The Hearthstone Championship Tour: Americas Winter Playoffs
The Hearthstone Championship Tour returns this weekend for the Americas Winter Playoffs! On February 18 and 19, the top 8 Tavern Heroes will join 64 of the best-ranked Hearthstone players in the Americas region to try and secure one of four spots moving on to the Bahamas for the Winter Championship. Lots of big names participating this year including former World Champion Firebat, "Young Savage" Amnesiac and even Trump!
In case you missed the results for the European playoffs last week, head on over to our results and Top-8 decklists post.
The Championship Tour 2017
The format for the Hearthstone Championship Tour has changed from the previous year. Instead of regional championships, there are now three global championships featuring players from all regions.
The first, Winter Championship will be held in the Bahamas starting March 23rd. There, the top four players from each region will fight for a portion of the $250,000 prize pool as well as qualification for the World Championship in January 2018.
Season Playoffs
The Winter, Spring, and Summer Playoffs take place toward the end of their respective seasons and determine who moves on to the Season Championships.
Season Championship
Sixteen players comprised of the top four players from each region will face off in the Season Championship to compete for a portion of a $250,000 prize pool and a spot in the Hearthstone World Championship.
World Championship
The Hearthstone World Championship will take place in January 2018. In this final showdown, the top 4 winners from each of the Seasonal Championships as well as the top overall Hearthstone Competitive Point earners from each region will compete for a piece of the $1 million prize pool and the fourth title of Hearthstone World Champion.
Casters
A familiar line-up of casters
Notable Players
Among the participants that have secured enough points to participate in the playoffs are a good number of well known players. For a full list of players please see the official HCT point standings.
Where To Watch
Starting February 18 at 8 am PST (17:00 CET) the 7-round swiss brackets will be streamed live on the official PlayHearthstone Twitch channel in English. Followed by the Top 8 the next day starting at 9 am PST (18:00 CET).
Attend in Person!
Apart from watching online, it is also possible to attend the playoffs in person at a location near you. All players are required to play from one of the official locations and they are all open to the public. To see if there is one near you please see the official website. Attending an official Blizzard e-sports event like this will award you with the Power Core card back!
Randomly checked some decks. Hopefully I'm gonna watch a match of HotMEOWTH. I like the unconventional approach.
Kinda disappointed that the troll lineup that HotMEOWTH posted yesterday was just that, a meme lineup and not the real one. It would have been so funny to see him trolling with Djinni and making faces at his opponents :D
On the other hand, i'm looking forward to seeing if Amnesiac is capable of keeping his shits together during the tournament, he really made a few bold statements last weekend, and sometimes life comes at you fast. I hope this tournament is one of these times.
Salty boy post rage tweet :P
Here they are:
https://twitter.com/NRGAmnesiac/status/830445864288133120
https://twitter.com/NRGAmnesiac/status/830825933376483329
https://twitter.com/NRGAmnesiac/status/830826482528313345
https://twitter.com/NRGAmnesiac/status/830826748069691394
https://twitter.com/NRGAmnesiac/status/830827566219067392
https://twitter.com/NRGAmnesiac/status/830830784227450881
He asked russians to vote for him.
Streaming =/= Work for Tournament. He's been quite hard at work participating and winning in a number of open tournaments, and he achieved rank 23 Legend in the December season.
It paid off pretty well, he's rank 21 on the Americas Standing board in terms of HCT points!
I hope Amnesiac makes me better person and HS player.
I hope amnesiacs shitpost on twitter after tournament.
If he wins at least one game, it will be proof that "literally anyone can win in Hearthstone".
I hope Dog takes off his shirt.
I hope Muzzy will smile
What did Amnesiac do?
I remember a lot of negative feedback on Amnesiac from a while ago, but never knew why everyone hates him.
Salty tweets. I've listed them here: http://www.hearthpwn.com/news/2238-the-hearthstone-championship-tour-americas-winter?comment=11