Chasing glory in Hearthstone (and getting beaten by kids instead)

In honor of Hong Kong’s gold medal in the Asian Games, we humiliated ourselves in Blizzard’s hit card game

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Chasing glory in Hearthstone (and getting beaten by kids instead)

Published: 7:45pm, 25 Sep 2018Updated: 8:40am, 20 Sep 2019

This article originally appeared on ABACUS

Hong Kong took home a gold medal in Hearthstone at the Asian Games in Jakarta last month. In honor of that, we played Hearthstone online last Friday on Twitch… and unlike Hong Kong’s hero, we got destroyed by what we assume was a bunch of 12 year olds.

For the new or uninitiated, Hearthstone is Blizzard’s free-to-play online card game with more than 70 million registered players worldwide. As the world’s most popular online card game, it was included at the 2018 Asian Games where esports was included as a demonstration sport.

Lo Tsz-kin , who goes by Kin0531, beat Indonesia’s Jothree 3-1 in the final. (Picture: YouTube)

Sorry Kin0531. Where you gave Hong Kong a great honor by delivering a gold medal, we may have single-handedly lost all of it.

To be fair, because I had to explain the game from scratch to Karen and Xinmei, we streamed this game with an absolute beginner’s deck.

In Hearthstone, players get more powerful by assembling a stronger deck -- you can purchase a bunch of cards off the shop or grind through battles to win new cards to strengthen your decks. But if your deck isn’t strong enough, well… that’s my excuse, anyway.

Chasing glory in Hearthstone (and getting beaten by kids instead)

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}In honor of Hong Kong’s gold medal in the Asian Games, we humiliated ourselves in Blizzard’s hit card game

In honor of Hong Kong’s gold medal in the Asian Games, we humiliated ourselves in Blizzard’s hit card game