The Trinity Series - A Hearthstone Team League
The Trinity Series is a Hearthstone Team League featuring eight of the top Hearthstone teams competing in a brand new team-based competition. The tournament goes on for 7 weeks of online play with a live final at the ESL America Studios in Burbank (CA) in March. There is a total prize pool of $150.000 USD.
Starting January 18th, every broadcast will begin at 10AM PST (7PM CET) on Wednesdays and Thursdays through the seven week online season. It will be broadcast through Twitch over on the ESL Hearthstone channel.
The core goal of the Trinity Series is to showcase team collaboration in all aspects of competition. Most notably, all three team members will have open verbal communication with one another throughout their matches, allowing them to discuss and deliberate every in-game decision as a group. With this open communication in place, the strongest teams will ultimately be those who most effectively collaborate on their strategy and preparation, and the audience will get to listen in on each team’s discussion during key points in the games.
Format
All matches will be played in a best-of-11 “Last Hero Standing” format, where players continue using a particular deck until they lose with it. Teams will submit 9 decks for each match (1 from each class), and then ban two of the opposing team’s decks from play. The teams will then pilot 6 of their remaining 7 classes for the duration of the match, until one team has earned 6 wins and is crowned the victor.
Both teams submit 9 Standard Decks
Each team submits 1 deck for each of the 9 classes
Picks and Bans
Each team bans 2 of the opposing team’s decks
Each team picks 6 classes to play (out of their 7 non-banned classes)
Best of 11 - Last Hero Standing
Using their 6 picked classes, teams play each other in Last Hero Standing format
The first team to earn 6 game wins the entire match
Prize Pool
The prize pool is broken down as follows:
1st Place | $75,000 |
2nd Place | $30,000 |
3rd - 4th Place | $15,000 |
5th - 6th Place | $4,500 |
7th - 8th Place | $3,000 |
Standings
Each week the standings from the previous week can be found below.
Team | Matches W/L | Games W/L | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Alliance | 0-0 | 0-0 |
1 | Cloud 9 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
1 | Complexity | 0-0 | 0-0 |
1 | G2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
1 | Luminosity | 0-0 | 0-0 |
1 | Team Liquid | 0-0 | 0-0 |
1 | TempoStorm | 0-0 | 0-0 |
1 | Virtus.Pro | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Teams
Schedule
The schedule for this weeks games is as follows
January 18 | January 19 |
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Match 1 | Match 1 |
G2 vs Alliance | Team Liquid vs Luminosity Gaming |
Match 2 | Match 2 |
Virtus.Pro vs Tempo Storm | Cloud9 vs Complexity |
Where to Watch
The games can be watched live on the ESL Hearthstone channel on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10AM PST (7PM CET).
cloud9 - where is Kolento?
Where is thijs?
errm, maybe in G2?
ArmaTEAM ?
PAVEL, MAVERICK and TORLK
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Could somebody explain to me what's the point of being in a Hearthstone team except for sponsorship?
Can anyone answer instead of just downvoting? I'm not saying it's a bad thing or whatever, it's a serious question (:
That is the entire point (that, and events like this). Some people actually practice with their team, but most don't.
The team may pay their players bonuses for winning but mostly its for traveling to events since you freely endorse their brand. I'm sure there is more monetary compensation in some form. There may be more reasons but thats all im aware of atm.
Next step: A tournament between Twich chats.
There is only one Twitch chat. One chat to rule them all.
Cool