With $190,000 total prize pot, World Cyber Arena's Hearthstone champion is preparing to make a splash in the first days of October, offering the largest cheque after the World Championship.
As announced before, the tournament will have no qualifiers and all 36 players have been directly invited. Representatives of China, Europea and North America will flock to Yinchuan, China between October 2-5, aiming to bring home the monstrous $97,000 first place prize - just $3,000 less than what the BlizzCon World Champion will earn.
The invites will be split in eight groups of four or five people with top two of each group moving forward. The playoffs will be a standard single elimination bracket.
The player list itself is diverse and features both established champions and Hearthstoners more known for their streaming personas.
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