Original Author: War3station
Translator: GLH


(Shanghai, 10th Jan 2019) Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase (NASDAQ: NTES) published that they will continue the operation in China. This is the 11th year of the operation between Blizzard and NetEase, the game operation of World of Warcraft, StarCraft Series, Diablo Series, Hearthstone, Storm Heroes, Overwatch will be continue until 2023.

Since Blizzard and NetEase started their operation, they brought Starcraft II and the platform (NetEase Platfrom) into China, their operation let us are able to enjoy to game of Blizzard.

Blizzard Entertainment President J.Allen Brack:"Because of NetEase, we have more players to enjoy the game of Blizzard, we are very grateful to have such a strong partner in China, we are looking forward to continue and make deeper our partnerships in China and around the world."

NetEase founder and CEO:"Over the past ten years, we have been working closely with Blizzard and we are very happy to continue our relationship. In the future, our cooperation will be better than ever.  I believe Netease and Blizzard will bring a better gaming experience to players around the world."


About Blizzard:
Blizzard Entertainment, a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), it is a well-known developer and publisher of entertainment software worldwide, and it is having a reputation in the industry. Its great works include World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm,  Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, etc. They are having 22 best-selling games and a number of "Game of the Year" awards. The company also offers Battle.net, the world's largest online game service with tens of millions of active users.

About NetEase:
NetEase (NASDAQ: NTES) is a leading Internet technology company in China that dedicating to provide high quality Internet services across community, social and e-commerce. NetEase successfully developed and operated many China's most popular end-games and mobile games, and they are having operation with the world's leading game developers, including Blizzard and Mojang AB, their operation bring great works from oversea to China. NetEase also satisfies the growing consumer demand of the Chinese middle class through two e-commerce platforms, Kaola(考拉) and Yanxuan(δΈ₯选). In addition, NetEase also deals with businesses such as advertising and email.

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Original Author: War3station
Translator: GLH


NetEase will host Super WGL tonight (11th Jan 2019), the Chinese players from Hearthstone, Warcraft III, Heroes of the Storm and StarCraft II with great performance in 2018 will gather together at Shanghai, and fight for Championship of the year! Additionally, NetEase will host Gold Annual Awards tomorrow (12th Jan 2019), in recognition of the players,streamers and staffs who have made outstanding contributions in the past year. This event may be the biggest Awards for Blizzard games, you will not want to miss it!

It's worth to say mentioning that tonight will be Magic Yang come back show since he was retired, the last time of Magic Yang Commentary may be Startswar7 Grand Final in 2012, what will be showed by Magic Yang tonight, let's watch the game with us!

Remarckby GLH: This Video is for supporting the relative article nly, so this video will not be translated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_mrFWVuo_8


The Stream will start at 13:00(GMT +8), Warcraft will start at 20:00
Scan the QR code to the stream.


Stream:(Room number)
Douyu: 525207   ,   Huya: 66010   ,   Bilibili: 3863436   ,   Panda: 1631631   ,   Zhanqi: 16301   ,   CC: 163001   ,   (TV) Huashu: 808.

Remark by GLH: Back2warcraft will cast for the game too! https://www.twitch.tv/back2warcraft

For Warcraft III part:

The Qualifier was played at 18th Dec, and the game was played with Round Robin and BO3 (best of 3), after that, GK.TH000 and RW.infi advanced to the Grand Final, both of them will be fight for the championship of 2018!

Format:
BO5 (For Grand Final)

Prizes:
Champion: 60,000 CNY
Runner-up: 30,000 CNY

Caster:
Qiaolin, Showkiss, Magic Yang.

Full Schedule of Super WGL:

The game is coming soon! Who will be the champion of the year? Please watch the performance with us! If you need more information, please read the official Blizzard website.

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