.	$4,000 USD
4th.	$4,000 USD	4th.	$2,500 USD
5th-8th.	$2,000 USD	5th.	$1,000 USD

Grand Total: $100,000 USD

Schedule

	Counter-Strike	Warcraft III

Day One:	Group Play: 6:00am - 9:45am EST	Group Play: 1:30am - 5:15am EST

Day Two:	Group Play: 6:00am - 9:45am EST	Group Play: 1:00am - 4:45am EST

Day Three:	Group Play: 6:00am - 9:45am EST	Group Play: 1:00am - 4:45am EST

Day Four:	Semi-Final One: 4:15am - 7:00am EST	Semi-Final One: 1:00am - 3:45am EST

Day Five:	Semi-Final Two: 4:15am - 7:00am EST	Semi-Final Two: 1:00am - 3:45am EST

Day Six:	Third/Fourth: 1:00am - 3:45am EST	Third/Fourth: 1:00am - 3:45am EST
	Grand Final: 4:15am - 7:00am EST	Grand Finals: 4:15am - 7:00am EST

Related Links

Counter-Strike Melee/Scores
World e-Sports Masters group draw
WEG releases e-Sports Masters list
WEG to host e-Sports Masters

User Comments

TV videostream link?

Nice list of teams. Always nice to see the Asian teams play to. Dragon beat MYM not to long ago... will be nice to see how much they have improved since then.

#zone6 (. .*)ittst

Why is this tournament being stretched over 6 days? It could be over within a day or 2.

fk ye this is awsome wNv e-STRO dragon! exciting

EG.lurppis www.myeg.net mYm|zet[A] www.mymym.com

Gosh, only 8 teams chasing those 8 slots? What happen to all masters from Japan, Taiwan or maybe the Philipines?? :x

if its over 6 days should do each group stage game as a bo3, and then after groups do a bo3 DOUBLE elim not single.

that'd be 2good

#GUTS

Why do the asians hate HLTV?

lol can't take the pressure of people watching them

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This comment was edited at 10/25/2008 11:17 AM

Lets add one more event with no US showing, Thx CGS!

Angers me to high hevean that the US is not even invited to this event, we had great showings in the past.

This comment was edited at 10/25/2008 11:18 AM

IHSV

wnv wins

Hippos - miLitAry`hu

wasnt everyone in dubai like 5 seconds ago and now they superjet to china, GOD I WANT TO BE AN E-ATHLETE.

#12, and just a few days before Dubai they were in Montreal, two weeks before THAT was LA ;]

Coverage Director - GotFrag.com

WEG never has HLTV, so annoying. Looks like no stream this year either.

"I never thought I'd see hacker get bent over the table on d2, but I think it just happened" -jESUIT

wasn't weg's prize for first place 70,000 dollars

hope theres a chinese stream atleast

The reason i use GF is to achieve 4 nerd stars and look E-cool.

Good teams, worst tournament ever.

~ Y ~ o ~ U ~ r ~ E ~ ~ t ~ H ~ e ~ ~ S ~ h ~ E ~ p ~ H ~ e ~ R ~ d ~

i heard theres no hltv becuase a TV company bought all the rights to transmit the game

from hltv

QUOTE:
Note that there will NOT be any HLTV available. The WEM organization will not allow us to connect HLTV's and broadcast the matches. We however choose to make the matchpages, so you guys can bet and discuss the matches as always.
Instead of HLTV there will be some livestreams, we will do our best to include the livestreams here on our page. If that is not possible, we will link to them from here.

group b group of death in wc3.
some amazing counter-strike matches there too. hopefully the streams aren't awful.

GANKBANK seems to give a stream for this tournament,you guys can try this link after downloading a software called PPLIVE :http://fight.pcgames.com.cn/warcraft/br_..

now it's available.

GL,GUYS!

where is mibr ??

zZEr0o

lets ban chinese f@gs from all international events forever for this...

w a f f l e s.

wnv will win; open stage area with chinese commentary on PA's

it is quite annoying because of no hltv released :(

China , MY Loveee !

24#.
WEG is sponored by a Korean co,why do u blame on our country ?
i do think it's quite unfair -.-

This comment was edited at 10/26/2008 5:50 AM

no hltv / no stream :sadface:

#27 A chinese TV channel baught the exclusive rights. They decide if HLTV
or not.

any demos by anychance after the event or after few matches?

sk 15 - 15 estro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YqUhE9JZ3c

SK will destroy e-STRO
16:5

This comment was edited at 10/26/2008 11:00 AM

some of you are huge tards it's hilarious, it's broadcasted on tv of course they won't allow hltv rofl use your brain thx

#29, no, definitely not chinese decides whether or not provide hltv, that's the korea fools who don't allow hltv connection, you'll take WEG1,2,3 as example. china just provide the gaming area.

and yes, the game might be broadcasted in Korea TV ( extra charged ), korea organizer wants the profit

nice

BANKAI!

chinese teams both out.
china has no strong team right now.
situation couldn't be worse.

#10 is this really the reason why we don't see any american teams in these global events? Is CGS really that controlling of their teams or are American teams just not being invited?

Think ]BIG[

#38

They wanted the best Teams in the world to fight against the best teams
of asia. Best Teams atm are fnatic, sk, mym, mtw and mouz.
Would CGS didnt burn out 1.6 in the US and kept the best US Teams
to play source at their own competition, I m sure they would have
invited for example complexity.

Its realy sad, that the US do not have a Top 5 Team anymore. CGS...

my tipps:

Group A: mTw.AMD; eSTRO
Group B: fnatic, MYM

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