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 8^th 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 8^th e-Sports World Championships - Jakarta.

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

The top three in 2014 were:

Place	Player[15]	Prize
1st	Amine "las3ed" Ben Messaoud	$5,000
2nd	Urim "Yhone" Bajrami	$3,000
3rd	Chae "SeungJae" Seung Jae	$2,000

The top three in 2015 were:

Place	Player
1st	Miloš "d00m1n80r" Perović
2nd	Sanya "MiTH.Ledah" Niruttinanont
3rd	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 8^th e-Sports World Championship Jakarta 2016 - Jakarta, which will be held from 6^th to 9^th 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