The North American Heroes tournament drought before BlizzCon just became a little easier to bear with the recent announcement of the HTC Heroes Brawl. Eight teams will battle though a group stage and into the playoffs for their cut of the $6,200 prize pool.

The best-of-three group stage starts on October 3rd at 15:00 EST, and will continue on the 10th and 13th. Playoffs are scheduled for October 24th and will feature the top two teams from each group.

Featured are the five teams who represented North America in Las Vegas, along with three squads that all reached Top 8 at least once at the North America Opens.

The group distribution is as follows:

Group A Group B Tempo Storm Cloud9 COGnitive Gaming compLexity Gaming Murloc Geniuses Team Blaze Panda Global Kappa Wolves

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