Weekly esports guide (21 - 28 October): FSL Dota 2 playoffs
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After Riot Games’ flurry of announcements at last week’s 10-year anniversary, what can we expect from the Dota scene? Well, how about the Female Esports League’s Dota 2 playoffs to round up October?
Female Esports League Dota 2
Date: 28 September - 27 October (Group stage and playoffs), 16 and 17 November (Elite)
Venue: Online
Stream: sg.yahoo.com
The Female Esports League is back for its Dota 2 circuit, featuring the best female teams from around the region.
It’s four weekends of group stage action, followed by the playoffs end of October, before the best of the best will meet offline for the FSL Elite.
Remember to catch all the action live on Yahoo TV!
Mobile Legends World Championship 2019 (Malaysia)
Date: 15 - 17 November
Venue: Axiata Arena, Kuala Lumpur
Stream: YouTube Gaming
For the first time ever, mobile MOBA Mobile Legends: Bang Bang will have its own world championship tournament. Also dubbed as M1, this major level tournament will pit Asia’s finest against each other and the rest of the world including North America, South America, and Europe.
With a prize pool of US$250,000, fans will be seeing the top 16 professional teams who will take home the lion’s share this November.
ONE Esports Dota 2 Singapore World Pro Invitationals (Singapore)
Date: 17 - 22 December
Venue: Singapore
The ONE Esports Dota 2 Singapore World Pro Invitational will see 12 of the world’s best Dota 2 teams fight it out in Singapore. Catch some of your favourite teams as they vie for the US$500,000 prize pool, with some big names already announced.
Here are the teams that are coming as of this article:
EG
Team Secret
LGD
Virtus.pro
League of Legends 2019 World Championship (Worldwide)
Date: 2 October – 10 November
Venue: Berlin, Madrid, Paris
Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/riotgames
The biggest League of Legends tournament group stages have concluded. Unfortunately for Southeast Asia, there are no SEA teams who will be advancing.
Here are the results so far:
Group A
Griffin – 5-1
G2 Esports – 5-1
Cloud 9 – 2-4
Hong Kong Attitude – 0-6
Tiebreaker winner – Griffin
Group B
FunPlus Phoenix – 4-2
Splyce – 4-2
J Team – 3-3
GAM Esports – 1-5
Tiebreaker winner – FunPlus Phoenix
Group C
SK Telecom T1 – 5-1
Fnatic – 4-2
Royal Never Give Up – 3-3
Clutch Gaming – 0-6
Group D
DAMWON Gaming – 5-1
Invictus Gaming – 4-2
Team Liquid – 3-3
AHQ e-Sports Club – 0-6
These will be the upcoming quarterfinals battle:
Griffin vs Invictus Gaming
FunPlus Phoenix vs Fnatic
SK TelcomT1 vs Splyce
DAMWON Gaming vs G2 Esports
ESL Hamburg (Germany)
Date: 25 -27 October
Venue: Barclaycard Arena, Hamburg
Stream: http://live.esl-one.com/
This month in international pro-level Dota 2 brings the ESL One Hamburg 2019. With a prize pool of US$300,000, the best teams from all over the world will be fighting tooth and nail for the lion’s share.
These are the teams who will be competing:
Virtus.pro
TNC Predator (Southeast Asia)
Vici Gaming
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Team Liquid
Beastcoast
Vikin.gg
Fighting PandaS
Invictus Gaming
GeekFam
Another upcoming team will be joining via direct invite
Lenovo & Intel Legion of Champions Series IV
Date: 26 - 27 October, 13 -15 December
Venue: Pantip Mall, Bangkok, Thailand (Grand Finals in December)
Website: https://legion.lenovo.com/
Lenovo’s flagship Asia Pacific esports competition is now in its fourth series and will showcase games such as PUBG, Counter-Strike: GO, and many more.
Furthermore, this will be the first time the tournament will be hosting a Legion of Valkyries all-female tournament circuit
ESL Clash of Nations Bangkok 2019 (Thailand)
Date: 25 -27 October
Venue: Royal Paragon Hall, Siam Paragon, Thailand (part of Thailand Game Show 2019)
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/eslasia
ESL will be bringing its Dota 2 Clash of Nations series to an end. Once the five ESL country-specific championships have their teams, they will compete in Bangkok for the lion’s share of the US$50,000 prize pool and the ESL Clash of Nations Dota 2 trophy in Asia.
Overwatch World Cup 2019 (USA)
Date: November
Venue: Anaheim, California, USA
The fourth Overwatch World Cup tournament will happen during November. However, the format of competing has now changed. Instead of having country-specific qualifiers to determine the final few teams to fight at BlizzCon, the entire tournament will happen during the week leading up to the company game expo.
Here is the list of recently-announced committee members for each selected Southeast Asian countries.
Singapore
General Manager: Chun Chieh "TCC" Teo
Community Manager: Nicholas "Caldoran" Tay
Coach: Seetoh "JohnGalt" Jian Qing
Players:
Figo Chua (Azalea)
Mohammed Asri (Sachokk)
Muhammad Syafiq (Xenofly)
Timotheus Yeo (Bubblekitty)
Jasper Yue (yuris)
Alston How (Jervyz)
Hao Haiyang (ZeonFlux).
The Philippines
General Manager: Mika "nilavariel" Fabella
Community Manager: Camie "Yumie" Tafalla
Coach: Dathan Allan Keanu "Daks" Rosales
Thailand
General Manager: Areeya "aumimchun" Manamunchaiyaporn
Community Manager: Aunya "Klarion" Wettayawong
Coach: จิรวัฒน์ "HeadHawk" กะลัมพะนันทน์
Malaysia
General Manager: Kenn "Beagull" Leandre
Community Manager: Sun "megikari" San
Coach: Jack "RagonSEA" Teoh
Esports At The 2019 Southeast Asian Games (Philippines)
Date: 1 – 6 December
Venue: Filoil Flying V Centre, San Juan, Metro Manila
The very first esports tournament in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games will be happening soon. The titles that will be used in this prestigious world tournament are Dota 2, Starcraft II, Tekken 7, Arena of Valor, and Mobile Legends.
Singapore has confirmed their representatives for the tournament below:
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
EVOS Esports:
1. Akihiro “JPL” Furusawa
2. Andrew “Potato” Lim
3. Boon “OhDeerBambi” Wei Xing Robert
4. Chong “Soul” Ru Chyi
5. Tan “Ace” Zheng Wei
Arena of Valor
Resurgence:
6. Bjorn “Zeys” Ong
7. Dabbie “813” Lim Chin Hong
8. Ng “Elespresso” Ye Lun Renfred
9. Ong “Yueyah” Jing Song
10. Lee “Marclaren” Cheng Hiang Marcus
Dota 2
Team X:
11. Wong “NutZ” Jeng Yih
12. Lukman “Luk” Yusoff Bin Nooraznan
13. Teo “Tudi” Yao Wen
14. Wilson “Poloson” Koh Chin Wei
15. Joel “Chibix” Chan Jian Yong
StarCraft II:
16. Toh “Lobo” Wei Liang Alvin
17. Thomas “Blysk” Kopankiewicz
TEKKEN 7:
18. Ruslan “LAN94” Bin Abd Rahman
Hearthstone:
19. Chew “Khaius” Khai Kiat
20. Benjamin “SGAhIce” Isa Roberts
