The 2018 Hearthstone Championship Tour European Summer Playoffs Survival Guide
This weekend is home to the HCT EU Summer Playoffs 2018! The top four players from this event will be attending the Summer Championship near the end of June.
All the details you need for the event can be found down below. All decklists can also be found below with the usual stats.
HCT Europe Summer Playoffs Schedule
The schedule for this weekend's event can be found below. If your timezone isn't listed, get out that calculator! The first day will be 6 rounds of Swiss with the final round of Swiss taking place on Day 2 before all Double Elimination bracket matches.
West Coast PDT (UTC -7) |
East Coast EDT (UTC -4) |
Europe CEST (UTC +2) |
Japan JST (UTC +9) |
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May 05 | 01:00 | 04:00 | 10:00 | 17:00 |
May 06 | 01:00 | 04:00 | 10:00 | 17:00 |
HCT Europe Summer Playoffs Format
- Best of Five Conquest.
- Each player bans one of the opponent's decks.
- Top 8 from Swiss move to the Double Elimination Stage.
- If a player loses 4 matches, they no longer receive games in the Swiss bracket and are eliminated from the event.
- Top 4 from Double Elim. go to the Summer Championships.
HCT Europe Summer Playoffs 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 Europe Summer Playoffs Stream
You can watch all the action on the main stream at Twitch.tv/PlayHearthstone.
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Aka control priest with dragons in it.
Maybe because they are stomping pallys this tournament haha
No choose your champion this time?
Edit: I got it just playoffs
So shaman and hunter in the dumpster... I'm glad Shudderwock isn't a thing tbh, and overall good variety actually, much better than a lot of past HCTs. The only thing that makes me sad is Quest Rogue, I hate everything about that deck.
Shaman is good against control for sure but it's also hard countered by any form of aggro. So it cannot be a reliable deck if you run into a full aggro line up.
Honestly Team 5 hasn't got a clue how to make Shaman, Hunter, Warrior or even Mage to some extent into the competitive meta. that just feels like poor planning on their part knowing what cards were coming into the rotation and what was going out. They have one more set to get this right or people are just going to stop playing the game. Even then i don;t think they can fix it without changing at least a half dozen cards as they currently exist.
Wait so now Cubelock is running Rin? Wut. Damn Cubelock is so expensive to play, always getting more expensive
Keep in mind that Tournament meta is different than ladder, especially when you can ban a class of your choice.
true, but according to the latest VS report, Control Priest is dominating at high legend so maybe people are using Rin as a tech against control, since Tempo scared Quest Rogue away and Cubelock shouldnt have an issue with fast decks
It's not surprising though that many Warlocks are cutting the cube in favor of a hard control and definitive win condition rather than wait for a combo to appear in hand.
No boar control decks - meta we deserve!
Wat
1 shaman deck out of 292.
Why is no one playing Chameleos?
People are realizing that Chameleos is not that great, spying 1 card is overrated, and a lot of games it justs sits in your hand never getting played, it's more consistent to just swap it for a card that synergizes with your deck.
Because the deck lists are open.
I wonder how many people just don't know about this and will check Hearthpwn later this day just to discover day 1 is over or close to over.
Post like this should be here 3 days ago...
Hi everyone ;)
I know the post header has a Mammoth on it. Small detail, I'll get it fixed at some point this weekend, maybe. Just don't look at it closely.
Thank you so much to FrostyFeetEU for getting
mostall of the decklists added to the site. He's a damn champion and needs some praise!I'm still kinda on vacation until Monday, but we had to get some serious Esports stuff happening so here I am! We'll be back to all the good stuff next week which I'm excited about. I took time off for the first time in the almost 5 years this site has been around, to say it was needed may be the understatement of the century.
Choose one (twice):
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