Blizzard Esports Drops Info On Heroes NA Spring Regional
The Heroes of the Storm North American Spring Regional is almost upon us. In preparation for the event, Blizzard has released information on the event itself, and the teams playing in it.
February 27 & 28, eight teams will face off against each other in Burbank, California in a bid to win their portion of a $100,000 prize pool -- and more importantly, spots in the Spring Global Championship in Korea this April. Only two teams will earn a place in the Global Championship, where they will compete to win their share of the $500,000 prize pool.
Blizzard will be streaming the entire event live on Twitch.tv for everyone to watch.
The competing teams are:
Cloud9
- Derek ‘Dunktrain’ Arabian
- John Paul ‘KingCaffeine’ Lopez
- Keiwan ‘k1pro’ Itakura
- Kun ‘iDream’ Fang
- Taylor ‘Arthelon’ Eder
Team Naventic (formerly Bob Ross Fan Club)
- Christopher ‘Zuna’ Buechter
- Fan ‘Fan’ Yang
- Ken ‘Kenma’ Buechter
- Aaron ‘Erho’ Kappes
- Stafford ‘McIntyre’ McIntyre
COGnitive Gaming
- Jeffrey ‘Iakona’ Dolan
- Ben ‘Cattlepillar’ Bunk
- Mike ‘Glaurung’ Fisk
- Rori ‘CauthonLuck’ Bryant-Raible
- Kayla ‘Faye’ Murray
Tempo Storm
- Kurt ‘Kaeyoh’ Ocher
- Josh ‘Sold1er’ Miller
- Francisco ‘Goku’ Avalos
- Quinn ‘Srey’ Fischer
- Brian ‘Zixz’ Skarda
Team Blaze
- Eugene ‘Yuuj’ Tseng
- Marty ‘Batterry’ Nivinski
- ‘Jason’ Mei
- Richard ‘Kladeous’ Tran
- David ‘Roflcopter’ Young
Panda Global
- Stefen ‘akaface’ Anderson
- Sammuel ‘bigempct’ Hua
- Michael ‘MichaelUdall’ Udall
- Harrison ‘psalm’ Chang
- Josh ‘Bkid’ Choi
King of Blades Alpha
- Chris ‘Darkchimaera’ Beery
- Damian ‘FrozenX’ Nagel
- Jerome ‘KilluZiioN’ Tanguay
- Kevin ‘TalkingTrees’ Marco
- Thomas ‘Tomster’ Maguire
Team Nom
- Miqueas ‘Wrath’ Kim Han
- Stephen ‘Kachi’ Guillot
- Cody ‘Deadlyice’ Engesser
- Merek ‘zugrug’ Kangas
- Tianyun ‘Dayun’ Zhang
In addition to the Heroes Regional, Blizzard will also be holding the Hearthstone Americas Winter Preliminary this weekend; February 20-21 at 10 a.m. PST. Eighteen winners of the recent Tavern Hero Tournaments in addition to the top 128 ranked players from the Americas will battle each other to win one of eight spots in the Americas Winter Championship in March -- and a chance at a portion of the $100,000 prize pool.
You can watch the Hearthstone Preliminary on the PlayHearthstone Twitch.
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