Hearthstone's second Battlegrounds team tournament is here! We've got 16 participants divided into 4 teams and they'll be competing for their share of the $200,000 prize pool.
The tournament begins at 9 AM Pacfic (12 PM Eastern, 6 PM CEST). This is half an hour after the free packs drops start (refer to table below).
Update: Amaz is no longer a part of the tournament and has been replaced by Slysssa.
Free Ashes of Outland Packs
Twitch Drops have returned! For today only, you can earn yourself up to 2 Ashes of Outland packs simply by watching Hearthstone on Twitch.
- Watch 2 total hours of Hearthstone on Twitch to get 1 Ashes of Outland Pack
- Watch 4 total hours of Hearthstone on Twitch to get 1 additional Ashes of Outland Pack (2 total packs)
There is an 11-hour window to watch for packs, so here's a handy table to show you times in a bunch of timezones! You can watch any Hearthstone stream to be eligible for the packs.
| West Coast PDT (UTC-7) | East Coast EDT (UTC-4) | Europe CEST (UTC+2) | Korea KST (UTC+9) | |
| June 23 (Start) | 08:30 | 11:30 | 17:30 | 00:30 (June 24) |
| June 23 (End) | 19:30 | 22:30 | 04:30 (June 24) | 11:30 (June 24) |
Participants
Here are all 16 participants and their team names.
Southsea Swashbucklers
Bloodsail Buccaneers
Northsea Navigators
Fogsail Freebooters
Battleground Brawl: Pirates & Mayhem Prizing
In the tournament, four teams of four players will go head-to-head in order to find out the true masters of the game mode.
Two players from each team will play a round of Battlegrounds against each other and earn points based on their finish as follows:
- 1st place awards 5 points
- 2nd place awards 4 points
- 3rd place awards 2 points
- 4th place awards 1 point
Players ending up 5th-8th won't earn any points.
The prize money is distributed as follows:
- $20,000 per player
- $12,500 per player
- $10,000 per player
- $7,500 per player
Watch Battlegrounds Brawl: Pirates & Mayhem
You can watch on Twitch, which is required for the drops, or over on YouTube. All participants are also streaming their own point of view so if you enjoy the content from any of the attendees, support them and give 'em a watch! The Twitch stream is embedded below.
Comments
I wish there was a ticker showing the view time.
Kinda annoying not knowing your progress.
Since the stream ended early, this counts on all Twitch streamers playing HS right?
Yes, as long as they have their category set to Hearthstone you should get drops. Drop notification seems to be broken, but packs do arrive in-game.
Looks like the drops aren't working. Or I'm not getting them despite having had it run in a tab for four hours now.
I've gotten 2 packs. Note I don't get notifications in Twitch which is bugged for many (all?). I simply logged in to the game.
Yeah, I just logged in and got 2 packs. Looks like Twitch has problems.
what's the fuss with amaz?
It's my understanding that this action was primarily taken as a result of this tweet:
https://twitter.com/NurseBaemax/status/1275174857903419393
Slysssa has now replaced him. Interestingly I was watching a video where she shared her thoughts regarding this lucrative event recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Iy-pI7XZ4&t=263
One has to be very careful what one says online regarding any issue these days - particularly if relating to race or gender. Caution is advised (and after reading twitter for a bit about lots of topics I think I'll just shut up about everything :P ).
But I am allowed to *think* it. So take that Internet!
Lol I was wondering the same thing why chat was spamming that Amaz banned thing.
If your tweet link is true, then emphasis on the 'any issue' is really real here. Wonder how many sad nights he'll be having because of this tweet.
WOW...
Yeah, this is weird af.
Thanks for the answer!
If I have the stream running in a separate tab will it still count or do I need to have that tab open?
I've had it count but also not count at times.
My best advice for idling is to have the tab open, but in its own browser window so that you can plop that browser window behind your main one and have it still think it has focus. That has never failed me.
I'd be more inclined to watch if I could choose the pack I get... but hey, free is free
Well the fact that it is from the last expansion is by itself a good deal.
I remember that some years ago we got packs from previous expansions (like Witchwood even though Doomsday was out).