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2020 Hearthstone World Championship Announced

If you’re a fan of Hearthstone, the World Championship is pretty much as good as it gets! It’s the... | 25. September 2020

If you’re a fan of Hearthstone, the World Championship is pretty much as good as it gets! It’s the one moment in time when the best and most capable players in the world converge and duke it out for glory, bragging rights, and a sizable monetary reward! What’s not to like?

2020, however, has pretty much forced the world to a halt. Most developers and esports are currently “up and running,” but it took a while. Heck, some of them aren’t even fully operational, like DOTA 2. Blizzard is one of the few developers who had it worst seeing how they shifted the Overwatch League to a city-based model, along with organizing the first-ever season of Call of Duty League. In short, they bit off a bit more than they could chew. The pandemic, of course, was just icing on the cake.

Hearthstone, therefore, was pretty much an afterthought. Fortunately, that’s no longer the case! The 2020 Hearthstone World Championship is now official for December 12-14! The eight best players in the world will compete over the course of this three-day tournament, with a total prize pool of $500,000 being on the line. Not too shabby for a CCG!

As expected, things will go down in an online-only environment. Two groups of four players will duke it out in a “dual-tournament format” until only four remain. At that point, the Hearthstone World Championship will shift to a single elimination bracket. The player that wins it all will take home $200,000, with the runner-up getting a slightly more modest (but still quite impressive) $100,000. Third and fourth place will both get $50,000 apiece, with fifth through eighth getting $25,000 for their efforts.

Overall, this will be a much-needed boost for the game’s esports scene and a welcome reminder that Blizzard still isn’t done with peculiar (and still quite popular) IP!

You can watch the whole thing live on the official Hearthstone YouTube channel!