Heroes of the DormTM: The UC Berkeley Golden Bears Are Heroes of the StormTM Collegiate Champions
For the first time ever, live telecast of collegiate eSports event aired on ESPN2
After fighting their way through a formidable pool of challengers, four
teams of college students took to the stage at the
"Competing in the Heroes of the Dorm tournament has been an amazing
experience for our team," said Golden Bears team captain
The Golden Bears players will be receiving the tournament grand prize—tuition to cover the remainder of their college careers.
The Heroes of the Dorm Finals took the Twitter world by storm Sunday evening. Fans of eSports and newcomers alike tuned into the ESPN2 telecast thanks to the non-stop action on display during the back-and-forth series and commentary from the announcing team of Dan ‘Artosis' Stemkoski, Nick ‘Tasteless' Plott, Sean ‘Day9' Plott, Manuel ‘Grubby' Schenkhuizen, and Tim ‘Trikslyr' Frazier. According to one Twitter user, "going HAM on this core!" is the front-runner for the "Down goes Frazier" sportscasting call of the century.
The Heroes of the Dorm tournament marked the first time that a
collegiate eSports event has been telecast live on ESPN2. The "Heroic
Four" semi-finals were delivered on ESPN3, followed by the championship
match and closing ceremony in prime time on ESPN2. ESPN coverage of the
event was also viewed online at WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and
tablets via the WatchESPN app, and streamed on televisions through
Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast,
Heroes of the Dorm also broke new ground for collegiate eSports by
offering nearly half a million dollars in lucrative prizes to both
student competitors and viewers—thousands of members of the Heroes of
the Storm community filled out fantasy brackets with their predicted
winners. In addition to
"I'd like to congratulate our Heroes of the Dorm, the UC Berkeley Golden
Bears, on their epic victory run," said
Heroes of the Storm brings together a diverse cast of iconic
characters from Blizzard's far-flung realms of science fiction and
fantasy, including the Warcraft®, StarCraft®,
and
To learn more about Heroes of the Storm, head over to the
official website at www.heroesofthestorm.com.
With multiple games in development,
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