WESG, or World Electronic Sports Games in Haikou, China, is the home to the $1,500,000 CS:GO tournament.  Oh, and cock roaches.

Starting March 13th through the 18th, WESG will be broadcasting favorite CS:GO teams such as Team Ukraine (Zeus, Edward, markeloff, s1mple, bondik),  the North American team Cloud9 (tarik, Stewie2K, autimatic, Skadoodle, RUSH), the Brazilians SK Gaming (FalleN,coldzera, fer, boltz, TACO), and the recent Katowice 2018 Champions, Fnatic (Golden, JW, KRIMZ, Lekr0, flusha).

Some players traveled quite the distance to Haikou, China, just to be greeted by moldy bathrooms, collapsing ceilings, and cock roaches on walls and in faucets.

Someone fucking save us. Turned on the tap and a cockroach ejected. Joists holding a roof caving in, mold everywhere… @WESGcom pic.twitter.com/8r2KLp1IUg

— Naithan Briffa (@inveighduhhh) March 11, 2018

WESG on Twitter responded to the situation:

we regret to be informed of poor living conditions at the players’ hotel. The issues are serious and we are taking measures to rectify the problems. We sincerely apologize for the living conditions. pic.twitter.com/ypKRX983U8

— WESG (@WESGcom) March 11, 2018

Teams like Cloud9 decided it was best to put their players in new hotels immediately, suggesting hotels like Hilton, Marriott, or Sheraton; all known hotel chains in the United States.  @Tarik tweets:

Just to be clear, organizers have been in charge of covering flights & hotels for a very long time now. The hotels that I listed are standard for where players stay on a normal event. It just sucks that there are teams here without an org to back them 🙁

— C9 tarik (@tarik) March 11, 2018

Edit: Tarik’s follow up tweet says that the organizers had time to plan the hotel situation, and that some players without organizations don’t really have a choice but to stay in the hotel.

@Mixwell, who just recently joined G2 ESPORTS as a trial, tweets that the water was brown, they had no hot water, and the rooms were dusty.  However, as WESG Tweeted, they were working on fixing issues and did resolve the water problem.  But that’s just the water.  There are still roaches, and honestly that’s just not acceptable.

Anyways, with the roaches out of the way, tune in for the matches starting on March 13th.  Check back for updates and bracket information!

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