Blizzard has posted the full BlizzCon 2026 schedule, and World of Warcraft is the game eating most of the time for the weekend. The show runs September 12 and 13 at the Anaheim Convention Center. Opening Ceremony is 10:30 a.m. PDT on Saturday. The first game panel after that is World of Warcraft: What's Next at noon. A second main-stage slot, World of Warcraft: What's Next II, follows at 2:45 p.m.
Neither of those titles says Classic. That is the line some fans keep circling and have rumors about. The company built a Warcraft-first timetable, left a dedicated Classic lane on the same day, and still has not printed Classic+ or Camelot officially on a slide. For a lot of Classic players, this tell us they are cooking something big.
Saturday also lists a Developers x Creators Showcase at 3:30 p.m. on a secondary stage. Many people think this will be a deepdive into whatever new Classic news they announce. Sunday adds World of Warcraft Hardcore: What's Next at 4:15 p.m. There is a Blizzard Classic Cup on the esports slate, plus Warcraft III legacy matches. Overwatch, Diablo, and Hearthstone all have programming. StarCraft barely shows up on the published key (Which some think is telling on it's own, because there are some gaps in the schedule that it could fill). Some fans who added up the non-esports Warcraft blocks put the game near nine hours across two days. Overwatch sits well behind that.
BlizzCon has not always looked like this. Some past shows tilted toward Diablo or Overwatch. This one opens on Warcraft, comes back to Warcraft before the afternoon is over, then keeps stacking deep dives, art talks, world-building panels, and a Hardcore "What's Next" into Sunday. The floor map went up with the same Know Before You Go post. Parts of the hall stay covered until after the opening. That is normal for a show that still has a cinematic to fire. It is also enough for people who want a playable demo to start guessing which wrapped booth is theirs.
The thing those fans want a name for is Classic+, the long-running idea of a living original-era game that keeps growing instead of rolling into the next expansion beat. The internal label a lot of them are using is Camelot. In June, dataminer Stiven posted Heroic and Epic license entries for "World of Warcraft Camelot," sitting apart from the current Midnight and Last Titan work. The branch has been tied to Classic patch 1.60 and a July 2006-era client, the Blackwing Lair patch. Encrypted 1.60 builds have been moving on Blizzard products for months. A China vendor-server sighting in August and a second Camelot environment on internal channels kept the same theory alive.
Blizzard has not said Camelot is Classic+. It has not said Classic+ is a shipping product. What it did say, back on the January State of Azeroth stream, was that Classic players had more coming and that the next clear update would land at BlizzCon after The Black Temple opened on the Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary track. There was also the time that executive producer Holly Longdale got cut off mid-thought during a segment, which the community treated like a planted pause, confirming something big coming. The Blizzcon show is now 10 days out.
A merch-store breadcrumb showed up on August 31. A color theme labeled wow-camelot appeared with the BlizzCon shop update, then got renamed wow-2 after people saved the page. Classic streamers also visited Irvine earlier this year under NDA. Yet they have kept their lips very sealed, which is why the new timetable did not get dismissed right away.
Some fans wanted the two What's Next panels to carry the word Classic in the title. They do not. Community recaps have mostly filed those noon and 2:45 hours as retail slots, the place for Midnight follow-up and The Last Titan. The 3:30 Classic Game Deep Dive is the panel with Classic in the name. Hardcore's Sunday hour is the other labeled Classic-track "What's Next." That split is what a lot of people are using to plan their streams.
The rest of the Warcraft slate is crowded with work that does not need a new product. Building Cutscenes in World of Warcraft sits on Saturday. Sunday runs a Deep Dive, Crafting Coziness and Creative Freedom, World Building, Art Design, Archives, and a Design Deep Dive. Housing and the current retail story have plenty of room in that list. Esports fills the gaps around it. The Mythic Dungeon International and Arena World Championship are back. Overwatch World Cup is in the arena. Watch-and-earn rewards on the stream side run from Trader's Tender up through a banner if you leave the VOD on long enough.
For Classic+ watchers, the useful question is which hour actually has to carry the announcement if there is one. Opening Ceremony is the loudest room. What's Next is the traditional reveal slot. What's Next II is the odd second helping, and that extra hour is what some fans keep treating as space for a second product. The Classic Game Deep Dive is the honest label. Hardcore: What's Next is the backup if the new branch is something else and Hardcore still needs a 2026 plan.
A wrapped floor booth would do more than any of those titles. Blizzard left sections of the schedule hidden on purpose. If Camelot is far enough along for a hands-on, that is where it would sit. If it is only a slide and a name, the cinematic and the first What's Next panel are enough.
The company can walk on stage September 12 and talk retail for two straight hours. It could also put a name on the 1.60 branch, show a trailer, and let the Classic deep dive handle the systems pass. The schedule supports both weekends. That is why people who have been waiting on Classic+ are treating a programming grid they way they are.
Will you watch the two What's Next panels for a Camelot reveal, or are you camping the Saturday Classic deep dive instead? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.