Blizzard Esports Drops Info On Heroes NA Spring Regional

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The Heroes of the Storm North American Spring Regional is almost upon us. In preparation for the event, Blizzard has released information on the event itself, and the teams playing in it.

February 27 & 28, eight teams will face off against each other in Burbank, California in a bid to win their portion of a $100,000 prize pool -- and more importantly, spots in the Spring Global Championship in Korea this April. Only two teams will earn a place in the Global Championship, where they will compete to win their share of the $500,000 prize pool.

Blizzard will be streaming the entire event live on Twitch.tv for everyone to watch.

The competing teams are:

Cloud9

  • Derek ‘Dunktrain’ Arabian
  • John Paul ‘KingCaffeine’ Lopez
  • Keiwan ‘k1pro’ Itakura
  • Kun ‘iDream’ Fang
  • Taylor ‘Arthelon’ Eder

Team Naventic (formerly Bob Ross Fan Club)

  • Christopher ‘Zuna’ Buechter
  • Fan ‘Fan’ Yang
  • Ken ‘Kenma’ Buechter
  • Aaron ‘Erho’ Kappes
  • Stafford ‘McIntyre’ McIntyre

COGnitive Gaming

  • Jeffrey ‘Iakona’ Dolan
  • Ben ‘Cattlepillar’ Bunk
  • Mike ‘Glaurung’ Fisk
  • Rori ‘CauthonLuck’ Bryant-Raible
  • Kayla ‘Faye’ Murray

Tempo Storm

  • Kurt ‘Kaeyoh’ Ocher
  • Josh ‘Sold1er’ Miller
  • Francisco ‘Goku’ Avalos
  • Quinn ‘Srey’ Fischer
  • Brian ‘Zixz’ Skarda

Team Blaze

  • Eugene ‘Yuuj’ Tseng
  • Marty ‘Batterry’ Nivinski
  • ‘Jason’ Mei
  • Richard ‘Kladeous’ Tran
  • David ‘Roflcopter’ Young

Panda Global

  • Stefen ‘akaface’ Anderson
  • Sammuel ‘bigempct’ Hua
  • Michael ‘MichaelUdall’ Udall
  • Harrison ‘psalm’ Chang
  • Josh ‘Bkid’ Choi

King of Blades Alpha

  • Chris ‘Darkchimaera’ Beery
  • Damian ‘FrozenX’ Nagel
  • Jerome ‘KilluZiioN’ Tanguay
  • Kevin ‘TalkingTrees’ Marco
  • Thomas ‘Tomster’ Maguire

Team Nom

  • Miqueas ‘Wrath’ Kim Han
  • Stephen ‘Kachi’ Guillot
  • Cody ‘Deadlyice’ Engesser
  • Merek ‘zugrug’ Kangas
  • Tianyun ‘Dayun’ Zhang

In addition to the Heroes Regional, Blizzard will also be holding the Hearthstone Americas Winter Preliminary this weekend; February 20-21 at 10 a.m. PST. Eighteen winners of the recent Tavern Hero Tournaments in addition to the top 128 ranked players from the Americas will battle each other to win one of eight spots in the Americas Winter Championship in March -- and a chance at a portion of the $100,000 prize pool.

You can watch the Hearthstone Preliminary on the PlayHearthstone Twitch.

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QuintLyn Bowers
QuintLyn Bowers, News Editor
QuintLyn is a long-time lover of all things video game related will happily talk about them to anyone that will listen. She began writing about games for various gaming sites a little over ten years ago and has taken on various roles in the games community.

Discussion (8)

PoshPro 7 years ago
My pick to win is Team Naventic formerly BRFC !!! They beat out Cloud 9 this last January in SoCal and will predict they will do it again ....

Drago 7 years ago
HOS is a epic fail, maybe if they tried to be different from other mobas it would have worked, but with the same flash, invisible, teleport skill system there is nothing new apart from slower gameplay.. Whats wrong with OLD school stand up fights.. Remember the old days of LOL.

Todoran 7 years ago
following valve!...... yeah lizard make cheap 10 map pvp games... go for ESL championships and get all the 10 years old and all the rusians to be whanabe chamions in HotS and Overpriced,,,,, "i whana beee filmed while i'm pwuaing and owning stuff whit my awsum skiilz....." RIP good PVE games.

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