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Hearthstone Winter Championship 2017 Survival Guide

The 2017 Hearthstone Championship Tour's first Championship lands at the always sunny Bahamas! Sixteen players from around the globe have earned their spot in the Winter Championship to compete for their share of the $250.000 prize pool and a seat at the Hearthstone World Championship in January 2018.

Four groups of four players, one from each of the participating regions (Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific and China) that qualified during the Winter Playoffs will compete in a dual tournament format until eight players remain, at which point the remaining players will fight it out in a single elimination bracket.

Follow the event live, starting Thursday, March 23rd and continuing until Sunday, March 26th on the official PlayHearthstone Twitch Channel!

Format

The Winter Championship begins with a double-elimination group stage, followed by a single-elimination bracket.

• Each match will be best-of-seven using the Conquest format with one ban.
• Each player will bring five decks to play with for each match, and they and their opponent will be able to ban one of each other’s decks and compete with the remaining decks.

Schedule

The Championship takes place March 23 to 26 according to the following schedule: 

Prize Pool

The $250,000 Winter Championship prize pool will be divided as follows:  

Players

Four players from each of the four participating regions (Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific and China) fought through the playoffs to qualify for the Winter Championship.

GreenSheep Neirea Pavel ShtanUdachi

DrJikininki Fr0zen Tarei DocPwn

b787 Palmblad Yulsic SamuelTsao

XHope LovelyChook LvGe OmegaZero

Choose Your Champion!

Don't forget you can still earn some free card packs for choosing a champion! Make sure to do so before March 21 at 11:59 PDT!

The event has started and choosing a champion is no longer possible. 

Group Stage

The Winter Championship begins with a double-elimination group stage. Each group consists of four competitors, one from each of the participating regions. Groups were seeded based on Hearthstone Competitive Points, with the top point earner from each region placed in their own group and the remainder of the group being filled in order of the players’ regional seeds.

Group A	Match W-L	Total W-L
ShtanUdachi	2 - 0	8 - 3
Fr0zen	2 - 1	9 - 10
XHope	1 - 2	9 - 10
b787	0 - 2	5 - 8

b787	3	4	Fr0zen
XHope	2	4	ShtanUdachi

Fr0zen	1	4	ShtanUdachi
b787	2	4	XHope

Fr0zen

4

3

XHope

Group B	Match W-L	Total W-L
Neirea	2 - 0	8 - 5
Palmblad	1 - 2	8 - 9
DrJikininki	0 - 2	6 - 8
LovelyChook	2 - 1	9 - 9

DrJikininki	3	4	Neirea
PalmBlad	4	1	LovelyChook

Neirea	4	2	PalmBlad
DrJikininki	3	4	LovelyChook

PalmBlad

2

4

LovelyChook

Group C	Match W-L	Total W-L
Pavel	1 - 1	10 -8
LvGe	2 - 0	8 - 3
DocPwn	1 - 1	8 - 9
Yulsic	0 - 2	2 - 8

Pavel	3	4	LvGe
DocPwn	4	2	Yulsic

Pavel	4	0	Yulsic
LvGe	4	0	DocPwn

DocPwn

4

3

Pavel

Group D	Match W-L	Total W-L
OmegaZero	0 - 2	3 - 8
SamuelTsao	1 - 1	11 - 10
GreenSheep	1 - 1	9 - 8
Tarei	2 - 0	8 - 5

OmegaZero	3	4	SamuelTsao
GreenSheep	2	4	Tarei

SamuelTsao	3	4	Tarei
OmegaZero	0	4	GreenSheep

SamuelTsao

4

3

GreenSheep

Top 8

Eight players will move on from the Group Stage into a single-elimination bracket.

Decklists

Please see our separate post for a complete list of decks players have submitted

Casters

Calling all of the action are the familiar casting duos of Dan ‘Frodan’ Chou with Brian Kibler, Simon ‘Sottle’ Welch with Alexander ‘Raven’ Baguley, and TJ ‘Azumo’ Sanders with Nathan 'ThatsAdmirable' Zamora.

Frodan

Brian Kibler

Sottle

Raven

TJ Sanders

ThatsAdmirable

Where To Watch

Tune in to all of the action on the official Hearthstone Twitch channel and discuss the tournament using the #HCT hashtag on Twitter and Facebook.