2018 Heroes of the Storm Global Championship Phase #2 North America Pro League

League Information

Series:

HGC

Organizer:

Blizzard Entertainment

Server:

North America

Type:

Online

Location:

TBD

Format:

Group Stage:
Double Round Robin
Playoffs:
Stepladder Tournament

Prize Pool:

$425,000 USD

Start Date:

2018-06-29

End Date:

2018-09-30

Teams:

8

Liquipedia Tier:

Tier 1

Links

Battlegrounds

Battlefield of Eternity • Braxis Holdout • Cursed Hollow • Dragon Shire • Infernal Shrines • Sky Temple • Tomb of the Spider Queen • Towers of Doom • Volskaya Foundry

Chronology

2018 Phase #1

Information[edit]

Prize Pool[edit]

Participating teams earn the following prizes for each of two Parts of Phase 2:

1st place in a Part: 35,000 USD
2nd: 27,500 USD
3rd-8th: 25,000 USD

425,000 USD is spread among the teams as seen below:

Format[edit]

Group Stage: Double Round Robin
- All matches are best-of-5.
- After Week 5:
  - 1st-4th place will qualify for the 2018 HGC Phase 2 Western Clash.
  - The winning region will unlock a third spot for the 2018 HGC Phase 2 Finals. (Europe)
- After Week 10:
  - 1st place will directly qualify for the 2018 HGC Phase 2 Finals.
  - 2nd-6th place will advance to the Playoffs.
  - 7th-8th place will fall into the 2018 HGC Phase 2 North America Crucible.
Playoffs: Stepladder Tournament
- All matches are best-of-5.
- 1st place will qualify for the 2018 HGC Phase 2 Finals.

Broadcast Talent[edit]

Casters:
- Dreadnaught (Wade Penfold)
- Gillyweed (Jaycie Gluck)
- JHow (Josh Howard)

Gillyweed will cast Week 1-5.
Dreadnaught will cast Week 6-10.

Participating Teams[edit]

Tempo Storm^{3, 4}

	cattlepillar
	Glaurung
	Fan
	ViN
	Jun


HGC NA Phase #1

HeroesHearth⁶

	ishb00
	McIntyre
	Khroen
	Arthelon
	BBJ
C	CauthonLuck


HGC NA Phase #1

Team Octalysis

	Justing
	Goku
	Prismaticism
	Drated
	Buds
C	milkNcookies37


HGC NA Phase #1

Team Freedom

	zugrug
	Nazmas
	Lutano
	YoDa
	KilluZiioN
C	Leviis


HGC NA Phase #1

Endemic Esports^{1, 2}

	bkid
	Kure
	daneski
	MichaelUdall
	bigempct


HGC NA Phase #1

Simplicity

	KingCaffeine
	Zuna
	k1pro
	Hosty
	TigerJK
C	Barcode


HGC NA Phase #1

LFM Esports⁵

	Fury
	Swabs
	Figgy
	Droplets
	Darkchimaera
C	HeroPhysio


HGC NA Phase #1

No Tomorrow

	Casanova
	Jin
	Tomster
	jschritte
	akaface


HGC NA Phase #1

^{1, 2} Gale Force eSports decided to not continue in the HGC. The roster continued as Team DJ and later got picked up by Endemic Esports.

³ Kala started the season as the coach of Tempo Storm, but got replaced by Swoy, while he became the new Team Manager on July 13th.^[1]
Swoy left the team shortly after the Western Clash in August.

⁴ After some weeks of playing as stand-in for psalm, who retired right before the start of the new season, ViN officially joins Tempo Storm as new player on July 18th.^[2]

⁵ Aware from LFM Esports retires after Week 5 to persue a job opportunity. He will be replaced by Darkchimaera for the second half of Phase 2.

⁶ Arthelon from HeroesHearth Esports retires after Week 7. For the remaining weeks he got replaced mainly by TalkingTrees and Homicidal.

Results[edit]

Standings[edit]

Overall Standings
1.	HeroesHearth	13-1	41-14	27
2.	Tempo Storm	11-3	34-17	17
3.	Team Octalysis	9-5	35-20	15
4.	Team Freedom	9-5	31-24	7
5.	Endemic Esports	5-9	24-29	-5
6.	LFM Esports	4-10	17-32	-15
7.	Simplicity	3-11	16-36	-20
8.	No Tomorrow	2-12	13-39	-26

Week 1-5 standings
1.	HeroesHearth	7-0	21-3	18
2.	Tempo Storm	6-1	18-7	11
3.	Team Freedom	5-2	16-11	5
4.	Team Octalysis	3-4	15-14	1
5.	Endemic Esports	3-4	14-14	0
6.	LFM Esports	2-5	7-17	-10
7.	Simplicity	1-6	8-19	-11
8.	No Tomorrow	1-6	6-20	-14

To view matches in weeks 1-5 click here.

Week 6-10 Standings
1.	Team Octalysis	6-1	20-6	14
2.	HeroesHearth	6-1	20-11	9
3.	Tempo Storm	5-2	16-10	6
4.	Team Freedom	4-3	15-13	2
5.	Endemic Esports	2-5	10-15	-5
6.	LFM Esports	2-5	10-15	-5
7.	Simplicity	2-5	8-17	-9
8.	No Tomorrow	1-6	7-19	-12