Hearthstone Esports new Battlegrounds tournament series Lobby Legends kicks off this weekend with the first iteration called "Raid Leaders". 16 qualified players around the world will fight for the glory and their share of the $50,000 prize pool. You can find everything you need to know below.
Tournament Format
The tournament is divided in two days, which will proceed as follows:
- Day 1: Two 8-player groups will play three rounds of Battlegrounds, and players will earn points based on their finish.
- Winner gets 7 points, runner-up 6 points etc.
- Top 4 players from each group will advance to Day 2.
- Day 2: "Check format" tournament.
- Players will still earn points as in Day 1.
- Tournament winner has to earn more than 20 points after which they have to win a lobby.
For full tournament rules, visit here.
Participants
These are the 16 players to get the honor to participate in the very first Lobby Legends tournament. PlayHearthstone has published a lighthearted video about the group draw of the event.
| Group A | Group B |
|---|---|
| baiyu | Curt |
| BaboFat | guDDummit |
| EducatedCollins | hof |
| keromon | KenKen |
| Maks7k | Satellite |
| Ponpata07 | SeseiSei |
| summer | yjSJMR |
| ZoinhU | BeNice |
Stream Schedule
In case your timezone isn't listed below, check out the sidebar on the official tournament site. It should display the schedule in your local time.
| West Coast PDT (UTC-7) | East Coast EDT (UTC-4) | Europe CEST (UTC+2) | Korea KST (UTC+9) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2 | 8:00 | 11:00 | 17:00 | 24:00 |
| April 3 | 8:00 | 11:00 | 17:00 | 24:00 |
Watch Live
You can watch all the action on the official Hearthstone Esports YouTube channel or on PlayHearthstone's Twitch channel. In addition to the official English stream with Jia and Slysssa as casters, the players themselves are allowed to stream the event. There will also be a bunch of community co-streams, the full list of which you can find here.
Comments
What do you think how far Silvername will get?
I heared he had some "special gaming operations" lately. :)
The irony is that he had more viewers than all the other 10-15 streamers broadcasting this tournament have in summ, including the official Blizzard's stream.
Its actually more interesting to note that there's already a cheating scandal in battlegrounds even before the tournament started. A precarious thing too, because an slight irregularity in minion placing can very well determine winners and losers.
I hope i will get a chance to watch this today. I liked the team BG events, but playing as a team is very different than playing solo. If you know you are going against your teammate, you can decide to tier-up aggressively, or sell some of your minions to do as little damage as possible and so on. Solo, you will simply want to win or at least get top4, which should be interesting to see how the play-style changes and/or evolves during the event. Playing the same group of ppl can become playing the player, not the game, to an extent. We shall see.
In the last weeks I mostly watched the tournaments for the packs - but a few hours I watched it, because I was a bit interested in the gameplay too.
But for Battlegrounds I whould only watch for the packs.
It seems like there are no drops this time. :(
I will watch a bit, maybe they will get activated later...
No packs?
No mention of packs in the announcement blog, or anywhere else that I know of.