
In the dying days of 2022, the Hearthstone World Championship will be fought over. 16 players from all over the world will compete to earn a share of the $500,000 prize pool! You won’t want to miss a single moment of action as the Death Knight class joins Hearthstone in what is sure to be an incredible weekend.
Quick Facts
- Venue: The Frozen Wastes of Icecrown
- Stream: the Hearthstone YouTube channel.
- Dates:
- Pacific Timezone: Friday, December 16 – Sunday, December 18 at 12:00 am
- EU Timezone: Friday, December 16 – Sunday, December 18 at 9:00 am
- Korean Timezone: Friday, December 16 – Sunday, December 18 at 5:00 pm
- Prize Pool: $500,000
- Format: 4 Decks, Best-of-5 Conquest w/ a Ban
- Casters: TJ “Azumo” Sanders, Darroch “Darroch” Brown, Jia “Jia” Dee, Neil “Lorinda” Bond, Alex “Raven” Baguley, and Simon “Sottle” Welch
- Friday, December 16 – Sunday, December 18, 2022
Drops Are Back!
Viewers can earn up to two March of the Lich King cards packs for watching. After watching 2 hours you'll receive your first pack -- watch an additional 2 hours for the second. Time is cumulative, so even if you can’t watch for the full four hours in one sitting your time will still count toward earning the Drops. Be sure to link your YouTube and Battle.net accounts to receive your prizes -- directions can be found here.
- Language Streams on YouTube:
Tournament Format
Each match will be played with a 4-deck, best-of-five Conquest Format with a ban, Death Knight class cannot be banned.
Hearthstone World Championship will be played over three days:
• Day 1 will feature the matches from Group A & B.
• Day 2 will feature the matches from Group C & D.
• Day 3 will feature the single-elimination rounds of the Top 8.
World Championship Groups
Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
---|---|---|---|
Player | Player | Player | Player |
DeadDraw | LGDXiaoT | Posesi | Pascoa |
iGCx | Tianming | KZGXmg | Bunnyhoppor |
KZGYuYi | Jarla | Mighty | KZG.Xiaobai |
xBlyzes | Glory | Habugabu | Levik |
Still no drops ....
Finally here ..
is there a damn bug that dont allow me to get the packs even do im connected?? TIPS HERE?
DK cant be banned...of course not...to lure new players to buy the bundles and play the new class.
so greedy bliz.
Still no packs, shamelessly milking viewer counts
Honestly next weeks Adjustments are going to be fun can already predict most of what will be adjusted or what I feel need adjusting. Got sick of Deathrattle Rogue ended up building a counter to it with druid using ramp, mill, swarm, armor gain, double starfish, double coroner, and few dragons + kazkasan. Went 16/0 with it 100% win vs Rogue and Deathknights. (never needed to get the treasure package going and the concept of the deck could be refined but thats something for the pro players to do)
DeathKnight - Vampiric Blood (maybe a minor nerf if anything), Patchwork (8 mana or two blood cost), Alexandros Mograine (blood reduction 1-2) Lord Marrowgar (Rune reduction to 2) Frostwyrm's Fury (Rune reduction to 2) I think this championship has proven that although the class isn't bad because of the pool of cards and the restrictions runes place on the builders its not good enough for the main events by reducing some runes costs down and a small nerf to patchwork it would make mixing a bit easier and solve the issues patchwork is going to cause them as the card is silly and auto include in any blood or mixed blood decks until the end of days.
DemonHunter - Nerf to Relic of Dimensions (6-7 mana) Fel Barrage (3 mana)
Druid - Something to slow down ramp a tiny bit and Unending Swarm (7 mana)
Hunter - Shocksplitter (4 mana but stats adjusted)
Priest - Grave Digging (reduction set to 2 mana) Sister Svala (7 mana)
Rogue - Scourge Illusionist (5-6 mana) Infectious Ghoul (6 mana), Sketchy Information (4 mana or Draw a deathrattle card that costs (3) or less trigger its deathrattle) After seeing how silly this archtype is there going to wanna nerf it the best way to do that is change mana costs on the first two cards as it will force people to use the Rodent pushing back its early game power a couple of turns.
Warrior - Needs massive adjustments to Lich King set best possible change I would suggest is Disruptive Spellbreaker (gains taunt or cannot be targeted by spells), Embers of Strength (manathirst reduction or gives more stats), Blazing Power (2/1 buff) Warrior is in a very bad place right now and in my personal opinion I think the Fire archtype was a stupid move by blizzard there isn't enough fire type spells for it to be remotely playable or competative enough to win with, They shouldn't have introduced a new archtype on the last expansion of the year that just seems so daft to me should have held back that idea until first expansion of next year.
Neutral - Brann (4-5 mana), Lor'themar Theron (8 mana if anything) Reno Jackson (5 mana seen him played once in the last year) Brann being pushed to 4-5 mana until his removal and even after that point is a must each year we have more and more powerful cards coming out and his doubling battlecry just breaks the game on almost all the main cards over 6 mana. Reno needs a buff or just kick him out of the set I've seen 1 person in the last year running him as no duplicate decks are too restictive even making him 5 mana I doubt would make him see more play.
Why would your nerf shockspitter again lol
Don't like the card the fact hunter have a lot of weapons, can copy beasts which it falls under and combo it with brann it doesn't matter if its 2 mana or 4 its still going to be busted because they have ways to discount minion aswell. Look at Dungar it takes 5 turns for him to wake up and get his effect, he is a legendary that is difficult to copy and his 12 damage is random shocksplitter just goes face but can be used for removal and has the ability to surpass the output of that Legendary card.
Thats my issue with it way too much power creep.
Isn't this the last year of the contract between youtube and HS esports? hope so...
Also I'm NA east so I think this starts at 3 am my time lol
Blizz made terrible decisions in both the launch of DH and DK. They should know better their players' expectations on these two classes.
- The hype of DH was not that high compared to the hype of DK, but DH power level at launch was so high that it turned lots of players away from the game because they did not expect it coming at all.
- DK is a WoW fan-favorite and the hype was much higher than for DH, but DK current power level is just so uncompetitive to other classes and once again, this turned off lots of players as their expectations were not aligned.
DH and DK power level at launch should have been swapped.
I think Blizzard did a good job learning from the mistakes they made with adding DH. DH was way overpowered on launch. DK on the other hand isnt overpowered but imho will become that over time if Blizzard isnt careful.
Say that to arena, where DK is historically unbalanced.
meta has never been so cool
this will be interesting because it will just showcase the absolute shit show this meta is.
so im not the only one who hasnt received anything?
It takes some time to recieve the packs.
i am impatient
Not on the twitch.
Previously when another Hearthstone tournament was held on YouTube over weekend, packs were delivered on late Monday / early Tuesday. The bot in stream chat spams message "it might take up to 48 hours for packs to be delivered".
Alternatively: No.