You're Invited to the Hearthstone Inn-vitational

Blizzard has announced details on the Blizzard Hearthstone Tournament, the Hearthstone Inn-vitational. See the 12 players, how it's going to work, and more below.

Did Blizzard Just Give us Clues for the Next Expansion?

Alright, hear us out for a second. We've got some really interesting stuff going on in this post.

Let's start off with the banner from the post. We've very clearly got a treasure map, an unknown landform that may or may not be present on Azeroth (we've checked!), and some cool skull in the water. All typical pirate stuff. This can only mean one thing. Sailing the seas! This turns out to actually be the art for Map to the Golden Monkey.

Things get more interesting though if you look closely at the four team names.

Grimestreet Grifters - Refers to Gadgetzan Expansion

- Refers to Gadgetzan Expansion Jungle Giants - Refers to Un'Goro Expansion

- Refers to Un'Goro Expansion Chillblade Crusaders - Refers to Frozen Throne Expansion

- Refers to Frozen Throne Expansion Big-Time Buccaneers - ????

Yarr. Harr. Thar be Patches in thy future. Continuing onward, the post highlights lots of treasure which could mean we're going to get card reveals throughout the tournament, something that would truly test the deck-building skills of the players present, another mention.

If we go further back though to the recent patch which hit the servers, we did see a nice Pirate ship and some other pirate characters coming to us in the form of card avatars. It certainly wouldn't be the first time Blizzard has added in clues during a patch to hint toward the next expansion.

Keep in mind, this is all speculation but we don't think we're too crazy. It's also been rumored the next WoW expansion is going to be present in the South Seas, which would make for a very interesting cross between Hearthstone and WoW. We'll find out at BlizzCon on November 3rd for sure though, so stay tuned!

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