Hot(S) E-Sport NEWS

Tremendous amount of new HOTS tournaments, HasuObs parted ways with MouseSports, DreamHack Leipzig 2016 and Heroes of the Storm, neat E-Sport recaps - all this is featured in today's E-Sport NEWS.

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Contents

Storm League Season#2
Qualifiers for MGA have been announced!
Millenium & Topachat 2000$ HOTS tournament!
HasuObs has parted ways with MouseSports!
Hots (to be) on the DreamHack Leipzig 2016!
Tournament round up by HeroesEvo
Weekly E-Sports Recap from HeroesHype


Storm League Season#2

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Nice! More Heroes of the Storm tournaments! It’s cool to see HOTS pro scene expanding with more and more tournaments appearing around the globe! Second edition of SLS will start off on June 9th and will run until July 28th. Matches will be broadcasted every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday starting at 20:00 KST. Tournament features 16 teams and 4 groups. Format is group stage and playoffs with double eliminations system. Casters are China: Qian "Nostalie" Zanqi & Ma "Mayuki" Xue, English: Inimicalgg & Gillyweed.

If you are looking for an opportunity to be more familiar with asian Heroes scene this tournament is a good way to start! For more detailed info check the link below.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/heroes/487372-2015-storm-league-season-2


Qualifiers for MGA have been announced!

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Recently announced , with the biggest prize pool to date , tournament has more detailed info about qualifiers now! Oh man! this looks to be the biggest event of the year in HOTS scene if we don’t count Blizzcon WCS! Tournament is said to have 5 qualifiers for different regions with 4 day Grand Finals to be held in US at PAX Prime! European qualifiers will start on 27th of June at 3 pm EEST with two top teams advancing to Grand Finals while American qualifiers will start on 12th of July at 2 am EEST. Format will be BO3 with picks and bans and all 7 maps available. Check the link below for more info.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/heroes/487283-msi-mga-online-qualifiers-final-at-pax-prime


Millenium & Topachat 2000$ HOTS tournament!

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Is this really happening? Game just launched and already has so much tournaments! They pop up with insane rate! French organization Millenium together with Topachart announced another Heroes tournament! Tournament has interesting system – there will be 16 teams total, 9 of which will be invited and 7 will qualify with 3 slots for french teams and 4 slots for european teams. Prize pool is 2000$ and qualifications will run on this weekend – 13th and 14th of June at 2 pm CEST. Format is single elimination with BO3 bracket. Official announcement, more detailed info and discussion by the links below.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/heroes/487297-millenium-2000-hots-topachat-tournament
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2syfx5_trailer-du-hots-top-achat-tournament_videogames

http://www.millenium.org/heroes-of-the-storm/accueil/tournoi/hots-topachat-tournament-competition-internationale-par-equipes-organisee-par-millenium-et-topachat-sur-heroes-of-the-storm-128105?


HasuObs has parted ways with MouseSports!

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For a long time Hasu had been an iconic player for MouseSports. He started his career long ago in 2004 playing WarCraft III. Through the WarCraft 3 era he had been successful and was noticed by MouseSports. Then after fall of WarCraft he switched to StarCraft 2 and was successful there too! Now the programmer decided to fully switch to Heroes of the Storm which means, for him, signing with other organization. For those who have been following the EU pro scene in Heroes he is known player in a roster of Well Met team, that have been doing quite well recently.

http://blog.mousesports.com/2015/06/farewell-hasuobs/
http://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/396x6w/hasuobs_retires_from_mouseesports_and_sc2/


Hots (to be) on the DreamHack Leipzig 2016!

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Vote! Vote for it now! DreamHack has offered a superb opportunity for both fans and players – Heroes can be one the featured games at DreamHack Leipzig 2016!
Head on to Reddit for discussion, official announcement for more details and last link to vote for HOTS! 

http://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/397ibx/vote_to_see_heroes_at_dh_leipzig_2016_official/
http://www.dreamhack.se/dhs15/2015/06/02/dreamhack-conquers-leipzig/

http://strawpoll.me/4582971/

Tournament round up by HeroesEvo

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Heroes Evo done nice round up of the tournaments that happened last week. Check the article to catch up with Enter the Storm Playoffs, Twitch All-Star Brawl Invitational and Road to Blizzcon – Singapore Qualifiers 1. Also refresh the memories about ZOTAC Cup#11, Nexus Mayhem Week#5 and HeroesHype Amateur Series#15.

http://www.heroesevo.com/tournament-round-up-june-1-7-2015/


Weekly E-Sports Recap from HeroesHype

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Another event recap! This time it’s done by HeroesHype and features all the events that happened in both NA and EU scene for last week – from June 2nd to June 9th. Check it out to be more familiar with recent professional events and results!

http://heroeshype.com/weekly-esports-recap-69/

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