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Heroes of Newerth back at DreamHack

8 teams to fight over $30,000 plus at DreamHack Summer 2015

DreamHack is proud to announce the Heroes of Newerth DreamHack Summer 2015 tournament, 13-15 June in Jönköping, Sweden. 8 of world’s best teams will fight over $30,000 in prizes.

The main tournament will consist of 8 of world’s best Heroes of Newerth teams, and the top-4 will be awarded 195,000 SEK (equals $30,000+ in prizes). All matches will be broadcasted on-site by DreamHack and Honcast.

8 teams from around the world have been selected from various qualifiers. The Chinese event featuring the best of the budding HoN nation, while the SouthEast Asia region featured massive open qualifiers for the Thai and SEA regions, yielding two regional representatives. The international region similarly featured a semi-open qualifier series. Each of five qualifiers pit professional teams against top amateurs for a trip to one of HoN’s most prestigious events.

Together these 8 teams from four major regions will compete at HoN’s return to DreamHack. The upcoming event marks Heroes of Newerth first appearance in the Elmia since stayGreen’s win over Denial eSports at DreamHack Winter, 2013. The event was made possible in major part due to community funding attached to exclusive in-game avatars from the ARMS and 8-Bit collections. Proceeds from sales of these items were used to help fund the event, and provide a $30,000+ prize pool.