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:
Day 1 - March 23 at 7am PDT |
Groups A and B |
Day 2 - March 24 at 7am PDT |
Groups C and D |
Day 3 - March 25 at 7am PDT |
Group Decider Matches and Quarterfinals |
Day 4 - March 26 at 9am PDT |
Semifinals and Finals |
Prize Pool
The $250,000 Winter Championship prize pool will be divided as follows:
Place |
Prize (USD) |
HCT Points |
1st |
$60,000 |
20 |
2nd |
$40,000 |
15 |
3rd & 4th |
$20,000 |
10 |
5th - 8th |
$12,500 |
8 |
9th - 16th |
$7,500 |
6 |
Total |
$250,000 |
|
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.
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.
Dislike me all you want. Still won though.
Lesson learned, don't vote for last year's champion. Just vote for the most interesting name.
You mean DrJikininki?
Already done. Voted for Fr0zen. Three pack city is nice.
That's indeed how I vote, just choose the funniest name. Last time it was HandsomeGuy, this time LovelyChook, who turned out to be pretty good but couldn't handle ShtanUdachi at all. There's just too much luck involved to expect a good performance based on previous tournaments, so you might as well give your choice no thought at all.
I'm curious.. I voted Frozen, he is already in semis IIRC and still dont get any pack yet.. I thought picking 1 champion automatically gives a pack already.
You won't get your packs until the tournament is over. As of now, you're getting at least 3 packs from Fr0zen, and if he wins against DocPwn, you'll get the full 4.
Thank you. As a F2P every packs count.
Almost got Paveled tho :D
I totally got Paveled - LMAO
Since last Year I voted for Dr.Hippy - which got defeated by Pavel - I was thinking doing a smart move, avoiding an other doctoral candidate, 'DocPwn' ... Never been so wrong ... But at least you got me laughin' with that phrasing, so I got that going for me, which is nice ..! ^^
I vote for FROZEN, lucky pick for me! :)
So I was going to vote for DocPwn, a fellow Canadian, but ended up voting for Fr0zen. At least either way, I'll be happy with the outcome of that matchup now xD And 3 packs is 3 packs.
Cuando juega Knekro?
So many missplays, so many matches where the better player didn't win. Analyzing player winrates and decklist/bracket matchups for the packs turned out to be a total waste of time
As for those of you who picked Pavel, he lost because he didn't take the time to prepare a good lineup. He said he wasn't confident with it in the interviews
Why would you pick pavel? what are the chances for someone to win twice? never happened and probably never will :D
hearthstone is way to much clownfiesta for someone to be consistent
Well. It's like flipping a coin. Chance to get heads always 50% in a single toss, doesn't matter if you already got 100 of them in a row. And Pavel had pretty sick win rate, so it's just math))
If it was totally random, why would you not vote for pavel? Just because he won the last doesn't make it more unlikely for himto win again.
He never said it was totally random though.
Dr. Pavel? I'm HTC. Uh, you don't get to bring packs.
TELL ME ABOUT PWN! WHY DOES HE WEAR THE HAT?!
Reno mage is the reason of Pavel's downfall, it's only good against aggro and he banned pirate warrior :D