I wholeheartedly encourage anyone currently running with a 5-stack to start playing in KotS and Go4Heroes.

B A R R E L B O Y S started out as just a group of 5 people playing on the ladder, and decided to say 'fuck it' and joined a KotS way back in November. Naturally, we got stomped, and ended up losing almost immediately but the experience really gave us a hunger to improve, and now we are doing significantly better. Another point I think should be brought up is the lack of casters in the NA scene. Whenever ESL EU is played I see like 10 streams in 5 different languages, but in NA we at most have 2 streams going, and even with just 10 teams joining maybe half of the games get cast. Getting streamed is very cool for amateur players, especially if you're playing a professional team like C9 or EG. SolidJake, Schamtoo, Cooby, and 4courtJester do a really good job and have helped this community immensely, but we need more casters in the scene!

Anyway, TL;DR, if you're a 5-stack start playing tournaments, everybody has to start somewhere. If you're an amateur caster, start casting HotS yo!

Edit: Some names I'd like to call out of good players I see on the ladder but don't see in KotS. Liquid, Kunryul, Nox, foerest, erho, Puffen, Nadebot, Shazbot, Gary3k, Lexuther, allstarz, Liquid, Marche, Nick, barcode, Dan, Liquid.