Professional and amateur players of Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft can compete for a share of the $25,000 prize pool and other perks, hosted by NVIDIA. Once the pool of players are whittled down to the sixteen invited pros and the top sixteen non-professionals, they will compete in a playoff format. The 32 players at that stage will each receive an NVIDIA Shield Tablet, the top 16 will receive money, and the top eight will get Blizzard World Championship qualifier points may either start their career or get them even closer to being invited to the autumn finals.
Breaking down the above into a little more detail:
Prize Money | Qualification Points | Shield Tablet | |
---|---|---|---|
1st Place | $10,000 | 100 | ✔ |
2nd Place | $5,000 | 50 | ✔ |
3rd & 4th Place | $1,500 | Some | ✔ |
5th - 8th Place | $750 | Some | ✔ |
9th - 16th Place | $500 | - | ✔ |
17th - 32nd Place | - | - | ✔ |
NVIDIA will be streaming the event as a four-hour event every week, which consist of group-stage highlights. Registration will close on March 19th at noon (EST). The actual playoffs will take place on May 30th and May 31st, also streamed on NVIDIA's Twitch channel.