Americas Winter Championship Begins Friday!

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The Hearthstone Championship Tour comes to its grand conclusion this Friday as 8 of the best players from North America battle it out for their share of the massive $100,000 prize pool! The tournament will be broadcast live from Blizzard’s studio in Hollywood, California beginning March 11th, 2016 at 10:00 AM PST. The winner of each of the region’s Winter Championship will automatically punch their ticket to the Blizzcon Global Finals and take home $25,000 while the second place participant will receive $15,000 and 20 Hearthstone World Championship points. The third and fourth place participants will each receive $10,000 and 15 Hearthstone World Championship points. The format will be Conquest with 1 ban. The players will be split into two groups and the top 2 from each group will advance to the single elimination playoff bracket to decide the winners!

The list of casters includes:

Dan “Frodan” Chou

Robert “Whirthun” Wing

TJ “Azumo” Sanders

Janne “Savjz” Mikkonen

Simon “Sottle” Welch

Cora “Songbird” Georgiou

Andrey “Reynad” Yanyuk

 

And here is the list of participants!

 

AlSkyHigh

Amnesiac

Chakki

Chessdude123

Nostam

Snail

Talion

Wtybill

 

Good luck to all the players, it’s going to be a great tournament! Make sure to tune in to the official Hearthstone Twitch channel on Friday at 10AM PST to catch all the action as well as a mysterious Hearthstone announcement from Blizzard! We can only hope they’re going to announce the next expansion, or at least the release date of wild/standard format and more deck slots!

Jonathan G. Martin

Jonathan ‘Qualk’ Martin is a seasoned Hearthstone veteran and experienced content writer who has been around since closed beta. He is not ashamed to say that face hunter is his favorite deck!

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