World E-Sports Masters 2009 will take place between 12-20 of December in China. This event has been one of most anticipated tournaments for both Counter-Strike and Warcraft 3 over the past years. The organizers pick the best teams at the moment, thus ensuring a quality competition. The event will feature eight teams from both games, fighting for a prize pool over $100,000.

The fact that Warcraft 3 is dominated by Asian players isn’t a secret so the list containing only 2 european players out of 8 didn’t surprise anyone. The list features players like Sky, InFi, Fly100, Grubby, Lyn, Moon, SocceR and Happy.

The Counter-Strike list contains an equal number of both European and Asian teams. We will see the likes of fnatic, Power Gaming, world champions AGAiN, and H2K from Europe and WeMade Fox, Tyloo, Wnv.cn and Titans from Asia.

The tournament system will be 2 groups of 4 players/teams with the first two from each group advancing to the next stage. Here a best of three single elimination format will be applied.

It will be interesting to see the WCG Finalists battling one another once again, especially after the unfortunate event at the WCG 2009 Final, where Loord said nasty things about GeT_RiGhT and his teammates.

All in all, a great event awaits gaming fans all over the world in just three weeks time. Be sure not to miss it because it will probably be one of the last major event of this year.