Citing player exhaustion and a "young, unstable scene", the team behind HPL is making some positive changes.
The team at Nexus Champ know when it's best to accept a loss and move forward. That is why as of today, Heroes Premier League 2 is no more. To best explanation is found in the surprisingly transparent announcement detailing some of the leagues set backs:
"By the end of the first week of Heroes Premier League Season 2, 9 out of the original 32 teams disbanded, another 6 of them requested major roster changes, and one other team decided that a 4 month commitment to a league was too much stress to handle, and it became quite obvious that the scene is still far too young and unstable to have a sustained long-form league on the scale that HPL Season 2 brought to the table"
However, amidst the concession of defeat is the promise of something better. A new arena point system is being adopted that aims to reduce player fatigue and allows teams more flexibility in who they play and when. Each win in this system will count towards a teams arena points and arena skill rating, metrics that won't decrease if a team decides to take a break. The prize pool will be the same and the change is ultimately about reflecting the reality of the small, but growing HotS scene.
Only time will tell if this system is adopted by the eSports scene, but it might be possible that HPL abandoned the League format prematurely. While it may be difficult to maintain, there is a sort of inevitability in the air towards the growth of the HotS scene. When this growth cements it self as a reality, who will be the most recognizable name in HotS Leagues? The ones who have been doing it the longest, or the newcomers that get it right when it matters?
Follow @gosugamershots for more of the good stuff.
More on GosuGamers Heroes of the Storm:
