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Earn Free Card Packs! Choose Your Champion Returns for the Shanghai Spring Championship

Free card packs return to the esports scene via another Choose Your Champion! Check out the groups below to help figure out the best choice!

• Head on over to the Choose Your Champion site.
• You get one free card pack just for choosing a champion. You'd be silly not to!
• Each time your champion advances in the bracket, you earn one more card pack.
• At most, you can earn 4 card packs from this promotion.
• Voting closes on July 4 at 11:59 p.m. PDT!
• Card packs will be delivered digitally at a later date - a week after the Spring Championship.

The Spring Championship takes place July 7 to 9. We'll have a dedicated post next week for tracking the event, so stay tuned!

Spring Championship Groups

Group A
Neirea
Muzzy
Hope
CitizenNappa

Group B
Hoej
Kranich
Kuonet
Dogggg

Group C
Mage
Trunks
Kolento
DiegoDias

Group D
JasonZhou
Ant
Tredsred
Rdu

Who Did You Choose?

Help your fellow Hearthstone players and let us know who your champion is.

Blog Post

Quote from Blizzard

The 2017 Hearthstone Championship Tour's second seasonal championship takes players and fans to the bustling metropolis of Shanghai, China. Sixteen players from around the globe have earned their spot in the HCT Spring Championship to compete for their share of the $250,000 prize pool and a seat at the Hearthstone World Championship. Choose Your Champion also returns — pick your favorite competitor and cheer them on throughout the tournament for a chance at in-game rewards! Spring Championship details including the participants, casters, schedule, and more can be found below.

Choose Your Champion

You can once again root for one of the 16 competitors as they compete in the Spring Championship and be rewarded with card packs based on how well they perform!

These champions represent the Americas, Asia-Pacific, China, and Europe, and hope to represent their home region at the Hearthstone World Championship.

CHAMPION GROUPS

Simply click the button below to choose a champion to cheer for — but remember, you cannot change your selection once you have chosen!

CHOOSE NOW!

Just for participating, you will receive one card pack from Journey to Un’Goro. You will receive one additional card pack from Journey to Un’Goro each time your champion advances — to the quarterfinals, semifinals, or finals. If your champion plays in the finals, for example, you would earn four total packs (including your participation pack). All card packs will be delivered to you in-game the week after the Spring Championship. Voting ends on July 4 at 11:59 p.m. PDT.

Casters

Calling all of the action are the talented casting duos of:

• Dan ‘Frodan’ Chou with Brian Kibler
• Simon ‘Sottle’ Welch with Alexander ‘Raven’ Baguley
• TJ ‘Azumo’ Sanders with Nathan 'ThatsAdmirable' Zamora

Format

The Spring Championship begins with a double elimination group stage, followed by a single elimination playoff bracket. Each group consists of four competitors — one from each region. Each match will be best-of-five using the Conquest format with one class ban, so each player must bring four decks.

Groups were seeded based on Hearthstone Competitive Points, with the top point earner from each region placed in their own group, and the remainder of the group filled in based on the order of the players’ regional seeds.

Schedule

The Spring Championship takes place July 7 to 9, observing the following schedule:

• July 7 at 10:00 a.m. China Standard Time (July 6 at 7:00 p.m. PDT) – Group Stages
• July 8 at 10:00 a.m. China Standard Time (July 7 at 7:00 p.m. PDT) – Group Stages
• July 9 at 10:00 a.m. China Standard Time (July 8 at 7:00 p.m. PDT) – Playoffs

Prize Pool

The $250,000 Spring Championship prize pool will be divided as follows:

Placement	Prize (USD)	Points
1st	$60,000	20
2nd	$40,000	15
3rd & 4th	$20,000	10
5th – 8th	$12,500	8
9th – 16th	$7,500	6
Total	$250,000	135