Kansas City Fiberside Gathering and Tournament Recap

by JR Cook - 6 years ago

On Saturday June 28th, BlizzPro hosted it’s 4th Fireside Gathering and our 2nd one in Kansas City. This gathering was way more ambitious than previous ones as we were able to secure the Google Fiber Event Space in Kansas City and not only held two simultaneous tournaments, but also live streamed some of the games as well.

We had 25 people sign up for our ranked tournament and 32 people sign up for our casual tournament. Not everyone who came participated in the event though as we had around 75 people at the event that started at 11 AM and ended shortly after 8 PM.

The other thing we did different at this event is we teamed up with Archetype Gaming and Extra Life Charity in order to raise awareness from the charity and also raise money for it as well. If you were at the event or watched it on the live stream and enjoyed it, please consider going here and clicking the “support me” button in order to donate. The money will go to the KU Children’s Hospital in Kansas City.

This is the first event like this and we plan on having more. We hope to host another event in September at the Google Fiber Space and then on October 25 we will be hosting a tournament at the Ameristar Casino during the huge LAN event for Extra Life in Kansas City.

With the event completely run by volunteers and passion for the game, the event went off extremely well. Everyone was excited for it and we’ve heard nothing but positive comments from the participants despite the occasional technical glitches we ran into.

I can’t thank those volunteers enough from Archetype Gaming, Brawley Games, Bearcatte, Oakley, Chris Arnone, Miaari, and several others who helped get people registered, answered questions, or set up and run the live stream.

Also, we have to thank Google Fiber for letting us use the space for free, Blizzard for sending us some awesome prizes to give away, and SteelSeries for donating the tournament prizes.

Tournament

We ran 2 tournaments, a casual tournament that if you were rank 4 to legendary you weren’t allowed to enter and a ranked tournament where everyone who wanted to could play. You could only play in one or the other since the tournaments ran simultaneously.

The casual tournament was double elimination and players got to play any deck they wanted in a game and the winner of that game would advance. The finals were a best 2 out of 3. We had 32 entries for the tournament and you can see the full brackets here.

The ranked tournament we had 25 participants. The format was swiss with the top 8 going to a single elimination tournament. Each round was best 2 out of 3 with the finals being best 3 out of 5. We used the King of the Hill style rules where you had to come with 3 decks and if you lost with a deck you couldn’t re-use it in the round.

You can see the 5 swiss round results here and then the top 8 single elimination bracket here.

Grand Finals VOD

Winner Deck Lists

Argyle

Pickle

Pictures

All pictures were taken by @Alora_rose_ – many thanks!