In Overwatch World Cup action, Canada fell to Spain and Sweden and was eliminated in the group of 16. USA fared better but drew worse, dropping losses to first Russia and then South Korea - two teams slated to face each other in tomorrow's finals - before being eliminated in the quarters.

Astral Authority, North America's lone Heroes of the Storm Fall Championship entry, got a Phase One bye and looked strong in their first match of a best-of-three versus South Korea's Please Buff Arthas. In the elimination match, AA looked flat against Europe's Team Dignitas, losing in straight sets.

In StarCraft II's WCS Global Championship, New Yorker Alex "Neeblet" Sunderhaft surprised players on both sides of the Pacific when he became the first non-Korean in the StarCraft II era to win the KeSPA Cup, an extremely prestigious premier championship, in early October. This earned him a spot at the BlizzCon 2016 WCS Global Finals. Despite beating fellow protoss players Patience and Zest, Neeblet's luck of the draw ran out today when he drew Dark, the number one ranked player in the world, whose aggressive zerg play put Neeblet on tilt and quickly took two games from the rising foreigner, who netted $15k for his efforts.

In the Hearthstone World Championship, North America had a very strong showing heading into the day. Three of North America's four players made it to the quarterfinals. William "Amnesiac" Barton went up 3-1 against Russia's Pavel "Pavel" Betukov before a painful, extended run of poor card draws resulted in three straight losses despite quality play. Canadian Julien "Cydonia" Perrault fared simularly against the calm and calculating South Korean Che0nsu. Most disappointingly, Edwin "HotMEOWTH" Cook and his novel Blood Warrior deck failed to take a single match against Ukrainian Artem "DrHippi" Kravets.

One North American contender remains in one event: perhaps BlizzCon's least watchable eSport. Both Method NA and the ever entertaining Tempo Storm advanced to the World of Warcraft Arena World Championship Top 4 through the lower bracket. Both had run-ins with Splyce, considered second only to fellow European team NG Blue. Splyce dropped one match to Method NA before dropping them to the lower bracket in group stage action, then defeated the US dream team Tempo Storm 3-1 in the quarters. Method NA pulled out an incredible upset sweep against NG Blue, winning 3-0 in the quarterfinals. 

We'll find out if Method NA has what it takes to complete the hero's journey to beat Splyce and claim the $250k prize in the rematch at the 1PM EDT start of the schedule at BlizzCon tomorrow. 

Source: Event results.

Update: Despite a Game 7 that came down to a few percentage points of health, Splyce beat Method NA to repeat as the World of Warcraft Arena World Champion this year. This year's Hearthstone World Championship also produced a European winner, as Russia's Pavel beat out Ukraine's DrHippi 4-2. But elsewhere Korea was dominant: South Korea won the inaugural Overwatch World Cup over Russia 4-0, Ballistix took the Heroes of the Storm Fall Championship over Europe's Fnatic 3-1, the best Terran in the world Byun out-microed and outplayed the world #1 Dark 4-2,