The World Electronic Sports Games (WESG) USA National Finals, which took place Nov. 9 – 11 in Huntington Beach, CA, featured the country’s top esports players and teams going head-to-head in CS:GO, Dota 2, Hearthstone, PES 2019, StarCraft II and Vainglory for a $200,000 prize pool. Winners will go on to represent the U.S. at the WESG Grand Finals in Shanghai in March 2019. WESG is a unique tournament as it follows the Olympic Games standards whereby players with the same nationality form a team to compete for national glory and a prize pool of $2.5 million.
The teams winning first place and moving onto the WESG Grand Finals include:
- Vainglory: Tribe Gaming
- CS:GO (Women’s): CLG Red
- CS:GO (Co-Ed): Singularity
- DOTA 2: TEAM TEAM
The individuals winning first place and moving onto the WESG Grand Finals include:
- Starcraft II: Alex “Neeb” Sunderhaft of Delmar, NY
- Hearthstone (Women’s): Justine “Justine” Wu of Astoria, NY
- Hearthstone (Co-Ed): David “JustSaiyan” Shan of West Lafayette, IN
- PES: Malik “Madawi83” Adawi of Escondido, CA