SUNDAY JUNE 6th 2010

It's been an amazing journey here for all of us in the rapid growth of Heroes of Newerth as an eSport, and the now 100,000 strong viewers a month have shown that this game has an amazing spectator value. With that said, eSport Media / HONCAST is proud to present, sponsored by S2 Games, the fifth round of our eight week HoN Tournament Series.

Honcast is bringing back the 5v5 action with honcasted matches every week. Every Sunday a winner will be determined by the outcome of each qualifying round and guaranteed a spot in the HONCAST $1000 Tournament Series Finals sponsored by S2 Games. The winning teams from each week of qualifiers will also get some sweet swag(prizes) from S2 Games.  Once a team wins their spot in the Top 8 Finals, they are sitting pretty and the rest must battle it out until the Top 8 are determined by one way only... Winning it all.

The tournament spots for each week are first come, first serve, so don't delay signing up for the weekly qualifiers. We will be seeding the tournament using the HONCAST community rankings, if your team is not on the rankings you will be randomly seeded below the recognized teams from rankings. The tournament will take place each Sunday at 11:00 Pacific Standard Time (PST) / 18:00 GMT.

 
Each week, bracket is limited to 16 seeds, and the final will be a 8 team bracket of the finalists. Rounds are sing elimination (1 match) and the finals will be Best out of 3 (BO3).
 

Honcast has taken our tournament and bracket system to the next level. Our bracket system is programmed with the functionality to coincide with our Video on Demand. That means that you'll be able to click straight from the bracket to watch a certain match between teams on the bracket if a Honcast was done of the round. Matches that were honcasted are denoted by the green filled background, matches that were not honcasted remain with a black background.

On top of all of this, we have our soon to be released HONCAST Ranking, which will feature both the Honcast community rankings, as well as the Honcast Tournament Ranking, which monitors team's performances in the Honcast tournaments.

Prizes:
Weekly Winner: Swag Prizes for Team (To be determined by S2 Games)
1st Place: $600 Cash
2nd Place: $300 Cash
3rd Place: $100 Cash

(Prizes must be accepted in form of paypal or check, full amount will be sent to one location)