Friday 30 September 2016

29 Nations send their HearthStone players to IeSF's 8th World Championships - Jakarta

Out of the total of 341 participants from 32 countries That have entered IeSF's 8th e-Sports World Championships - Jakarta, 29 countries entered Hearthstone.

The e-Sports World Championship is the sole international e-Sports competition based on nationality and each member nation held its own national qualifying events in order to select those lucky few  that will officially represent their countries at IeSF's 8th e-Sports World Championships - Jakarta.

The list of gamers that will participate at IeSF's 8th e-Sports World Championships - Jakarta show the strength of the game.

The top three in 2014 were:
PlacePlayer[15]Prize
1stTunisia Amine "las3ed" Ben Messaoud$5,000
2ndAustria Urim "Yhone" Bajrami$3,000
3rdSouth Korea Chae "SeungJae" Seung Jae$2,000
The top three in 2015 were:
PlacePlayer
1stSerbia Miloš "d00m1n80r" Perović
2ndThailand Sanya "MiTH.Ledah" Niruttinanont
3rdRomania Stefan "MooDy" Marinescu
Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) is putting a lot  of store on TUKS student Francois Mouton in doing well.

The full list of combatants is:


No.
Country
Team Name
Player Name
Nick Name
1
Australia
Team
Australia
Kelson Barber
MrLego
2
Austria
Team
Austria
Raffael Iciren
Gameking
3
Azerbaijan
Team
Azerbaijan
Kamran Gasimli
Ego1st
4
Belgium
Venko Gaming
Jochen Taminau
dentamme#2861
5
Brazil
Team
Brazil
Wagner Paz
Donair
6
China
Team
China
Yonghao Liu
 
7
Costa Rica
Team
Costa Rica
Carlos Perez Brenes
Lucky Shadow
8
Egypt
Team
Egypt
Salama Sherif
 
9
Finland
Team
Finland
Janne Aho
 
10
Georgia
Team
Georgia
Levan Gorgadze
levanidas
11
India
Team
India
Tirth Mehta
 
12
Indonesia
Team
Indonesia
Rama Akbar
 
13
Iran
Team
Iran
Reza Saeedinia
 
14
Italy
Nazionale Personal
Gamer Hearthstone
Adriano Diodati
Zargon
15
Korea (South)
Team
Korea
Gwangsu Kim
UrGot
16
Macau (China)
Team
Macau
Ka Hou Wong
Kakakka
17
Macedonia
Team
Macedonia
Nikola Ivanovski
Nine
18
Malaysia
Team
Malaysia
Gary Keat Gan
Gary
19
Netherlands
mCon
Pim Van Valkengoed
Monkeloid
20
New Zealand
eBlacks
Jamie Broughton
Numnum
21
Philippines
Team
Philippines
Patrick Ben Garanganao
garangana0
22
Romania
XPC
Eugeniu Panfil
Drujbanu
23
Russia
vesuvius
Dmitrii Izhmiakov
unwi
24
Serbia
Team
Serbia
Milan Sataric
Satara#2113
25
South Africa
Team eSports
South Africa
Francois Mouton
Fafa
26
Sweden
Reason Gaming
William Sjoeblom
Firrlo
27
Switzerland
Qualitas Helvetica
Yannick Widmer
YounTheory
28
Thailand
Team
Thailand
Pagorn Kitmanomai
Mikka
29
Tunisia
Team
Tunisia
Wael Soussia
VanityLord

Do seedings work in a double elimination knockout?

The short answer is: no!

The much longer answer requires a little bit of an argument, so here goes...

Seeding teams works very well in a 'Swiss type' competition. However, it is not needed in a Round-Robin tournament as every team plays against every other team.

However, in a Knock-out tournament (of any kind), seeding teams, in my opinion, seeding teams reduces the competition to a farce.

If you look at the above image of the seeded teams, if the seeding  is done correctly, the top  four teams should each will win their group which will actually make the group stages a waste  of time and utterly redundant.

That is just on a cursory glance, but once you look at the distribution it will seem as though there is something far more sinister afoot.

Mathematically the two top seeded teams are awarded the easiest group stages with the next two seeded teams (three and four) getting the hardest groups.

This will ultimately mean that the two top seeded teams will then sail out of the group stages.

Based on these groups the top four teams will then be the main contenders in the knock-out/elimination stages with the top seeded, and second seeded, teams battling it out for 1st and 2nd place respectively.

Any organiser that uses this, in my opinion, seems to be treating the  players, spectators, and sponsors as if they were fools.

If you are going to use a 'knock-out' system, the only fair way to do it is to do a  random draw. That  is how it is done in all the major sports for this type of tournament.

Yes, that does then that there may be a group of death - but it is at least  fair, and no-one can claim that the result is manipulated.


21 Countries enter CounterStrike: GO - IeSF's 8th World Championships - Jakarta


Internationale-Sports Federation (IeSF) hereby announces that a total 341 participants from 32 countries have registered for IeSF's 8th e-Sports World Championship Jakarta 2016 - Jakarta, which will be held from 6th to 9th of October.

In total there are 141 participants from 14 European countries, 112 participants from 11 Asian countries, 31 participants from 3 African countries, 26 participants from 2 American countries, and 21 participants from 2 Oceanic countries.

125 of the participants will be participating in the CounterStrike: GO title, which, when you look through the names of the competitors, you realise just how hard the competition will be.

Nevertheless, Mind Sports South Africa (MSSA) has every faith in its team.

The team as lead by Jessie Joubert is determined to give it their 'all'.

Cape Town TV will be broadcasting an interview of Protea CounterStrike: GO players Jessie Joubert and Simon Zandstra on Monday, 3 October 2016 at 17H00 to 17H30.
Cape Town TV is available free-to-air in Cape Town and across South Africa and Lesotho on DStv (Channel 263). The channel receives around three million views each month.

This is the first time that a Protea CounterStrike: GO team will be representing South Africa at the official World Championships.

You go guys!

The full list of players representing their countries are:

No. Country Team Name Player Name Nick Name
1 Australia Athletico Stuart Rayner Sonic
Jesse Barker Infrequent
John Tregillgas Liazz
Travis Richardson Wizard
Samuel Molan Jokes
2 Azerbaijan FiRENATiON Kamaliddin Abdukadirov Archiello
Samimi Gashimli krimA
Ali Mammadov M1RACLE
Tomas Yasyukyavichyus t0rick
Niyazi Ibrahimov epis
3 Brazil Team Brazil Bruno Mendonca BrunoM
Lorenzo Araujo Lrz
Sergio Lemos Junior Din0
William De Lima Will
Gabriel Rodrigues Carli Gab
4 China Team China Haowen Xu  
Hui Wu  
Yuanzhang Sheng  
Ke Liu  
Yulun Cai  
5 Egypt Anubis Mostafa Ramy  
Desouki Marwan  
Saraia Ahmed  
El Salamony Mohamed  
Lotfy Ehab  
6 Finland Team Finland Miikka Kemppi  
Juho Lampinen  
Niko Kovanen  
Tony Niemelae  
Aleksi Virolainen  
7 Georgia eSportsLab BLACK Giorgi Khoshtaria xosht
Rati Tskhvediashvili raty
Giga Cholikidze GiGsa
Nugzari Gatenashvili forward
ILIA Kumaritashvili hypnoz
8 Indonesia Team Indonesia Ricard Permana  
Hansel Ferdinand  
Vega Tanaka  
Baskoro Putra  
Albert Giovanni  
9 Italy Team Italy Enrico Coppini Morphiw0w
Christian Forte Stylahhhhh
Riccardo D'Urso kIMERA
Giovanni Frongia bardOZ
Fabio Micheli Epic
10 Korea (South) MVP PROJECT Soonwoo Kwon Argency
Haeseong Kim hsk
Hyeongju Nam Sound
Hyunpyo Lee X1GN
Junghyeon Jeon rindA
11 Maldives Team Maldives Ali Nizam Basheer  
Ahmed Abshar Rasheed  
Eman Ibrahim  
Ahmed Xyq Mohamed  
Ali Ahsan Saeed  
12 Philippines Mineski Dominic Fajardo Hannibal
Jayvee Paguirigan DubsteP
Ryan Crisostomo BabyBoy
Kevin Te Dispenser
James Carter Ang Retrac
13 Romania Team Romania Ionut Stanescu  
Radu Popescu  
Florin Patru  
Bogdan Nicolae  
Chitez Chitez  
14 Russia vesuvius Kirill Sidorov PLAZINHO
Anton Platko Koshak
Ruslan Kalakov spynj
Aleksandr Romanenko Foga
Almaz Asadullin almazer1
15 Serbia Team Serbia Luka Vukovic emi
Nestor Tanic LETN1
Dorde Niciforovic djoksick
Darko Mitic solo
Aleksandar Trifunovic kassad
16 South Africa Team eSports South Africa Jessie Joubert JoobJoob
Lyle Jeacocks VeXXCoN
Leandre Sparks n0ru1es
Justus Dillon TrixzE
Simon Zandstra JumpOlot
17 Sweden Dank Deaglez Johan Rudelius DiskarN
Filip Roennqvist LunarStorm
Oliver Junhager Trötter
Dennis Aspeljung L0ner
Jonas Frid Nylonstrumpa
18 Switzerland Maaischguet Philemon Antony Chilla
Gion Janett Merca
Luca Peter supluca
Nikita Sulger rustyy
Nicola Riesen scrunch
19 Thailand Signature Gaming Phoomphat Phodjanat qq
Tosapol Saekow Tor
Peeratch Ingkudanonda Olivia
Sattrawut Raethong Leaf
Anupong Muengngam stk
20 Tunisia DreamRAR Fares Chahed chahd0nJ
Baydir Jouini Baydir
Akram Ben Ayed Time
Mahdi Zouaghi Edge
Rayan Kedidi Haiden
21 Vietnam Sabertooth Quan Nguyen Shyn
Binh Nguyen bNy
Trung Nguyen kyZ
Khoa Vo Naokai
Anh Ngo Crazyguy