BatStone #1: Hearthstone Differently - A Standard Tournament with Card Bans
Firebat has announced plans to create a new kind of tournament series which focuses on "weird formats". The first iteration of BatStone is bringing card bans to the inn which will restrict competitors from using certain cards chosen by the community.
Say goodbye to your tournament netdecks, this is going to be awesome.
All the currently available information on the event can be found below. We'll be providing deck lists after the event concludes and we'll be sure to let you know of any major updates.
Tournament Info
- Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2016
- Time: Games start at 12 PM ET (4 PM CET, 9 AM PT)
- Players: 8 Total (7 Invites, 1 Qualifier)
- Game Mode: Standard Conquest (1 Ban)
- Bracket: Single Elimination, Best of 5
- Casters: Firebat & Zalae
- Stream: Twitch.tv/Firebat
Card Bans
A feature unique to this event. The community picks 5 cards which cannot be placed directly into decks, but if generated through random effects, can be put on the board. The current card bans are:
- Yogg-Saron, Hope's End - 7188 Votes
- Tuskarr Totemic - 3242 Votes
- Fiery War Axe - 1154 Votes
- Barnes - 1045 Votes
- Call of the Wild - 1023 Votes
Competitors
So far, two competitors have been announced with more to follow.
Stream
Watch live below next Wednesday or head on over to Twitch.tv/Firebat.
Challenge Stone. It's a thing.
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/hearthstone/Challengestone/4
This is excellent! It's been so strange to see tournament after tournament adopt essentially the exact same format every time. Kudos to Firebat for mixing things up a bit. I can't wait to see some truly weird formats come to the tournament scene.