WESG 2016 World Finals presented by AliPay will feature 23 instead of 24 teams due to GODSENT deciding to not attend the tournament at the last minute. The attending teams will be split into four groups and will play best-of-two matches in a round robin format.

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When all the group stage matches are played, the first-placed teams from each group will advance directly to the quarterfinals, while the second and third-placed teams will face other second and third placed teams from other groups in the round-of-16.
The tournament will run from January 12-15, with the last day being reserved for the semi-finals, the third place decider match and the grand final.
With GODSENT pulling out of the tournament, the groups will be as follows:
Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
.Russia | K23 | Space Soldiers | Selfless |
Virtus.pro | rEAK | Signature | JYP |
TeamOne | iGame.com | Kinguin | DarkPassage |
Epsilon | Colombia | FIVE | QuetzaL |
subtLe | VG.CyberZen | Bravado | TYLOO |
Envy | ENZO | GODSENT | Ukraine |
The attending teams will be fighting for their share of a top-heavy $1,500,000 prize pool, which will be distributed in the following way:
1. $800,000
2. $400,000
3. $200,000
4. $60,000
5-8. $10,000
The full schedule of the event can be found below:
Thursday, January 12th |
04:30 | Selfless | vs. TYLOO | BO2 |
04:30 | JYP | vs. Ukraine | BO2 |
04:30 | DarkPassage | vs. QuetzaL | BO2 |
04:30 | Space Soldiers | vs. Signature | BO2 |
04:30 | Kinguin | vs. FIVE | BO2 |
04:30 | GODSENT | vs. Bravado | BO2 |
06:30 | .Russia | vs. Virtus.pro | BO2 |
06:30 | TeamOne | vs. Epsilon | BO2 |
06:30 | subtLe | vs. Envy | BO2 |
06:30 | K23 | vs. rEAK | BO2 |
06:30 | iGame.com | vs. VG.CyberZen | BO2 |
06:30 | Colombia | vs. ENZO | BO2 |
08:30 | Space Soldiers | vs. Kinguin | BO2 |
08:30 | Signature | vs. Bravado | BO2 |
08:30 | FIVE | vs. GODSENT | BO2 |
08:30 | Selfless | vs. JYP | BO2 |
08:30 | DarkPassage | vs. Ukraine | BO2 |
08:30 | QuetzaL | vs. TYLOO | BO2 |
10:30 | K23 | vs. VG.CyberZen | BO2 |
10:30 | rEAK | vs. ENZO | BO2 |
10:30 | iGame.com | vs. Colombia | BO2 |
10:30 | Epsilon | vs. Envy | BO2 |
10:30 | Virtus.pro | vs. subtLe | BO2 |
10:30 | .Russia | vs. TeamOne | BO2 |
12:30 | Kinguin | vs. GODSENT | BO2 |
12:30 | Signature | vs. FIVE | BO2 |
12:30 | Space Soldiers | vs. Bravado | BO2 |
12:30 | Selfless | vs. Ukraine | BO2 |
12:30 | JYP | vs. QuetzaL | BO2 |
12:30 | DarkPassage | vs. TYLOO | BO2 |
Friday, January 13th |
04:30 | Epsilon | vs. subtLe | BO2 |
04:30 | .Russia | vs. Envy | BO2 |
04:30 | Virtus.pro | vs. TeamOne | BO2 |
04:30 | K23 | vs. ENZO | BO2 |
04:30 | rEAK | vs. iGame.com | BO2 |
04:30 | Colombia | vs. VG.CyberZen | BO2 |
06:30 | TYLOO | vs. Ukraine | BO2 |
06:30 | JYP | vs. DarkPassage | BO2 |
06:30 | Selfless | vs. QuetzaL | BO2 |
06:30 | Space Soldiers | vs. FIVE | BO2 |
06:30 | Signature | vs. GODSENT | BO2 |
06:30 | Kinguin | vs. Bravado | BO2 |
08:30 | Virtus.pro | vs. Envy | BO2 |
08:30 | TeamOne | vs. subtLe | BO2 |
08:30 | .Russia | vs. Epsilon | BO2 |
08:30 | K23 | vs. Colombia | BO2 |
08:30 | rEAK | vs. VG.CyberZen | BO2 |
08:30 | iGame.com | vs. ENZO | BO2 |
10:30 | FIVE | vs. Bravado | BO2 |
10:30 | Space Soldiers | vs. GODSENT | BO2 |
10:30 | Signature | vs. Kinguin | BO2 |
10:30 | Selfless | vs. DarkPassage | BO2 |
10:30 | JYP | vs. TYLOO | BO2 |
10:30 | QuetzaL | vs. Ukraine | BO2 |
12:30 | VG.CyberZen | vs. ENZO | BO2 |
12:30 | K23 | vs. iGame.com | BO2 |
12:30 | rEAK | vs. Colombia | BO2 |
12:30 | .Russia | vs. subtLe | BO2 |
12:30 | Virtus.pro | vs. Epsilon | BO2 |
12:30 | TeamOne | vs. Envy | BO2 |
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Saturday, January 14th |
04:00 | Four Round of 16 matches | BO3 |
07:00 | Quarter-finals #1 and #2 | BO3 |
10:00 | Quarter-finals #3 and #4 | BO3 |
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Sunday, January 15th |
04:00 | Semi-finals #1 and #2 | BO3 |
07:00 | 3rd place decider | BO3 |
11:30 | Grand Final | BO3 |
To break down the matches, WESG has secured the services of the Room On Fire analyst trio Joona "natu" Leppänen, Halvor "vENdetta" Gulestøl and Janko "YNk" Paunović, while the play-by-play and color commentary will be done by Tom "Tombizz14" Bissmire and Mohan "launders" Govindasamy. Tonya Predko, known for her work with StarLadder, will be the host for the main stage matches.
The following talent will be present at the event:
Tom "Tombizz14" Bissmire - Caster
Mohan "launders" Govindasamy - Caster
Janko "YNk" Paunović - Analyst
Joona "natu" Leppänen - Analyst
Halvor "vENdetta" Gulestøl - Analyst
Tonya Predko - Host
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Colombia #114


Juanes 'sickLy' Valencia

Andres 'spamzzy' Correa

Santiago 'Daveeys' Galvis

Camilo 'points' Londoño

Jesus 'sam_A' Taboada


DarkPassage #57


Özgür 'woxic' Eker

Buğra 'Calyx' Arkın

Ufuk 'SasuKe' Göktaş

Muhammed 'mini' Salman

Bora 'Maiko' Igci



K23




Signature #53


Tosapol 'TOR' Saekow

Phoomphat 'qqGOD' Phodjanat

Peeratch 'Olivia' Ingkudanonda

Sattawut 'Leaf' Reathong

Anupong 'stk' Mueangngam


Ukraine




Envy #11



Christophe 'SIXER' Xia

Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub

Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt

Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire

Vincent 'Happy' Schopenhauer Time is adjusted to your selected timezone

Joona 'natu' Leppänen

Age: 31 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.87 Maps played: 188 KPR: 0.61 DPR: 0.71


Bravado #38


Roberto 'blackpoisoN' Dall'Occo

Dimitri 'Detrony' Hadjipaschali

Ruan 'ELUSIVE' van Wyk

Ashton 'Golz' Muller

Aran 'Sonic' Groesbeek


FIVE #44


BiaoHong 'Rita' Huang

Yong 'QuQu' Qu

Yang 'Mr.six' Cheng

ZhiTao 'Drea3er' Zhang

ZhiWei '0i' Liu


Epsilon #23


André 'BARBARR' Möller

William 'draken' Sundin

Fredrik 'freddieb' Buö

Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner


TeamOne #157


Pedro 'Maluk3' Campos

Alan 'adrrr' Riveros

Fillipe 'bt0' Moreno

Rafael 'pava' Pavanelli

Victor 'iDk' Torraca


Kinguin #21


Grzegorz 'SZPERO' Dziamałek

Karol 'rallen' Rodowicz

Michał 'MICHU' Müller

Mikołaj 'mouz' Karolewski

Damian 'Furlan' Kislowski


JYP #36


Aiman 'aimaNNN' Azham

Ashraf 'acAp' Firdaus

Alex 'xevR' Pereira

Andrew 'kaze' Khong

Aaron 'pzK!D' Pereira


GODSENT #14


Markus 'pronax' Wallsten

Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist

Andreas 'znajder' Lindberg

Jesper 'JW' Wecksell

Jonas 'Lekr0' Olofsson


QuetzaL #142


Jose 'SecretAgent' Fernandez

Francisco 'k1Nky' Alvarez

Fernando 'Chuti' Luis Planchart

David 'spaydeR' Esquerra

Halvor 'vENdetta' Gulestøl

Age: 27 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.86 Maps played: 8 KPR: 0.58 DPR: 0.68


Space Soldiers #37


Engin 'MAJ3R' Küpeli

Ismailcan 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş

Çağatay 'DESPE' Sedef

Ahmet 'paz' Karahoca

Engin 'ngiN' Kor


VG.CyberZen #27


Bin 'Savage' Liu

BingYuan 'tb' Li

Zhuo 'advent' Liang

WeiJie 'zhokiNg' Zhong

KunHua 'LOVEYY' Bai


Epsilon #23


André 'BARBARR' Möller

William 'draken' Sundin

Fredrik 'freddieb' Buö

Fredrik 'REZ' Sterner

Karl-William 'kalle' Haraldsen


rEAK


Cristian 'Proxure' Rojas

Javier 'FiReMaNNN' Collado

Carlos 'Tio' Swing

José 'L!nKz^' Ortega

Felipe 'feLiZnOJkE' Clas Almendra


subtLe


Ellis 'els' Clay

Kyle 'OCEAN' O'Brien

Warren 'hades' Rettich

Jack 'jakeMOTM' Abraham

Mohan 'launders' Govindasamy

Age: 26 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.76 Maps played: 3 KPR: 0.57 DPR: 0.76


TYLOO #24


Ke 'captainMo' Liu

Hui 'DD' Wu

YuLun 'Summer' Cai

YuanZhang 'Attacker' Sheng

HaoWen 'somebody' Xu


.Russia



iGame.com #30


Jesse 'zehN' Linjala

Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen

Saku 'SAGGERTON' Jokinen

Eetu 'sAw' Saha

Lasse 'ZOREE' Uronen

Janko 'YNk' Paunović

Age: 24 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.98 Maps played: 104 KPR: 0.68 DPR: 0.71


iGame.com #30


Jesse 'zehN' Linjala

Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen

Eetu 'sAw' Saha

Lasse 'ZOREE' Uronen

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Selfless


Matthew 'no_one' Congdon

Noah 'Nifty' Francis

Jake 'kaboose' McDonald


ENZO #99


ChiNam 'Darkkis' Li

HoWang 'krbl' Wong

WingHei 'Freeman' Cheung

YanTung 'TunGY' Chan

KinFung 'ckf' Chow


Virtus.pro #6


Wiktor 'TaZ' Wojtas

Filip 'NEO' Kubski

Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski

Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski

Paweł 'byali' Bieliński