Four hosts. Three topics. Hours of Hearthstone talk without fluff or sugarcoating. This will be "The Innervated" talk show every Monday on GosuTV.
Hearthstone is a game that's in a constant, dynamic motion and we want to talk, discuss and cover every second of it. This is why we launch "The Innervated", a weekly talk show and podcast exclusively focused on Blizzard's card game. A show where each week, its four hosts will leave political correctness at the door and bring your their honest thoughts on last week's events. Criticism will be spoken where criticism is due, and vice versa for things that should be applauded.
The first episode of "The Innervated" will launch today at 21:00 CET on GosuTV4's Twitch channel. The topics me and my hosts will discuss will be:
The Team Infused split with their Hearthstone division
- A story of weird tweets and talented players leaving after a confrontation with their organization
- Contracting in esports or why you should never enter into handshake agreements
- Is Hearthstone's random nature something that will make teams think twice before they sign a roster
SeatStory Cup III impressions after four days of competition in Krefeld
- SSC III compared ot its predecessors and the likes of Viagame HouseCup
- The rise of Jon "Orange" Westberg
- Another sign of change of the power order in competitive Hearthstone
Main topic: Tournament formats in the wake of the recent majors
- How good/bad Conquest really is and how can it/does it need to be fixed
- How good/bad are the Conquest alternatives
- Should tournaments attempt to forge their own formats and/or modify existing formats
- Should tournaments be close to the ladder experience
- Tournament formats in open cups: The struggle where opportunities of player policing are limited
Your hosts tonight will be:
@GGNydra - Editor in Chief for GosuGamers and head of the Hearthstone section, yours truly has been working in esports for more than five years now. He watches illegal amounts of Hearthstone and likes to play [card]Innervate[/card] so that people can hate him. Coincidentally, he also likes Freeze Mage.
@SkimGaming - Former leader of the Dota 2 section of GosuGamers and an avid follower of the Hearthstone scene, Skim is another outspoken esports veteran. When he's not trying to qualify - pointlessly - for SeatStory Cup, he's writing, casting and living esports. He hates tomatoes, too, for whatever reason.
@StothexHS - One of our senior Hearthstone writers, Stothex likes to talk about what disappoints him in the game and often brings up the ladder imperfections, the MMR or announcements that don't mention improvements to the ladder or the MMR. He's a kick-ass interviewer too, on occasion.
@TheChiv1 - If you've been playing Hearthstone since the start of the scene, you know this guy as one of the driving forces behind the old Managrind tournaments. Currently, he's doing he's doing his own freelancing while worling with Noxious in the Mekktorque worshop, inventing the Hearthstone cards of tomorrow. No joke. That already happened. Several times.
Watch the show as it goes live here at 21:00 CET!
