Heroes of the Storm preview: Feels naive for any team to beat Na’Vi

Forty of the world’s most frenetic gamers will fight for half a million dollars in the first-ever Heroes of the Storm world championship beginning Wednesday.

Fans of Blizzard Entertainment’s half-dozen game franchises converge on Anaheim, California in early November for the ninth BlizzCon — the annual celebration of Blizzard’s games and, in recent memory, the competitive esports scenes that have emerged in several of them. One of the four games represented — and with the largest single prize pool of $500,000 (each of the other three games has a $250,000 prize pool) — is Heroes of the Storm.