More teams join WePlay!'s WeSave! Charity Play

Weplay wesave charity play
Image credit: WePlay!

With the coronavirus still a major concern in most countries, travelling anywhere or gathering big crowds is simply not possible. After we saw numerous official Dota 2 events get canceled, it was only natural that organizers will switch to online tournaments as the next best thing. WePlay! were quick to announce WeSave Charity Play, an event dedicated to fighting COVID-19. The $120 000 prize pool will aid those global efforts.

We’ve already covered the initial list of teams, but over the course of the last few days more joined in. The first among the new entries were two-time The International winners OG. Next up were Vici gaming, Evil Geniuses, Cloud9 and PSG.LGD and others with the final two joining being B8 and Team Adroit. The final list for the event is as follows:

  • EHOME
  • Invictus Gaming
  • Vici Gaming
  • PSG.LGD
  • TNC Predator
  • Geek Fam
  • BOOM Esports
  • HellRaisers
  • Virtus.pro
  • Natus Vincere
  • Team Liquid
  • Team Secret
  • Team Nigma
  • OG
  • No Ping Esports
  • Thunder Predator
  • beastcoast
  • FURIA Esports
  • business associates
  • CR4ZY
  • Сloud9
  • Evil Geniuses
  • B8
  • Team Adroit

As it was initially announced the total number of teams is twenty four with exactly four teams for each of the six regions.

Teams regions wesave
The teams from each region. (Image credit: WePlay!)

Each region will compete for a prize of $20 000, but the money will actually go to organizations fighting the coronavirus outbreak.

The schedule

This is where it gets tricky as games will be played out in a pretty random manner and not one region per day.

Europe

Team Liquid vs. OG - March 21

Team Secret vs. Team Nigma - March 23

CIS

B8 vs. Natus Vincere – March 20

Virtus.pro vs. HellRaisers – March 22

China

PSG.LGD vs. Invictus Gaming – March 21

EHOME vs. Vici Gaming – March 23

SEA

Geek Fam vs. BOOM Esports – March 20

TNC Predator vs. Team Adroit – March 22

North America

Evil Geniuses vs. business associates – March 22

Cloud9 vs. CR4ZY – March 20

South America

FURIA Esports vs. NoPing e-sports – March 21

beastcoast vs. Thunder Predator – March 23

The event will kick off tomorrow with some of the first matches. Starting this Friday, the event will reach its grand finals exactly a week from now on March 26. An official stream with commentary will be available in both English and Russian.

Tasho Tashev

Law graduate from Sofia University turned gaming journalist. Gaming has always been a passion of mine since I was a kid (shocker I know) so it was only a matter of time before I started writing about it. My high-school...