Ostkaka and Powder Leave Alliance, Rethinking Their Hearthstone Involvement
Hearthstone pros Sebastian "Ostkaka" Engwall and Harald "Powder" Gimre are taking a break from the game and have left their team for the past year, Alliance. Both players are taking a break and are going to rethink their involvement in the game. Reasons cited for their breaks include the way the Hearthstone Championship Tour was structured and being unable to find the passion to grind. Good luck out there Ostkaka and Powder!
In what ways do you get tired of Hearthstone? What do you think Blizzard could do to improve fatigue?
You can view the press release here, or down below.
Quote from AllianceGothenburg, Sweden – December 18th, 2017 – Going into 2018 Alliance is sad to say farewell to two of our Hearthstone players, Sebastian “Ostkaka” Engwall and Harald “Powder” Gimre. Both Sebastian and Harald have decided to take a break from playing Hearthstone professionally for the near future.
After our venture into Hearthstone in 2016 with Jon “Orange” Westberg we followed it up by signing Sebastian and Harald at the end of that year. Subsequently all three of them competed together in ESL’s Trinity Series (don’t mention the murlocs please) as well as recently coming back from China after placing 4th in the Gold Club World Championship.
Alliance COO, Erik Barge had the following to say as Alliance parts with Sebastian and Harald: “We here at Alliance have thoroughly enjoyed having Sebastian and Harald on the team for the past year. Both of them are stellar competitors and I will definitely miss having them on the team. With that said I completely respect their decision to take a break and wish them the best of luck in the future, whether it is in Hearthstone or outside of it.”
Ostkaka:
“In the past few months I have taken a step back from the Hearthstone grind, I have not had the passion to stream or ladder for hours every day. I do still enjoy competing and I will see how I feel in 2018 with the new HCT tour but for now I am taking a break and re-evaluating. Alliance has been a great team to be a part of and I am thankful for their support during my time with them.”
Powder:
“It has been a great experience with Alliance over the past year, unfortunately with the way the HCT system was structured I could not really find the passion to grind and stream over the last few months. I have decided to focus more on my life outside of Hearthstone and I will be going back to studying. I hope all the best for Alliance in the future and as for what I will be doing with Hearthstone next year I am not sure, but I still love competing and I might try to get back to the grind when the new season starts.”
Alliance wish Sebastian and Harald best of luck in their future endeavours. Next up for Alliance Hearthstone will be in January where Jon is competing in the HCT World Championship in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
this is news? I mean, who freaking cares?
Literally who?
Ostkaka is one of the world champion, but I don't know the other one, yep
If You haven’t heard of Powder, it’s on You.
1 thing that would have fixed MOST of the problems - gamemode with card bans so finally you wont be matched with your strict counter deck few times in a row only to shatter bones in your hand on the wall later.
But oyu know whats prolly their excuse? Hmm... PROBABLY GAMES ENGINE.
Unfortunately Blizzard is small indie company.
Implementing card bans would likely be a horrible idea. Most decks only have 1-2 bad matchups, so if you can eliminate your bad matchups from ladder then who is going to keep broken decks in check?
R.I.P hope they come back fresh
Ostkaka come back to Navi please :(
So many haters and trolls using these players leaving HS as an excuse to bash the game. Pretty sad that you apparently have nothing better to do and just want to waste your time insulting a game that you most likely stopped playing long ago.
Actually, I have a full 90 percent golden collection and enjoy playing the game when I'm at work or making a keister casserole with diaper gravy in the john. I like the art and the card emotes are hilarious. I'll challenge you to a best of 7 for $100 bucks anytime. The game is a joke to me and always will be. The youtube generation is lost, that's what I laugh at and mock. I'm sorry if I offended you.......LMFAO. Bashing the game no, but your one track mind does not see the forest for the trees. There is no future in such endeavors. The corporations use these kids to make themselves money. Too bad the participants can't see they are being used. You could make more money playing poker or blackjack if you had half a brain and a bankroll. RNG is RNG. Sorry to burst your bubble but "pro gamer" is a joke in the real world and always will be.
I recognize trolling when I see it, I have played WoW for years to recognize it ;)
I'm not even mad bro. No idea where you saw the offense taken in my post *shrugs*
Hey some people generally get bored of the game after the while. Think about it, Leeroy Jenkins the meme of WoW himself left because he thought it was the same. It wouldn't be too surprising if people get bored after a while.
do you watch rick and morty by any chance?
wow did anyone know they left? Go back and study, yes for something to do that is actually needed and wanted in society instead of wasting your time playing what amounts to a dice game. These two finally woke up and figured out there is no future in "pro hearthstone player". Good for them. I wish them luck on actually succeeding in life.