The HCT Taichung 2018 Survival Guide
This weekend is home to the first tournament of Season 3, HCT Taichung 2018! Already on Thursday 128 players from around the world battled through six rounds of Swiss offstream, and now only the top 16 players remain. Who will emerge victorious and take home the largest share of $15,000 USD and 191 HCT points? Tune in to find out.
All the details you need for the event can be found down below.
HCT Taichung Schedule
The schedule for this weekend's event can be found below. If your timezone isn't listed, get out that calculator!
| West Coast PDT (UTC -7) |
East Coast EDT (UTC -4) |
Europe CEST (UTC +2) |
Taiwan CST (UTC +8) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 4 |
20:00 (August 3) |
23:00 (August 3) |
5:00 | 11:00 |
| August 5 |
21:00 (August 4) |
0:00 |
6:00 | 12:00 |
HCT Taichung Prize Pool
The $15,000 and 191 HCT points are distributed as follows.
| Place | Cash | HCT Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $3,500 | 15 Points |
| 2 | $2,300 | 12 Points |
| 3 - 4 | $1,100 | 10 Points |
| 5 - 8 | $750 | 8 Points |
| 9 - 16 | $500 | 6 Points |
| 17 - 32 | $0 | 4 Points |
HCT Taichung Format
- Best of Five Conquest.
- Each player bans one of the opponent's four decks.
- Six rounds of Swiss with top 16 advancing to the next stage.
- Top 16 players on to Single Elimination.
HCT Taichung Brackets
We will not be covering the brackets here but you can check them out as they get updated from the event over on Battlefy.
HCT Taichung Stream
You can watch all the action on the main stream at Twitch.tv/PlayHearthstone.
Decks Class Breakdown
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Popular Legendaries
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Popular Rares
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Pro Decks for this Event
horo
petsky
blitzchung
Faeli
XiaoT LastHopelolz
Justsaiyan
Casie
LikeuGirl Seiko Xixo Kribo
TheBigMac yrshar
Satan
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Posted Aug 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Lol nobody played mage
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Posted Aug 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Good luck to all players!
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Posted Aug 5, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)All dis bout to change in just few more days.
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Posted Aug 5, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Hm is battlefy just slow or what's wrong? No results of the final round although it's already finished.
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Posted Aug 5, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)They either created a new tournament for top 16 (which I can't find) or just stopped updating it. Based what I saw in Twitch chat the !bracket-command linked to PlayHearthstone's brackets instead of Battlefy. A bit weird to split the results in two different places, if you ask me. Anyway, the top16 brackets with results can be found here (don't forget to click "Show Scores").
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Posted Aug 5, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Thanks for the link.
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Posted Aug 5, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)---
Where is his Murloc-Mage-Deck?
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Posted Aug 5, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)As I suspected in comments below the players were allowed to swap decks after Thursday's Swiss rounds so most of the lineups above are at least partially incorrect. Battlefy doesn't seem to have top 16 brackets (or decks for those) but the brackets can be found in PlayHearthstone.com instead. I couldn't find the decklists there either so we'll have to go with these now. Sorry if you really wanted to get a particular list we don't have here.
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Posted Aug 4, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Apparently, they realised that Even Shaman in Standard is not so good as it seemed a while ago...
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Posted Aug 4, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)It's just outclassed by Shudderwock in tournaments, it still works well for laddering.
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Posted Aug 4, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Yeah, it works fine, but if you look at the latest reports of VS, you can see that Shudderwock wr becomes prevalent over Even, as you go up in ranks.
Even Shaman also nearly disappeared from frequency radar at all ranks.
https://www.vicioussyndicate.com/vs-data-reaper-report-100/
It looks like Standard Even Shaman can hardly survive in an optimised meta, maybe because it still lacks optimised (Tempo) tools itself (while still being playable), much unlike its Wild counterpart.
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Posted Aug 4, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Seems like Battlefy has some false info about the decklists or the players were allowed to change decklists after Thursday's Swiss since TheBigMac was just playing Murloc Mage on stream. Couldn't find the new/correct lists anywhere, sorry about that.
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Posted Aug 4, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)No worries. I still remember HCT Italy where even the casters were given wrong lists and they were going on about how interesting it is that people brought outdated nerfed decks to the tournament (I think it was even paladin?) when in reality there was nothing of the sort. Great production value!
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Posted Aug 5, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)curious I noticed the same and went right here looking for answers^^
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Posted Aug 4, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)These anti-shudderwock Azalina warrior decks are a trip.
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Posted Aug 3, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)i think most of the players picked him to get banned. kinda startegy
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Posted Aug 3, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Why Grumble is more popular then Shudderwock??? He is not even in the list. such a fake
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Posted Aug 4, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)There's definitely equal amount of Shudderwocks and Grumbles but our 8 card showcase section ran out of space (last three cards tied at 9). At least there's 9 Shudderwock decks in the tournament so unless someone made some radical decisions, there's also 9 Shudderwocks.
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Posted Aug 4, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)i mean this place must be held by Shudderwock instead :) this is deckaround card.
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Posted Aug 3, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Every time I see these deck breakdowns I wonder how druid does not get any nerf, anyway, whatever.