WESG EU & CIS format and groups revealed

The format and group draws for the World Electronic Sports Games European and CIS regional LAN has been revealed, teams will compete in four groups of five teams.

Twenty single-nation teams will compete in the WESG regional LAN on 6-9 October in order to secure one of the eight EU & CIS spots at the global finals which will be held in Shanghai, China. The tournament has a prize pool of $75,000 apart from the $1.5m prize pool for the global finals.

WESG regional LAN will bring together top-class teams such as Virtus.pro, EnVyUs and Astralis with some single-nation mix teams. It is revealed that the group stage will use a best-of-three round-robin format with the first, second and third placed teams of each group advancing to the playoff stage where they will fight for glory within a single-bracket format.

The most notable mix teams and stand-ins for the tournament in order to form single-nation squads are:

Philip "aizy" Aistrup will stand-in for dignitas in place of Ruben "RUBINO" Villarroel;
Team Russia's squad consists of Emil "kUcheR" Akhundov, Dmitry "hooch" Bogdanov, Mihail "Dosia" Stolyarov, Georgi "WorldEdit" Yaskin and Denis "electronic" Sharipov;
.Norway's squad consists of Pål "Polly" Kammen, Bjørn "Skurk" Maaren, Håvard "rain" Nygaard, Joakim "jkaem" Myrbostad and Ruben "RUBINO" Villarroel;
Team 1's squad consists of Kirill "ANGE1" Karasiow, Danylo "Zeus" Teslenko, Vladyslav "bondik" Nechyporchuk, Vladyslav "arch" Svistov and Sergey "smike" Sklyarenko;
dd's squad consists of Kévin "Ex6TenZ" Droolans, Victor "scara" Henkinet, Antoine "to1nou" Pirard, David "Davidp" Prince and Younes "YOUYOU" Ait Lalla;
Egor "Egor K." Klimov will stand-in for EYESports in place of Igor "norison" Matyev.