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HGC Mid-Season Brawl - losers' final :: Team Dignitas (EU #2) vs L5 (KR #1) :: Discussion Thread

Previous match thread: HGC Mid-Season Brawl - Heroes All-Stars :: West vs East (inverted draft) :: Discussion Thread.

When?

The match is planned to start at 15:30 CET / 6:30 PT, 90 minutes after this post was posted.

Streams

• Official English stream (talent: Dreadnaught, Fan, Gillyweed, Grubby, JHow, Kaelaris, Khaldor, Tetcher, Trikslyr)
• For streams in other languages check:
  • HGC Mid-Season Brawl survival guide
  • Master League
  • Heroes on Twitch

Community challenges

• Master League - prediction challenge

Teams

Team	Dignitas	vs		L5
Bakery	support	-	melee/flex	Jeongha
JayPL	warrior	-	ranged/flex	NaCHoJin
Mene	ranged	-	warrior	Noblesse
Snitch	flex	-	ranged/flex	sCsC
Zealia	melee/flex	-	support	Swoy

HGC Mid-Season Brawl

• Official HGC website
• Master League
• Liquipedia
• Google Calendar

HGC Mid-Season Brawl is the first Heroes tournament in 2017 featuring teams from the entire world. 12 teams play to determine the world champions: two best teams from each major region (South Korea, Europe, North America, China) and the champions of minor region championships (Taiwan, Australia & New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Latin America). Tournament winners get 100,000 USD out of the total prize pool of 250,00 USD.

On June 10-14, a group stage was played with two groups of six teams. Two bottom teams from both groups were eliminated and the tournament moved on to the playoffs - a double elimination bracket. Here, top two teams from each group start in the upper bracket semi-finals while 3rd and 4th placed teams have to fight through the lower bracket. All matches are best-of-5, except for the best-of-7 Grand Final where the upper bracket winner starts with a one game lead. The playoffs are played from June 17 to June 19 during DreamHack Summer in Jönköping, Sweden.

Match format

This match is a best-of-5 series.

Each team bans one map. Then, the "home" team chooses a map for the first game. In the following games of a match, the losing team of the previous game will have the choice for Battlegrounds selection or first hero pick in the draft.

Battleground bans

• L5: Battlefield of Eternity
• Team Dignitas: Warhead Junction

Game version

HGC Mid-Season Brawl is played on the May 31 balance patch. D.Va is allowed.

Match reports, VODs

Website	Link
Master League	https://masterleague.net/match/3130/
Twitch	https://www.twitch.tv/videos/152914209?t=29m50s

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