Hearthstone China is Getting Tournament Mode
A special thanks to @CelestialSinn (/u/Curemew) for the translation!
Hearthstone players in China are getting a sanctioned tournament mode through a secondary application called Hearthstone Box which is developed by NETEASE. This will allow players to compete in automatic tournaments by installing the application on their computer and having it read data from the game client.
Not only is this application a gateway into tournaments, but players can also stay up to date with the latest in news as well!
Below we've got screenshots and a description of how it works courtesy of @CelestialSinn (/u/Curemew).
Hearthstone BOX - Alpha Test v0.9
Hearthstone tournament mode by Hearthstone BOX.
General
This guide applies only to PC version of the game, the mobile version of the game are not supported by this program.
Players need to ensure a good internet connection for the event, the tournament mode feature must be turned on during the whole event.
Click the refresh button at the upper right corner if it hasn't been receiving any new notifications for a while.
Download
Download the latest version of the program, click on "Tournament mode" to enter.
Registration
Select the event you want to participate in, click to view the event details.
The Account Binding
If it's your first time to use this program you need to bind your battlenet acc and your mobile phone to it.
Then refresh.
Check In
Check in starts 60 minutes before the start of the event. Players haven’t checked in 5 min before the start of the event will forfeit the tournament.
Bracket
Bracket will be generated 5 min before the start of the event.
Waiting for the Game to Start
After entering the event, there will be 5 minutes of preparation time, both players can now add friends and get ready to play.
The Preparatory Stage
Players of both sides have 15 minutes to adjust their decks, after adjustment, please make sure that the program has recorded your decklists.
Now, please challenge your opponent to play the match (wild / standard).
Go to the battle preparation interface of the program, and click the Ready button to confirm.
After both sides are ready, you will go to next phase.
Pick / Ban
In the Pick phase, players will have 5 minutes to choose their decks, players need to make sure that they are already in the challenge lobby.
The decks that you can select are from the decks that you’ve previously recorded using this program.
If you don’t select decks in 5 min the program will automatically rule the match lost.
After the Pick phase, you will go to the Ban phase. Players can Ban a certain number of the opponent's classes.
Note: If the player uses a deck that’s not recorded, or a deck that’s not picked during pick phase, or a deck that’s banned in ban phase, the program will report a forfeit win for your opponent automatically.
Match Start
At this point the program will show both players classes information, if you forget which deck of the class you have it recorded/picked, you can mouse over the icon and it will show you the name.
After a game is complete the program will automatically record the result of the game process. In some cases the record will have a few minutes delay, players can directly start next game without waiting for it to process.
When all games of this matchup are complete please wait for the program to process and show the final results, it might take a few min. If nothing happens after more than 10 min, please contact admin.
Into the Next Round
After confirming the results, click “back” button on the top right corner, and then click on bracket to view your next opponent, click to enter the next round.
Nothing special, its like Strivewire except I dont see you getting any real money plus you have to install some Chinese crap on your PC.
Why every HS leak is from China? Arena ranking, tonns of cards, tournament mode.. too strange
Blizzard, you don't even need to invent anything! Just port the same to other regions, or even find contractors who will do it.
If HS would have built-in tournament mode... I probably would be the happiest man in the world... Because this is just ridiculous, the game calling itself "competetive" doesnt have any competetive mode, except cancerous unrepresentative ladder with constantly bming teenagers on cancerous decks.
Hail to you, PiratePlayer! :) I get legend every season - and i don't see in it anything competitive. And i didn't get there with shamans before MSOG, and now I'm not climbing with pirates. And I'm playing from beta... my friend, registered in September, reached legend in November with shaman - so competitive!:)
There are completely different deckbuilding approaches for ladder, for conquest and for last hero standing. In tournaments also exist a possibility of bans, so if I'm tired of pirate warriors, I could ban it and play another matchups. But I think you wont be able to understand the difference between ladder and tournaments... Ladder last for a month, and tournament can be finished in 3-5 hours, or max in several days. Ladder rewards you with some in-game pictures, and tournament can bring you more substantial prizes. Cmon man, think again, there is nothing common between ladder and tournaments.
Hail to you, PiratePlayer! :) I get legend every season - and i don't see in it anything competitive.
the one problem with that statement is that pirate warrior as it is now hasn't been around long enough to appear in major tournaments, so who knows if it will get there or not, but the aggro deck defines the first corner of the meta. everything builds around the strongest decks. that's just a fact.
tourney and ladder are same deck
ladder-pick 1 cancer deck and climb
tourney-pick 5 cancer the deck.depend on format. ban 1, still got 4 cancer deck that you keep meet in ladder. rock , paper, scissor and RNG feast. if you watch recent tourney, all games decide by top deck, discover, random generate card to lethal or perfect curve smorc =win turn 6.
Of course piratewarrior will be on major tournaments, brought by majority of players. As well as was shaman for last several months, or facehunter a year ago. Everybody brought this decks, and everybody ban them, and built their line-ups countering other decks. I would love the opportunity to ban anything on ladder...
Oh, calm down bro, take it easier:) I've got your point: built-in HS tournament mode is evil, ladder - is perfect and you think you have incredible amount of dust (wow, 2,8k, you must be saving it for months). You are extreme pro player and very-very smart one, and you know the word "ass". I really appreciate your opinion.
Good news everyone!
Hey look, Asuryan actually has a reason to be happy that he's living in China now.
Hey look, a cool interesting feature that costs nothing to participate in.
& once again the rest of the worlds hearthstone players are jealous
And why is China only getting this. Not to mention the more detailed stats they can get from the game this comes up. I hope other regions will follow, but i really doubt it. We'll see.