The best part of the Road to Blizzcon NA June open qualifiers? The team names.

The massive Road to BlizzCon North American open is going as most people expected it. The pro teams are rising quickly through the brackets, only slowed down momentarily when they encounter another team of similar skill and experience. Cloud 9 Maelstrom, Cloud 9 Vortex, Tempo Storm, compLexity gaming, 2ARC, and Zeveron through random seeding avoided each other in the first 4 rounds, and it is only in the playoffs that teams of relatively equal skill are being matched.



But amidst the stomps, the troll picks, and the Gazlowe bans, some truly magnificent team names have surfaced. Some teams sound absurd (my personal favorite being Quack like a Duck and Team SHOODAMAGOODA), while other team names hint at serious philosophical relevations, expressing the futility of existence through such bold declarations as Team Doesn't Matter or Team Not Even Trying.



Some team names make me hungry; Appleburgers sound delicious, as does Team Banana Bread. There is even a team called The Dinner Excuse, which may either be referencing the iconic reason to stop playing Heroes, or perhaps a starving team and their cry for help.



For accurate record keeping and historical integrity, here are a list of some of my favorites.



Appleburgers

Bella and the Beasts

Blackheart Baes

Bo-Berries

Boogie Knights

Brown Horsin it

D_Legendz of the Hidden temple

Doesn’t matter

Drunken Pig Kickers

Draggin Knights

Evil Jiniuses

Hogsquirts

Hip Hops a struggle

Murky free Week

Not even trying

Pomona Ponies

Pool Plato some Tangos

Power Raynors

Quack like a Duck

Team Banana Bread

Strawberry puppy kisses

Team SHOODAMAGOODA

Team Spiderpig

The Dinner Excuse

The little epeen that could

The Whitest Guild u Know

This is not LoL?

Tyrandesaurus Rekts

We dem Kois

Wumbology



Which team name is your Blackheart Bae? I'm rooting for Quack like a Duck, to win the whole thing. Everyone has a dream and this is mine.







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