Unofficial World Championship
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The first part of our trip down memory lane left us in April 2020, at the first 2020 GHL Season. The Chinese-Korean team Tsunami had become the Heroes of the Storm Unofficial World Champion. In fact, in one of our timelines they still are. However, the new branch of the time stream takes us back to Korea… and beyond. In case you missed it, you still can read חלק 1.
HOTS League Revival S5
Crow and Gondar played for BCK
The Koreans from Tsunami took the championship bell back home. After a perfect run at the group stage, they lost at the finals against Lockdown’s team.
- Grand Finals: 3인황꿈 4-2 BCK
3인황꿈: Lockdown, Rujeah, plok, 핫가이장비, SaMaT
The great production team behind Revival Season 5.
GHL 2020 S2
3인황꿈 disbanded. Rujeah and SaMaT played for GTP
This was a new chapter in the newborn GHL rivalry between Tsunami and HOTS. After facing each other at the qualifier in Season 1, both teams made it to the finals in Season 2.The result was the same: a Tsunami victory.
- Semifinals: Tsunami 3-1 GTP
הצונאמי: Bruiser, Crow, Gondar, TeacherMa, Unicron
GHL 2020 S3
Tsunami kept the exact same roster
This was just another day at the office for Tsunami. Their tournament run was perfect, not dropping a single map throughout the whole event.
הצונאמי: Bruiser, Crow, Gondar, TeacherMa, Unicron
Storm Division S1 Q1
Crow and Gondar played for Team Alexander
The championship belt left the Eastern regions for the first time in the post-HGC era. The Korean superteam Team Alexander attended the Storm Division qualifiers, where they swept all the teams but one, VGM Gaming.
- Finals: VGM 2-0 Alexander
VGM Gaming: TigerJK, Hebi, Mokka, Vespertine, cattlepillar
Here we find another timeline split. If we consider VGM a proper organization, they kept their title until the main event of the NGS Storm Division. At that tournament, Chilly Mountain’s NGS squad took the crown. That roster later became Heavy Impact… Long story short, Simplicity became the World Champion before the CCL Season 2 Icebreaker (thus merging back timelines 2 and 3). If we don’t consider VGM a proper organization, we get to Timeline 3.
קווי זמן 3
Kapptains Draft
All the VGM players attended the event. Two of them (Hebi and Vespertine) played for Team Liam
Another draft tournament. After losing against Cookieman’s team at the group A finals, Carbon led his squad to victory and claimed the championship belt for himself.
- Group A: Cookieman 2-1 Liam
- Finals: Carbon 3-1 Cookieman
Team Carbon: Carbon, Fury, Valamar, Gotfilth, ElhayM
Storm Division S1 Q4
Team Carbon disbanded. Players: Valamar (Forge), GotFilth (CPogX Fanclub)
In the fourth Storm Division qualifier, CPogX Fanclub earned a spot for the main event, but also became the world champion.
CPogX Fanclub: LegacY, Noah, GotFilth, bkb, nintorii
CCL Season 1 Icebreaker
Velocity hadn’t signed CPogX Fanclub yet, so we can’t count it as an org. Players: GotFilth (Sidestep Kings), nintorii (Granit Gaming), Noah (Simplicity)
This was the beginning of the CCL World Champions. After drafting three of the CPogX Fanclub players, the championship belt became the unofficial prize of the Icebreaker Tournament.
CrowdControl: Lauber, Rutzou, XraYY, Dynouh, Daykwaza, Hebi
CCL Season 1
World Champion: CrowdControl*
We finally arrive at the largest Heroes of the Storm event since HGC. We’ll consider all the involved teams to be proper organizations, even if some of them disbanded after season 1.
- Week 2: WH 3-2 CC
- Week 3: OXG 3-1 WH
- Week 5: Granit 3-2 OXG
- Week 6: Chilly 3-1 Granit
- Week 7: CC 3-0 Chilly
- Upper Semifinals: Simplicity 3-1 CC
פשטות: Kure, Lutano, KillZiioN, Hosty, LegacY, Mascarade
*Though some CC players participated in Nexus Cup 4 and Meta Madness 4, CrowdControl was considered a proper organization at that time, so the title still belonged to them.
CCL Season 2 Icebreaker
World Champion: Simplicity
Michael Udall was really proud of his CCL Season 2 draft. We don’t know if 30k will win the CCL, but actually they were the Unofficial World Champions… for a while.
- Quarterfinals: Simplicity 1-2 CM
- Semifinals: CM 0-2 30k
30k: HasuObs, Vespertine, Fury, XraYY, Dynouh, Yasu
DreamHack Beyond Q1
World Champion: 30k
After their initial success, 30k wasn’t able to keep the championship belt. Simplicity claimed it back.
- Semifinals: 30k 1-2 Simplicity
פשטות: Kure, Lutano, LegacY, Mascarade, Hosty
DreamHack Beyond Q2
World Champion: Simplicity
Despite successfully defending their title at CCL Season 2, Simplicity fell at the second DreamHack qualifier. They were already qualified for the main event, but they decided to play the tournament anyway.
- Semifinals: Simplicity 1-2 WH
WildHeart Esports: Justing, Zergling, Buds, Unaverted, WearyDay
CCL Season 2
World Champion: WildHeart Esports
Unlike Simplicity, WildHeart failed to defend the championship belt at the HeroesHearth league. They lost it in their first match after DreamHack Q2.
- Week 5: OXG 3-2 WH
Source: https://tl.net/forum/heroes/574626-hots-unofficial-world-championship-part-2