I watch tournaments for the casters and the entertainment between the players and the dank maymays not for the actual gameplay, which I have already seen plenty of times or played myself.
There are way too many tournaments now. Every night there's some PVP league. Every weekend is a qualifier or some other random sponsor tourney. And the field is 90% the same players.
Conquest is a better format, but without bans everyone brings the same 3 decks- Handlock, Patron Warrior, and Mid-range Hunter. Players rope every turn. The pros know the meta well enough, there are no surprises, and the winner just gets the draws they need at the perfect time.
Gave it a try a couple times, bored me to the max.
Hearthstone isn't the best game when it comes to tournaments, at least not in its current form. 3-5 games can not decide who is the better player, not with this much RNG involved. And it doesn't help that we see the same people over and over again, mainly due to their fanbase fueling those tournaments in the first place.
And even if I would like the streamers participating, them being muted takes all the fun out of it anyway.
Making the Deck is the easy part. Trying to win with that deck is the hard part. there are many many decisions to make in a game of Hearthstone. The Hard part is coming up with the RIGHT decision. This is why I watch the best play the best so that a decision I make in a game of Hearthstone can mirror a decision I saw made in a high level game/tournament. On the Ladder, I might not understand why a decision I made on turn 3 affected a decision I have to make on turn 4, but live tournaments with casters might help me shed that uncertainty.
So when people play a normal deck of cards of any card game against each other and since they are using the same card deck every anticipated play is blatantly obvious? When chess players use the same chess pieces is every move the same every single time?
I love watching HS tournaments and competitions. I can get baked and watch that shit all day. In any game I play I'll watch competitions on it. Watching the best do the best can only elevate your game regardless of your ego lol on how good you think you are or how much you think you know about this game. Sometimes there's a couple players doing something innovative and new every tournament I try to watch for those things..
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I'm been thinking why people watch HS Tournaments, everytime i try to watch the players are using the same decks over and over again.
I tried to watch HTC Tournament and everyone is playing Patron Warrior, Hunter (mid-range or face) and Warlock, with little variances.
Both players, playing against each other, using the exact same decks.
This has been happening for a long time, same decks, same plays, etc...
I really fell bad for the casters, they try very hard but every play is so obvious.
To see if anyone trys anything new and to see how other people play hearthstone.
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I watch tournaments for the casters and the entertainment between the players and the dank maymays not for the actual gameplay, which I have already seen plenty of times or played myself.
This argument is so stupid.
i generally just watch the players who play the decks i like and skip the rest
I watch to see the very best players playing the very best decks. That's what a tournament should be, and I always learn something.
Have a great deck that's really, really cheap? Help the new players out
There are way too many tournaments now. Every night there's some PVP league. Every weekend is a qualifier or some other random sponsor tourney. And the field is 90% the same players.
Conquest is a better format, but without bans everyone brings the same 3 decks- Handlock, Patron Warrior, and Mid-range Hunter. Players rope every turn. The pros know the meta well enough, there are no surprises, and the winner just gets the draws they need at the perfect time.
Is it repetitive? Yes.
But it's also interesting to watch people do moves that you might never thought of.
Gave it a try a couple times, bored me to the max.
Hearthstone isn't the best game when it comes to tournaments, at least not in its current form. 3-5 games can not decide who is the better player, not with this much RNG involved. And it doesn't help that we see the same people over and over again, mainly due to their fanbase fueling those tournaments in the first place.
And even if I would like the streamers participating, them being muted takes all the fun out of it anyway.
Making the Deck is the easy part. Trying to win with that deck is the hard part. there are many many decisions to make in a game of Hearthstone. The Hard part is coming up with the RIGHT decision. This is why I watch the best play the best so that a decision I make in a game of Hearthstone can mirror a decision I saw made in a high level game/tournament. On the Ladder, I might not understand why a decision I made on turn 3 affected a decision I have to make on turn 4, but live tournaments with casters might help me shed that uncertainty.
So when people play a normal deck of cards of any card game against each other and since they are using the same card deck every anticipated play is blatantly obvious? When chess players use the same chess pieces is every move the same every single time?
I love watching HS tournaments and competitions. I can get baked and watch that shit all day. In any game I play I'll watch competitions on it. Watching the best do the best can only elevate your game regardless of your ego lol on how good you think you are or how much you think you know about this game. Sometimes there's a couple players doing something innovative and new every tournament I try to watch for those things..
Dream... But don't sleep.