The 2016 MCM London Comic Con will host a number of community tournaments as well as the ESL UK HearthStone finals.
There will be HearthStone and League of Legends free-play community activities taking place on Friday May 27th, plus a Heroes of the Storm (HotS) tournament starting on Saturday May 28th.
The HotS community competition will feature a prize pool of £1,500 worth of official merchandise.
Additionally, an Overwatch tournament will get underway on Sunday May 29th, with £500 worth of official merchandise up for grabs for the winning team.
You can sign up to enter those competitions and find more details here.
Street Fighter V will also be playable at the consumer show.
All eyes are on the HearthStone tournament, of course. The four finalists in the ESL UK Premiership HearthStone Spring Season finals at MCM London Comic Con have been named.
The first seed is HelloLeeroy (from exceL eSports), followed by BoarControl (Torpedo), Mysterious and Cipher (Fade 2 Karma).
They will face one another on the main stage at ExCeL London during the weekend of May 28th to 29th for a slice of the £5,000 prize pot. HelloLeeroy will face Cipher in one semi-final and BoarControl will play against Mysterious in the other.
Raven (Torpedo), Sottle (Complexity), Osha (exceL) and Greensheep (Team Dignitas) failed to qualify for the finals.
You can check out the final standings on ESL’s website.
Over the past seven weeks, the players have been taking part in weekly matches, with £50 awarded for each series victory (£1,400 in total). There were originally 295 players who signed up for the initial online qualifiers.
Twitch figures for the final group stage matches exceeded 2,500 viewers.
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