With the PGL Spring Tavern Tales qualifiers over, 32 Hearthstone players from Europe are on their way to Bucharest for the February 26-28 LAN playoff event.
The PGL Spring Tavern Tales 2016 finals will be held in the PGL’s brand new Bucharest studios. The lounge area is eagerly expecting to entertain and relax the 32 card slingers that impressed us in the qualifiers.
1.Thijs “ThijsNL” Molendijk (Netherlands)
2.Petar “Gaara” Stevanovic (Germany)
3.Harald “Powder” Gimre (Sweden)
4.Thomas “T hefishou” Guedj (France)
5.Grégoire “Un33d” Bodin (France)
6.Raffael “Gameking” Iciren (Austria)
7.Rémi “Tars” Roesch (France)
8.Lars “Ikarus” Quilitzsch (Germany)
9.Jesper “Freakeh” Eriksson (Sweden)
10.Stefan “Moody” Marinescu (Romania)
11.Simon “Crane” Raunholst (Denmark)
12.Mateusz “Dziany” Karwat (Poland)
13.Giorgos “Likeabawse” Papadimitrak (Greece)
14.Ivan “Gosuforever” Fernandez Cubillo (Spain)
15.Kostas “Tholwmenos” Sakellaridis (Greece)
16.Nistor “xTracKyStyLe” Marius Gabriel (Romania)
17.Arne “Arneej” Huysegoms (Belgium)
18.Giannis “Athanas” Athanasiou (Greece)
19.Thanos “Tsiboukis” Vasilas (Greece)
20.Cindy “Leva” Xhaard (France)
21.Nicklas “Tessin” Dittmer Chrisensen (Denmark)
22.Pavel “Scruffy” Janík (Czech Republic)
23.Vincent “Vinz” Ralambomiadana (France)
24.Vlad “Angeloshaggy” Angelo Dumitru (Romania)
25.Simona “Karolinka” Procházková (Czech Republic)
26.Giorgos “Zuky” Voudouris (Greece)
27.Valentin “GuardianMC” Ionita (Romania)
28.George “Fearless” Arcan (Romania)
29.Stanislav “Anaro” Jirák (Czech Republic)
30.Pablo “Slytha” Leon (Spain)
31.Dima “Dimonenka” Ivanov (Russian)
32.Christian “Kenny1337” Kretschmar (Austria)
The first day of the event will be dedicated to the Swiss Round stage, followed by a single elimination bracket throughout the weekend, leading to the grand final on Sunday evening.
PGL Spring Tavern Tales 2016 Schedule
Day
Time
Match
Friday
26 February
10:30 -11:00 CET
Preshow
11:00 – 12:30 CET
Swiss – Round 1
12:30 – 14:00 CET
Swiss – Round 2
14:00 – 15:30 CET
Swiss – Round 3
16:00 – 17:30 CET
Swiss – Round 4
17:30 – 19:00 CET
Swiss – Round 5
Saturday
27 February
10:30 – 11:00 CET
Preshow
11:00 – 12:15 CET
Round of 16 – Match #1
12:15 – 13:30 CET
Round of 16 – Match #2
13:30 – 14:45 CET
Round of 16 – Match #3
15:00 – 16:15 CET
Round of 16 – Match #4
16:45 – 18:00 CET
Round of 16 – Match #5
18:00 – 19:15 CET
Round of 16 – Match #6
19:45 – 21:00 CET
Round of 16 – Match #7
21:00 – 22:15 CET
Round of 16 – Match #8
Sunday
28 February
10:30 – 11:00 CET
Preshow
11:00 – 12:15 CET
Round of 8 – Match #1
12:15 – 13:30 CET
Round of 8 – Match #2
13:30 – 14:45 CET
Round of 8 – Match #3
14:45 – 16:00 CET
Round of 8 – Match #4
17:00 – 18:15 CET
Round of 4 – Match #1
18:15 – 19:30 CET
Round of 4 – Match #2
20:00 – 21:30 CET
Grand Final
As previously announced, the English broadcast of the tournament will be available on twitch.tv/pgl_hs, with commentary provided by Marcin “Gnimsh” Filipowicz (@gnmishtv), Jakub “Lothar” Szylguski (@lotharHS) and Alex ‘Raven’ Baguley (@RavenHSUK).
The PGL crew also has several surprises in store for the Hearthstone audience, including fun interactive activities, as well as a new Tavern where guests will spill their secrets and play some showmatches.
Be sure to watch the stream starting at 12:30 CET on February 26th, and follow PGL on Facebook and Twitter to find out more about what’s in store for the first Tavern Tales of 2016. Twitch channel: http://twitch.tv/pgl_hs
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PGL Facebook page: www.facebook.com/pglesport
About PGL
Since 2002, PGL has been running offline events and producing esports related content for national and international audiences. In the last five years alone, PGL has organized over 50 offline events and built a reputation for itself as one of the most innovative players on the esports market.
PGL hosts its own quality esports tournaments, for games such as: CS:GO, Dota 2, League of Legends, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm and Minecraft. For example, in 2015 alone, PGL ran two seasons of its international CS:GO competition, each with a $110.000 prize pool (PGL CS:GO Championship Series Kick-off Season and PGL Season 1).
Most of PGL’s content is backed by offline events, with attendances ranging from 1,000 people/event in cinemas, to over 25,000 people/event in big arenas around the Globe (ex: Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Baku, Jonkoping)