HGC 2018 Mid-Season Brawl Survival Guide

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HGC 2018 Mid-Season Brawl Survival Guide

The Heroes of the Storm Mid-Season Brawl will feature 12 top-ranked teams battling it out for $250,000 USD from June 9-18. It’s the first global competition on the HGC calendar, and with some of the best players in the world throwing down in front of thousands of attendees in Sweden, it’s sure to be epic.

Make sure to tune in, as we bring the first phase of the HGC to a close by crowning the Mid-Season Brawl champion! Read on for details.

HEROES ALL-STARS
While the action rages on in the main event, we’ll find out what happens when East meets West in Heroes All-Stars 2018! We’ll be taking the best players from each region, forming two legendary teams, and setting them loose in a series of epic show matches. HGC All-Stars bouts will be held between regular Mid-Season Brawl matches from June 16-18, and each one will feature a twist on standard Heroes of the Storm gameplay. Prepare for the return of Inverted Draft—where competitors pick the Heroes that their opponents will play, Sandbox Madness—where custom settings dial up the action to crazy new heights, and more!


GENERAL INFO
Heroes Esports Page

• Group stage: June 9 - June 13
• Playoffs and Heroes All-Stars: June 16 - June 18
• Schedule

Format

• Group stage: Each game-win that a team scores will grant them a point. If a team wins both games in their match an additional point will be earned, a maximum of 3 points per match. The top two finishers in each group are seeded into the upper bracket of the modified double-elimination stage. The third- and fourth-place finishers from each group are seeded into the lower bracket. The bottom two finishers from each group are eliminated.
• Playoffs: Phoenix Bracket. All matches are Bo5, winners stay in upper bracket, losers fall to lower bracket. Grand Finals are Bo7. The winners of the upper bracket have one map advantage (1:0) coming into the Grand Finals.

PARTICIPANTS
GROUP A

• Gen.G
• Tempo Storm
• Fnatic
• The One
• Ballistix
• Mindfreak

GROUP B

• Team Dignitas
• CE
• HeroesHearth Esports
• Tempest
• Method
• Luna Meow

PARTICIPANTS
Saturday, June 9 Start Time 2:00 PM CEST / 5:00 AM PDT

• Best of 2 matches
• HeroesHearth Esports - NA vs. Luna Meow - TW/SEA
• Gen.G - KR vs. The One - CN
• Team Dignitas - EU vs. Tempest - KR
• Fnatic - EU vs. Mindfreak - ANZ
• CE - CN vs. Method - EU
• Tempo Storm - NA vs. Ballistix - KR
• Team Dignitas - EU vs. Method - EU

Sunday, June 10 Start Time 2:00 PM CEST / 5:00 AM PDT

• Best of 2 matches
• Gen.G - KR vs Tempo Storm - NA
• Luna Meow - TW/SEA vs. Method - EU
• Mindfreak - ANZ vs. Ballistix - KR
• Team Dignitas - EU vs. CE - CN
• Fnatic - EU vs. The One - CN
• HeroesHearth Esports - NA vs. Tempest - KR
• Tempo Storm - NA vs. Fnatic - EU

Monday, June 11 Start Time 2:00 PM CEST / 5:00 AM PDT

• Best of 2 matches
• Luna Meow - TW/SEA vs CE - CN
• Ballistix - KR vs. The One - CN
• Team Dignitas - EU vs. HeroesHearth Esports - NA
• Mindfreak - ANZ vs. Tempo Storm - NA
• Method - EU vs. Tempest - KR
• Gen.G - KR vs. Fnatic - EU

Tuesday, June 12 Start Time 2:00 PM CEST / 5:00 AM PDT

• Best of 2 matches
• Gen.G - KR vs. Mindfreak - ANZ
• Tempest - KR vs. CE - CN
• Ballistix - KR vs. Fnatic- EU
• Team Dignitas - EU vs. Luna Meow - TW/SEA
• The One - CN vs. Tempo Storm - NA
• Method - EU vs. HeroesHearth Esports - NA

Wednesday, June 13 Start Time 2:00 PM CEST / 5:00 AM PDT

• Best of 2 matches
• Tempest - KR vs. Luna Meow - TW/SEA
• Gen.G - KR vs. Ballistix - KR
• CE - CN vs. HeroesHearth Esports - NA
• The One - CN vs. Mindfreak - ANZ

SCHEDULE - PLAYOFFS STAGE
Saturday, June 16 Start Time 10:00 AM CEST / 1:00 AM PDT

• Best of 5 matches
• Match 1
• Match 2
• Match 3
• Match 4

Start Time 11:00 PM CEST / 3:00 PM PDT

• Heroes All-Stars

Sunday, June 17 Start Time 10:00 AM CEST / 1:00 AM PDT

• Best of 5 matches
• Match 5
• Match 6
• Match 7
• Match 8

Start Time 11:00 PM CEST / 3:00 PM PDT

• Heroes All-Stars

Monday, June 18 Start Time 3:30 PM CEST / 6:30 AM PDT

• Best of 5 matches
• Lower Finals

Start Time 6:45 PM CEST / 9:45 AM PDT

• Heroes All-Stars

Start Time 8:00 PM CEST / 11:00 AM PDT

• Best of 7 matches
• Grand Finals

Talent and Casters

• James "Kaelaris" Carrol
• Christopher "Tetcher" Ivermee
• Andre ‘Skimmy’ Allchin
• Josh "JHow" Howard
• Wolf ‘Wolf’ Schröder
• Thomas "Khaldor" Kilian
• Tim "TrikSlyr" Frazier
• Jaycie "Gillyweed" Gluck
• Wade "Dreadnaught" Penfold
• Anastasija “Heccu” Tolmaceva

LIVESTREAM DETAILS

• EN: HGC website
• RU: BlizzHeroes RU
• DE: BlizzHeroes DE
• FR: BlizzHeroes FR
• ES: Sarly21
• LatAmES: Zodak
• IT: piudidue
• PL: TheWilQ
• HU: Westen playoffs only
• KR: BlizzHeroes KR
• TR: Akfon

LINKS

• HGC website
• Heroes Twitch Page
• Heroes Esports Facebook
• Heroes Esports YouTube
• Heroes Esports YouTube DE
• Heroes Esports YouTube RU
• Heroes Esports YouTube FR
• Heroes Esports Twitter

A few additional details were posted on Twitter, including that Diablo's Lightning Breath is banned due to a targeting bug:

#HGC Patch Schedule:
Mid-Season Brawl: Diablo/Lunara Rework (5/22 release)

Diablo's Lightning Breath will be banned from use during the Mid-Season Brawl due to a targeting bug. (@HeroesEsports)

Man I was hoping HGC Cheer would launch before Mid-Season Brawl but that's seeming more and more unlikely by the day. Lots of potential missed $ for the players :( #HGC
It will. (@Milkfat)

[DesoPL]

Weird that changes in team what happend in rosterpocalypse are not on mid-season brawl and for example. Schwimpi play in Method.