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The Hearthstone tournament scene is a racket and Blizzard needs to step in sooner rather than later
It's all a big joke and needs to be much more tightly regulated. With the way the system works now, Blizzard essentially just sits back and watches as shady & biased community members run the entire scene. It's insane that the best way to qualify for the Blizzard-run World Championships is through gaining points from such shoddy and unregulated tournaments where being invited is "Who do you know?" and/or "How popular are you?" Blizzcon itself is somewhat of a farce through its association with these tournaments.
Something needs to be done. Blizzard's done it in the past with the WCS in Starcraft 2 and unless they do something similar here, everything in competitive Hearthstone will continue to be dictated by community personalities.
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No idea. We hope this clears up some confusion.
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Events that are potentially eligible still need to be reviewed and accepted by the Blizzard eSports team.
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Invitational events are not eligible to offer points towards the Hearthstone World Championship. To see which tournaments are currently providing Hearthstone World Championship points, please see this blog post.