If you haven't kept up to date on Heroes of the Storm, here's everything important from last week!
Chris "Darkchimaera" Beery posted a reddit thread revealing how hard it was playing for King of Blades. With a salary of $900 a year, 4% of tournament winnings and 5% of all streaming, their former owner Ryan Diliello is being called the worst owner in eSports.
After an intense weekend of the second NA Enter the Storm tournament, Cloud9 came out on top in their match with Team Blaze. However, Team Blaze earned a lot of respect this weekend by beating many teams, including an impressive 2-0 over Naventic twice.
Cloud9 are still king of the hill after ETS NA #2 is all said and done, and are the clear NA favorites to contend for the world championship in Korea. There are now two clear tier 1 contenders with Naventic and the new and improved Team Blaze, as Cloud9's own KingCaffeine remarked in a tweet posted this past weekend.
ESL announced details about their European Summer Regional with a $100,000 prize pool.
Qualifiers will start March 23rd, just EIGHT days before the Global Spring Championship in Korea.
myInstanity and Team Dignitas, the two teams representing Europe in the Spring Championships, get an automatic bid to the FINAL Summer qualifier if they can't compete in either of the first two. However, if they can compete in one of the first two and do in fact qualify, their reserved spot in the final qualifier will be given to the next-best-ranked team.
The two single-elimination qualifiers will be March 23rd-24th, and March 26th-27th. The final double-elimination qualifier will be April 9th and will consist of the top six to eight non-qualified teams from the first two cups.
In typical fashion, Dustin Browder confirmed Heroes of the Storm, at some point, will be getting a Bronze-Grandmaster ranking system, similar to StarCraft II.
Blizzard developers have been very transparent over the last couple months and we should expect by now that they are aware of every problem the community complains about. Browder's reveal of this new feature is further proof of this.
Blizzard announced that the 50th hero coming to the game will be Dehaka, the primal zerg pack leader. Instead of using a mount, Dehaka will be able to burrow into any bush or vent on the map. Dehaka is a melee warrior, classified as Medium, that will bring a bunch of unique mechanics to the game. Be sure to read the full article for details on all of his abilities!
With ARAMs (All Random All Mid) being such a hugely popular way to play in MOBAs, it was only a matter of time until Blizzard implemented a map that compliments this mode. 'Lost Cavern' is their solution. It is a single lane map with vents to hide in and corridors perfect for flanking.
Since there are no map objectives and the only goal is to secure kills and destroy the enemy team's core, this map is currently only available in custom.
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