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Hearthstone Collegiate National Championship

The live finals of the Hearthstone Collegiate National Championship will be taking place on April 22 and 23 at the Esports Arena in Santa Ana, California. The event will be streamed live on Twitch and more importantly, there's some digital goodies that are obtainable both by watching at home and visiting the event.

Learn more about the freebies and event below.

Free Card Packs - Choose Your Champion

The Choose Your Champion feature returns yet again! This time you can earn up to three Mean Streets of Gadgetzan packs, one which you get for just choosing a team as your champion, and the other two if your team is able to advance to the quarterfinals and semifinals.

The Dalaran Flame TeSPA Card Back - Attend the Event

If you've been looking for the Dalaran Flame card back, and happen to be in the Santa Ana area, you can now add this precious card back to your collection! All you need to do is purchase a ticket to the event and attend the event in person. You are unable to get the card back unless you attend in person, so don't buy a ticket online if you aren't able to go out there.

• Tickets are $12 for one day or $20 for both.
• The Dalaran Flame Card Back will be credited to your Battle.net account directly. No codes.
• Attendees will also receive a $10 Blizzard Gear Store code.
• IMPORTANT: You must check in at the venue during the event to receive your attendee gifts.

Blog Post

Quote from Blizzard

After seven weeks of grueling group play, regional playoffs, and an elimination championship bracket, the Hearthstone Collegiate National Championship ends with the live finals on April 22 and 23 at the Esports Arena in Santa Ana, California.

The eight remaining teams are battling for the lion’s share of over $160,000 in scholarship prizing, and live attendees can look forward to high-level play in one of the first Blizzard-sanctioned Hearthstone competitions using the new Standard rotation with Journey to Un’Goro in play, as well as a suite of exciting activities throughout the weekend.

Competing in the playoff bracket will be teams from the following colleges:

• Shawnee State University
• Colorado State University
• École Polytechnique de Montréal
• Rutgers University
• The University of Texas at San Antonio
• University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
• University of California – Riverside
• University of California – Berkeley

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Choose Your Champion

We’re also pleased to offer another opportunity to Choose Your Champion for the Collegiate National Finals! You can earn up to three (3) Mean Streets of Gadgetzan packs — one just for voting, plus one for each round that your team advances (from the quarterfinals to the semifinals, and from the semifinals to the finals).

BRACKETS

Click the button to choose a champion, but remember you cannot change your selection once you have chosen!

CHOOSE NOW!

Voting ends on April 20 at 11:59 p.m. PDT.

Casters

Several of the most talented Hearthstone casters will be bringing you all the excitement throughout the event. The weekend’s festivities will be hosted by Dan “Frodan” Cho, and game commentary will be provided by these dynamic duos:

• Brian Kibler and Robert Wing
• Cora “Songbird” Georgiou ​and Nathan “ThatsAdmirable” Zamora
• 2017 So You Think You Can Cast’s Justin “JV” Varghese and Nabil “Nebtune” Pervez

Format

The match format for the live finals is a “3v3 Class Match” in which each player of the team plays one best-of-three series, for a total of nine games between all nine classes. Teams will alternate assigning each of their nine Standard decks to a player.

Event Details

Our all-ages live event tickets are on sale now. Each ticket includes the Dalaran Flame card back, and a $10 coupon usable at the on-site Blizzard Gear store*. Tickets to the Hearthstone Collegiate National Championship will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis, so get yours today!

Esports Arena

120 W. 5^th St

Santa Ana, CA 92701

One-day tickets are $12
Two-day tickets are $20

In addition to the excitement of the live finals, attendees can participate in several on-site activities and take home some loot:

• Duel-a-Developer – Go head-to-head with a Hearthstone developer at the Inn! The development team will host a Duel-a-Developer station from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PDT each day.
• Gear Store – Fans looking to get their hands on the latest Hearthstone and Tespa merchandise can stop by the on-site Blizzard Gear store, featuring exclusive event shirts.

If you’re unable to make it in person, you can still catch all the action on the official Hearthstone Twitch channel.

For more information about future Tespa tournaments, visit Tespa.org.

* You must attend in person and link your Battle.net account to the same email as your Eventbrite ticket to be eligible.