#395 - Into the Nexus: “esports Goes to the Mall”
• Garrett • Kyle • NotParadox or Guest
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Heroes Esports is making moves. The HeroesHearth CCL Season 3 is on the horizon and their parent company Wisdom gaming has created a brick and mortar studio at the Mall of America. While it won't be ready in time for Season 3, CCL will have a presence at the new studio. Garrett and Kyle take a trip down the memory lane of Esports as we look forward to some live Heroes action, possibly in 2022. League of Legends also stole our best feature! This and more, enjoy! And enjoy our sponsor Bombas socks, where you give a pair, when you get a pair Bombas.com/nexus.
Intro: Welcome to Into the Nexus! The Heroes of the Storm podcast!
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CCL Season 3 Incoming
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Wisdom Gaming and… Mall of America???
Kyle’s Notes:
Nicole Du Cane Spencer, vice president of sales and partnerships at Wisdom Gaming
“Reaching the Gen-Zs, reaching the millennials, they’re a tough-to-reach market. They’re the ad blockers, the cord-cutters, they’re skipping commercials. For brands to find new ways to authentically and effectively reach that demographic one of the best opportunities is esports and gaming,” Du Cane Spencer said. “That’s where Wisdom comes in. We’re the ones that can help advise brands on how to effectively enter that space and talk to that audience.”
Mall of America:
“Tapping into the esports landscape has been something we’ve had on our radar for a long time,” Jill Renslow, EVP, business development, Mall of America, said in announcing the deal with Wisdom Gaming. The mall, however, wanted to make sure it was approaching the esports audience the right way, Renslow said. By partnering with Wisdom Gaming, she said, the mall can leverage “their expertise in the space to establish Mall of America as the premiere esports destination hub for guests and global esports fans alike.”
“The flexibility and the ability to scale is really what excites us the most about the partnership with the Mall of America,”
Jules Scott:
We will have a home for our broadcast production, our offices and YES, future live @HeroesHearthCCL events sometime soon
Links
League Removes All Chat
“right now negative interactions outweigh the positives" - Riot
“Riot acknowledged that team chat can also be abusive, but says that it's sticking around because it has a better reason to exist than /all chat.” - PC Gamer
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Justin
I went to several twitch chats to put this idea out there but nobody was very nice.
My idea is that maybe kael’thas has a talent that lets him put a living bomb on an ally but otherwise it is the same. It still spreads to enemies when it detonates; this would let kt strengthen divers like phisto or genji. To stop trolling I guess you'd have to make it not do dmg to ally.
Divock
I'm not sure if this makes sense but I was playing Artanis and realized the sprawling journey he's taken from his launch, to the point that he finally seems to function as the character he was intended as; it's funny to think that Artanis used to not have phase prism while blade dashing, no baseline zealot charge, and now the recent unstoppable addition to finally allow him to actually survive a little bit of CC. What "heroes journey" has been the most interesting or entertaining to you?
Corny
HOT OR NOT 🔥
Aba rework idea, either baseline monstrosity or clone. My logic is his early game is too weak pre-10, so early monstrosity lets him solo lane. Alternatively early clone lets him compete for early objectives instead of assuming you'll be behind pre 10.
Obviously you'll have to give him another ult, new pve to compete with monstrosity or new team fight ult for clone, and likely need to adjust his power pie. Thoughts?
jaisl: @Amovetv other than Uther, and BW, what heals can deal with being the target of the current dive meta, which is very much alive in QM. My Tyrande just gets NAILED by Illi + Aba + Dva, etc.... Tyrande's my girl, but these dive comps make life tough
Outro
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