Winningest player in Hearthstone history, Thijs, steps away from Grandmasters

No expert Hearthstone participant throughout the sport’s historic previous has obtained additional prize money than Thijs Molendijk.

With over $500,000 in career earnings, consistent with esportsearnings.com, the Nederlands native launched on Saturday morning that he wouldn’t be competing throughout the sport’s expert circuit titled Hearthstone Grandmasters.

After struggling within the newest season of Grandmasters, Thijs was relegated after Europe’s elite battled it out for weeks on end. Ending twelfth out of 16 individuals, the favored competitor, content material materials creator, and staple of the scene for nearly eight years launched he wouldn’t search to requalify down the freeway.

In a TwitLonger shared on his Twitter account, this alternative was one Thijs felt cozy with and had been contemplating:

“The selection to go away [Grandmasters] was already in my ideas last season the place I already wrote a simular(sp) message on paper. I needed to current it one other do that season and see if it was a temporally(sp) feeling that may maybe merely vanish away. Nonetheless I’ve realized the feeling really purchased even stronger and decided it’s greater for me to not proceed in GM.”

Possibly the flashiest win of Thijs’ career bought right here once more in 2018 as he took down XiaoT throughout the China vs. Europe Championship in one of many important thrilling aggressive Hearthstone sequence in historic previous.

After returning from a 2-0 deficit in a best-of-five sequence, Thijs obtained the deciding match with a single stage of effectively being remaining. First place throughout the event was an Aston Martin DB11 automotive valued at over $175,000 euros. Thijs took the ‘life-changing’ cash prize in its place.

In Thijs announcement, he talked about his days of aggressive Hearthstone are often not over, nonetheless. With fairly a number of Blizzard-sponsored tournaments occurring yearly, he would nonetheless participate in them now and again. Nonetheless as far as the expert circuit goes, he can dwell with out it.

“I’ll at all times keep in mind what 8 years competing on the best diploma did to me and my life. Due to you I found one factor in my life I’m so passioned(sp) about, I like doing loads and I’ve been unimaginable(sp) supported by you each single day as I’m(sp) scripting this in tears. I could be with out finish gratefull(sp) for that to you, thanks from the deepest of my coronary coronary heart.”