Oct 19, 2025 Louka Announcement

We are once again happy to announce we are teaming up with Khaldor to announce a new tournament! 

Highlighting teams from our lower divisions, 8 teams can come and compete to be the greatest underdogs in the Nexus.


Overview:

  • €150 to be shared between the top 2 teams 

  • Open to teams placed in division 4 or 5

  • First rounds to take place on 1st and 2nd of November

  • Playoff Finals to take place on 8th and 9th of November

  • Every hero can only be played once per match

  • No pre-banned heroes

  • 8 places available!


Further Details:

Eligibility to play

Teams must be already registered and playing in Heroes Lounge EU Season 28 Division 4 or 5 to sign up for this tournament.

All matches will be played on EU servers

Format

The event will be played as a double elimination format over 2 weekends. Teams will need to be available to play games on one of the days of the first weekend, 1st and 2nd of November, and both days of the second weekend, 8th and 9th of November!

All games will be Bo3 except the ones played on the final day, which are Bo5. Games will start at 15:00 CET all days except for Saturday 8th when they start 16:00 CET.

Draft Rules

Heroes in this tournament will only be allowed to play once per match.

In the case of a disallowed Hero being picked, the draft should be remade the same way until the pick phase where the disallowed hero was picked (including the other pick in the case of a double pick).

All games on the first 3 days are best of 3, all games on the final day are best of 5.

Substitutions:

If teams need substitution players, these players will need to have a Heroes Lounge account registered before 20th of October 2025 with an account MMR below 2899, or be in a current Division 4 or below team. 

A maximum of 2 substitution players can be used per map.

Prize pool

A prize pool of €150 will be provided and distributed by Khaldor.

The top 2 teams will be eligible for prize money

Rules

The tournament will follow Heroes lounge banned bugs and cosmetics list, which can be found at https://heroeslounge.gg/general/ruleset.

Pauses may only be started for technical difficulties.

The time pool for pauses per map is 10 minutes, after which the game will resume.

Teams must keep replays up to 15 days after the matches. Replays should be uploaded to the Heroes Lounge website after each game. See the captain's guide for how to do this.


At Heroes Lounge we are grateful for the support from this event, and look forward to seeing our Division teams highlighted again by Khaldor!



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