World e-Sports Games
The World e-Sports Games were initially an international e-sports tournament, which was held in Asia. Later, the focus was to align tournaments such as the e - Stars Seoul and the World e-Sports Masters.
2004 the PATH for the first time publicly in appearance, they set up a FIFA match between China and South Korea from the outside of Asia, however, was never addressed.
The larger first tournament was followed a year later and was regarded at the time as revolutionary: The World e-Sports Games 2005 attracted several hundred thousand dollars in the disciplines of Counter- Strike and Warcraft III. They made it necessary for the participants to stay for several weeks in China, in order to discharge their games live on TV cameras. Many of the leading clans took up the challenge, including SK Gaming, Team NoA and mousesports. At first four seasons were planned alone in the first twelve months, but there were only three instead.
In 2006 there was only one individual competition, the World e-Sports Masters Games 2006. Since 2007 primarily occurs the company behind the WEG by the annual alignment of the e - Stars Seoul in appearance. End of 2008, the World e-Sports Masters were also aligned in Hangzhou in 2008. The WEG brand continues to be used as a distinguishing feature, although another tournament as the World e-Sports Games seems unlikely.
World e-Sports Games 2005
Most of the games of the WEG were held in Seoul, only the respective final games were held in Beijing. The first season went from 30 January to 20 March 2005. A peculiar feature here the participation of mousesports dar. The German communities was represented during the WEG of a replacement team in the German ESL Pro Series.
The second season was held from 29 May to 3 July. The third season began on October 19 and ended on December 11. They overlapped with several other prestigious tournaments such as the World Cyber Games, which moved many potential participants to a cancellation.
World e-Sports Games 2006
The end of April was held in Hangzhou, the only tournament of the 2006 WEG instead, the World e-Sports Masters Games. This time there was no protracted league phase, the tournament claimed only around two weeks time. There have been played a total of 152,000 U.S. $ in prize money.
World e-Sports Masters 2008
From 26 October to 2 November, a further WEG event was held in Hangzhou, which made eight Counter- Strike and Warcraft III participants to 100,000 U.S. $ to fight prize money. Whether the World e-Sports Masters will be continued in the following years, is not known.
E - Stars
Since 2007, the PATH set every year from an e-sports festival in Seoul. This consists among other things of an exclusive, limited to a few participants competitive with the name e - Stars. Instead of using a classical tournament system is doing is experimenting with new models: 2008, there was a duel East vs. West ( Asia to Europe / USA ), 2009 was both a continent internal as well as a global tournament.