Watch the HCT Summer Championship!

The Hearthstone Championship Tour (HCT) Summer Championship is the last seasonal championship of HCT 2017, and it’s poised to be epic. Sixteen players from around the globe will converge on the Blizzard Arena Los Angeles to vie for their share of a $250,000 USD prize pool, as well as one of four spots at the HCT World Championship. Choose Your Champion also returns this season, and you can win up to four card packs when you vote for your favorite player. Read on to find out more about Choose Your Champion, tournament details, the casters, and more! Choose Your Champion Pick a player from one of the 16 Summer Championship competitors, root for them during the tournament, and get free card packs based on how well they perform. These champions come from the Americas, Asia-Pacific, China, and Europe, and will be fighting for a chance to represent their home region at the HCT World Championship. Champion Groups Click the button below to choose a champion to cheer for, but choose carefully—you cannot change your selection once you have chosen! Vote Now You will receive one Knights of the Frozen Throne card pack just for participating. You will get one additional card pack each time your champion advances to a different stage of the tournament: quarterfinals, semifinals, or finals. If your champion of choice plays in the finals, you’ll earn four total packs (including your participation pack). All card packs will be delivered to you in-game the week after the Summer Championship. Voting ends on Oct. 11, 2017, at 11:59 p.. PDT. Casters Returning to the casting desk for the Summer Championship are the following intrepid duos: Brian Kibler and Dan "Frodan" Chou TJ Sanders and Nathan "Admirable" Zamora Simon "Sottle" Welch and Alexander "Raven" Baguley Format The Summer Championship will have a dual tournament group stage, followed by a single elimination playoff bracket. Groups will consist of four competitors—one from each region. Each match will be best-of-five in the Conquest format with one class ban, so all players need four decks. Groups will be seeded based on Hearthstone Competitive Points, with the first place player from each region placed in their own group. The groups will then be filled in with the second, third, and fourth place players from each region. No region will be represented more than once in each group. Prize Pool The $250,000 Summer Championship prize pool will be divided as follows: Placement Prize (USD) Points 1st $60,000 20 2nd $40,000 15 3rd & 4th $20,000 10 5th – 8th $12,500 8 9th – 16th $7,500 6 Total $250,000 135 Schedule The HCT Summer Championship will take place Friday, Oct. 13, through Sunday, Oct. 15. The schedule for the Summer Championship is: Oct. 13 at 8:30 a.m. PDT – Group Stage Oct. 14 at 8:30 a.m. PDT – Group Stage Oct. 15 at 8.30 a.m. PDT – Playoffs Watch Live Don’t miss the last seasonal championship of the Year of the Mammoth! In the meantime, join in the tournament discussion with the #HCT hashtag on Facebook and Twitter.