With more than 40 national qualifiers, the tournament offers the prize pool of $402,000

24 qualified players from Asia, Europe & CIS, Northern and Southern America, Africa and Middle East will fight  the biggest prize pool in the history of StarCraft II. The finals will take place in Shangai, China in December 2016. 

The European Regional Qualifiers will select 20 best players to be invited to the Regional Finals in Kyiv. 8 winners will be granted a ticket to the WESG Global Grand Finals and the $27,300 prize pool.

Registration is open for European countries, some of which will have their own qualifiers, while others have been grouped together in sub-regions:


 

Sub regions

Sign up dates and links

Countries

Spots

UK, Ireland and Iceland

19 Aug- 06 Sep

England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Iceland

1

Northern Europe and Post CIS

19 Aug - 16 Sep

Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova

1

South-Eastern Europe

19 Aug - 13 Sep

Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Cyprus, Israel

1

Benelux

19 Aug - 04 Sep

Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands

1

Central Europe

19 Aug - 08 Sep

Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Italy, San Marino, Malta, Vatican

1

Adriatica

19 Aug - 12 Sep

 Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Kosovo

1

Iberia

19 Aug - 09 Sep

 Spain, Portugal, Andorra

1

France and Monaco

19 Aug - 14 Sep

2

Sweden

19 Aug - 19 Sep

1

Germany

19 Aug - 22 Sep

2

Poland

19 Aug - 20 Sep

2

Russia

19 Aug - 24 Sep

2

Ukraine

19 Aug - 17 Sep

2

Denmark

19 Aug - 07 Sep

1

Norway

19 Aug - 05 Sep

1


 

The breakdown of the prize pool of WESG Regional Qualifiers in European and CIS region is as follows:

1st place - ?80,000 (~ $12,000)

2nd place - ?40,000 (~ $6,000)

3rd place - ?20,000 (~ $3,000)

4th place - ?10,000 (~ $1,500)

5th place - ?8,000 (~ $1,200)

6th place - ?8,000 (~ $1,200)

7th place - ?8,000 (~ $1,200)

8th place - ?8,000 (~ $1,200)