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!
at some point after the tournament, as always.
You get your watcherino packs instantly. It's the voting packs that will take time
How does it work? Do you receive any notification?
You just have to log in to HS and packs for watching stream will appear.
3am to 11am UK DST
I threw in the towel at 7:00am, was so tired man. wasn't worth sitting up on the off chance I might have got a classic pack.
some people claimed to have gotten multiple classic packs though, so you aren't limited to 1 it seems (they should limit it to one though as then more people get a chance at getting them)
Fluxflashor I think it is a Rise of the Shadows card back, not a pack.
Could you please confirm this information?
I'm I right or wrong?
Sorry if I'm wrong.
Will I get one pack for watching four hours a day?
No, one pack total.
One pack total, but you can earn extra packs if you are randomly chosen each hour you watch. So basically just log in and leave it on Twitch and carry about your day as normal. You might win. You might not. Who knows?
Provided that you connected your blizzard account to your twitch account.
do you have to type something in the chat, or the 1500 winners are chosen randomly between all viewers in general?
Random.
Bind to get twitch drop and suddenly got hacked the account FeelsBadMan
It will work when I watch on my phone? Anyone knows?
Yes, as long as you have your accounts connected and you are logged in.
So let's say tomorrow night I need to sleep for work the next day, and then the next night I can't watch all the matches because Avengers... if I just turn on Twitch and walk away with it on, will that count? Do I need to be present and active in chat to win the packs?! All hypothetical of course... I wouldn't scam for packs like that... I swear!
you can leave the stream running and as long as it stays running and something doesn't happen like the stream crashing on your end, you should be fine.
So they are okay with us kind of cheating the system you say? Just like our good old pal Roger!
Pro tip, don't lower the sound of the stream to 0. Because it pauses the stream and you may not become eligible for drops.