NVIDIA Hearthstone Pro Am Tournament

Overview
The NVIDIA Hearthstone Pro/Am Tournament is an international tournament hosted by CEVO and sponsored by NVIDIA GeForce. Players from around the world will be able to compete for a part of the prize pool as well as qualification points toward the Hearthstone World Championship. Registration began on Tuesday, February 24th at 12:00 PM EST and will end on Thursday, March 19th at 12:00 PM EST.

Format

 * Amateur Group Stage
 * Swiss style (results-based scheduling, and players do not play every other player) across six regional conferences
 * Eight weeks of open group play, one match per week
 * Players will only play other players in their regional conference
 * Amateur Playoffs
 * Schedule and format TBA
 * Top 16 players advance to Global Playoffs
 * Professional Group Stage
 * Round-robin
 * 16 invited players, 8 weeks of group player, 2 matches per week
 * Group stage results will determine playoff seeding
 * Global Playoffs
 * Top 16 players from Amateur Division will play against the 16 players from Professional Division
 * 32-team, single-elimination, Best of Five bracket
 * Professional players are seeded 1-16, while Amateur players are seeded 17-32

Prize Pool
$ 25,000 USD + 230 qualification points toward the Hearthstone World Championship are spread among the players as follows:

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