Heroes of the Storm’s championships will let viewers tip teams for loot

Heroes of the Storm‘s esports league is encouraging fans to cheer for their teams … with money. People watching the best players compete in Blizzard’s MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) can use Twitch’s Cheer for Bits feature to unlock in-game rewards inside Heroes of the Storm.

Cheers are a Twitch currency that you can buy for real money. 100 bits costs $1.40. You can then send them to Twitch streamers as a kind of tip. When you send Cheers to specific teams during the ongoing Heroes Global Championship (which will conclude with a world championship event in November during Blizzcon in Anaheim, California), you can unlock Heroes of the Storm cosmetic items like banners and mounts (which don’t impact the actual game, but they can look good). You unlock these items based on individual cheering, combined cheering for a single team, and total cheering for all teams combined.