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HGC North America Playoffs :: Gale Force eSports (#2) vs Team 8 (#3) :: Discussion Thread

Previous match thread: HGC Europe Playoffs :: Team Liquid (#2) vs Team Dignitas (#3) :: Discussion Thread.

When?

The match was planned to start at 14:00 PT / 23:00 CET, 15 minutes before this post was posted, so it should be starting very soon.

Streams

• Official English stream - cast by Dreadnaught, Gillyweed, and 3rd Guy
• For stream in other languages check:
  • Master League
  • HGC survival guide
  • Heroes on Twitch

Community challenges

• Master League - prediction challenge
• Rosterpocalypse - fantasy HGC

HGC resources

• Official HGC website - official schedule, good articles
• Master League - hub for everything Heroes eSports: schedules, standings, results, drafts, detailed statistics
• Liquipedia - a Heroes wiki with tournament data going back to 2014

Teams

Gale Force	eSports	vs	Team	8
akaface	support	-	support	Buds
Equinox	warrior	-	flex	Glaurung
Fan	flex	-	warrior	Justing
Khroen	flex	-	flex	Prismaticism
MichaelUdall	flex	-	flex	YoDa

HGC Playoffs

The second- through sixth-place teams from the regular season compete in a stepladder format - in each round, lower-seeded teams battle each other for the chance to play a higher-seeded team. The playoff winner joins the first-place team from the regular season at the Mid-Season Brawl.

• Europe ladder
• North America ladder
• Korea ladder

Match format

Matches in the Playoffs are best-of-5.

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

Initial map bans

Gale Force eSports	Team 8
Sky Temple	Braxis Holdout

Game version

HGC Playoffs are played on the May 10 balance patch - before D.Va patch.

Match reports, VODs

Website	Link
Master League	https://masterleague.net/match/3004/
Twitch	https://www.twitch.tv/videos/145959966?t=03h15m31s

For feedback about the match thread, please contact /u/lerhond.

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