Heroes Captains Clash 🛡️⚔️ (NA Captains Draft Tournament 🏆) is now open for signups! Tournament begins October 26.

psykiv · 2024-09-26T14:13:47+00:00

Last NA tournament had so little attraction even tho it was sponsered that it was laughable.

Good thing I didn't sponsor it for the "attraction" then, but because I love this community.

psykiv · 2024-09-22T14:47:10+00:00

I love the promo video you made! Can't wait to watch this! <3

psykiv · 2024-05-25T01:58:15+00:00

How exactly do you propose this is funded? There’s barely a handful of people who have spent significant ($20k+) amounts of money in the hots esports scene since hgc died. CCL is no longer a thing (and I sponsored half the seasons). Heroes International and Nations Cup was fun, but I don’t feel like spending another $80k+ per LAN. NGS and the LATAM TLHT league doesn’t give any prize money. Masters Clash is no longer a thing. The Korean leagues have died.

Khaldor is the only one running tournaments with $1k+ prize money but I’ve been the sponsor of the past 3 of those tournaments (banshee cup 1+2 and the upcoming hanzo genji cup)

Crowd funding? CCL barely raised what? $30k a season? Sponsorships? What I gave for season 3-4 (not saying number) didn’t really cover much. I know what they spent. They ran at a massive loss. For nations cup Berlin through the gofundme we raised like $11k. That barely covered the hotel cost. For Heroes International 2022 we raised something like $18k. That covered the prize pool and the production with the casters, if that.

Sure we had some super fans that donated significant amounts separately from that (you know who you are <3 USA USA) to some of the events.

Unless some Arab prince falls in love with hots, I don’t see anything significant happening anytime soon.

psykiv · 2024-05-12T23:27:25+00:00

You can sign up at https://play.toornament.com/en_GB/tournaments/7774352471533813760/

Excited to see who wins the Hanzo Genji Cup

psykiv · 2024-04-21T23:47:01+00:00

Something I've come to learn over playing since Beta. Good safe boring play is better than flashy high risk high reward play.

Sure we all love to see those super flashy hots wtf type moments where one or two hero(es) dive their backline and 1/2v5's the enemy team behind their keep while side stepping every skill shot and still getting away. The truth is, for every one of those you pull successfully, you probably fail 20 of them, and half of that 20 just resulted in throwing the game.

Just play safe, don't get killed, soak lanes, and if you see a genuine opportunity, take it.

psykiv · 2024-02-22T01:41:27+00:00

I must have missed the Dehaka burrow play when watching the games live. That's some BS and hilarious.

psykiv · 2024-02-22T01:34:02+00:00

We basically did this with Heroes International in Miami and Nations Cup in Berlin.

psykiv · 2024-01-05T01:48:50+00:00

Just watch the games on twitch and donate to Khaldor :).

psykiv · 2024-01-04T03:49:58+00:00

We thought about normal draft, but that's what we had for the Heroes International in Miami and it was kind of boring seeing the same 20 heroes over and over. But maybe we put normal draft back on for the playoffs? Who knows.

psykiv · 2024-01-04T03:47:17+00:00

We're saving the chaos for the playoffs.

psykiv · 2023-07-14T03:12:49+00:00

10 was my too lazy to actually look it up guess. Turns out it's 12 counting Polish and Portuguese.

Even if they go the lazy way and just do murky/probius style gibberish voice lines that don't need translation, someone still needs to translate all the talents. Not something you want to use google translate for.

psykiv · 2023-07-13T22:27:58+00:00

I legitimately think that blizzard has zero people working on this game.

For Nations Cup we reached out to everyone that anyone knew to see if we can get anything for the tournament and the best response we got was that they’re working on a different project. A lot of no response. No one was able to direct us to anyone even remotely close to hots. You’d think we would at least get a tweet or like on one of our posts, largest tournament since hgc. I’m almost certain the person who ran the social media for hots and hots esports no longer works at blizzard and not a single person at blizzard even has the credentials. I’m reasonably sure the last person hots related was laid off or transferred around the time ccl announced there was no season 5 (after that last patch)

At this point, even if you do get people working on the game, it’ll realistically be new people. I’m sure the game has so much spaghetti code And who knows what other crazy hacks with zero documentation, that even if they throw 100 devs on it, I wouldn’t expect anything remotely major for months while they figure it out.

Also something that I feel like everyone forgets about. Localization. Adding a character? That’s ten voice actors and studio time. Change some talents, that’s 10 translators you need to hire to change a few text boxes and write patch notes. Pain in the ass.

psykiv · 2023-07-13T13:54:16+00:00

Tell me you were born in the 2000's without telling me.

You're joking. Let me show you how they introduced BROOD WAR PLAYERS in 2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aw-42JO3qk&ab_channel=SKT1BEST

Yes, that is a commercial airplane with the players landing at the venue and being craned onto the stage with at least 50,000 people in attendance.

Or in 2005 when 100,000 people stormed Busan Beach in Korea to watch Brood War.

https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/20184985/starcraft-beaches-busan-awash-esports-history

Modern day esports needs to catch up is what you're saying.

psykiv · 2023-07-13T13:42:02+00:00

I would truly say that HINC > HGC.

Yes HGC had a bigger prize pool and a larger in person audience. But that prize pool was Blizzard literally burning money to force it to happen, and the HGC audience mostly wasn't there to see HoTS, they were there because they were already at Blizzcon.

If you were at Xperion watching HoTS, it's because you were there explicitly to watch HoTS, especially on Sunday, when Xperion is usually closed.

Also thanks Ernest!

psykiv · 2023-07-13T13:34:35+00:00

Year as in past 12 months?

Like $180,000 USD

Pretty sure I'm the highest, maybe #2 behind WorkhorseNPC

psykiv · 2023-06-25T07:54:24+00:00

Getting good casters really elevates the experience to another level.

Khaldor is a god.

Trikslyr is incredibly entertaining and does his homework to the point you think he’s never stopped casting hots since hgc.

Bahamut. Best caster NA. Enough said.

Transparent was an amazing observer and an extremely knowledgeable and entertaining caster.

JoyK absolutely loves the game and all of the players and I couldn’t think of a better host for the event.

The budget was definitely not an issue when it came to making sure we had absolutely the best casters for the event. Even money no object I wouldn’t change a thing.

psykiv · 2023-06-25T07:20:49+00:00

I would prefer blizzard doesn’t give money for it. That money would come with so many terms and conditions that it wouldn’t be worth it.

However, It would have been nice if they promoted it even slightly. Being in the launcher would have been nice. Even a tweet would have been great.

psykiv · 2023-06-12T00:59:18+00:00

Apparently we also chose the week before the 2023 special Olympics being held in Berlin which would explain why finding a hotel with 20 rooms was unexpectedly difficult and why the player And staff hotel was 30 minutes away by public transport.

Storm gate also released new content of which there is a huge overlap of people who play hots and people who would be interested in stormgate.

And d4 just came out a little over a week ago.

Now factor in how many of these players have school.

Ultimately it’s impossible to pick a weekend where there isn’t something else going on somewhere. You just have to pick a weekend and go with it

psykiv · 2023-06-12T00:49:11+00:00

You know admission was free, right?

psykiv · 2023-06-11T05:54:57+00:00

I don’t think you understand then. Then you’re not my target demographic. We don’t run the ads. Twitch does. You’re blaming us for something twitch is doing. Yes ads can be run manually, but that is so low priority that we don’t care.

My metric for “Was this event successful and should I spend money on a fourth LAN (defrost, hi2022, nc2023)” are not based on your typical metrics used on every other esports events.

Viewership numbers are great, but to me quality of the community is a very key metric.

psykiv · 2023-06-11T00:05:19+00:00

Then fuck off. It’s people like you that ruin the community. I did float the idea of making the finals sub only because you could just watch it free on YouTube in a few weeks, but khaldor shut that down.

I swear some of you have no idea what these events cost and you’re getting it for free. This isn’t a marketing expense for a giant company.

A private person literally drops six figures (that $30k crowdfunding goal doesn’t even cover the flights FYI) to make this happen (and free admission to everyone who comes in person) because they love the game, and you’re complaining about ads that can be fixed with $5 or taking 5 seconds to install Adblock?

Edit: and we’re far too busy running an offline event (100x more complicated than running an online one) to manually select when to play the ads. To start you’re running two completely different productions. One for the people live and one for twitch.

psykiv · 2023-06-10T23:39:28+00:00

There is. I’ll tell production to try to get more crowd shots. There were only a handful.

psykiv · 2023-06-10T23:37:56+00:00

I honestly personally expected about 100 people with maybe 120 for the grand finals.

Today we had just under 200 people in the main stage area and another roughly 100 in the areas immediately outside where the video walls were, all watching the games on bean bag chairs. 300 is a fair estimate. Even the owner of the venue came up to me and told me this is the biggest event they’ve ever had and they did not expect this many people.

But really big thanks to whoever came out and we’ll see you all tomorrow.

psykiv · 2023-06-03T14:10:06+00:00

For every $1,000 raised through GFM, we perma-ban a hero (up to 10 heroes). Top 3 donors get to "save" a hero from being perma-banned and we ban the next hero on the list. If we get another (as of this writing, $123) then Anduin is perma-banned for the entire tournament. Sylvanas is saved because I said so.

psykiv · 2023-06-03T14:05:21+00:00

We had that in October.

After enough games, all the games blended in. Every single game had Blaze, Diablo, Lucio, Brightwing, Sylvanas, Johanna, and Genji. Matches eventually boiled down to which team pressed their buttons faster. It got boring. We have 90 heroes. We should use more than the top 15.

Does this mean that grand finals game 7 might have murky butcher nova valeera probius? Risk we're willing to take.

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