2015 Hearthstone World Championship

• 2015 WCS Global Finals
• 2015 Heroes of the Storm World Championship

• Global Finals
• Group Stage
• Playoffs
• Statistics

[e][h]2015 Hearthstone World Championship

League Information

Series:

HWC

Organizer:

Blizzard Entertainment

Type:

Offline

Location:

 Anaheim
 Burbank

Format:

Group Stage:
Dual Tournament
Playoffs:
Single Elimination

Prize pool:

$250,000 USD

Start Date:

2015-10-28

End Date:

2015-11-07

Number of Players:

16

Liquipedia Tier:

Tier 1

Links

Winners

 Ostkaka

 Hotform

 ThijsNL

 Kno

Chronology

  2014

2016  

2015 Hearthstone World Championship is the Global Finals of 2015 HWC series tournaments. 16 players will compete, qualifying throughout 2015 at each regional championship. Matches are played at Anaheim, California at BlizzCon 2015 on November 6-7th.

Information

Location

• BlizzCon Opening Week: Burbank, California
• BlizzCon: Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California

Prize Pool

250,000 USD are spread among the players as seen below:

Format

• General: Best of 5 "Conquest" format
• Group Stage: Dual Tournament
  • Top 2 from each group advance to Playoffs.
• Playoffs: Single Elimination
• BlizzCon Showmatches
  • Poker Showmatch - ElkY (World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour championship winner) vs. Daniel Negreanu (6-time World Series of Poker championship winner and Poker Hall of Fame member)
  • Challengestone at BlizzCon with Amaz, Savjz and more

Broadcast Talent

• Host:
  •  Seltzer (Rachel Quirico)

• Commentators:
  •  Whirthun (Robert Wing)
  •  Kibler (Brian M. Kibler)
  •  Raven (Alexander Baguley)
  •  Frodan (Dan Chou)
  •  Savjz (Janne Mikkonen)
  •  Gnimsh (Marcin Filipowicz)
  •  Amaz (Jason Chan)
  •  Reynad (Andrey Yanyuk)
  •  Hyped (George Maganzini)
  •  Kripparrian (Octavian Morosan)

Participants

Europe Championship (4)
ThijsNL	Neirea	Lifecoach	Ostkaka
Americas Championship (4)
PurpleDrank	Hotform	JAB	nias
China Championship (4)
LoveCX	Zoro	NoTomorrow	Zihao*
Asia-Pacific Championship (4)
Kranich	Kno	Neilyo	Pinpingho

• Zihao's name was given as DieMeng due to the difficulty for the innkeeper to pronounce the name.

Results

Group Stage

Group A

Group A
October 28 - 31, 2015October 28 - 31, 2015
1.	ThijsNL			2-0	6-1
2.	Kno			2-1	7-6
3.	JAB			1-2	6-8
4.	NoTomorrow			0-2	2-6

Match List
October 28, 2015 - 9:00 PDT
ThijsNL  ThijsNL NoTomorrow Warrior Druid Priest Druid Mage Hunter	3	0	NoTomorrow
October 29, 2015 - 9:00 PDT
Kno  Kno JAB Paladin Hunter Warlock Hunter Druid Mage Druid Hunter Druid Druid	3	2	JAB
October 29, 2015 - 14:00 PDT
NoTomorrow  NoTomorrow JAB Paladin Druid Paladin Hunter Hunter Mage Druid Mage Paladin Mage	2	3	JAB
October 30, 2015 - 9:00 PDT
ThijsNL  ThijsNL Kno Warrior Druid Mage Druid Mage Paladin Priest Paladin	3	1	Kno
October 31, 2015 - 9:00 PDT
JAB  JAB Kno Mage Warlock Mage Paladin Mage Druid Hunter Druid	1	3	Kno

Group B

Group B
October 28 - 31, 2015October 28 - 31, 2015
1.	Zoro			2-0	6-4
2.	Kranich			2-1	8-4
3.	Lifecoach			1-2	4-7
4.	nias			0-2	3-6

Match List
October 28, 2015 - 10:00 PDT
Kranich  Kranich Lifecoach Hunter Druid Warlock Warrior Druid Warrior Druid Druid	3	1	Lifecoach
October 29, 2015 - 10:00 PDT
Zoro  Zoro nias Paladin Mage Druid Druid Druid Hunter Hunter Mage Hunter Hunter	3	2	nias
October 29, 2015 - 15:00 PDT
Lifecoach  Lifecoach nias Warlock Hunter Druid Druid Warrior Druid Warrior Mage	3	1	nias
October 30, 2015 - 10:00 PDT
Kranich  Kranich Zoro Hunter Hunter Warlock Paladin Hunter Druid Warlock Druid Druid Druid	2	3	Zoro
October 31, 2015 - 10:00 PDT
Lifecoach  Lifecoach Kranich Warlock Warlock Warlock Druid Warrior Hunter	0	3	Kranich

Group C

Group C
October 28 - 31, 2015October 28 - 31, 2015
1.	Ostkaka			2-0	6-2
2.	Hotform			2-1	7-6
3.	Neilyo			1-2	5-8
4.	LoveCX			0-2	3-6

Match List
October 28, 2015 - 11:00 PDT
LoveCX  LoveCX Ostkaka Druid Warrior Druid Rogue Warlock Mage Paladin Rogue	1	3	Ostkaka
October 29, 2015 - 11:00 PDT
Hotform  Hotform Neilyo Rogue Hunter Druid Paladin Mage Warrior Mage Hunter	3	1	Neilyo
October 29, 2015 - 16:00 PDT
LoveCX  LoveCX Neilyo Paladin Paladin Warlock Hunter Paladin Hunter Druid Hunter Druid Warrior	2	3	Neilyo
October 30, 2015 - 11:00 PDT
Ostkaka  Ostkaka Hotform Mage Druid Mage Mage Rogue Mage Warrior Rogue	3	1	Hotform
October 31, 2015 - 10:40 PDT
Neilyo  Neilyo Hotform Warrior Mage Paladin Druid Hunter Rogue Warrior Druid Warrior Rogue	2	3	Hotform

Group D

Group D
October 28 - 31, 2015October 28 - 31, 2015
1.	Zihao			2-0	6-4
2.	Pinpingho			2-1	8-5
3.	PurpleDrank			1-2	5-8
4.	Neirea			0-2	4-6

Match List
October 28, 2015 - 12:00 PDT
PurpleDrank  PurpleDrank Pinpingho Druid Hunter Mage Druid Mage Hunter Mage Shaman	1	3	Pinpingho
October 29, 2015 - 12:00 PDT
Neirea  Neirea Zihao Paladin Shaman Druid Paladin Druid Shaman Druid Hunter Mage Hunter	2	3	Zihao
October 29, 2015 - 17:00 PDT
PurpleDrank  PurpleDrank Neirea Druid Mage Mage Mage Rogue Druid Mage Paladin Rogue Paladin	3	2	Neirea
October 30, 2015 - 12:00 PDT
Pinpingho  Pinpingho Zihao Hunter Paladin Druid Shaman Hunter Hunter Hunter Shaman Shaman Shaman	2	3	Zihao
October 31, 2015 - 11:15 PDT
PurpleDrank  PurpleDrank Pinpingho Mage Druid Mage Hunter Rogue Shaman Druid Shaman	1	3	Pinpingho

Playoffs

Bracket

Quarterfinals

  ThijsNL

3

ThijsNL

Kranich

November 6, 2015 - 12:00 PST

Mage

Warlock

Priest

Druid

Priest

Hunter

Warrior

Warlock

Warrior

Hunter

  Kranich

2

  Ostkaka

3

Ostkaka

Pinpingho

November 6, 2015 - 13:55 PST

Warrior

Druid

Mage

Druid

Rogue

Hunter

Rogue

Shaman

  Pinpingho

1

  Zihao

1

Zihao

Kno

November 6, 2015 - 17:00 PST

Paladin

Paladin

Shaman

Paladin

Hunter

Druid

Hunter

Warlock

  Kno

3

  Zoro

2

Zoro

Hotform

November 6, 2015 - 18:15 PST

Paladin

Mage

Paladin

Rogue

Druid

Rogue

Hunter

Druid

Hunter

Rogue

  Hotform

3

Semifinals

  ThijsNL

2

ThijsNL

Ostkaka

November 7, 2015 - 11:15 PST

Priest

Warrior

Mage

Rogue

Warrior

Mage

Mage

Mage

Priest

Mage

  Ostkaka

3

  Kno

2

Kno

Hotform

November 7, 2015 - 13:25 PST

Warlock

Druid

Paladin

Mage

Druid

Rogue

Paladin

Druid

Druid

Druid

  Hotform

3

Finals

  Ostkaka

3

Ostkaka

Hotform

November 7, 2015 - 14:35 PST

Mage

Mage

Warrior

Rogue

Rogue

Druid

  Hotform

0

Showmatch

Showmatch (Bo5)

  Daniel

3

Daniel

ElkY

November 6, 2015

Hunter

Shaman

Mage

Mage

Hunter

Mage

Druid

Mage

  ElkY

1

Distribution

• HCT Region
• Country
• Show All

	Americas	Europe	China	Asia-Pacific
Groupstage	4 4 4 4
Quarterfinals	1 2 2 3
Semifinals	1 2 1
Finals	1 1
Champion	1

	Americas	Europe	China	Asia-Pacific
Groupstage	2 2 1 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 1
Quarterfinals	1 1 1 2 1 1 1
Semifinals	1 1 1 1
Finals	1 1
Champion	1