UCLA Shawn Footitt Set to Battle Against Top Players in the Red Bull Hearthstone Team Brawl
- Josh Limon
- Aug 9, 2017
- 2 min read
Beginning at noon on Saturday, August 12th, Hearthstone player Shawn “Triton” Footitt will represent the UCLA Bruins by competing in the Summer Red Bull Team Brawl. Footitt qualified to compete in the Team Brawl by making his way to the final round in one of four TESPA Online Qualifiers, a tournament series opened to college students in which the top two players won an all-expenses-paid trip to Santa Monica to compete in the Red Bull Team Brawl.
The Red Bull Team Brawl tournament consists of four teams of three players that compete against each other in a round robin format. The top two teams from the round robin competition will then play in grand finals for a chance to be crowned the champions of this summer’s Team Brawl. Each of the four trios will be composed of two TESPA Online Qualifier finalists and a team captain. The team captains consist of top Hearthstone players Hafu, Firebat, Reynad, and Amnesiac. Footitt has already been notified that he has been assigned to prolific arena player and streamer Hafu's team.
Once the teams are established, each team will create three unique 30-card decks from a predefined selection of cards for use against their opponents. The tournament will be played in a “conquest” format where each deck can only win a single game per match. This format will encourage variation and prevent domination of a single deck, allowing for dynamic and strategic game-play.
If allowed, this Hearthstone Team Brawl will be the first professional tournament to feature the brand new “Knights of the Frozen Throne” expansion, which releases exactly 2 days before the start of the tournament.
Be sure to tune in August 12th to check out the Summer 2017 Red Bull Team Brawl on Red Bull’s Esports Twitch Channel. Esports @UCLA wishes Footitt good luck as he competes to take home the Bru-Win!
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