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2010-05-30 HONCAST: $1000 Series Tournament V

2010-05-29 Neva LIVE I - Qualifier VII - $10,000 invitational!

Information
This is the 7th of 16 qualifiers to Neva LIVE I, a live three day event set to take place in San Francisco during the summer, with a prize pool of $10,000 (NOT including additional sponsored prizes).

How To Register
Want to register your teams interest? Email joe@nevatv.com with your team name, clan name (if applicable), clan tag (if applicable) and your teams roster.

Date
29th May 2010 @ 11PM PST / 2PM EST.

Tournament Format
16 team invitational (brackets).
5v5.
Banning pick.
Dev heroes off.
Single elimination.
Finals BO3.

Map
Forests of Caldavar.

Prizes
$250 cash prize to the winning team.

Game Rules
No Ancient pulling to lane on either side. Pulling regular creep spawns is allowed.
No use of glitches (i.e. dupe methods that haven't been patched.) Questions on these should be brought up before attempting them in game. Kongor glitches are a good example.
Sharing of healing items is allowed. Bottle may only be transferred between teammates for short periods of time.
Blocking team creep spawns with abilities such as Behemoth's fissure is forbidden. This does not include the opponents creeps when attempting to take a tower.
Entering the oppositions base without a creep wave is NOT allowed. The creep wave does not have to be in the same lane as you.
Item limitations have been removed.

Tournament Rules
Be respectful to the tournament staff and players.
Changes to the roster will need to be confirmed by Penance before they are allowed.
No show teams will be blacklisted from joining next weeks event. Second time offenders will be banned for the next 3 events.
Games will require Penance's approval before creating and starting the game countdown. Teams that start games without approval may be disqualified.
If a team feels a remake is necessary the game is to be paused and I am to be contacted by both teams captain. If it is past the remake threshold then the game will continue and I will review the replay. Otherwise I will use my best judgment to make a fair decision.
Players are only allowed to play for one team in each tournament. Ringers may be brought in if they are cleared by Penance before playing.

2010-05-20 HONCAST: $1000 Series Tournament IV

SUNDAY MAY 23RD 2010

It's been an amazing journey here for all of us in the rapid growth of Heroes of Newerth as an eSport, and the now 100,000 strong viewers a month have shown that this game has an amazing spectator value. With that said, eSport Media / HONCAST is proud to present, sponsored by S2 Games, the first round of our eight week HoN Tournament Series.

Honcast is bringing back the 5v5 action with honcasted matches every week. Every Sunday a winner will be determined by the outcome of each qualifying round and guaranteed a spot in the HONCAST $1000 Tournament Series Finals sponsored by S2 Games. The winning teams from each week of qualifiers will also get some sweet swag(prizes) from S2 Games. Once a team wins their spot in the Top 8 Finals, they are sitting pretty and the rest must battle it out until the Top 8 are determined by one way only... Winning it all.

The tournament spots for each week are first come, first serve, so don't delay signing up for the weekly qualifiers. We will be seeding the tournament using the HONCAST community rankings, if your team is not on the rankings you will be randomly seeded below the recognized teams from rankings. The tournament will take place each Sunday at 11:00 Pacific Standard Time (PST) / 18:00 GMT.

To sign up for the tournament go here

Teams already qualified for the Invitational:

LOADED
MSI
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2010-05-19 Neva LIVE I - Qualifier VI - $10,000 invitational!

Information
This is the 6th of 16 qualifiers to Neva LIVE I, a live three day event set to take place in San Francisco during the summer, with a prize pool of $10,000 (NOT including additional sponsored prizes).

About Neva
Neva is an ISP that provides worldwide media distribution services (with clients including S2 Games), along with a number of other related network services. Recently, we launched the NevaTV platform - an advanced eSports media system with some of the most advanced streaming media technology in the world behind it.

How To Register
Want to register your teams interest? Email gaming@nevadigital.co.uk and we'll add you to the pool of potential teams. Teams who have already registered an interest for this particular qualifier, need not register again.

Date
22nd May 2010 @ 2PM EST/GMT-5

Tournament Format
16 team invitational (brackets).
5v5.
Banning pick.
Single elimination.
Finals BO3.

Map
Forests of Caldavar.

Media
This event will have two live streams simultaneously running (utilizing our proprietary NevaDELAY technology), from each side of the bracket. On one side, the new NevaTV team will be throwing out quality casting - whilst on the other? The team at GameFire will be streaming live to the public, allowing YOU to choose which side of the bracket you want to follow!
On top of this, we'll also have two additional matches being casted (though not live), ready to be put up as VOD's as soon as they're done.

External organisations are welcome to cast replays of this event, and if you feel like discussing you possibility casting a live match or two with our technology? Drop me an email!

Prizes
$250 cash prize to the winning team.

Rules
No Ancient pulling to lane on either side. Pulling regular creep spawns is allowed.
No use of glitches (i.e. dupe methods that haven't been patched.) Questions on these should be brought up before attempting them in game. Kongor glitches are a good example.
Sharing of healing items is allowed. Bottle may only be transferred between teammates for a short period. It may not be given for long periods of time. Doombringer pooling is also forbidden.
Blocking team creep spawns with abilities such as Behemoth's fissure is forbidden. This does not include the opponents creeps when attempting to take a tower.
Entering the oppositions base without a creep wave is NOT allowed. The creep wave does not have to be in the same lane as you.
Maximum of 2 (of each) Astrolabe, Puzzle Box and Ring of Sorcery per team.

2010-05-13 HONCAST: $1000 Series Tournament III Signups Now OPEN

It's been an amazing journey here for all of us in the rapid growth of Heroes of Newerth as an eSport, and the now 100,000 strong viewers a month have shown that this game has an amazing spectator value. With that said, eSport Media / HONCAST is proud to present, sponsored by S2 Games, the first round of our eight week HoN Tournament Series.
Honcast is bringing back the 5v5 action with honcasted matches every week. Every Sunday a winner will be determined by the outcome of each qualifying round and guaranteed a spot in the HONCAST $1000 Tournament Series Finals sponsored by S2 Games. The winning teams from each week of qualifiers will also get some sweet swag(prizes) from S2 Games. Once a team wins their spot in the Top 8 Finals, they are sitting pretty and the rest must battle it out until the Top 8 are determined by one way only... Winning it all.

The tournament spots for each week are first come, first serve, so don't delay signing up for the weekly qualifiers. We will be seeding the tournament using the HONCAST community rankings, if your team is not on the rankings you will be randomly seeded below the recognized teams from rankings. The tournament will take place each Sunday at 11:00 Pacific Standard Time (PST) / 18:00 GMT.

Each week, bracket is limited to 16 seeds, and the final will be a 8 team bracket of the finalists. Rounds are sing elimination (1 match) and the finals will be Best out of 3 (BO3).

Honcast has taken our tournament and bracket system to the next level. Our bracket system is programmed with the functionality to coincide with our Video on Demand. That means that you'll be able to click straight from the bracket to watch a certain match between teams on the bracket if a Honcast was done of the round. Matches that were honcasted are denoted by the green filled background, matches that were not honcasted remain with a black background.

To sign up for the HONCAST III Event, GO HERE , you can also check out the tournament rules here as well.

GosuGamers and SteelSeries present HoN World Cup with $40,000 prize

In celebration of the launch of Heroes of Newerth and the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup, SteelSeries and GosuGamers are proud to present the SteelSeries HoN World Cup.

As players of national football teams around the world prepare for the premier competition in their sport, you can prepare for and take part in the premier competition of our very own eSport. The SteelSeries HoN World Cup boasts a whopping $40,000 prize pool, and offers chances to win cold hard cash for top competitive players, casual gamers, replay enthusiasts, and soccer fanatics alike.

No World Cup would be complete without spectacular coverage and commentary. So, in addition to the exciting launch of our HoN section on GosuGamers, we are proud to announce that the one and only Toby "TobiWanKenobi" Dawson will be partnering with Honcast.com to provide live guest shoutcasts and coverage of the tournament’s most anticipated matches! Each week Toby will be taking votes from the GosuGamers community on the most popular match to shoutcast from a selection of that week’s most anticipated matches. Now without further ado, here are the details of the SteelSeries HoN World Cup.

Qualification
GosuGamers will be holding qualifiers for each of the 5 main regions:

- Southeast Asia Qualifier *
- Eastern European Qualifier
- Western Europe & Africa Qualifier
- North & South America Qualifier
- Asia, Oceania & Mixed Qualifier

* = Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines through Garena

Tournament registration will begin on May 19th and close on June 1st so don’t be late in registering!

Registration for the Southeast Asia Qualifier will be on a first-come, first-serve basis with a maximum of 128 teams composed of 5 members each. We will be receiving and distributing Closed Beta keys from Garena to those 128 teams so they can compete in the tournament once registration closes.

A select number of top teams from each qualifier tournament will be admitted to the Group Stage of 64. Each region’s number of qualification slots will depend on the proportion of registered teams that belong to that region and will be determined once registration ends, so help make sure that your region is well-represented to get the maximum amount of qualification slots!

Group stage
The 64 qualified teams will battle it out “World Cup-style” in 16 groups of 4 teams with a Bo1 format, and the top 2 teams of each group will advance to the next phase, the playoffs!

Playoffs
A bracket featuring the remaining 32 teams will give us the thrills, excitement and drama that only elimination playoffs can provide, and through the chaos we will crown the HoN World Cup Champions! The playoffs will be played in a double-elimination tournament bracket. Best of three (Bo3) for all rounds in the Winner Bracket, while the first two rounds of the Loser Bracket will be best of one (Bo1). All the rounds thereafter are best of tree (Bo3). The Grand Final is played best of five (Bo5) with the winning team starts up 1-0.

Prize pool
1st Place - $10,000 + Full SteelSeries Package *
2nd Place - $5,000
3rd Place - $3,000
4th Place - $2,000
5th to 8th - $800
9th to 16th - $500
17th to 32nd - $300
33rd to 64th - $200
* = (Choice of Headset, Keyboard, Mouse and Mousepad)

5 SteelSeries Siberia v2 Headsets for each regional qualifiers winners will be handed out.

Some of you will realize that the total prizes outlined above fall just short of $40,000. Don’t worry, you will not be short-changed! In addition to the run-of-the-mill prizes awarded to the tournament’s standout performers, we will be awarding cash prizes to the winners of three fun side competitions!

Tournament rules
A detailed list of the tournament rules and complete registration instructions will be announced in the next few days!

2010-05-09 - HONCAST: $1000 Series Tournament II Signups Now OPEN

It's been an amazing journey here for all of us in the rapid growth of Heroes of Newerth as an eSport, and the now 100,000 strong viewers a month have shown that this game has an amazing spectator value. With that said, eSport Media / HONCAST is proud to present, sponsored by S2 Games, the first round of our eight week HoN Tournament Series.

Honcast is bringing back the 5v5 action with honcasted matches every week. Every Sunday a winner will be determined by the outcome of each qualifying round and guaranteed a spot in the HONCAST $1000 Tournament Series Finals sponsored by S2 Games. The winning teams from each week of qualifiers will also get some sweet swag(prizes) from S2 Games. Once a team wins their spot in the Top 8 Finals, they are sitting pretty and the rest must battle it out until the Top 8 are determined by one way only... Winning it all.

The tournament spots for each week are first come, first serve, so don't delay signing up for the weekly qualifiers. We will be seeding the tournament using the HONCAST community rankings, if your team is not on the rankings you will be randomly seeded below the recognized teams from rankings. The tournament will take place each Sunday at 11:00 Pacific Standard Time (PST) / 18:00 GMT.

Each week, bracket is limited to 16 seeds, and the final will be a 8 team bracket of the finalists. Rounds are sing elimination (1 match) and the finals will be Best out of 3 (BO3).

Honcast has taken our tournament and bracket system to the next level. Our bracket system is programmed with the functionality to coincide with our Video on Demand. That means that you'll be able to click straight from the bracket to watch a certain match between teams on the bracket if a Honcast was done of the round. Matches that were honcasted are denoted by the green filled background, matches that were not honcasted remain with a black background.

On top of all of this, we have our soon to be released HONCAST Ranking, which will feature both the Honcast community rankings, as well as the Honcast Tournament Ranking, which monitors team's performances in the Honcast tournaments.

Prizes:
Weekly Winner: Swag Prizes for Team (To be determined by S2 Games)

1st Place: $600 Cash
2nd Place: $300 Cash
3rd Place: $100 Cash

To sign up and for rules on the Tournament, just go here

View Teaser video here.

2010-05-08 Neva HON IV - Qualifier to a $5,000 invitational!

This is a qualifier to a $5,000 invitational. There are still slots available, but they're filling up fast - so get your entry in now!

Information
There will be eight Neva HON tournaments in total, the winner of each will be invited to the Neva Grand Invitational, which has a 1st prize of $5,000 for the winning team.

About Neva
Neva is an ISP that provides worldwide media distribution services (with clients including S2 Games and eSport Media), along with a number of other related network services. We have recently moved in to the field of sponsoring community and gaming orientated projects, starting with the extremely popular Honcast website. After discussing it internally, we've decided to put more of a focus in this area, and these tournaments form the initial basis of this.

How To Register
Want to register your teams interest? Email gaming@nevadigital.co.uk and we'll add you to the pool of potential teams. Teams who have already registered an interest for this particular qualifier, need not register again.

Date
8th May 2010 @ 2PM EST.

Tournament Format
16 team invitational (brackets).
5v5.
Banning pick.
Single elimination.
Finals BO3.

Map
Forests of Caldavar.

Media
This tournament will be casted by Honcast.

Prizes
$250 cash prize to the winning team.

Rules
No Ancient pulling to lane on either side. Pulling regular creep spawns is allowed.
No use of glitches (i.e. dupe methods that haven't been patched.) Questions on these should be brought up before attempting them in game. Kongor glitches are a good example.
Sharing of healing items is allowed. Bottle may only be transferred between teammates for a short period. It may not be given for long periods of time. Doombringer pooling is also forbidden.
Blocking team creep spawns with abilities such as Behemoth's fissure is forbidden. This does not include the opponents creeps when attempting to take a tower.
Entering the oppositions base without a creep wave is NOT allowed. The creep wave does not have to be in the same lane as you.
Maximum of 2 (of each) Astrolabe, Puzzle Box and Ring of Sorcery per team.

2010-05-01 - Neva HON III - Qualifier to a $5,000 invitational!

16 team invitational (brackets).
5v5.
Banning pick.
Single elimination.
Finals BO3.

Map
Forests of Caldavar.

Media
This tournament will be casted by Honcast.

Prizes
$250 cash prize to the winning team.

Rules

No Ancient pulling to lane on either side. Pulling regular creep spawns is allowed.
No use of glitches (i.e. dupe methods that haven't been patched.) Questions on these should be brought up before attempting them in game. Kongor glitches are a good example.
Sharing of healing items is allowed. Bottle may only be transferred between teammates for a short period. It may not be given for long periods of time. Doombringer pooling is also forbidden.
Blocking team creep spawns with abilities such as Behemoth's fissure is forbidden. This does not include the opponents creeps when attempting to take a tower.
Entering the oppositions base without a creep wave is NOT allowed. The creep wave does not have to be in the same lane as you.
Maximum of 2 (of each) Astrolabe, Puzzle Box and Ring of Sorcery per team.

HoN goes retail on May 12, 2010!

An announcement was recently posted on the HoN Facebook group indicating the official date that the beta is ending.

Here's the actual announcement:

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Retail release date has been set. HoN's Open Beta will come to an end on Wednesday, May 12th @ 4:00pm EST, 2 weeks from today. It has been an amazing beta process and we appreciate the support of all our fans!

It was also mentioned on the forums that people who have pre-purchased will be able to "steal" game names from people who haven't pre-purchased starting May 5th.

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The retail release of HoN is approaching. With that in mind, we will be opening up all NON PRE PURCHASED nicknames to anyone willing to purchase or who has already pre purchased the game.

You will simply visit a form, check the availability of a nickname, if the nickname is not taken or taken by a non pre purchased account, you will have the opportunity to KS it. That means if you are not pre purchased and want your nickname, I strongly suggest you buy HoN now to secure your it before this begins on:

Wednesday, May 5th @ 4:00pm EST (with retail following a week later Wed, May 12th @ 4:00pm EST)

The page to steal nicknames is at:

https://www.heroesof....com/ksNickname

You can pre purchase HoN at:

https://www.heroesof...ase_account.php

We will email all our users with a Q&A style email regarding retail release and other things next week as well as post that information here. This is just an early early warning to give people the heads up! Buy now

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