Over the weekend at the Hearthstone Championship Tour’s (HCT) Fall Championship held at the Blizzard Arena in Los Angeles, Mihai “languagehacker” Dragalin emerged from the pack victorious. After his 3-1 match against Brian "Bloodyface" Eason, they, along with David “JustSaiyan” Shan, who finished in the top four of the event, sat down to speak with the press about the current metagame, their thoughts of the tournament and a message for their supporters.
After failing to include card balance changes in the Hearthstone team’s “In The Works” blog post on September 18, Team 5 has received quite a bit of grief from the community. Professional players, content creators and popular streamers flocked to Twitter, Youtube and Twitch to express their frustration with the current state of the meta and called for action.
In a match that appeared to be played almost too well to be true, it turns out, after further investigation by the Hearthstone Esports Team, it was. After five back-and-forth games, Chinese Taipei defeated Singapore in the Hearthstone Global Games only to be disqualified from the event for cheating soon after.
In a best-of-five match that came down to a singular point of health, one of the most successful competitive Hearthstone players of all-time who now focuses most of his energy on streaming, Thijs Molendijk, took down XiaoT in the annual China vs Europe Championship 2018. First prize was an Aston Martin DB11 luxury car, valued at over $175,000 euros, which Thijs gladly took the keys to and sat in moments after his victory.
The Hearthstone team announced the addition of four new cards to the same that will be available to craft and open in Classic packs next month. As more and more cards have rotated into the Hall of Fame set, Blizzard felt it was appropriate to replace them to further solidify a class' identity.
Now that all cards fore the upcoming Hearthstoe expansion, The Boomsday Project, have been revealed, the theory-crafting begins for strategies and decks that will be strong out-of-the-gate.
On the off-chance you are flipping through the dictionary on a given day and stumble across the term “professional Hearthstone player,” an image of Radu “Rdu” Dima will appear.
In a game such as Hearthstone where more than 75 million accounts have been created, it can be incredibly hard to stand out. Jeffrey “Sjow” Brusi, has found his niche as professional player whose personality translates well enough to an audience that, for the past few years, he has been one of the largest streamers of the game in the world.
Over the weekend, college students from around North America gathered in California for Tespa’s Hearthstone Collegiate Championship (HCC) to compete for over $150,000 in scholarships to their respective universities.
On Tuesday, May 1, Inven Global held the first IGEC-ESPORTS DEEP DIVE for enthusiastic esports fans and related parties at UC Irvine in California. Those who could not attend the event in-person misse
With pride, Phan mentions that Overwatch League is home to an openly gay man on the Houston Outlaws and a woman on the Shanghai Dragons. Players like these are extremely popular to OWL fans and represent how inclusive and diverse esports can be without sacrificing competitive integrity and professionalism: "This is only the beginning" Phan says, "there is so much more work to be done."
I wanted to put something in front of the audience that’s going to be playing this game as soon as possible. I wanted the fans and those interested in this game to be giving input in the earliest stage as possible. I wanted their input as soon as I could have it and I wanted to gauge interest in this category.
I was watching somebody playtest on Friday of last week and he played Shudderwock and Saronite Chain Gang triggered then Grumble, World Shaker triggered so he put two Shudderwocks to his hand that cost one mana and his turn lasted four minutes with all the animations. It was like, “What have we done?” Is it too late to change this?”
Two weeks ago, the Blizzard Hearthstone team released the final expansion of the 2017 calendar year, Kobolds and Catacombs, which featured a brand new single player experience and 135 collectible card
