World’s best collide at WESG 2019 qualifiers

The competition is heating up already.

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The World Electronic Sport Games, the esports answer to the Olympics, is in full swing.

Already the qualifiers are tightening up, which hints at the kind of action we’ll be seeing in the championship rounds.

In StarCraft, best-of-five matches from the Northern EU include Swedish pros Christoffer “Namshar” Kolmodin and Rickard “SortOf” Bergman, firmly establishing the Nordic region as a superior force in the game.

In CS:GO, OG3OD Esports took a two-to-one victory over Finest. On The CS:GO Female side of things, GE.Rayne beat out Meraki Esports in the South Asia and West Asia quadrant. Foxy Stack earned a title in the Japan/Mongolia/South Korea split. And the Turkish club Besiktas took home the championship in the EU.

The WESG is committed to giving esports teams from all over the world a fair shake at real competition. Every year, players compete in brackets focused specifically on their regions, allowing the organization to shine a spotlight on, say, women-only esports in southeastern Europe. It’s always important to remember that the passion for competitive gaming is truly global.

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Preston Byers
Dot Esports associate editor. Co-host of the Ego Chall Podcast. Since discovering esports through the 2013 Call of Duty Championship, Preston has pursued a career in esports and gaming. He graduated from Youngstown State University with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 2021.