Join us for the 2017 HCT Summer Season!

The third season of the 2017 Hearthstone Championship Tour (HCT) is here! The top 64 point earners from every region will be joined by the top eight players in their respective Tavern Hero Tournaments over three consecutive weekends in September. Competitors are duking it out from their local taverns for their share of the $25,000 USD prize pools and one of the four spots per region in the upcoming Summer Championship. Read on for the complete details of the Summer season, including deck list submission deadlines, competition dates, and more! Format HCT Summer will utilize the Conquest format with a single ban for best-of-five matches in all events. Tavern Hero is unchanged from the Spring season. Deck lists do not need to be submitted in advance for the Tavern Hero Tournament, but are due as follows: Europe deck list deadline: Tuesday, August 29 at 9:00 a.m. CEST Asia-Pacific deck list deadline: Tuesday, September 5 at 9:00 a.m. KST Americas deck list deadline: Tuesday, September 12 at 9:00 a.m. PDT Summer Championship deck list deadline: Tuesday, October 3 at 9:00 a.m. PDT Regional Playoffs will again use seven rounds of Swiss play to seed the top eight players in a single elimination bracket, with players being automatically eliminated from Swiss rounds after three losses. The top four players from each region’s Playoffs will be invited to the Summer Championship, which will have four dual tournament four-player groups and a single elimination top eight bracket. Venue Locations Europe Asia-Pacific Americas Locations Venue Vienna, Austria Respawn eSports Bar Brussels, Belgium Meltdown Brussels Sofia, Bulgaria PLAYGROUND The Mall Czech Republic, Prague Kavárna Maják Copenhagen, Denmark Aalborg University Copenhagen Paris, France Meltdown Paris Cologne, Germany Meltdown Cologne Thessaloniki, Greece Inspot Rotontas Budapest, Hungary Barcraft 2 Esport Bár Tel Aviv, Israel Hype Gaming Lounge Rome, Italy RedStar Gaming Area Vilnius, Lithuania Anticafe Time Area Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands Theater Castellum Oslo, Norway Egon Karl Johan Krakow, Poland Hex Cafe Lisbon, Portugal 1UP Gaming Lounge Bucharest, Romania Nexus Gamers Pub Moscow, Russia FirePlace Novosibirsk, Russia Cybersport arena TEKKEN St. Petersburg, Russia O'Deer Johannesburg, South Africa The Nexus Madrid, Spain Meltdown Madrid Stockholm, Sweden Webhallen Fridhemsplan Zurich, Switzerland Löwen Istanbul, Turkey Goblin FRP & Oyun Cafe Leicester, UK ESL Studio UK Kiev, Ukraine CyberSport Arena Locations Venue Auckland, New Zealand Megaweb Sydney, Australia The Nerd Cave Melbourne, Australia Zen Gaming Lounge Seoul, South Korea GameinUS PC Bang Taipei, Taiwan Blizzard Estadium Japan TBD Thailand TBD Singapore TBD Locations Venue Austin, Texas Nerdstock Gaming Center Atlanta, Georgia Battle & Brew Boston, Massachusetts The GamePad Mission Viejo, California Howie's Game Shack Kansas City, Missouri SoPro Gaming Salt Lake City, Utah University of Utah Entertainment Arts and Engineering Master Game Studio Quebec City, QC, Canada Meltdown Bar Vancouver, BC Canada Spacekraft by Cmpny Cartago, Costa Rica AFK Gaming Center Cali, Colombia TBD Quito, Ecuador El Baúl del Enano Santiago, Chile Nacion Cyber Buenos Aires, Argentina LocalStrike Showroom Sao Paulo, Brazil TBD Brasilia, Brazil Ultimate Arena Lima, Peru TBD Zapopan, Mexico Esports Latin America * locations and venues subject to change Tournament Schedule Unable to join in on the action at one of the taverns? Fear not! The Playoffs will be broadcast live on the official Hearthstone Twitch channel in English. Europe Saturday, September 2 – 1:00 a.m. PDT Sunday, September 3 – 1:00 a.m. PDT Asia-Pacific Friday, September 8 – 7:00 p.m. PDT Saturday, September 9 – 7:00 p.m. PDT Americas Saturday, September 16 – 8:00 a.m. PDT Sunday, September 17 – 9:00 a.m. PDT HCT Summer Championship Friday, October 13 Saturday, October 14 Sunday, October 15 Calling all the action will be the usual suspects – your HCT casting crew! Dan ‘Frodan’ Chou Brian Kibler* Simon ‘Sottle’ Welch Alexander ‘Raven’ Baguley TJ ‘Azumo’ Sanders Nathan ‘ThatsAdmirable’ Zamora ​* Kibler is unavailable for the Americas Playoffs, and Robert Wing will be filling in. Attendee Rewards In addition to showing the Americas Summer Playoffs on September 16 and 17, taverns will also have side events for attendees – meaning loot and prizes will be available! Be sure to join us in person if you can. If you visit any of the taverns during the event, you’ll be able to add the Power Core card back to your Hearthstone collection. Who are you cheering for to advance to the Summer Championship? Will you be joining us live from a local tavern? Let us know in the comments!