It’s a slow news week with the expansion having just hit, and while we’ll be telling you all about our experiences with the Rise of Shadows expansion, we’re also going to be waxing lyrical about a current hot topic: the state of Hearthstone esports. Between the Specialist format, the Masters Tour and Qualifiers, Grandmasters and everything else that was announced a couple months ago, we’ve now had enough time to assess just how the format change has panned out. Disclaimer: there is swearing through the main segment, so careful to keep it away from child ears.

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