![]() ![]() ![]() Now using the in-game tournament feature, players will be able to experience that. That looks really cool when I see players do it when we watch esports. At the highest level of Hearthstone, players make a line-up of decks and maybe it's Last Man Standing, maybe it's Conquest, and I get to play this multi-deck match against another player. We're definitely really excited that in-game tournaments will fulfil that fantasy: "I want to play Hearthstone with a lot of my friends." The other fantasy that we want to fulfil is - we look at Hearthstone Championship Tour. One is, "I want to play Hearthstone with my friends and there are two of us, four of us, eight of us." It's frankly not super easy for you to have that kind of a group experience right now. “For the in-game tournament feature, that's trying to address a specific fantasy, and there are two main flavours of it. You win as many games as you can before you lose three, which in a Swiss lingo, is you've dropped out from winning. Those are all different ways where we think about when people say they want to have this tournament experience, how can we manifest it? I think we're watching carefully for instance, with what's happening with Brawliseum… here is a way where players can bring what they think is their best Wild deck and then basically play a Swiss format tournament. We just released Brawliseum, and now there is an aspect a constructed asynchronous Swiss style competition happening. Even in things like Arena, there's a competitive Swiss style aspect to it. I think a lot of these ideas get manifested in different systems, sometimes in systems we don't even call a tournament. When people talk about, "I want to have a tournament experience in the game," it can mean a lot of different things. We've been talking about what kind of tournament fantasies exist. ![]() Obviously this is something you've been considering for a long time, but how long have you been actively working on bringing it into the game? Yong Woo: I think for a lot of ideas we end up executing in the game, it takes a while for it to coalesce. IGN: Tournament functionality is huge - the community has been asking for it for years. ![]()
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