The Week That Was in Hearthstone #1: BlizzCon Qualifier Results, Team Signings and Great Hearthstone Music
The Week That Was is a weekly eSports Inquirer series that rounds up every interesting happening in the gaming world.
The BlizzCon Dream is Still Alive (or not)
The Context
The BlizzCon Hearthstone World Championships is set in November which means there is a Regional qualifiers currently happening around the world .
Southeast Asia: Lan “Neilyo” Tran was crowned as the Southeast Asian representative after winning at the Meralco Theater in the Philippines. Read more here.
Korea: Taesang and Hakjun “Kranich” Baek also qualified after landing in the top two spot in the Korean regionals.
will represent korea 2 years in a row! The next step is Asia-Pacific championship
— Hakjun Baek (@KranichHS) September 18, 2015
North America: Cloud9.G2A’s Cong “StrifeCro“ Shu and Tempo Storm’s George “Hyped” Maganzini were eliminated. Hyped faced a team-kill from Tempo Storm’s owner Andrey “Reynad” Yanyuk on a Patron Warrior mirror. It was one of the very notable game-changer during the match.
Notable names in the Lower Bracket: James “Firebat” Kostesich, Trump
Notable names Eliminated: Cong “StrifeCro“ Shu, George “Hyped” Maganzini, David “dog” Caero, Team Archon owner Jason “Amaz” Chan, Andrey “Reynad“ Yanyuk.
JUST IN: Trump won his match against Firebat in the lower bracket – former champion Firebat out!
Europe: James “Greensheep“ Luo, who represented the European region last year, was also eliminated.
Notable names in the Lower Bracket: Adrian “Lifecoach“ Koy (after losing to Nihilum teammate Thijs “Thijs” Molendik), Aleksandr “Kolento ” Malsh, Frederik “Hoej” Nielsen.
Notable names eliminated: Jon “Orange” Westberg, Dima “RDU” Radu, Sebastian “Xixo” Bentert
ESports Taking Steps
Moving Forward
Natus Vincere (Na’Vi) expands to Hearthstone by signing some of the top European players, Sebastian “Xixo” Bentert, Sebastian “Ostkaka“Engwall and Frederik “Hoej“ Nielsen: Read more.
compLexity Gaming adds Grace “Sylvan“Hunter to their Hearthstone Team as an analyst and ambassador for Southeast Asia: Read more.
And Back…
The eSports community really dictates how the industry will go. Streamer and Tempo Storm owner, Reynad, quit Twitch as the toxicity of the chat is affecting him too much.
Might just not stream again. It's not the experience I fell in love with in 2012 anymore, and I don't need it.
— reynad (@TempoReynad) September 15, 2015
How did Tempo Storm player Eloise react?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGDOcDPDsB4&feature=youtu.be
Good thing he’s back up again.
Streaming in an hour or 90 minutes unfortunately, a bunch of chores I had to do today.
— reynad (@TempoReynad) September 18, 2015
The Philippines hosted the Hearthstone World Championship Southeast Asia Finals. The success of the event shows that eSports is huge in the SEA region.
Major Tournaments!
The eSports Arena was announced and will be hosted by Brian “Kibler” Kibler with a $25,000 (Php 1.1 million~) prize pool. Confirmed event attendees are Reynad, Trump, Firebat and Amaz. Read more here.
With Wang “Tiddler Celestial” Xieyu’s huge triumph last Dreamhack Summer, the eSports organization in Sweden made it better! A $40,000 prize pool is up for grabs this coming November featuring a Swiss tournament format. Read more here.
Wrap it up
So many things happening all at once this week and more are coming with BlizzCon just two months away. If you can’t take the tension anymore. Listen to this orchestra version of the Hearthstone theme by Manu.
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