Win "Heroes Of The Dorm" eSports Tournament And Say Goodbye To Your College Tuition

By Megan Weyrauch on March 16, 2015

Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment, said in a recent press release that college sports do great things for student athletes by helping them to pay for school, build teamwork and communication skills and create lasting memories.

He also feels the same way about eSports.

“We believe eSports has the same kind of power, and this tournament aims to bring positive experiences like these to college gamers,” he said in the press release. “We can’t wait to fill out our fantasy brackets and cheer on a new generation of eSports athletes as they compete in Heroes of the Storm.”

So what tournament is he referring to? An awesome eSports tournament that results in your college tuition being paid off. That’s right: free school!

Blizzard Entertainment and TeSPA recently revealed plans for Heroes of the Dorm™, the ultimate Heroes of the Storm college tournament, according to this press release. This contest offers an unprecedented prize pool where the winning team will receive free tuition for the rest of their college career.

Heroes of the Storm is Blizzard Entertainment’s free-to-play online team brawler featuring iconic heroes from more than 20 years of the developer’s gaming history, according to the press release. Gamers will play some of their favorite characters from the Warcraft®, StarCraft®, and Diablo® universes, and team up with friends to battle other teams online.

Heroes of the Storm features a variety of battlegrounds with multiple objectives that affect strategy in unique ways and players will be able to customize their heroes with a variety of skins and special mounts will help them cover ground on the battlefield more quickly.

This collegiate eSports event will be aired live exclusively on ESPN on television and digital platforms, making it the first event of its kind to be televised live on an ESPN network.

The Heroes of the Dorm contest will pit teams of college students from across the United States and Canada in an epic showdown to determine the strongest scholars in the Nexus with hundreds of dollars of tuition at stake.

Each competing team will get access to the Heroes of the Storm closed beta test in order to participate. This tournament is open to active college students in the United States and Canada and will be played across three rounds of competition:

• Open Qualifiers – Begin March 28
• Single-Elimination Bracket Play (Round of 64) – Begins April 11
• The Heroic Four live event to be held in late April

The five members of the first-place team will receive up to $25,000 per year in college tuition for their remaining years of undergrad or graduate enrollment with up to three full years as an undergrad or up to two as a grad student.

Finished with school? You will receive one year’s worth of tuition to help you repay your student loans, or an equivalent cash prize for those of you lucky enough to have zero remaining loans.

Additionally, each player whose team emerges from the Round of 64 in the tournament and makes it to the Heroic Four will take home a top-of-the-line gaming PC and officially licensed Heroes of the Storm peripherals and accessories.

ESPN3 will air the Round of 16, Round of 8 and Heroic Four live on the multi-screen sports network. This network is accessible in more than 99 million households nationwide to those who receive their internet or video subscription from an affiliated provider and to about 21 million U.S. college students and U.S.-based military personnel via computers, smartphones and tablets connected to on-campus/on-base Wi-Fi networks.

Viewers can access Heroes of the Dorm action on WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app and streamlined on televisions through Apple TV, Roku and other connected devices. The Heroes of the Dorm championship match will be televised live in prime time on an ESPN network and accessible via WatchESPN in late April.

Interested in this unique competition? Grab a team of five players and register by visiting the Heroes of the Dorm website, where you will find complete rules and eligibility requirements.

However, you don’t have to be on a team to win prizes; you can participate in the Heroes of the Dorm fantasy bracket challenge to cheer on your favorite schools and possibly win big. Spectators, you can create and share these fantasy brackets to partake in an epic prize pool valued at more than $25,000, including a $10,000 prize for whoever predicts the final bracket most accurately, as well as gaming PCs for the five best predictions. Fantasy brackets will be here starting April 3.

And that’s not all! Everyone who participates will receive a Heroes of the Storm in-game portrait as well as the chance to win high-end gaming PCs and a range of gaming peripherals.

For more information on ESPN, The Worldwide Leader in Sports, visit their website. Learn more about TeSPA, the premier college gaming network in North America dedicated to creating a home for gamers on every campus, on their website.

Lastly, find out more about Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. here or if you’re interested in working for them (they have numerous positions currently available!), visit their jobs site.

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