Weekly esports guide (9 - 16 December): SEA Games crowns first esports gold medallists, Legion of Champions Grand Finals
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Esports at the Southeast Asia will see its first gold medal winners in history this week, but there’s also a lot of other events going on. And if playing the games isn’t your thing, *SCAPE has you covered in Singapore with shoutcasting and streaming workshops!
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.
The three day event will be held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, and will feature top global esports athletes. The official list of teams competing include Alliance, Evil Geniuses, Gambit, J.Storm, Natus Vincere, PSG.LGD, Team Aster, Team Liquid, Team Secret, TNC Predator, Virtus.pro and Vici Gaming.
Select teams will also participate in one-hour meet-and-greet sessions with fans across all three days of the event, with priority lines for VIP and Cat 1 ticket holders.
In addition, the event will feature a host of Dota 2 talents, including Jorien 'Sheever' van der Heijden, TobiWan, BSJ, ODPixel, and Fogged, as well as Dota 2 analysts, Black^, Trent and Capitalist.
ONE Esports DOTA 2 World Pro Invitational Jakarta (Indonesia)
Date: 17 - 19 April 2020
Venue: Indonesia Convention Exhibition
Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/oneesportsgg
ONE Esports partners with PGL to bring fans of DOTA 2 a new series of US$500,000 tournaments in Southeast Asia. This particular Indonesian tournament will have 12 of the world’s best teams clash next April.
Lenovo & Intel Legion of Champions Series IV
Date: 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
Esports At The 2019 Southeast Asian Games (Philippines)
Date: 1 – 10 December
Venue: Filoil Flying V Centre, San Juan, Metro Manila
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/user/cultofrazer/videos
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
Here is the full schedule:
5 December
Mobile Legends - 10:30am
Hearthstone - 10:30am
Starcraft II - 10:30am
6 December
Mobile Legends - 4:15pm, 6:30pm
Hearthstone - 9am, 4:15pm
Starcraft II - 9am, 12:30pm, 2:15pm
7 December
Dota 2 - 9am
Arena of Valor - 9am
8 December
Dota 2 - 12:30pm, 3:30pm
Mobile Legends - 3:30pm, 6pm
Arena of Valor - 8:45am, 10:30pm
9 December
Hearthstone - 9am
Dota 2 - 3pm, 5:45pm
Arena of Valor - 9am, 12pm
10 December
Starcraft II - 8:45pm
Tekken 7 - 12:30pm, 4:30pm, 7:30pm
EXP 2019 FIFA Camp (Singapore)
Date: 28 - 29 December
Venue: *SCAPE
Registration: http://bit.ly/expfifacamp
The *SCAPEesports folks will be having its first FIFA camp featuring FIFA 2020 tournaments, personal coaching with renowned FIFA player Hibidi, and exclusive talks by La Liga.
You can purchase your tickets early via this link.
EXP Plus Basic Streaming & Commentary Workshop (Singapore)
Date: 26 November - 4 January
Venue: *SCAPE
Registration: http://bit.ly/EXPworkshops
Want to learn how to commentate and stream like an esports pro? Then come join the Esports EXP Plus 2019-branded workshops featuring experienced shoutcasters like Jayf (Hearthstone), Lysander (Dota 2), Grandon (League of Legends), and Daryl (League of Legends), as well as popular streamers like Badabing, Wolfsbanee, and SynC.
Newbies can learn how to increase reach as a content creator, engage audiences, and create a basic streaming setup.
AESF e-Masters Invitational Tournament (China)
Date: February - March 2020
Venue: Shenzhen Bay Sports Centre
Website: https://www.facebook.com/asian.esports/
This upcoming tournament series is hosted by the Asian Electronic Sports Federation.
The games that will be used for the tournament include Arena of Valor, Pro Evolution Soccer 2020, and WarCraft 3: The Frozen Throne.
Epicenter 2019 CS:GO Tournament (Russia)
Date: 17 - 22 December
Venue: Crocus Expo Hall, Moscow
Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/epicenter_en1
CS:GO fans interested in supporting Asian teams should be pleased to know that Chinese team EHome will be representing their country and, by extent, Asia, in this overseas tournament.
They will have quite a fight ahead as they’re against top European teams like Mousesports and invited teams like Evil Geniuses. All eight teams will be competing for the US$500,000 prize pool.
WESG 2019-2020 Asia Pacific Final (Malaysia)
Date: 3 - 5 January
Venue: Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre, Petaling Jaya
Stream: https://www.egg.network
Hosted by Alibaba Sports and Hong Kong’s Esports International Group, the Asia Pacific leg of the world’s biggest esports event will hold its grand finals in Malaysia.
A total of 61 teams and 260 players from 58 countries will be converging in Malaysia to compete in Dota 2, CS: GO, StarCraft II, and Pro Evolution Soccer 2020 for the lion’s share of the US$300,000 prize pool.
The winning team(s) for each respective game will also advance to the WESG Grand Finals held in Chongqing, China in March 2020.
Tickets are priced between RM10 to RM850 and are on sale now. Head here for more details.
WePlay! Bukovel Minor 2020 (Ukraine)
Date: 9 - 12 January
Venue: Bukovel, Ukraine
Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/weplaydota2tv_1
The best of Asia will be duking it out together with Europe and America’s finest Dota 2 teams in this Ukraine tournament worth US$300,000 in prize pool money.
Geek Fam from Southeast Asia and Royal Never Give Up from China will be fighting for their respective Asian country glory.
Capcom Cup 2019
Date: 13-15 December
Venue: The Novo, Los Angeles, CA
Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/capcomfighters
The biggest Street Fighter V tournament league will be ending its 2019 iteration with a 32-player fight for the ages. The tournament will feature last year’s winner, the top 26 players from the Global Ranking Point leaderboard, the four regional qualifier winners, and the winner of the Last Chance Qualifier which will be determined closer to the tournament date.
The 35 players who will be duking it out are:
Gachikun
kichipa-mu
Luffy
Zenith
Smug
Punk
Bonchan
Tokido
Fuudo
HotDog29
Fujimura
Big Bird
Problem X
Momochi
Phenom
NuckleDu
Oil King
Xian
Mago
Machabo
AngryBird
Nemo
Infexious
Dogura
John Takeuchi
Sako
NL
Daigo
801 Strider
iDom
JB