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 Deck Spotlight: Confused's Warrior (NA Open #14)

End of Beta Season Two Countdown

As stated on Tuesday, the end of Hearthstone beta season two will be ending on January 31st at 11:59 PM.

Times in the table below are in PST (Blizzard Time).

* Server status is populated using the times provided by Blizzard and may not be completely accurate for all regions.

Blizzard Streamer Awards

Blizzard and Twitch are holding a contest to find out who the community loves the most in the streaming community. Winners will be chosen from several different categories, as seen below, and will receive a chunk of the $45,000 USD prize pool, and bragging rights. For more information, and links to where you can vote, see the blue post below! I'm sure ManaGrind wouldn't mind some vote action over on the Best Community Channel of 2013 voting =)

Quote from Blizzard Community Team

2013 was a great year for the Twitch streaming community, and many Twitch streamers have dedicated themselves to creating unique content based on Blizzard games. In recognition of their efforts, Blizzard is proud to announce the 2013 Blizzard Stream Awards powered by Twitch. These awards will provide recognition and cash prizes for the best Blizzard content streamers of 2013.

Award nominees will be announced on Thursday, January 30, and award winners will be announced on Friday, February 7, right here on Blizzard’s official community sites and on Blog.Twitch.tv.

For a list of awards categories and to learn how the 2013 Blizzard Stream Awards powered by Twitch works, check out the breakdown below. 

How It Works

• Award Categories: Together Blizzard and Twitch have established 14 unique award categories representing streamers from four Blizzard franchises (Diablo III, Hearthstone, StarCraft II and World of Warcraft). Half of these categories are data-driven (example: Most number of hours streamed for Blizzard titles in 2013) while the other half are qualitative categories that will be voted on by you, the community (example: Favorite community show of 2013).

• Prizes: In this program, Twitch will distribute a prize pool of approximately $45,000 for 2013 Twitch partner streamers, and prizes will be distributed evenly to each award category.

• Implementation: Voting will occur for the seven poll categories through Wednesday, February 5, 2013, via the polls linked below. After voting has closed, we will announce the winners of both the polled categories and the data-driven categories.

• Rules: To qualify for the 2013 Blizzard Stream Awards presented by Twitch, you must be a Twitch partner streamer who streamed game content from one of the four Blizzard franchises (Diablo III, Hearthstone, StarCraft II, and World of Warcraft) between January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013.

Poll Categories

Please vote for your favorite Blizzard content streamers.

• Favorite New Streamer of 2013
• Best Community Channel of 2013
• Most Educational Stream
• Favorite StarCraft II Stream
• Favorite Diablo III Stream
• Favorite Hearthstone Stream
• Favorite WoW Stream

Data Driven Categories

We will announce the categories, winners, and runners-up for seven data driven categories of awards next week. These are being tabulated by Twitch’s glistening army of robots and number crunchers.

Thank you to everyone that streamed or watched Blizzard games on Twitch in 2013. Support your favorite personalities by following the links above and voting, and please continue to watch their streams on Twitch in 2014. If you'd like to share your unique personality and gameplay experiences, we encourage you to become a Twitch partner. Visit this link for more information. 

Card Change Disenchant Values Reverted

The disenchant values of cards which were changed in the last patch has been reverted. Hopefully you disenchanted the ones you no longer wanted!

Quote from Zeriyah

The cards listed above have had their disenchanting values reverted back to their original cost.

Gul'dan the Warlock

Earlier today, Zeriyah posted a blog on one of our favourite heroes of Warcraft, Gul'dan! The blog discusses the lore behind Gul'dan, and briefly touches on Twisting Nether. Check out the full post here, and if you missed the last hero lore article, check out Rexxar!

Weekend Tournaments

There's plenty of great tournaments going on this weekend if you're bored of laddering, or just looking for something new to try, so come on out and compete with some of the best players that Hearthstone has to offer! Who knows, you may even make some new rivals.

For tournaments not listed here, be sure to checkout our tournament forums!

ManaGrind's Friday Night Swiss

Friday Night Swiss is a tournament series run by ManaGrind which uses the Swiss tournament format. There are two swiss events held each week on Friday, one for North America, and another for Europe. The North American Swiss tournament is held at 8 PM EST, and European Swiss is held at 7 PM CET. More information on this week's Swiss tournaments can be found in this thread.

Major League Gaming & ManaGrind's NA and EU Open

The MLG/MG NA and EU Opens are a tournament series run by Major League Gaming and ManaGrind during weekends, which makes use of the Single Elimination format. This week is home to the 15th NA and EU Opens, and they will be running at their usual times; The North American Open starts at 2 PM EST on Saturday, February 1, and the European Open starts at 6 PM CET on Sunday, February 2. More information on this week's NA and EU opens can be found in this thread.