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Hearthstone NSE Spring Team Championship

Information
Game
Hearthstone
Platform
Discord
Day
Monday
Time
19:00
Format

Swiss into Top 4/8

Location

Online

Standings
Summary

Link to Full Rules

The Hearthstone NSE Spring Championship will run for 5 weeks online with games each Monday.

Week 1-4 Swiss

8 Rounds of Swiss (2 per week). Qualification will be used to determine which division teams will play in for remainder of the tournament.

Week 5 Playoffs

Top 4/8 teams will progress to an elimination bracket.

Initial Prizes

1st - £300

2nd - £180

3rd - £120

Playoffs - BUEC Championship Pins

In addition to other prizes this tournament awards British University Esports Championship Points.

All decisions regarding the interpretation and enforcement of these rules is at the sole discretion of the NSE Admin Team, whose decisions are final. 

These rules may be amended, changed or supplemented when required by the NSE Admin Team to ensure fair play and competitive integrity.

RULES SUMMARY

  • All players must be current students from the same university. 
  • All games are played as a team of 3 with one player playing on the account with other 2 players spectating and advising either online or in person.
  • Teams may use any of the accounts registered by players and may swap accounts between games.
  • All games will be played using the following settings:
    • Standard decks
    • Bo5 Conquest with 1 ban.
  • Teams must submit full decklists for 4 different classes. (Decks may be spread across teams battle.net accounts)
  • Teams must have at least 3 players. Teams may add/remove players from team between weeks.
  • If teams are more than 15 minutes late they will forfeit a match.
  • Check-in deadline is 6:30pm. Teams who don't check-in will not get games for that evening.
  • Offensive Battletags and Team names are not allowed.
  • Verbal abuse is not allowed. In particular any use of racist, sexist, homophobic or any other discriminatory language will lead to a minimum 3-week suspension.

Signups Close Saturday 13th Febuary

Dates Tournament Stage
15th Feb Swiss
22ndFeb Swiss
1st Mar Swiss
8th Mar

Swiss

15th Mar

Playoffs

All games will be played on Monday evening and cannot be rearranged. Games will have a normal start time of 7.15pm.  

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