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LOS ANGELES -- Jordin Canada knew in the third quarter she was inching closer to a second consecutive triple-double. Her teammates couldnt deliver it for her.She finished with 19 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists to help No. 9 UCLA rout Cal Poly 80-64 on Sunday.Canada just missed equaling Hall of Famer Ann Meyers for the most triple-doubles in school history. The junior guard had 11 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists in a victory over Southern on Friday, the sixth triple-double at UCLA. Meyers had triple-doubles in 1977 and 1978.I was just focusing on the things I could control, Canada said. My teammates tried very hard. Im glad they tried to have my back on that.Monique Billings added 15 points before fouling out, and Nicole Kornet and Kennedy Burke scored 14 points each for the Bruins (3-1), who never trailed in earning their second straight blowout. They beat Southern by 48 points on Friday after opening the season with a 27-point win over Pacific.Canada was still in the game in the fourth because the Bruins only have nine players due to injuries. Coach Cori Close didnt want to make a big deal of Canadas shot at producing the Pac-12s first consecutive triple-double since 2002, but she didnt mind her players trying to make it happen, either.Sometimes they were taking shots that were rushed because they didnt want to take a couple extra dribbles, Close said.Lynn Leaupepe led Cal Poly with 22 points and Gabby Grupalo added 13 points. The Mustangs (1-3) endured scoring droughts of 3:53 in the first quarter and 4:23 in the second before trailing 44-22 at halftime.Canada did most of her damage in the third quarter, leading the Bruins with 12 points, including their first six in the period. She scored off her own steal before setting up Ally Rosenblums basket that pushed UCLAs lead to 65-39. Kornets 3-pointer made it 70-42 heading into the fourth.Shes a creator, said Leaupepe, who occasionally played with and against Canada in high school. I give her a lot of props. She knows how to play and works hard.Canada had several chances to get a 10th assist, but her teammates failed to score in the games final 3:58.Well get it next time because Im pretty sure there will be plenty of more opportunities for her, Kornet said.POLL IMPLICATIONSThe Bruins should remain in the top 10 when the AP rankings are released Monday, helped by the fact that No. 11 Stanford and 12th-ranked Florida State also lost. UCLA lost at No. 2 Baylor by 14 points before demolishing Southern and Cal Poly to end the week.SHE SAID ITUCLA is super talented and they have a great shot at being some representatives on the West Coast that maybe can sneak through and get to the Final Four. -- Cal Poly coach Faith Mimnaugh.SHOOT ITThe Mustangs tossed up 69 shots to the Bruins 65, which annoyed Close.Were lucky we shoot the ball reasonably well, she said, emphasizing the Bruins have to improve their defensive rebounding.WINNING A QUARTERThe Mustangs outscored the Bruins 22-10 in the fourth, when UCLA missed 16 of 20 shots. Cal Poly had its best shooting quarter, hitting 47 percent. For the game, the Mustangs hit 32 percent from the floor.BIG PICTURECal Poly: The Mustangs picked up their first win of the season on Friday when they beat Northern Arizona 58-53.UCLA: The Bruins have won their last 16 games at Pauley Pavilion where they went 15-1 last season. ... 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This will be split into $250,000 pots for each season championship and $1 million total to be distributed at the World Championship.While every professional wants to be thought of as the best of the world, pride cannot be exchanged for goods and service the way money can, and the more Blizzard invests in the prize pool, the more incentives players have to try to get their seats.Hearthstone Global GamesOverwatch wont be the only Blizzard game to get a World Cup-type event. To create a Hearthstone version, Blizzard is putting together the Hearthstone Global Games, a weekly league featuring teams of players representing individual countries.We havent seen a lot of team events in Hearthstone, but one of the best tournaments in Hearthstones existence was the Archon Team League, run throughout the summer of 2015. Hearthstone itself isnt a team game, but the Archon Team League demonstrated that with the proper format -- all classes had to be played and teammates figured out their best matchups -- you can bring a team concept to what is an individual game.Change of seasonal formatBlizzard is doing away with the regional championships for each season and instead going with a regional season playoffs. Now, each of the four Hearthstone regions (Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, China) will hold its own tournament at the end of each season in Swiss format and send the top four to the overall seasonal championship.Im a fan of this idea, simply because by keeping the regions isolated in this way, you cause a bit of Balkanization of the Hearthstone community. Different regions tend to have slightly different metas, especially when the meta is an unstable period after a content release. One example of this was during the Goblins versus Gnomes/Blackrock Mountain era in which the Chinese server had a notably different flavor of Priest decks -- yes, those existed at one point at high ladder ranks -- with Lightbomb adopted before the NA/EU regions started including it.Championship to be aligned with StandardOne first is that the next championship wont take place at BlizzCon, but in early 2018 at the end of the upcoming, as-yet-untitled Standard year (we are currently in the Year of the Kraken). The main reason for this is Blizzard wishes to align its content reeleases with the seasonal championships and the overall Standard year with one full championship tour.ddddddddddddBlizzard wants to match the HCT calendar with new content such that each season is based on the same card pool all the way through. Doing it this way eliminates a significant inconsistency in some of the tournaments. For example, this year, the summer preliminaries came the same month as the One Night in Karazhan adventure, resulting in a weird situation where the card pool was different each week as new cards were implemented.More even distribution of both points and prizesA significant reality of Hearthstone compared to other esports is that theres always going to be a great deal more RNG (random number generation) than in a MOBA like League of Legends or an FPS like Counter-Strike. Its a high-variance esport like poker, and as such, a more level distribution of awards seems to be necessary for a healthy competitive scene. Tournament formats in which the competitors play 1,000 games to get healthy sample sizes to differentiate ability are impractical, so the next-best thing is to even out these awards. This rewards consistent players and encourages pros to stick with Hearthstone rather than have to chase high-risk, high-reward payouts.The exact distribution of points and jackpots has not been released, but Blizzards plan is to distribute both Hearthstone Competitive Points earned from tournaments and ranked play more evenly, starting with the November Ranked Play season. The same deal goes for Blizzard-run tournament jackpots. This will help prevent a situation like this years in which many of the Hearthstone pros found themselves so far behind in points that they were simply throwing in the towel by late summer.Hearthstone Inn-vitationalsId like to complain about the pun, but Ive made some quite awful ones myself, so I probably shouldnt throw any stones here. Blizzard is again taking a page from a successful alternative kind of tournament, the best examples in this case being the SeatStory cups or the Challengestones. The idea of an Inn-vitational is to create a fun, looser type of tournament for people to watch, with popular streamers, tournament winners and celebrities.Top streamers and players like Octavian Kripparrian Morosan, Jeffrey Trump Shih, Kacem Noxious Khilaji and Brian Kibler are important to the Hearthstone viewing audience, and its not because they win tourney after tourney. The idea here is to play with tournament formats and introduce personalities as well, to bring some variety to a game that sometimes needs it. ' ' '