The Hearthstone Championship Tour's Winter Season will come to an exciting conclusion with the crowning of the Winter Champions! Across three consecutive weekends in March, we will host the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific Winter Championships. All three Championships will take place at the Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, California featuring the 8 qualifying players from their respective region’s Preliminary event. All 24 players will be flown in to battle it out and stake their claim as their region’s Winter Champion, earn a spot at this year’s Hearthstone World Championship, and a share of each Championship’s $100,000 USD prize pool!
Where to Watch
You can catch all of the exciting action on the official Hearthstone Twitch channel!
Americas Winter Championship: March 11-13 – 10:00 AM PST
Casters: Dan "Frodan" Chou, Robert "Whirthun" Wing, TJ "Azumo" Sanders, Janne "Savjz" Mikkonen, Simon "Sottle" Welch, Cora "Songbird" Georgiou, Andrey "Reynad" Yanyuk
Europe Winter Championship: March 18-20 – 5:00 AM PST (13:00 UTC, 14:00 CET)
Casters: Dan "Frodan" Chou, Robert "Whirthun" Wing, Janne "Savjz" Mikkonen, Simon "Sottle" Welch, Alexander "Raven" Baguley, Marcin "Gnimsh" Filipowicz, Brian Kibler
Asia-Pacific Winter Championship: March 24-26 – 9:00 PM PST (March 25-27 – 13:00 CST, 14:00 KST)
Casters: Dan "Frodan" Chou, Robert "Whirthun" Wing, TJ "Azumo" Sanders, Brian Kibler, Erik "Doa" Lonnquist, Chris "PapaSmithy" Smith, Daniel "DTwo" Ikuta
Calling all Innkeepers!
The Winter Championships are an ideal time to host an exciting Fireside Gathering viewing party. Not an Innkeeper? No worries, just head on over to the official Fireside Gatherings site to find an event near you, or, better yet, learn how to host your own Winter Championship viewing party! Join some fellow gamers to watch the heated competition and perhaps partake in some friendly brawls yourself!
The Participants
Here are the participants for each region’s Championship:
Americas: AlSkyHigh, Amnesiac, Chakki, chessdude123, Fibonacci*, Snail, Talion, wtybill
Europe: BunnyHoppor, Cereza, Diggen, DrHippi, Naiman, Nicslay, Pokrovac, Tars
Asia-Pacific: TBD
*Fibonacci will be unable to attend, and will be replaced by Nostam.
The Format
For each Championship, the players will be divided into two groups of 4 and play in a double-elimination group using the Conquest match format with a Ban. The top two players from each group will then play in a single-elimination bracket to decide who will claim the Winter Championship title, the $25,000 first place prize, and their spot at the 2016 Hearthstone World Championship
Don’t miss any of the action and join in on the conversation by tweeting PlayHearthstone with the #HCT hashtag!