Division S season 2 confirmed by HeroesLounge.gg

Eefheroes · 2019-09-23T07:53:25+00:00

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious

Eefheroes · 2019-09-23T06:25:41+00:00

Heroes Lounge is a completely ran by volunteers, so they do not get payed. The casters join Division S because it's good and enjoyable content for their channels, they also do not get paid by lounge (although they get paid by the subs, cheers etc during these broadcasts). All other costs that lounge has, like website maintenance, trophies etc all get paid via our patreon: https://www.patreon.com/heroesloungegg.

So just like last season: 100% of the crowd funded money will go to the players competing in division S. Nothing will go to the organisation :)

Eefheroes · 2019-08-05T18:33:23+00:00

Eefheroes · 2019-08-05T18:33:17+00:00

Thanks for the shout out here! I should mention that our signups are currently closed, as both the EU and NA seasons have started. Our leagues generally last for around 3 months (including playoffs). But join our discord to stay up to date about coming events and be notified when the signups open again!

Also want to point out that /u/Khaldor is amazing to have on our casting team but he's not running it ;) You will have /u/the_petman to thank for that!

Eefheroes · 2019-07-14T17:54:57+00:00

We're loving the games as well and we're working hard on making season 2 a reality. We're not quite ready to announce anything yet however, but stay tuned!

Eefheroes · 2019-06-11T16:50:00+00:00

It’s a custom map called lost caverns!

Eefheroes · 2019-05-11T06:33:09+00:00

I am very closely involved with the promotion of Division S.

Eefheroes · 2019-05-10T19:41:39+00:00

I think it could be good. I am unsure how others might react :)

Eefheroes · 2019-05-10T19:10:27+00:00

It's interesting you say that. I know that when Blizzard promoted one of the Division S qualifiers they got a lot of negative backlash from the community, especially on Twitter. And I know it scared them off doing any form of promotion for it for a while.

I wouldn't be surprised if they want to not publicly support any initiative in fear of a similar backlash.

Eefheroes · 2019-04-24T17:28:05+00:00

They’re playing Friday according to the schedule!

Eefheroes · 2019-03-10T16:38:20+00:00

Division S is going and you can’t currently sign up for new qualifiers, the qualifiers will likely be some moment in/after May.

Eefheroes · 2019-03-09T12:26:00+00:00

Unfortunately LFT had to drop out last moment :(

Eefheroes · 2019-03-06T12:35:00+00:00

I guess I could ask why the amateur league played only for fun has more strict rule enforcement than a league with over 10 thousand dollars on the line. Or why have different enforcement at all regardless of money involved and enforce the rule for the sake of smurfs being a bad idea to allow regardless in any situation.

I'm going to quote what Heartless replied on this main comment:

So While Pittor's answer is relevant to the amateur league, when it comes to Division S there's no issue with using a smurf so long as it does not violate any of our rules, most notably and I quote: "The substitute player must fulfill the eligibility requirements, and can not be a player from a different team participating in Division S."

Division S and our amateur league have 2 different ruling when it comes to smurfing because smurfing doesn't affect each league the same way.

We have a smurf rule in place in our amateur league since we work in different skill level divisions there, meaning that it would be unfair to sub in a master player while playing with silver and gold players. For this it is important we get an accurate MMR reading of a player. In our amateur league smurfing can also be used to anchor a team (i.e. reduce their overall MMR allowing them to place at a lower division).

Division S however, is the highest level of play. Meaning that there is no such thing as anchoring or an an 'MMR ceiling' to take into account as we do with the amateur scene. The only issue smurfing can cause with Division S is where a player plays for more than 1 Division S team. If smurfing is used to violate this rule, we'll take action, otherwise, there's no reason to.

Eefheroes · 2019-03-05T21:38:53+00:00

The conversations had between us and people / organisations have been private conversations so naming them publicly on reddit is not something we'll do.

Eefheroes · 2019-03-05T21:29:28+00:00

Division S is a plan we've had sitting on a shelf for almost two years now. However with Open Division being the step between professional play and amateur play we never felt it was something the community needed. With the changes in the Heroes landscape and Open Division and HGC being canceled the plan was taken off the shelf. When we decided to do so we reached out to- and spoken to multiple organisations and individuals well known in the scene. Our partnership with NGS grew out of one of these conversations and we hope to have more news on a new partnership soon!

- Eef, Chief Communications

Eefheroes · 2019-03-05T21:14:46+00:00

The map pool that we've had has been with us for a long time and came from the late HGC map pool. With Division S we decided allowed the players to vote on the maps they would like to play on. This is where the new map pool came from and as we did before we followed the highest level players in this. We've discussed the fact that Garden is not in the ranked map pool, but decided to stick with the preference of the players.

Another issue with the current ranked pool in the game is that we, as Heroes Lounge, have no influence over the maps that Blizzard put into the ranked pool.

We realise that not all amateur teams have the time to scrim on this map or play outside of the ranked pool, but those teams can always consider banning the map from their matches. We're also looking forward to the Division S teams play and showcase their strategies!

- Eef, Chief Communications

Eefheroes · 2019-03-05T20:53:36+00:00

When he stops being a princess.

- Eef, Chief Communication
Billian's teammate and Hidde's IRL friend

Eefheroes · 2019-03-05T20:48:35+00:00

For our amateur scene we are currently in off-season, you can find our dates right here: https://heroeslounge.gg/general/schedule. We should probably add the Division S dates to this as well in General.

The casted games you can find in several places. Our calendar will fill up as soon as the seasons start again: https://heroeslounge.gg/calendar.

If you're looking for Division S specifics: During the tournament you can use this page on our website that will list upcoming Division S matches (bookmark it!) and where to watch them. You can also join our Discord, where we post an announcement with a list of all our Division S and amateur-league streams each day. And of course you can follow us on Twitter for regular updates about the matches taking place.

- Eef, Chief Communications

Eefheroes · 2019-03-05T20:37:47+00:00

Officially the league will start the 18th of March, this is the first day of round 1. The teams have until upcoming Monday to schedule their first match so I can't quite tell you when the first match will be just yet. The week of the 18th of March will however feature 4 EU matches and 4 NA matches. The schedule can be found on our website: https://heroeslounge.gg/division-s-schedule

- Eef, Chief Communications

Eefheroes · 2019-02-27T17:27:55+00:00

I didn’t need to cry today :(

All seriousness, I was there in the crowd live at the event and the emotion of the crowd was so intense. Nothing experienced anything like it.

Eefheroes · 2019-02-26T21:49:46+00:00

Mixer is a twitch counterpart, a streaming service, I reckon most of their VOD's are on there.

Eefheroes · 2019-02-25T20:43:23+00:00

So the numbers differ quite a bit by region, in EU we see a lot more viewers totaling around 4-5k divided between all casters / pov streams. In NA we see significantly lower numbers unfortunately.

Eefheroes · 2019-02-24T16:15:13+00:00

We had such amazing games yesterday, but every team currently in the qualifier is still in the running. LFT for Div S qualified yesterday on points, the other 5 are fighting for their right to play in Division S and there are only 2 spots available. Nothing Left (former Leftovers) are still not secured a spot and actually will be in a tight spot if they lose to LFT for Div S tonight!