ESL Presents: BlizzCon Fantasy League! With BlizzCon just around the corner, ESL is excited to announce the newest addition to the ESL Fantasy family: the BlizzCon ESL Fantasy League! For this year’s event, ESL and Blizzard will be bringing you fantasy leagues in both StarCraft® II and Hearthstone® which, if you end up making the top three with your picks, you'll net some nifty rewards. The winners are announced live on the Blizzcon streams.
StarCraft II More than 20,000 people from a variety of different regions have participated in ESL Fantasy StarCraft during various WCS seasons. While the best StarCraft II player in the world will be crowned at BlizzCon, over at ESL the most knowledgeable fantasy players will also reap the following rewards:
First place: Mega Bloks Battlecruiser, Zergling plushie, Carbot StarCrafts lanyard, keychain, and magnet set
Second place: Zergling plushie, Carbot StarCrafts lanyard, keychain, and magnet set
Third place: Carbot StarCrafts lanyard, keychain, and magnet set
Hearthstone Hearthstone is one of the newer additions to our fantasy league lineup, and it continues to grow in popularity. As the world’s top card slingers clash at the epic BlizzCon inn, you can get cozy at home and plot your Hearthstone fantasy dream team. If you do it right, you could end up netting yourself some of the following sweet loot:
First place: Mega Bloks Goblin Zeppelin, Hearthstone mug, Hearthstone plushie pillow
Second place: Hearthstone mug, Hearthstone plushie pillow
On October 21 2014 02:02 Mikku wrote: Yaaaay! There is never enough fantasy in the world. ... C: Zest... soO, Inno and my dark horse for Blizzcon, Life.
You do know Zest and Life play each other in the first round right?
Strange that you get more points for a player reaching the finals than for winning it. I guess it's because a player who wins will also get the points for reaching the finals, but unless I'm mistaken that's also true for the previous rounds but the points for those are all incrementally larger.
Anyway, I picked: Captain: Bomber Players: Taeja, herO and Innovation
I actually don't think Taeja will beat soO but my fanboyism won't allow me to not pick him.
Keep in mind (this is at least what I understood from reading the rules) the four players you pick now are JUST FOR THE RO16. You get to pick two new, different players after that round. So don't pick dark horses for winning the whole thing, pick players who you think will win in the RO16. (If I've got these rules wrong please let me know)
I picked Bomber (Captain), Zest, MMA and Classic (the latter to make me feel slightly better if he beats Polt; if Polt wins I'll be happy enough that I won't care about this fantasy league). Stayed away from herO because it's a PvP in the RO16 and from INnoVation because I feel like he's vulnerable to HyuN's style. INno has always been weak to aggressive, timing-oriented Zerg who won't let him go into full macro mode.
EPT
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... C: Zest... soO, Inno and my dark horse for Blizzcon, Life.
