The wait is over as the group stages are out! It's finally happening as the much anticipated Steelseries HoN World Cup with a $40,000 prize pool is about to get underway. 64 teams will battle it out in the group stages for a berth in the playoffs.
The draw was conducted using standard FIFA procedures in accordance to our World Cup theme. The participating teams were divided into 4 Pots, with 1 team from each pot being randomly picked to join each group. Pot 1 being the seeded teams, Pots 2, 3 and 4 based on region to avoid an extension of a region's qualifier happening in the group stage.
The champions of every region's qualifier were automatically given a seeding. The rest were voted by our HoN staff. The 16 selected teams were : Loaded, Interpol, KD-Gaming, FnaticMSI, Never Back Down, Empire Multigaming, SK-Gaming, Deal With it, TS-Gaming, iMpUniTy, Koroks Crew, Druidz, unZ, Roam and KiLL, Tease em, Dotally Rad.
Pot 2 : North and South American Region + PusoY + SHE
Pot 3 : Western Europe + African Region + Lesgit + Bboys
Pot 4 : Eastern Europe Region + Asian, Oceanic and Mixed Region + Goat
The results of the draw were as follows :
Groupings
Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D
TS-Gaming Dotally Rad Loaded unZ
Team.Team Milk International Pro Sex Inc Cats
The Hatchet Pyros Whats Your Name Ventus Gaming Odyssey
Failures United SMEK Any Pinoy? MILF International
Group EGroup FGroup GGroup H
SK-Gaming Never Back Down Tease em Roam and KiLL
Used to be Good Pokerstars Epic MyLilPwnies
We are Always Slayin Pinoys Bboys Revolutions fap fap fap
124Nagibatora Metal Warriors Xtreme KIWI Lahtisko vitosella
Group IGroup JGroup KGroup L
Interpol dRavens eSports Club Empire Multigaming Druidz
Dilateds Dream Team Singapore Hon Elites Keep Six Roshan Roulette
Homestone What I do to Your Mother Corona Extra Mell Global Core Gamers
HEROS ASSASINS Goat Stop Attacking Axe Dirty Minds
Group MGroup NGroup OGroup P
KD-Gaming FnaticMSI iMpUniTy Deal With it
CNB Gaming PusoY Not Quite There You Need Six
GGED Lesgit FitForGamingSuper SLAMMERS
Universal Soldiers Finale Dont know TheGrand
The exact pairings for each playday will be announced soon, in another news.
Group stage matches will be bo1, each win will earn a team 1 point and a loss will result in 0. Should there be a tie on points at the end, time rating will be used as a tiebreaker. In the unlikely event 2 teams have the same time rating, head-on-head record will be used.
Eventhough the top two teams will qualify together, they will still have the incentive of playing for a lower ranked opponent in the playoffs. The bracket below shows how the playoffs will work.
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