Blizzard announced Nexus Games tournament

On November 14 Nexus Games in Europe will start – a huge competition, where the best players who did not participate in HGC will fight for the praise playing under the flags of their countries.

Players selection:

Blizzard Entertainment will select 5 players from each country who will present their motherland in the tournament. Though the final list of participants is made by Blizzard, there are several key factors that affect the chances:

• successful participation in hero league in the 3-rd season of 2017 (till October 24);
• number of games played in 3-rd season (not less than 75);
• absence of restrictions on the account.

It should be taken into consideration that HGC players cannot participate in this event. But there are no limits for the players of open division.

Countries participants:

Belgium, Russian Federation, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, and Great Britain.

Format of the event:

Nexus Games will be played in two stages: group stage and play-off games. The seeding for each stage will depend on the total score rating of each participant of the team.

Group stage

• 4 groups with 4 teams in each, one round robin tournament.
• Bo3.
• Two best teams of each group go to play-off.

Play-off games

• Eliminated after first loss.
• Bo5

The group stage will start on November 14. The detailed schedule of the tournament, and also list of the selected participants, Blizzard will announce after BlizzCon.