A big thank you too all of the teams that have applied for the competition, the amount of responses was extremely large, and we are sorry if you have not been picked to compete.

Congratulations to

Poker Stars from Canada
Global Domination Time from The United States of America 
Honcraft.ru from Russia
Mcity from Australia  

These are the 4 teams that have been selected to compete in the Gamestah Invitational.

Thankyou to all the teams that have applied, it was very hard to pick these teams of such a quality group of applications reaching from all the corners of the world, including-

Chile
Sweden
New Zealand
Brazil
Norway
Denmark
Germany
England
South Korea
Philippines
Poland
Greece
Ireland
Finland
AND MANY MORE

From such a massive ammount of imput to a exibition of Heroes of Newerth while it is still in it's BETA shows just how much support this game already has.

GAMESTAH INVITATIONAL

Semi Final:

Match 1 Mcity (Australia) vs Honcraft.ru (Russia)
Match 2 GDT (USA) vs Poker Stars (Canada) 
 

Grand Final:

Match 3 Winner Match 1 vs Winner Match 2


Standard Format:

- 5 players each side

Map - Forests of Caldavar

Draft - With no Captains mode built into the game the draft is to be done in chat before the match starts, and the Match mode is AP.

Each team can ban 2 hero. The the picks go: 1/2/2/2/2/1

Times can decide between themselves who goes first, if not an admin will toss a coin for them.


Finals Format: -

The Grand final will be a best of 3 match. The first map will be the semi final map, 'Forests of Caldavar'. The 2nd map will be Watch Tower.
If a 3rd map is required, the grand final teams will drop 2 players, and face eachother on the 3 v 3 map of Darkwood Vale in what we are calling a sudden death map.

For the 3 v 3 map each team can ban two heros, then the picks go 1/1/1/1/1/1

Gamestah Allstars Format: -

If the 3rd map is NOT required for the grand final, the winning team of the grand final will face off against the 'Gamestah Allstars' (3 of the best players Gamestah has to offer)  on the 3 v 3 map of Darkwood (so we can show the community this new map)


Item Limits:

-Max 2 Astrolabe per team
-Max 1 Puzzle Box per team
-Max 1 Totem of Kuldra

General Rules:

-Entering the oppositions base without a creep wave is allowed
-Blocking creeps in the base with Behemoth's Fissue is not allowed
-Item drop is not enabled
-Not glitching out of the map (e.g. Madman barrel roll glitch)
-No ledge glitching Kongor
-This game is in BETA atm, so any glitch which would be classed as "obvious" in the eyes of the shoutcasters is considered illegal.

The dates for the Gamestah Inviational will be confirmed shortly after emails have been sent to teams