Grand Final: Cats vs. Bathrobe Boys - Q1 - Heroes of the Storm 

I just want to know what this one dude does to be able to sponsor all these tournaments.

How about "mega drafting". Draft for 3 maps at once. Your team pool can only be used once. If it goes to map #3 you already know what's left on both sides.

Am I close? 1. Exiled: bans are permanent for the series 2. Stop picking on the little guy: your team cannot ban a char your team banned last game 3. Unique Bans: no1 can ban a character previously banned in the series 4. Alphabet Draft: your picks must be in hero alphabetical order 5. Redemption: you must play your bans next game 6. Equality: between your 8 choices (3bans + 5picks) you must have 4 female and 4 male characters 7. Payback: A normal draft is performed but then 2 games are played, the second game teams must play the opponent's draft. 8. Share the love: Your team must pick 1 character from each world (ie 1 starcraft, 1 warcraft, 1 diablo character) 9. Character not found: At the start of a game, randomly select a character from the alphabet. No game character with that letter in their name can be picked. I also like the mega draft idea from @superscrubninja: "Draft for 3 maps at once. Your team pool can only be used once. If it goes to map #3 you already know what's left on both sides."

I would love to see game specific matches! Ie, team Diablo vs team StarCraft.

drinking 1shot 4 every "Dublones" i would die, even bye dinking water

Another option is to ban a type of crowd control. A stunless game, a rootless game, no silence allowed, and so on.

not breaking that crystallis in time for mephisto ult followed up by that gust was painful to watch xD anyways ggs!

Kure is up there for Maiev imo. NA is just currently out of sight out of mind.

You could ban a role per match. Everyone plays without tank or without healer, etc. You could use Blizzard roles or custom made lists.

Another idea is a player can only play each role once. Death Knight can only play healer once, then he would have to play something else like tank or side lane.

Love HOTS! Thanks for doing this.

Another option is a no mount allowed game, nobody allowed to mount or use any z based ability.

1:03:12 took 2.25s to delete Anduin.

Another option is players have to play fully dressed, no bathrobes allowed.

@ 1:08:50 what was he supposed to do lol? he rooted and then stunned....not a brain fart.

Is it just the observer that's lagging or is it the whole game having hiccups?

For the algorithm

Another option is a talentless game. Nobody allowed to select a talent.