NetEase has announced its 2019 esports plan for multiple Blizzard esports games, including Hearthstone , Starcraft II , Warcraft III , and Heroes of the Storm .

NetEase will provide ¥ 5M RMB ($720K USD) as total prize pool for its Warcraft III competitions.

A McLaren supercar will be the grand prize for the EU vs. CN Hearthstone International tournament in 2019.

Yesterday Chinese tech company NetEase , the exclusive China distributor for game developer Blizzard Entertainment , announced its esports plan for next year. The plan, announced at a conference in the Chinese city of Suzhou, covers multiple Blizzard esports games including Hearthstone , Starcraft II , Warcraft III , and Heroes of the Storm .

Ye Pang, partnership director for NetEase and Blizzard’s joint operations team in China, said that the company will develop a new competition system for all of these Blizzard esports games. This includes tournaments that will be operated in different cities, a series of team competitions, and the introduction of a player points system. The company said it is looking forward to building an integrated promotion system that will allow ordinary gamers to become professional players.

For Warcraft III, the company will provide a ¥5M RMB ($720K USD) total prize pool for multiple competitions in 2019. Outside of its existing Gold series in Warcraft III, NetEase will introduce new team competitions. The system is similar to the now retired WarCraft III Champions League Series (WC3L), which ran from 2002 to 2010—operated at first by inGame.de, and later by ESL. The new Warcraft III competition follows Blizzard’s announcement at BlizzCon 2018 that a remastered version of Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne will be released in 2019.

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For Hearthstone, Netease announced that a McLaren supercar will be the grand prize at the next CN vs. EU international tournament in 2019. In the 2018 CN vs. EU, Dutch player Thijs “Thijs” Molendijk, representing G2 Esports , won an Aston Martin supercar—continuing a tradition that began in 2015.

In addition, a new Hearthstone 3v3 offline professional team league will be introduced as part of NetEase’s Gold Series tournament brand. The league will feature eight weeks of play per season, with two regular season days every weekend. The long standing NetEase Gold Series Open tournaments will also expand to eight events, each held in a different city, in 2019.

In addition, NetEase will continue operating Heroes of the Storm competitions in the NetEase Gold series, which will be split into two seasons in 2019. The company also said it will optimize and improve the competition system for Starcraft II, and invite more international players to compete with Chinese players.