Tournament Review

by Team [IHU] - 6 years ago

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Hearthstone has a lot going for it. Beautiful graphics, an intuitive interface, high profile events. Hearthstone has caught on in a big way. However, a lot of the awesome, weekly community run events get overlooked by your average Hearthstone player. [DKMR]Varranis of team Don’t Kick My Robot is here this week to walk you through the times, prizes, and formats for each recurring event. Many of these events are free to participate in and are low risk, high reward events. Hopefully this can serve as a great guide for any aspiring Hearthstone champions! DKMR will be producing a show every week that you can tune into to get your fix! This will be coming in June!

Monday

Topdeck Weekly NA

Time: 6:00 PM EST

Entry Fee: Free

Prize: 1st Place – $5

Format: Tournament format is BO3 (best of three) single elimination bracket with exception of the final series which is BO5 (best of five). Players may pick any hero before start of each round and must play all three or five games with the same hero. Players are allowed to switch cards (sideboard) between each game during a series and should do so within reasonable amount of time.

Tuesday

There are no public, recurring events on Tuesdays. However, the NESL King of the Hill (“KOTH”) show series’ are at 9:00 PM EST on Tuesdays. You can earn an invite by winning the Sunday NESL Cup. The winner of the KOTH takes home $500. Even if you don’t earn an invite, the NESL KOTH is a ton of fun to watch! Cheer on your favorite players or just tune in to see what some of the top players are playing.

Wednesday

NESL Community Cup

Time: 6:00 PM EST

Entry Fee: Free

Prize: NESL points toward qualifying for invitational tournaments

Format: Tournament format is BO3 (best of three) single elimination bracket until semi-finals and on, which are BO5 (best of five). The only restriction to deck usage is that you may not use a class for the remainder of a series if you have previously lost with that class during the course of the series. You are allowed to switch decks regardless or winning or losing a game and can leave the challenge screen to make changes to your deck(s) between games.

Managrind Limited Swiss

Time: 8:00 PM EST (NA) 7:00 PM CET (EU)

Entry Fee: Free

Prize: Fun!

Format: You bring one deck and can make no changes to it for the course of the tournament. You are not allowed to use any Epics or Legendarys. series’ are BO1 (best of one), but you’re not out if you lose! There will be at least 5 rounds of swiss play before the players with the best records are selected for top 8 or top 16 based on attendance. Top cut is single elimination BO3 until the finals, which is BO5.

Thursday

DKMR Invitational – COMING SOON

There are currently no weekly Hearthstone events on Thursdays, but starting June 19 Don’t Kick My Robot will be hosting a weekly invitational show series with cumulative prizes. Players will be invited to compete against two DKMR Pros for a shot at $100. If the challenger proves unsuccessful, that $100 is added to the next week’s prize pool for a potential prize of $200 and so on. If the DKMR Pro keeps winning, who knows how big the prize will get! DKMR will be inviting pros and top players from all regions to give them a chance to compete weekly! Once 16 players have competed they will all be invited back; DKMR will host a final tournament with a chance to win $500.

Friday

Golden Egg Weekly

Time: 9:00 PM EST

Entry Fee: Free

Prize: 1st Place – $20 and an invite to the Golden Eggy Main Event 2nd Place – $5

Format: Players must be minimum Rank 10 to compete. Format is BO3 (best of three) swiss with 32 participants. Top cut is top 16. You may play any decks in swiss, but must select three decks to use if you make top cut. You may not change decks or sideboard once top cut starts. Finals are BO5 or BO7 as deemed by the players or twitch chat. The tournament is casted by Eggy of StarCraft 2 fame and KobayshiMaru.

Managrind Friday Night Swiss

Time: 8:00 PM EST (NA) 7:00 PM CET (EU)

Entry Fee: Free

Prize: Fun!

Format: You bring one deck and can make no changes to it for the course of the tournament. series’ are BO1 (best of one), but you’re not out if you lose! There will be at least 5 rounds of swiss play before the players with the best records are selected for top 8 or top 16 based on attendance. Top cut is single elimination BO3 until the finals, which is BO5.

Saturday

ZOTAC Cup

Time: 6:00 PM EST (NA) 14:00 CEST (EU)

Entry Fee: Free

Prize: 1st Place – $100

Format: Tournament format is BO3 (best of three) single elimination bracket until semi-finals and on, which are BO5 (best of five). You may not play a class you have already lost with in the series but may otherwise play any deck you have prepared, win or lose. Note that you are not allowed to exit the challenge to sideboard but must select your deck from the nine you have prepared before entering the challenge.

Topdeck Weekly EU

Time: 1:00 PM EST

Entry Fee: Free

Prize: 1st Place – $5

Format: Tournament format is BO3 (best of three) single elimination bracket with exception of the final series which is BO5 (best of five). Players may pick any hero before start of each round and must play all three or five games with the same hero. Players are allowed to switch cards (sideboard) between each game during a series and should do so within reasonable amount of time.

GosuCup Weekly EU

Time: 14:00 CET

Entry Fee: Free

Prize: 1st place – $100

Format: Tournament format is BO3 (best of three) single elimination bracket until semi-finals and finals which are BO5 (best of five). The winner of each series must keep his/her class, though unlimited sideboarding is allowed. The loser can choose to keep or swap his class or deck.

Sunday

NESL $500 Cup

Time: 6:00 PM EST

Entry Fee: Free

Prize: 1st Place – $250 2nd Place – $150 3rd/4th Place – $50

Format: Tournament format is BO3 (best of three) single elimination bracket until semi-finals and on, which are BO5 (best of five). The only restriction to deck usage is that you may not use a class for the remainder of a series if you have previously lost with that class during the course of the series. You are allowed to switch decks regardless or winning or losing a game and can leave the challenge screen to make changes to your deck(s) between games.

Soulfire Sundays (every other Sunday)

Time: 9:00 PM EST

Entry Fee: Free

Prize: 1st Place – $200

Format: Tournament format is BO3 (best of three) single elimination bracket until quarter-finals and on, which are BO5 (best of five). You may not play a class you have already lost with in the series but may otherwise play any deck you have prepared, win or lose. Note that you are not allowed to exit the challenge to sideboard but must select your deck from the nine you have prepared before entering the challenge.

Hopefully you’ve found some awesome tournaments to participate in on this list! Looking forward to seeing everyone on the fields of battle!

[DKMR]Varranis streams every Sunday from 10 AM – 4 PM EST at http://www.twitch.tv/varranis. You can find all of DKMR’s streamers on their website with times and the days they stream!

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Decks to watch out for:

Kitkatz has a slightly updated Warrior Control deck which I’ve included below. [DKMR]Atlanta went deep in several of the major tournaments recently with this aggressive Shaman deck depicted below. Handlock has seen a rise in popularity recently due to its favorable Miracle Rogue series-up and the nerf to Unleash the Hounds (Hunter is one of Handlock’s worst series-ups). The list depicted was used by [DKMR]Hosty to win the first Golden Egg Weekly. We here at DKMR also aren’t ready to let Hunter die! Check out this Hunter Aggro list post-UTH nerf.