Organized by popular streamer Jason "Amaz" Chan, eight teams will battle for a crowdfunded prize pool.
Almost a year and a half ago, Hearthstone witnessed the start of arguably the most succesfull community-made tournament to date. The Archon Team League invited the most popular Hearthstone personalities to face off against each other in 3-man teams. At the end of it all ThijsNL, Rdu and Lifecoach were victorious, claiming the $150.000 first prize. Back then Amaz promised ATLC would be back for another edition, and fans have been waiting a long time for it since.
However, the long wait was rewarded today as Amaz revealed the second season of the Team League. On the tournament's website a calendar can be found, on which nearly every date is marked for content. The calendar started today with the announcement of the first participating team: G2. Other participants will be revealed over the next month, but a teaser image already displays Forsen, Firebat and Trump, hinting at the return of "Forsenboys", Cloud9 and "Value Town" as respective teams.
Whereas ATLC's first season had a prize pool of a whopping $250.000, the second season does things a little different. The largest change is that the entire prize pool will be crowd-funded via Kickstarter. Backers of the tournament will receive rewards for their contribution towards the set goal of $1.600.000 Hong Kong Dollar, which converts to around $200.000 in the United States. Rewards vary, but lead up to a VIP visit to ATLC2.
The trailer of ATLC2 can be found below, and click here to go to ATLC'2 official website.