The Year of the Dragon kicks off with the new Rise of Shadows expansion, as well as new features, Standard Rotation like we have never seen before and the ending of the season with the World Championship (HCT), which will take place in Taipei (April 25-28) with a $1M prize pool. Blizzard has revealed the seedings and you already can vote for your champion to get the chance of winning up to 4 packs!
Choose your champion
More boosters!
Blizzard will implement a feature that is similar to the Twitch drops of Overwatch League: you will be able to win boosters and cards by watching the competition live on Twitch, as following:
- 1 Rise of Shadows booster for 4 watching hours
- 1 500 boosters randomly given every hour
General information
- Venue: Taipei, Taiwan
- Schedule: starting at 4 AM from April, 25 to 28
- Format: Conquest
- Bracket: GSL pools, then Top 8 in direct elimination
- Prize pool: $1,000,000
- Players: 16
|
Group A |
Group B |
Group C |
Group D |
|---|---|---|---|
 Bunnyhoppor |
 Languagehacker |
 Hunterace |
 bloodyface |
 BloodTrail |
 kilinallday |
 A83650 |
 Viper |
 SNJing |
 Muzzy |
 Ike |
 Roger |
 XiaoT |
 LFYueying |
 Justsaiyan |
 Tyler |
2018 HCT set in Taipei
The competition will take place in the Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium, revealed down below. The venue will open each day at 9 AM and the broadcast will be on at 10 AM (local time).
Blizzard chose the Conquest format over the new Specialist one. Rise of Shadows will be playable in the tournament, that is why adaptation will be key to the players' success. This will be not only good for the competition, but also for the show!
Earn a spot in the Asia-Pacific qualifier
This is something new in these Worlds: in addition to the traditional Card Back offering, the attendees of the HCT in Tapei will earn a spot in the Asia-Pacific Masters Tour that will take place later in the year. Meanwhile, each day from April 25 to 28, 3 tournaments will take place in Taipei.
Written by Jérémie "Djey" Mathis. Translated from French by Millenium.us.org.
