![]() The front entrance leads directly into the gift shop, which was fairly small, but very clean looking. I got my name on the list, briefly chatted with the Blizzard employees checking people in, and made my way into the Arena. I asked him if the line we were in was the line to get on the list, which it obviously was, thanked him, and then I let him continue talking to the person he was with. I ran into pro player HotMEOWTH there, but I remember from last time I saw him that he’s a bit of an awkward dude, so I thought it might be nicer to not be starstruck this time. At 8:30 am on a random Friday, there were only about a dozen of us ambling around by the entrance. I fast-walked around the block toward the entrance of Blizzard Arena, afraid that I would turn the corner and see a line already 100+ people long. There were a few people parking near where I was and the street was already half-way filled up, so I got a little bit nervous. For my first day, I found some free street parking instead. As it turns out, there is a dedicated parking lot around the corner (long ways) from the main entrance which, for that event, charged $10 flat rate for each day. When I arrived, a security guard patiently informed me (twice, once in my car and once after I had parked and walked back over, because I’m an idiot) that I was at the wrong entrance. I decided to take a slight detour on my way in to work on Friday morning so that I could get there as soon as the doors opened and make sure I got on that list. This was to be–aside from pressers and maybe some secret internal events–only the second event at event at the new Blizzard Studio, and the first Hearthstone event, so I had no idea how quickly 100 spots might get snatched up. I had chosen to treat the event as a networking one as much as anything else, working on my resume and getting custom business cards weeks before the event, so I had to get on that list. It all started a couple days before the event when I received an email informing me that the first 100 people holding 3-day passes would get on the list to attend the event’s Wrap Party the Sunday after the finals. Still, I wanted to share some words–a lot more words than even I can cram into one blog post–about what was one of the best weekends of my life. Since then, we’ve had major patch updates, a lot of Fireside Gathering drama, twitchcon, Dreamhack Denver, and a “fake” first lady, so the news cycle seems to be moving on at an alarming pace, and this piece’s relevance with it. Last weekend, I attended the Hearthstone Championship Tour Summer finals.
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