Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Professional

Game: Hearthstone Starts: Fri, Jan 30th 2015, 16:00 EET Ends: Sat, Jan 31st 2015, 01:00 EET

ASSEMBLY Winter 2015 Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Professional tournament is a single day tournament with a €3500 prize pool. The tournament consists of 16 players. High quality streams will be provided in English throughout the tournament on Twitch.

The tournament ticket costs €50, which includes the entrance to the ASSEMBLY event for full three days, access to the dedicated tournament area with a personal computer on the tournament day (Fri) and the player lounge by SEUL ry where you may enjoy snacks for free. The price also includes an extra ticket for a possible manager.

The tournament is a non-BYOC competition played on Friday 30th January. A separate player area has been reserved for the tournament. This year there will not be a dedicated Hearthstone stage, but some of the games will be shown on a separate stage & audience stand area which will be following all the e-sports action at the event.

Info

Time: Fri 30th January 2015
Place: Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre, Helsinki, Finland
Players: 16
Prize pool: €3500 EUR
Format: DE Group Stage BO5 into Brackets
Streams: English, info TBA
Participation: Invites here & online qualifiers
Ticket price: €50

Rules: Standard Finnish eSports Federation (SEUL)
VODs:
Liquipedia: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/hearthstone/Assembly_Winter_2015
Website: assembly.org

Participation

16 player spots total. The tournament fee is €50 which will be collected from everyone except from players who already have a computer ticket.
Players must request an invite by sending the application form by the 15th of January.
The qualifier info can be found below. Everyone should apply for an invite first, and participate in the qualifiers only if necessary.

Prizes

€3500 distributed thus:

2000 €
1000 €
500€

Format

Players will be seeded into 4 groups of 4 players, which will be played as a DE BO5. 2 top players advance to the bracket stage from each group, which will be SE BO5, except for the final which will be BO7. All players will submit 4 decks and all of the games will have one ban. During the finals, the players will have access to one deck which has already lost before.