HearthStone has been one of the most popular online trading card game which is being developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. A card game that truly supports on many platforms such as Microsoft Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android, giving the players the convenience to play anywhere and anytime they like.
All of those characters in the card game are based on Warcraft lore which makes the game really interesting especially to those Warcraft games, which their favorite characters are now playable in trading card game.
One of the known tournament in HearthStone game is the HearthStone Championship Tour Summer Championship which is being organized by the game developer Blizzard Entertainment.
The main event that has a prize pool of $250,000 USD, really interest the gamers around the globe, wherein only 16 players will have a chance to grab the opportunity to have a chunk of that prize pool.
Regional Qualifiers
Before the main event, there will be qualifiers in regions: Europe, Americas, Asia Pacific and China wherein 73 players will compete of each regional qualifiers. Each of those regional qualifiers computes player's obtained points throughout the game from Round Robin matches to until Group Stages.
This is to determine who will be qualifying the main event. Top 4 players of each region will have a reserve slot for the main event and the rest will obtain $1,000 to $6,000 as their cash prize for joining the qualifiers.
Qualified Participants in the Main Event
Here are the players who manage to qualify in their regions:
For Europe : Torben Wah aka Viper from Team Genji, Marco Castiglioni aka Turna from Exeed Esports, Raphael Peltzer aka BunnyHoppor from SK Gaming and Kacper Kwieciński aka A83650 from HyperX.
For Americas : Facundo Pruzzo aka Nalguidan from Furious Gaming, Lucas Guerra aka Rase from Red Canids, David Caero aka Dog from Team Liquid and David Acosta aka killinallday from Endemic eSports.
For Asia-Pacific : Kenta Sato aka glory from Rascal Kanteidan, Shuhei Omura aka Tansoku, Jinsoo Park aka Jinsoo and Wu Zong-Chang aka BloodTrail.
For China : Gao Yang aka Leaoh, Qu Yixian aka Rugal, Wu Juwei aka XiaoT from Ice Coke and Li Daixiong aka YuYi.
Group Stage
After all qualified players are identified, a group stage has been organized and will be matched via round robin format. Group A players XiaoT (2-0) and Viper (2-1) manage to advance to playoffs while Tansoku (1-2) and Rase (0-2) are eliminated. For Group B players Nalguidan (2-0) qualifies as well as A83650 (2-1) to playoffs while both BloodTrail (1-2) and YuYi (0-2) are eliminated.
For Group C Jinsoo (2-0) and Turna (2-1) qualifies for playoffs while Rugal (1-1) and Dog (0-2) are eliminated in group stage. Then for Group D BunnyHoppor (2-0) and killinallday (2-1) forward to playoffs while Glory (1-2) and Leaoh (0-2) didn't qualify to the next round.
Playoffs
In Quarter Finals A83650 of China beat XiaoT of Poland with a 3-0 standing which makes A83650 do some early advance to semi finals. For killinallday of USA and Jinsoo of South Korea, making killinallday go to semi finals.
An exciting match between Nalguidan of Argentina and Viper of Germany with a 3-2 standing where Viper manage to win. Also a thrilling match between BunnyHoppor of Germany and Turna of Italy with also 3-2 standing in favor of BunnyHoppor.
A match between A83650 and killinallday in semi finals as well as Viper and BunnyHoppor which are both from Germany are still to be determined. Semi finals and Finals will continue this July 1.
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