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Archon Team League Championship

The incredible sum of $250,000 prize money will be spread among the very best Hearthstone teams worldwide. Team Archon with the lead of Amaz organized this team league starting on July 1st that will feature the big names of Hearthstone eSports. Every team will be matched against each other over several weeks before determining the participants of the grand finale. For more information of the League's format, watch Amaz explaining it.

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Quick Info

• Prizepool: $250,000
• Teams: 8 (3 players each)
• Start: July 1, 2015
• League Format: Round Robin
• Match Format: Conquest
• Stream: Amaz on Twitch
• VODs: Amaz on Youtube

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Teams and Players

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Rules

There are multiple phases of competition in the tournament, using several different formats.

Phase Overview:

• Phase 1: The Showdown (Round Robin Weeks)
• Phase 1.5: Redemption Series
• Phase 2: Satellite
• Phase 3: Live Finale

Phase 1: The Showdown (Round Robin Weeks)

• All teams will compete with each other online over the course of 7 weeks, for a total of 28 series.
• For each week every player brings 2 decks, so every team has 6 decks total. All 6 decks must be of different classes. Decks can be modified and change ownership in subsequent weeks.
• For each game, the team blind picks a class/deck within 1 minute and the deck's owner plays the game.
• Best of 11 team conquest format: whenever a deck wins, it is locked and cannot be played again during that series. The team that first achieves 6 wins, wins that series.

Bench Rule

• If the same player loses 2 games in a row, they are benched and cannot play in another match until a teammate wins a game.
• If a team has no available players due to benching and deck locking, the benched players will automatically be unbenched.

Points & Placing

• When a team wins a series, they receive a “Win” point; otherwise they receive a “Loss” point.
• Teams are ranked in descending order of “Win” points.
• Tiebreakers in the order they are applied:
• tiebreaker scores (calculated as: “Win” points - “Loss” points)
• results of the match between teams (in case of double ties)
• separate mini-tiebreaker tournament (in case of triple+ ties)

Placement	Advances to...	Advantage
1st	Live Finale (Phase 3)	Pick Bracket for Phase 3
2nd	Live Finale (Phase 3)	-
3rd	Satellite (Phase 2)	Pick Bracket for Phase 2
4th	Satellite (Phase 2)	-
5th	Satellite (Phase 2)	-
6th	Redemption (Phase 1.5)	-
7th	Redemption (Phase 1.5)	-
8th	Elimination	-

Phase 1.5: Redemption Series

• The teams placed 6th and 7th in Phase 1 will play one more round in the same format at Phase 1. The winning team will qualify for Phase 2 (Satellite), while the losing team will be eliminated from the tournament.

Phase 2: Satellite

• The teams placed 3rd, 4th and 5th in Phase 1 and the winning team from Redemption Series.
• Same format at Phase 1 but decks are submitted once and cannot be modified or change ownership throughout this Phase.
• Double elimination bracket, seeding and matchups will be determined by the team that placed 3rd in Phase 1.
• The two winning teams will proceed to Phase 3, while the 2 losing teams will be eliminated from the tournament.

Phase 3: Live Finale

• Participating: the teams that placed 1st and 2nd in Phase 1, as well as the two winning teams of Phase 2.
• Phase starts with semi-Double elimination bracket.
• The team placed 1st in Phase 1 will determine the first matchups.
• Then, winners play against each other and losers play against each other.
• The team that scored 2-0 in the bracket will be the first finalist.
• The team that scored 0-2 is eliminated from the tournament.
• The teams that scored 1-1 proceed to the Pinnacle Phase.
• In the Pinnacle phase, the two teams that scored 1-1 will compete with each other and the winner will be the second finalist.
• The two finalists will compete to determine the Champion.
• Same format as Phase 1 but players are allowed to switch decklists only for the Pinnacle phase.

Rosters:

• Each team appoints one of their members to be the Team Captain throughout the tournament.
• In case of emergency, the team can choose one individual outside of the league to substitute a team player. This is allowed only once for each team player and only for Phase 1. Each team can choose only one alternate player.
• If a player drops out of Phase 1 for any reason other than emergencies, the admins can disqualify the player and apply a penalty of 1 game from each series to all remaining matches of Series 1 for the team. All cases of dropouts will be examined by the admins on a case-by-case basis.

Additional Rules:

• Players are responsible for being on time for their matches, having secure internet connections and generally showing good sportsmanship. They are also required to refrain from spectating their teammates’ matches, in order to ensure fairness. More detailed rules regarding disconnects, no-shows and other rule of conduct have been announced to the players in the player agreement. Any unexpected events will be handled by the admins on a case-by-case basis.

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Standings

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Schedule and Results

The League will premiere on July 1st and will last until early September, with matches every Wednesday and Thursday at 10:00 PDT / 13:00 EDT / 19:00 CET (group stage).

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Redemption

Satellite

All matches take place at 10:00 PDT / 13:00 EDT / 19:00 CET

Date	Teams	Result
August 26th	Team Archon vs Tempo Storm	5:6
August 26th	Forsen Boys vs Nihilum	5:6
August 27th	Tempo Storm vs Nihilum	6:1
August 27th	Team Archon vs Forsen Boys	5:6
August 28th	Nihilum vs Forsen Boys	6:3

Finale

Finalists: Cloud9, Value Town, Tempo Storm and Nihilum.

September 11th

Time (PDT)	Time (CEST)	Teams	Result
10:15 am	19:15	TBA	TBA
12:45 am	21:45	TBA	TBA

 

September 12th

Time (PDT)	Time (CEST)	Teams	Result
10:15 am	19:15	TBA	TBA
12:45 am	21:45	TBA	TBA
3:15 pm	0:15	TBA	TBA

 

September 13th

Time (PDT)	Time (CEST)	Teams	Result
10:15 am	19:15	Quarter Finals	TBA
12:45 am	21:45	Semi-Finals	TBA
3:15 pm	0:15	Finals	TBA

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 Prizes

• Features some of the largest prizes in Hearthstone Tournament history
• 1st, 2nd and 3rd place are awarded $150k, $60k and $30k respectively. Additional $5k prizes will be given to the “Master of Duels” (individual award) as well as the winner of the Casters Cup.
• The prizes will be split equally among the team members placed in the first 3 spots of the Live Finale. The teams may decide on a different split without any involvement of the League.
• The “Master of Duels” award is given to the player with the best win percentage in the Round Robin phase. To be eligible, that player must have played at least 10 games throughout the League, must be present in at least 7 out of the 8 match days; and must qualify to the live finale, in their respective team.

 

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But who is playing in Team Forsenboys except Forsen? There have to be 3 players per team as i understood it right?

I'm confused. :-D

Doesn't TSM only have two players left, one of which will presumably be leading Value Town? How is this going to work?

Added players!

Brian "Brian Kibler" Kibler of Brian M. Kibler Gaming and Dog playing for Value Town? Awesome! 

TIL Tempostorm =/= TSM. Guess I can't read.

At least in terms of win percentages, I think Cloud9 and Celestial have the best lineup.

I guess lineups don't matter too much in this game. Regardless I'm super hyped for the events. (so long as Nooberry doesn't ruin everything..)

Nice going Amaz!

Very cool; This is the way things should be getting done with the highest tier play of hearthstone

only 1 female

Quote from Empyrium77 jump

Imagine streaming times would be included...

 As soon as we have the exact streaming times, we will edit them into the first post. 

The Mayor of Value Town shall lead his team to victory!!!!!

Amaz posted the 4 matches of Week 1 on his Youtube channel - Value Town v. Cloud 9 - Forsen Boys v. Tempo Storm - Nihilum v. Archon - Celestial v. Team Liquid

The tiebreaking rules stated in this thread does not match the ones used in the official standings. Not sure which ones are correct as the official site doesn't say anything about tiebreakers.

Does anyone have stats for the win/loss record of each player?  Easy enough to find for teams but I'm curious about the performance of individual players (who is the star of each team, who is being carried etc)

How is the caster's cup going to work?

Group stage is now over and we will see the Redemption match between Nihilum and Team Liquid tomorrow. Did you enjoy it so far? Who will make it? Has anyone actually seen all games?

When OP will edit today games - you could fix the Phase 1 end standings...

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Nihilum

4:3

36:33

Should actually be 34:36.

Source: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/hearthstone/Archon_Team_League_Championships/Group_Stage Or you can just add it up from matchups themselves which are correct here.

Fixed and updated! Today the last finalist will be determined. Could be a close call but I think Forsen and his crew will make it.