Heroes Global Championship - Crucible
It's that time of the year again. Hopeful teams from the HGC Open Division are looking to take spots in the Heroes Global Championship proper for Phase 2 of HGC 2018. Read on below for all the details on this weekend's exciting games!

Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)

Everything You Need to Know About the Crucible

For the teams skilled enough to advance through the Open Division Playoffs in Europe and North America—Granit Gaming, Worst Positioning, King’s Gambit, and XD—the Crucible is the final proving ground to see if they have what it takes to compete in premier league play. These four promising challengers will face off against the bottom two teams from HGC Europe and North America in tense best-of-seven battles that will determine who enters (or remains) in the HGC.

Here are the rosters of Open Division Playoff winners:

North America Open Division - 1st place - King's Gambit
  • Zergling
  • EToby
  • EKevin
  • Droplets
  • Diesel

North America Open Division - 2nd place - XD
  • TalkingTrees
  • Cover
  • Homi
  • Nintorii
  • TigerJK

Europe Open Division - 1st place - Worst Positioning
  • Dreamy
  • Noonia
  • SonicLeBeast
  • zhiku
  • Earth

Europe Open Division - 2nd place - Granit Gaming
  • Olf
  • Gnappe
  • Kirwa
  • Meinkraft
  • RaiDbawZ


As the winners of the North America Open Division Playoffs, King’s Gambit have chosen to play HGC North America eighth-place finishers No Tomorrow. This means Open Division runner-up XD will play LFM Esports, who finished seventh in HGC NA.

In Europe, HGC Open Division Playoff winner Worst Positioning have chosen to play seventh-place finishers Diamond Skin. This leaves Open Division runner-up Granit Gaming against HGC Europe's last-place team, Leftovers.

The winners of each of those four series will be in HGC North America or HGC Europe for the second half of the season.


You can find the start times for these matches below:

Saturday, May 5th
  • 9:00 a.m. PT / 6:00 p.m. CEST - Granit Gaming vs. Leftovers
  • 12:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. CEST - XD vs. LFM Esports


Sunday, May 6th
  • 9:00 a.m. PT / 6:00 p.m. CEST - Worst Positioning vs. Diamond Skin
  • 12:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. CEST - King's Gambit vs. No Tomorrow

The Crucible will take place on the tournament realm (patch 2.31.3). Don’t miss the mayhem when the games go live here on playheroes.com/esports.

Brawl: Pool Party
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker)

Some of our Heroes are taking a break from the battlefield to catch some serious R&R by the pool, and Stitches is throwing a party—a pull party! Hook enemy Stitches to pull them over to your side of the pool and then take them down to claim victory.


Rules:
  • All players spawn as Stitches —Bikini Stitches!
  • Use Stitches' Hook to pull enemies over to your side of the pool so that your team can kill them.
  • Hook’s cooldown is greatly reduced. It also travels much slower and farther than usual.
  • There's no XP, no leveling, and no talents.
  • Helping Hand is always active, allowing you to Hook allies as well as enemies.
  • Hooking an ally or enemy who is already being pulled will kill them instantly.
  • Doing this to one of your teammates denies the enemy team a kill.
  • The first team to 20 kills wins!

Rewards:
  • Complete three Pull Party matches to earn a Loot Chest!

Find out more about the Heroes Brawl game mode on our Heroes Brawl site; and as always, you can find more information on this week’s Brawl by clicking the Brawl Info button at the bottom of the play screen when preparing to queue for the Brawl game mode.

HGC Minute - Episode 10
Developer Lana Bachynski returns for this week's Heroes Global Championship recap and provides updates on how last weekend's playoff games for the Mid-Season Brawl went!



HGC 2018 - Top 5 Plays - Phase 1 Playoffs
Blizzard put together a few exciting clips showing the top plays from last weekend's games:

This article was originally published in forum thread: Heroes Global Championship - Crucible and More, Brawl: Pool Party started by Nerraw View original post

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