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Puffin is an Associate Game Designer on Team 5 Team 5 (also known as Blizzard Team 5) are the Blizzard Entertainment development team responsible for Hearthstone. A "small and nimble" team of 15 members for much of the game s original development, the team has , as well as a streamer and top-ranked player of Hearthstone The Hearthstone icon Hearthstone (formerly known as Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft 1] 2]) is a free-to-play digital collectible card game from Blizzard Entertainment. It was first announced in a presentation by Rob Pardo at the .
Puffin regularly achieves top 100 Legend rank, peaking as high as Legend 2 in the Americas region, and has participated in a number of tournaments including the 2014 Hearthstone World Championship A map to the World Championship s qualification process The 2014 Hearthstone World Championship was the first year of the Hearthstone World Championship. Following regional playoffs to select players, the Hearthstone World Championship began on Nov. , where he reached the Americas Qualifier. Prior to joining Team 5 in Feb. 2017, Puffin worked on the Hearthstone Community Team from Nov. 2015.
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- Puffin has played Hearthstone since at least Dec. 2013 (during the closed beta The Hearthstone beta was the beta test phase in the development of Hearthstone, following the alpha test. The beta test began in its closed phase in the Americas region on Aug. 16th 2013, and in ). He was part of the winning NA team in the NA vs CN 2P tournament in Dec. 2013, which he describes as "the first big third party Hearthstone tournament" following the first official tournament The Innkeeper s Invitational edit] League information Organizer: Blizzard Entertainment Event type: Offline Start date: 2013-11-8 End date: 2013-11-9 Links: Website Share this page Tweet The Innkeeper s Invitational is a professional Hearthstone tournament hosted by Blizzard as part of at BlizzCon 2013.
- Puffin was interviewed as part of the Road to BlizzCon featureSpecial attraction in the run up to the 2014 Hearthstone World Championship.