Lagging Balls: a community-focused Blizzard & World of Warcraft Podcast. For the people. By some people. Episode 146, hosted by Thorn and Thyst: “By Sting, Featuring Shaggy!” or by its full title: “Episode 146, By Sting, Featuring Grammy Award Winner Shaggy, of ‘It Wasn’t Me’ Fame.” This week one of us is posing as a formerly respectable musical artist. The other is posing as Shaggy.

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This week we cover:
An interview with Perfect Nomad & Solafyde from Medieval Times in Buena Park, CA
See them walk out with LA Valiant here: http://bit.ly/2yg0exB
And here! http://bit.ly/2JGWDJS
The LB Stream Ep 34: Final BlizzCon Ticket & Ask Reddit! http://bit.ly/2y6928V
Thyst on Around the Payload Episode 18 – http://bit.ly/2Je8ke0
Thyst on Beyond the Playlist: Yoku’s Island Express Soundtrack – http://bit.ly/2JCw7RY
Thyst Hangs with Five Deadly Venoms and Lives to Tell About It
Thorn Falls Short of Glory

LB Announcements
LB Attending Chillrogg’s NYC HotS Viewing Party June 16th – http://bit.ly/2JKuxxG
New LB Etsy Shop! https://etsy.me/2Jfb7ni
European Patreon Hangout

Blizzard Entertainment
Blizzard Proves Esports Living Up to Hype in 2018 – http://bit.ly/2MdYIPf
NJ’s Last-Minute Esports Betting Ban – http://bit.ly/2JKDJoI
More on Esports Gambling: How Esports Gambling Works –http://bit.ly/2JI5Ogn
Rumor: New Diablo Game in the Works? Job Listing Seems to Hint – http://bit.ly/2McqITo
OWL Teams To Unveil New Merch As Blizzard Loosens Restrictions – http://bit.ly/2Jxi8Ne

World of Warcraft
One Launch to Rule Them All – http://bit.ly/2MglaHy
Fourth Annual Running of the Trolls
AWC: Final NA Cup on June 16 and 17
MDI Finals: MDI LAN Event June 22-24
MDI All Stars at BlizzCon 2018

Overwatch
New Dinoflask video: https://youtu.be/w0_h_tDvAuI
Symmetra commentary – http://bit.ly/2JI47j1
Dev Update – http://bit.ly/2Me7f4N

Overwatch League

All Star Game August 25
Stage 4 Standings

Heroes of the Storm
Echoes of Alterac – Heroes of the Storm – http://bit.ly/2xXkfsg
Alterac Pass Battleground Overview – http://bit.ly/2JL5Nsb
Hero Spotlight: Yrel – http://bit.ly/2Jxs616

Hearthstone
Taverns of Time is Coming – http://bit.ly/2MhMLZ0
Free Pack Day – http://bit.ly/2Me3MD6
Hearthstone Global Games Voting Now Live – http://bit.ly/2JGuru2

Current Question of the Week: If Lagging Balls did a podcast about anything besides gaming, what would it be?

New Question of the Week: What kind of Blizzard merch do you want that doesn’t exist already?

Music for this episode from:
http://www.freesfx.co.uk
http://www.bensound.com

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Randomly Awesome Link of the Week, courtesy of LB Patrons… listen to/watch this on YouTube and see if you can name all the movie references (easy mode) – http://bit.ly/2y42Ezd