2016 HCT - Americas Winter Championship

• Championship
• Preliminary

[e][h]2016 HCT - Americas Winter Championship

League Information

Series:

HCT

Organizer:

Blizzard Entertainment

Type:

Offline

Location:

 Los Angeles

Format:

Group Stage:
Dual Tournament
Playoffs:
Single Elimination

Prize pool:

$80,000 USD

Start Date:

2016-03-11

End Date:

2016-03-13

Number of Players:

8

Liquipedia Tier:

Premier

Links

Chronology

Spring  

2016 HCT - Americas Winter Championship is the first season of 2016 HCT series tournaments for Americas region.

Information

Location

• TBA

Prize Pool

80,000 USD are spread among the players as seen below:

Place	$ USD	HCT Points	Player	Team
1st	$25,000		Amnesiac	Team Archon
2nd	$15,000	20	Nostam	ZZZZZ
3rd-4th	$10,000	15	AlSkyHigh	ZZZZZ
			chessdude	ZZZZZ
5th-6th	$5,000	10	Talion	ZZZZZ
			Snail	ZZZZZ
7th-8th	$5,000	10	Chakki	Team Dignitas
			wtybill	ZZZZZ

Format

• General: Best of 5, "Conquest" with 1 ban format
• Group Stage: Dual Tournament
  • Top 2 from each group advance to Playoffs.
• Playoffs: Single Elimination
  • Season champion will be invited to Global Finals at 2016 BlizzCon directly and will get 30 HCT Points.

Broadcast Talent

• Commentators:
  •  Whirthun (Robert Wing)
  •  Reynad (Andrey Yanyuk)
  •  Azumo (TJ Sanders)
  •  Songbird (Cora Georgiou)
  •  Savjz (Janne Mikkonen)
  •  Sottle (Simon Welch)
  •  Frodan (Dan Chou)

Participants

Top 8 of Preliminary
Nostam	wtybill	chessdude	Chakki
Snail	AlSkyHigh	Talion	Amnesiac

• Fibonacci was unable to attend and has been replaced by Nostam.

Results

Group Stage

Group A

Group A
March 11th, 2016March 11th, 2016
1.	Nostam			2-0	6-1
2.	Amnesiac			2-1	6-7
3.	Talion			1-2	7-8
4.	Chakki			0-2	3-6

Match List
Chakki  Chakki Nostam Druid Warrior Druid Shaman Shaman Druid Druid Druid	1	3	Nostam
Amnesiac  Amnesiac Talion Warrior Warlock Rogue Warlock Paladin Warlock Paladin Mage Paladin Warrior	3	2	Talion
Nostam  Nostam Amnesiac Druid Druid Warrior Druid Warlock Rogue	3	0	Amnesiac
Chakki  Chakki Talion Warlock Druid Druid Druid Shaman Warrior Shaman Druid Shaman Warlock	2	3	Talion
Amnesiac  Amnesiac Talion Rogue Mage Warrior Warlock Warrior Mage Druid Mage Druid Warrior	3	2	Talion

Group B

Group B
March 11th, 2016
1.	AlSkyHigh			2-0	6-2
2.	chessdude			2-1	7-6
3.	Snail			1-2	4-7
4.	wtybill			0-2	4-6

Match List
wtybill  wtybill AlSkyHigh Warrior Paladin Mage Paladin Druid Paladin Druid Warrior Druid Warlock	2	3	AlSkyHigh
chessdude  chessdude Snail Rogue Warrior Rogue Mage Mage Mage Mage Paladin	1	3	Snail
Snail  Snail AlSkyHigh Warrior Warlock Warrior Paladin Warrior Druid	0	3	AlSkyHigh
wtybill  wtybill chessdude Warlock Rogue Warlock Warrior Warlock Mage Mage Mage Druid Mage	2	3	chessdude
Snail  Snail chessdude Mage Rogue Paladin Rogue Paladin Mage Druid Druid	1	3	chessdude

Playoffs

Semifinals

  AlSkyHigh

1

AlSkyHigh

Amnesiac

March 13th, 2016

Warrior

Druid

Warlock

Rogue

Warlock

Warrior

Paladin

Warrior

  Amnesiac

3

  Nostam

3

Nostam

chessdude

March 13th, 2016

Shaman

Warrior

Shaman

Mage

Druid

Rogue

Druid

Mage

Warlock

Mage

  chessdude

2

Finals

  Amnesiac

3

Amnesiac

Nostam

March 13th, 2016

Druid

Warrior

Rogue

Warrior

Warrior

Druid

Warrior

Warlock

  Nostam

1