WESG announce venue and format

The World Electronic Sports Games have revealed the venue as well as the format for the $1,500,000 tournament. On March 13, 32 teams from around the world will come together in Haikou, Hainan, China to fight for the largest portions of the prize pool. The venue for the event will be Haikou International Convention & Exhibition Center.

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The 32 teams will be split up into eight groups of four teams and use a best of one Round Robin system to determine the two teams from the eight groups who will advance to the second group stage. The second group stage will comprise of four groups of four teams using best of two Round Robin. The eight teams to advance from this stage will then play a best of three single elimination bracket to determine the champion.

The full team list is as follows:

ORDER	MVP PK	B.O.O.T-d[S]	Alpha Red
Parallax	MAX	Recca	NEW4
SZ Absolute	EMC	SK	Cloud9
The Onliners	Swole Patrol	subtLe	oNe
Isurus	ViCi	Ukraine	GODSENT
Space Soldiers	Fnatic	EnVyUs	Belgium
AGO	Wololos	NOREG	Limitless
Russia	BIG	Viva Algeria	Bravado

Here is the prize breakdown:

1. $800,000
2. $300,000
3. $150,000
4. $70,000
5-8. $25,000
9-16. $10,000

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