The 7th e-Sports World Championship

■ Outline of the 7th e-Sports World Championship

1. Period : 2^nd ~ 5^th Dec. 2015

- Arrival Date : 1^st Dec. 2015

- Departure Date : 6^th Dec. 2015

2. Venue : NEXON Arena, Seoul

3. Host : International e-Sports Federation / Korea e-Sports Association

4. Sponsor : Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism / Longzhu

6. Official Game Titles

- League of Legends (Riot Games)

- Starcraft II (Blizzard Entertainment)

- Hearthstone (Blizzard Entertainment)

7. PAX : 160 players from 28 IeSF member nations

■ e-Sports World Championship Time Line

Date	Time	Program	Remark
1st of Dec	19:00 ~ 21:00	Orientation	NEXON Arena
2nd of Dec	11:00 ~ 12:00	Opening Ceremony	Main Stage
	12:00 ~ 21:00	Group Preliminary	Tournament Zone/Stage
3rd of Dec	10:00 ~ 18:00	Quarterfinal (8)	Tournament Zone/Stage
	18:00~19:30	e-Sports Summit 2015 (Panel Discussion)	Main Stage
4th of Dec	14:00 ~ 17:00	IeSF General Meeting	OCloud Hotel
	10:00 ~ 20:00	Semifinal (4)	Main Stage
5th of Dec	10:00 ~ 20:00	Final	Main Stage
	20:00 ~ 20:30	Closing Ceremony	Main Stage

■ e-Sports Summit 2015

1. Name of the event : e-Sports Summit 2015

2. Date : 3rd, December 2015 (Thu) 18:00 ~ 19:30

- Open Discussion : 18:00 ~ 19:00

- Q&A Session : 19:00 ~ 19:30

3. Venue : NEXON Arena Main stage

4. Potential Attendees (One person per each department)

Organization	Participants
IeSF	Silviu Stroie, Vice President
OCA / IOC	Rita Subowoo, Chairwoman of OCA Standing Committees / IOC member
West Nally / IFP	Patrick Nally, President of West Nally, and IFP
University of West Scotland	Andy Mia, Professor University of West of Scotland / IOC social media mentor
e-Sports Player	Sun Woon Lee / SC2 World Champion
Game Developer	Blizzard Entertainment

5. Observer : Kit McConnell (Sport Director of IOC)

6. Main Topic

- Possibility of e-Sports’ recognition from International Sport Society

7. Method

- MC brings up a sub topics, and panels have free discussion.

- Sub Topics and questions will be shared in advance.

- The discussion will be produced to broadcasting contents and will be distributed through online streaming.

- Media will be observing and may give questions to panels.

Can Wynand win?

Wynand 'ViViD' Meiring

Not many Africans will be present at the  sponsored IeSF's 7^th World Championships in Seoul (2 to 5 December 2015). It is largely felt that due to the dominance of both Europe and Asia, that many African states do not even try to contest the championships.

However, while there may be an element of truth in the above statement, it is not true for the HearthStone® title.

In 2014, without warning, young Ahmed Ben Messaoud from Tunisia swept away all opposition to become the IeSF's 2014 HearthStone® World Champion. Needless to say, the entire eSports community was shocked.

However, MSSA is confident that it has an answer to Ahmed Ben Messaoud in the form of Pretiorian Wynand 'ViViD' Meiring.

Wynand is without doubt one of the top cyber-athletes in South Africa. He has a distinguished career in DotA 2 as well as in HearthStone® having earned himself Gauteng Provincial Colours, South African National Colours, and now Protea Colours.

Even though new packs of cards have been released just before the World championships, Wynand has the mental dexterity to take it all in his stride.

For Wynand, there is no hurdle to big, and MSSA is right behind him, MSSA could not be prouder.


All the cyber-athletes participating in the HearthStone® title are:

COUNTRY	NAME	TEAM	NICKNAME	BIRTH
Austria	Iciren, Lukas	PENTA Sports	Lemongreen	1997
Azerbaijan	Tahir, Mehdiyev	Azerbaijan	DeathShot	2005
Belgium	Arne, Huysegoms	Ruz3	Arneej	1995
China	Xieyu, Wang	Team China	n/a	1984
Chinese Taipei	Li-Yang, Kuo	Hearthstone	紹安	1992
Finland	Antti, Lammi	RCTIC eSports	Kufdon	1993
Georgia	Giorgi, Parjanadze	Georgia	Wellex	1990
Indonesia	DANU, PRIYATMOKO	INDONESIA National Team	Danu7#1490	1996
Iran	meysam, hosseini	kouroshe kabir	meysam	1989
Israel	Or, Golan	Team Israel	Ozymandias	1990
Korea (South)	Yong Jae, Choi	NNA	코둘기#3197	1991
Mongolia	ZUNBILEG, Ariunsan	Team Mongolia	Zon	1994
Philippines	Richard, Castillo	Acion Arena	Pompi	1991
Romania	Stefan, Marinescu	RO	MooDy	1995
Russia	PAVEL, BELTIUKOV	Empire	Pavel	1998
Serbia	Miloš, Perović	Team Serbia	n/a	1983
South Africa	Wynand, Meiring	MSSA	ViViD	1990
Sweden	Joakim, Öhman	SESF	Nizy	1985
Switzerland	Yannick, Widmer	Qualitas Helvetica	YounTheory	1992
Thailand	Sanya, Niruttinanont	Thailand		1996
Tunisia	Ahmed, Ben Messaoud	Alpha Gaming	Chaox	1996
Vietnam	TU, CAO	APPU	CrazyMageee	1995