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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)

ONE Esports Dota 2 Singapore World Pro Invitationals (Photo: ONE Esports)
ONE Esports Dota 2 Singapore World Pro Invitationals (Photo: ONE Esports)

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

Lenovo & Intel Legion of Champions Series IV
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)

SEA Games Esports schedule
SEA Games Esports schedule

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)

EXP 2019 FIFA Camp (Photo: *SCAPE)
EXP 2019 FIFA Camp (Photo: *SCAPE)

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)

EXP Plus Basic Streaming & Commentary Workshop (Photo: *SCAPE)
EXP Plus Basic Streaming & Commentary Workshop (Photo: *SCAPE)

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)

AESF e-Masters Invitational Tournament
AESF e-Masters Invitational Tournament

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)

WESG Asia Pacific Final
WESG Asia Pacific Final

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)

WePlay! Bukovel Minor 2020
WePlay! Bukovel Minor 2020

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

(Photo: Capcom)
(Photo: Capcom)

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