Today marks the beginning of the latest stop for the Hearthstone Championship Tour (HTC) in Europe, as up to 265 competitiors will be competing for their share of the $15,000 prize pool and 191 HTC points. The event will be taking place from March 24th to the 25th at the Ballroom of the city center of Oslo, Norway. The Polaris HTC Oslo Tour Stop is apart of a new esports initiative called the Polaris Series and marks the first of many large scale tournaments in Norway this year.

You can catch all of the action on the official Hearthstone Twitch channel below. 

Creative Director and Founder of Gigacon - Oslo Games Week, Renato Mahmutagi?, told Twin Galaxies that the Polaris HTC Tour Stop is an improtant step in developing the Norwegian esports scene. "HCT Oslo is the first large scale esports tournament in Norway in quite a while, it very new type of event for us, but extremely exciting. While it´s physically smaller, it has so many details to go into, so it is definitely a learning experience"

While the Hearthstone action is the main attraction at the event, Mahmutagi? stated it is not the only esports action taking place this weekend. "The main focus is the HCT tournament which is a part of the Hearthstone Championship Tour broadcasted on Blizzard's stream. Then we have some side events like King of the Hill and Tavern Brawls going on." 

With great deal on the line for the players competing in the highly anticipated event, the pressure will be on each player to play their very best Hearthstone in order to walk away from the Polaris HTC Oslo Tour Stop a champion. 

The Hearthstone Championship Tour is the largest esports event in professional Hearthstone and sees the best players of the scene compete for the lion's share of the $1,000,000 prize pool and the right to be called World Champion.

Interested in more Hearthstone content? Check out the latest expansion that will be coming to the popular card game. 

(cover photo courtesy of Gigacon)