Watch the HCT World Championship Next Week, Earn Free Packs
Blizzard has announced that Twitch Drops are going to be enabled for the HCT World Championship which means by watching the stream next week, you're able to get free stuff! The free stuff this time around is card packs.
- If you accumulate 4 hours of viewing time for the HCT World Championship, you'll receive one Rise of Shadows pack.
- 1500 Classic card packs will be distributed every hour to randomly selected viewers.
There appear to be 32 periods where eligible viewers can earn card packs which mean Blizzard is giving away 48000 Classic packs!
You can watch on any of the following (see quote below) Hearthstone Twitch channels next week to be eligible for drops. Just make sure you are logged in to Twitch and you have connected your Battle.net account.
Quote from BlizzardThe Hearthstone Championship Tour (HCT) 2019 World Championship kicks off in Taipei on April 25 with the world’s 16 best Hearthstone players from the Americas, Asia-Pacific, China, and Europe competing to win the 2019 Hearthstone World Champion title and the lion’s share of the $1,000,000 prize pool.
Choose Your Champion
We’re excited to share that Choose Your Champion will be returning for the HCT 2019 World Championship. You can choose one of 16 competitors as your champion and be rewarded with Hearthstone card packs based on how well they perform. Click the button to Choose Your Champion!
Just for participating, you will receive one Rastakhan’s Rumble card pack. You will receive one additional card pack each time your champion wins a match. All card packs are expected to be delivered one week after Worlds. You must choose your champion by April 24 at 6:30 p.m. PDT to participate.
Twitch Drops Enabled
Eligible viewers who tune into the HCT 2019 World Championship on Twitch during any of the times listed below for at least four hours’ total viewing time will be reward one Rise of Shadows card pack! On top of that, 1,500 lucky eligible viewers will be randomly rewarded with an additional Classic card pack every hour.
These rewards can be earned during the following times:
- April 24: 7 p.m.–3 a.m. PDT
- April 25: 7 p.m.–3 a.m. PDT
- April 26: 7 p.m.–3 a.m. PDT
- April 27: 7 p.m.–3 a.m. PDT
Eligible channels:
- PlayHearthstone
- PlayHearthstoneFR
- PlayHearthstoneRU
- HearthstoneZHTW
- PlayHearthstoneKR
- PlayHearthstoneJP
Link Your Accounts
Before you can receive rewards, you’ll need to link your Twitch.tv and Blizzard Battle.net accounts. Here’s how:
- Log in or create an account on Twitch.tv.
- Navigate to the Settings menu by clicking your account name in the top-right corner of the home screen.
- Navigate to the Connections tab of the Settings menu.
- Find the Battle.net section, then follow the instructions after selecting a region and clicking Connect.
- When connecting accounts, be sure that you’re currently logged into the Blizzard account on which you’d like to receive your rewards.
You can read the official rules for Twitch Drops here. Scope the HCT 2019 World Championship event page; follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube; and catch the #HCTWorldChampionship when the broadcast goes live on April 24 at 7:00 p.m. PT at Twitch.tv/PlayHearthstone!
I can certainly use some Classic packs. Missing a lot of legendaries and epics. Though I'm at the point where I'm lucky if I get any new cards at all. So maybe that's the point where I should stop buying packs and just craft what's left.
Though even if I had every single card in that set, I'd still welcome free cards for free dust.
Well I played for over 2 years and still missing 4 classic legendaries... and hey free 40 dust is still free 40 dust...
I'm also playing from beta and still missing 2 or 3 from classic, dusted Leeroy twice when he was nerfed and Nat Pagle as well.
So if I leave the stream open while the event is occurring, do I need to confirm that I am present for the pack if I get selected or does it automatically go into my account? Apologies I have never done twitch rewards before!
When the rewards are distributed you need to be watching the stream but there is nothing you have to do like claim it. It'll just go to your account.
also I think hunter might be a good choice this time. I really need to see those decklists first though.
does anyone know how long we have to pick our champion? I'd like to wait till I can study the decklists this time to maximise my chances.
April 24th, according to post.
thanks dude.
This will be the first tournament where every hunter deck isn't running Deathstalker Rexxar
How about the ones before KotFT was released?
Bunnyhopper! By the time those last 5 packs came my way, after the last choose your champion, I had forgotten whom I had selected. Then I see that smarmy face. The memory has returned.
Now I know that either 1 or 5 packs are coming my way. There's no middle ground with Bunnyhopper. Either way, cheers bloke. Free packs are always appreciated.
he was great. I voted turna, but BH was the other guy I considered. I think I got 2 packs.
once I got max packs from pavel though and got golden frost lich jaina.
Can't beat a golden DK for value! Nice!
I cracked a golden [card=golden]Ancient of War[/card] from my tavern pack. Gave me a laugh as I'm at rank 6.
nice man. GZ.
I'm definitely going to study the decklists this time though and choose that way. a lot of people I know on here predicted that killingallday would win, and he did. and you could see by the decks he took as well that he countered most peoples lists. Turna was similar, but I think killing actually knocked him out, right?
No idea. I'm not really that into watching champions or videos of people playing. You could spend too much time trying to figure it out, then still end up with one pack!
Regardless, if you enjoy it, you enjoy it. :)
ah yeah, totally. but if you just look at each players decklists, it can help you gauge who might do best.
I at least know a few of the players this time. I have had the ordeal of picking someone out of a group of people where I knew none of them before. I picked Pavel based on everyone writing it in the chat and he won me max packs.
I picked Pav next time and I got 1 pack :D I think orange beat him, so I picked orange next and I got 2 packs.
Then I picked Turna and got 2 packs.
Fingers cross I can get at least 3 this time. even just 2 is great though really.
I guess, we will see some control warriors, rogues, warriors, then warriors, maybe rogues and very exciting 1 hour warrior vs. warrior games.
wait, so every hour there will be 15,000 packs distributed to random hearthstone players who are watching the tournament. and if you watch for four hours you get a RoS pack. and there will be 32 classic pack give outs. so to be eligible, I have to be logged onto twitch, and be watching while the tournament is going on.
am I getting this all right?
So you read the thread, then took the info listed above and reworded it all in your own words?
Am I getting this all right? ^^