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!
The packs for watching will be given instantly or after a week? Also do we get a twitch message if we get anything? like TESL does for example.
Try opening Twitch in "New Incognito WIndow".
Thanks a lot!
Yeah... Link my account to a hackable site for a pack!!!!
get an authenticator?
total 4 hours to watching?
Getting a callback error every time I try to link my accounts... Guess I'll be watching without any free packs...
ready for HCT (MultiTwitch) :Kappa:
This is clearly trying to make people watch because for whatever reason, the stream hours are unlikely for the Americas and even more insane than usual for Europe, so what?. I'll still try to watch as much as I can as always (with or without free packs), but I think picking Taipei of all places for the championship makes it pretty hard for most of the player base to watch most of it.
Guess it's back to the drawing board of how to avoid spoilers.
No. Thanks. :)
I can't wait for the Control Warrior mirrors going to turn limit and the casters trying to make it entertaining (and failing at it).
Well it can be entertaining depending on RNG...
Also those matches rarely go to turn limit mainly because one of the Warriors gets more lucky with Archivist Elysiana and wins...
If you've watched long enough to understand all their in jokes they can be pretty entertaining, actually.
I doubt any games would see her played after getting to fatigue twice... Even the exact same control warriors can have a decidedly advantageous position well before that (usually the first to play Dr. Boom, Mad Genius but not just that)
Pure investor manipulation by inflating numbers.
Noone is actually going to care more for the game, most ppl won't actually WATCH it, just alt tab it, or mute on another page and get on with life just for the packs. Of course numbers will be high, but actual interest for the game will not grow.
Sadly the game is starting to stand on its last leg, and moves like this just validates it.
Wow, it's been 13 whole seconds since I last seen a "this game may have nearly 100 million players, but is dead/dying" comment.
Thanks for the originality, I was missing that.
With a rather modest estimate of 100k viewers, the 32 batches of 1500 packs give 61.6% chance of receiving exactly ZERO packs if you watch ALL DAY EVERY DAY.
If more people get lured by the "free packs" myth and we have more like 200k viewers, the chance of wasting time and electricity for NOTHING goes up to 78.6%.
PROFIT.
A pack (~$1 USD) for four hours of viewing is already next to nothing if you only watch because of the bonuses. That just means you're incredibly stupid.
People watch it for entertainment ffs, the packs are not a salary, they're just a little treat for the fans.
I'm sure you can just leave the stream running and do other things, right? I used to do this with warframe. I'd have the stream running while playing the game as they did give away every time.
I had this crap in the background all day and can confirm that 100k estimate was not quite modest enough (at least for the first day). The viewers count for the EN stream was hovering around the 40k and only scratched 50k mark just now. The non-English viewer counts sum up to around 30k
It's still probably a waste of power if you're paying up for your own electricity bills but if you're going to be online anyway, it's probably worth popping by. Just mute the stream and have it on the lowest quality. I thought of just keeping it on pause too but I don't know if it counts