The Trinity Series - A Hearthstone Team League - Week 7
The Trinity Series returns today for the last week of it's group stage where the teams get their last chance to qualify for the live finals. G2, Luminosity, Virtus.Pro and Tempo Storm will fight for the last two spots going into the finals joining Team Liquid and Complexity who are both already qualified.
Tune in today, March 1st and tomorrow March 2nd at 10AM PST (7PM CET) on the ESL Hearthstone Twitch channel!
The Trinity Series is a Hearthstone Team League featuring eight of the top Hearthstone teams competing in a brand new team-based competition. The tournament goes on for 7 weeks of online play with a live final at the ESL America Studios in Burbank (CA) in March. There is a total prize pool of $150.000 USD.
The core goal of the Trinity Series is to showcase team collaboration in all aspects of competition. Most notably, all three team members will have open verbal communication with one another throughout their matches, allowing them to discuss and deliberate every in-game decision as a group. With this open communication in place, the strongest teams will ultimately be those who most effectively collaborate on their strategy and preparation, and the audience will get to listen in on each team’s discussion during key points in the games.
Format
All matches will be played in a best-of-11 “Last Hero Standing” format, where players continue using a particular deck until they lose with it. Teams will submit 9 decks for each match (1 from each class), and then ban two of the opposing team’s decks from play. The teams will then pilot 6 of their remaining 7 classes for the duration of the match, until one team has earned 6 wins and is crowned the victor.
Both teams submit 9 Standard Decks
Each team submits 1 deck for each of the 9 classes
Picks and Bans
Each team bans 2 of the opposing team’s decks
Each team picks 6 classes to play (out of their 7 non-banned classes)
Best of 11 - Last Hero Standing
Using their 6 picked classes, teams play each other in Last Hero Standing format
The first team to earn 6 game wins the entire match
Prize Pool
The prize pool is broken down as follows:
1st Place | $75,000 |
2nd Place | $30,000 |
3rd - 4th Place | $15,000 |
5th - 6th Place | $4,500 |
7th - 8th Place | $3,000 |
Standings
Each week the standings from the previous week can be found below.
Team | Matches W/L | Games W/L | |
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1 | Team Liquid | 4 - 2 | 31 - 27 |
2 | Complexity | 4 - 2 | 31 - 29 |
3 | G2 | 3 - 3 | 33 - 26 |
4 | Luminosity | 3 - 3 | 31 - 28 |
5 | Virtus.Pro | 3 - 3 | 29 - 28 |
6 | Tempo Storm | 3 - 3 | 24 - 25 |
7 | Cloud 9 | 2 - 4 | 25 - 29 |
8 | Alliance | 2 - 4 | 18 - 30 |
Teams
Schedule
The schedule for this weeks games is as follows
March 1st | March 2nd |
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Match 1 | Match 1 |
Virtus.Pro vs Complexity | Tempo Storm vs G2 |
Match 2 | Match 2 |
Alliance vs Team Liquid | Luminosity vs Cloud 9 |
Where to Watch
The games can be watched live on the ESL Hearthstone channel on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10AM PST (7PM CET).
Theres so little comments on this , must not be something popular
i love how everyone loves g2
Does anybody knows what will happen with Lifecoach for G2?
I believe (but I'm not 100% certain) that he said he'll quit ladder and HCT (the championship tour) but I guess he might still play in these events. I assume he will play tomorrow (and in the finals, should G2 get there).
in the Teams Overview, it woul be nice to have the teams names beside/under their logo.
G2's logo actually contains G2 but it's easy to miss. Look closely at the lighter gray area and you should spot it. And if it's still unclear which one G2 was, it's the second one from the top at the right side.
This is especially exciting tanks to the recent nerfs. There are decks that are obviously only meant for tournament format - like Murloc Paladin -; but I still think we'll get a glimpse of what the pros think will be the new meta.