Missed anything from last week? We've got you covered with the major headlines from the world of Hearthstone.
The "Hearthstone competitive recap" is issued every Monday and goes over the major events in - and often outside - competitive Hearthstone. Blizzard's card game is in the middle of its HCT campaign but there are also lots of other third party tournaments running in parallel, and this post will summarize everything for your convenience.
Enjoy!
Tournament news:
DrHippi wins EU Summer Championship
The Virtus.pro player finally takes a major tournament win, after missing on the same trophy in the winter season. DrHippi thus becomes the second Virtus.pro player at Blizzcon, after Naiman won the first European Championship of the year.
StrifeCro takes Start Democracy invitational
It's been five months without a tournament win for Cloud9's StrifeCro until his run at the $15,000 Start Democracy over the weekend. Organized by VGVN and ONOG, the invitational gathered 32 players from around the world to promote equal and fair rights for esports athletes and was played out in an unusual Last Hero Standing with self-ban format.
The regional qualifiers for WESG Europe complete
Among the 20 players who qualified for the Kyiv LAN finals are top contenders including Xixo, Orange, Crane, Neirea and Loyan. The aforementioned LAN preliminaries will seed the top eight to the $300,000 WESG grand finals in China - the biggest individual tournament outside Blizzcon this year.
Major news and content:
Two and a half years later: The missing features in Hearthstone
Senior feature writer Stefan "Sumadin" Suadicani goes over four non-gameplay features still missing from Blizzard's hit card game. Sumadin's list includes working observer moder, replays and a proper reconnect feature, among others.
Diversity and the future of HCT: The Innervated podcat
The four hosts of the GosuGamers unfiltered and brutally honest podcast are joined by HCT caster Alex "Raven" Baguley to discuss the innovations of Batstone's ban-list tournament and PGL's try at a 9-deck format, as well as where Blizzard's own circuit should go next year.
Team 5 on the health of Hearthstone
In a lengthy interview, IGN talk to Mike Donais and Dean Ayala from Hearthstone's dev team on the hot questions the community's been asking for months: Do the devs consider the metagame healthy? When will Priest be good again? What about a tournament mode and changes to Arena? Definitely worth a read.
Alliance to announce their Hearthstone roster soon
One of Dota 2's most successful organizations Alliance are ready to give it a go with Hearthstone. The announcement is expected to come any day now with no hints as to which player or players will don the colors of the Swedish org.
Decks and guides:
All decklists from EU Summer Championship
GosuRankings Top 10 players
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