World Electronic Sports Games

As of March 2016, qualifying rounds for the first edition were expected to begin in April 2016.[1]

Despite the large prize pools, many top contenders were not at the event, especially with CS:GO's first major of 2017 right around the corner. WESG 2016 for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) was the last premier tournament before the ELEAGUE Major 2017. France's Team EnVyUs beat out Poland's Team Kinguin to take home the majority of CS:GO's biggest prize pool while Poland's number one took third place by defeating Turkey's Space Soldiers before booking a ticket to Atlanta for the major. In Dota 2, the Filipino team TNC Pro Team downed Denmark's Cloud9 to take the grand prize. [Alliance_(esports)|Alliance] from Sweden took down Peru's hopeful Infamous to take the bronze. In Starcraft 2, Koreans dominated as expected as Jun "TY" Tae-yang defeated compatriot Cho "Maru" Seong-ju. In the third place match, America's Alex "Neeb" Sunderhaft took down Tobias "ShoWTimE" Sieber of Germany. Hearthstone's champion was the Philippines's Euneil "Staz" Javiñas took down Sweden's Jon "Orange" Westberg in a close grand final. The third-place match featured two Germans, and it was Raphael "BunnyHoppor" Peltzer to topple Sebastian "Xixo" Bentert.

Results
Game	Prize Pool	Winner	Runner-up	Third	Fourth
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive	US$1,500,000	Team EnVyUs	Team Kinguin	Virtus.pro	Space Soldiers
Dota 2	US$1,500,000	TNC	Cloud9	Alliance	Infamous
Starcraft 2	US$402,000	TY	JAGW | Maru	ting | Neeb	Arma | ShoWTimE
Hearthstone	US$300,000	PHA | Staz	[A] | Orange	VP | BunnyHoppor	CLG | Xixo

Despite being called WESG 2017, the event took place in March 2018.

In CS:GO, with the major already past, more top teams showed up. However, teams such as SK Gaming from Brazil, which was the second most decorated team in CS:GO and world number two, and Cloud9 from the United States, which was the reigning major champions and world number three, were knocked out earlier than expected while teams such as MVP PK from South Korea and Team One from Brazil, two teams that hadn't even qualified for the major, made it much further into the bracket than expected. Sweden's Fnatic came back from a large deficit against the Space Soldiers from Turkey to take home the WESG 2017 title for Fnatic's second straight premier tournament win. Team Russia stopped the Cinderella story of Team One in the third-place match. Dota 2 saw Team Russia take out Brazil's paiN Gaming. Team Hellas from Greece shut down the hometown Rock.Y from China in the third-place match. South Korea dominated again in Starcraft 2 as Maru redeemed himself from last year after being the runner-up to winning the title after taking down compatriot Park "Dark" Ryung-woo. Kim "Classic" Doh-woo could not make it three Koreans in a row as he fell to Finland's Joona "Serral" Sotala in the third-place match. Hearthstone saw Turkey's Kaan "Fujitora" Çekli defeat Michael "Luker" Luker from Canada to take home the grand prize. The unknown posesi from Japan took third place after defeating Thailand's Kantaphon "ScreaM" Suwanmalee. CS:GO's female grand final saw a close series as Russian Forces scraped past LLG Gaming of China to take home all but US$100,000 of the prize pool. In the third place match, Those Damn Canadians defeated the experienced Team Sweden. Hearthstone's female grand final featured the two Chinese qualifiers as GLHuiHui defeated Lioon. Cordelia "Scarakye" Chui from the UK lost HongKong's Ip Yan in the third-place match.

Results
Game	Prize Pool	Winner	Runner-up	Third	Fourth
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive	US$1,500,000	Fnatic	Space Soldiers	Team Russia	Team One
CS:GO Female	US$170,000	Russian Forces	LLG Gaming	Those Damn Canadians	Team Sweden
Dota 2	US$1,500,000	Team Russia	paiN Gaming	Team Hellas	Rock.Y
Starcraft 2	US$402,000	JAGW | Maru	Dark	Ence | Serral	Classic
Hearthstone	US$300,000	RB | Fujitora	TGS | Luker	posesi	AR | ScreaM
Hearthstone Female	US$51,000	GLHuiHui	Liooon	Yan	Scarakye