The 2018 Hearthstone Championship Tour Asia-Pacific Summer Playoffs Survival Guide
This weekend is home to the HCT APAC 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 Asia-Pacific 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) |
Korea KST (UTC +9) |
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| May 18 | 19:00 | 22:00 | 04:00 (May 19) | 11:00 (May 19) |
| May 19 | 19:00 | 22:00 | 04:00 (May 20) | 11:00 (May 20) |
HCT Asia-Pacific 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 Asia-Pacific 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 Asia-Pacific Summer Playoffs Stream
You can watch all the action on the main stream at Twitch.tv/PlayHearthstone.
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Pro Decks for this Event
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Posted May 21, 2018 (Witchwood)gogogo Staz, you can do it! PH Power!!!
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Posted May 20, 2018 (Witchwood)At least some shamans found their way. But watching the third playoffs was a bit tiring I must say.
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Posted May 19, 2018 (Witchwood)I can't wait to see the class breakdown after the nerfs.
This could be interesting for sure.
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Posted May 19, 2018 (Witchwood)Well, if there's one good thing about the Witchwood, the even and odd mechanics sure shook up the cards we're seeing. Who would've thought Argent Commander would be more popular than Bloodreaver Gul'dan?
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Posted May 20, 2018 (Witchwood)don't forget Avenging Wrath coming back!
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Posted May 19, 2018 (Witchwood)Title says ''Asia-Pacific Summer Playoffs'' but stream is Collegiate Championship ..
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Posted May 19, 2018 (Witchwood)The twitch channel has lots of events, check the schedule.
You missed the first day of the Asia playoffs, you can watch the VOD.
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Posted May 19, 2018 (Witchwood)Spiteful Druid going strong, what a surprise!
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Posted May 19, 2018 (Witchwood)Wow, such class diversity.
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Posted May 19, 2018 (Witchwood)NaviOOT indeed didn't qualify for the tournament. He got 15 points during the season whereas 28 points was the qualification limit this time.
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Posted May 19, 2018 (Witchwood)The most popular card in the tourney is saronite chain gain. Taunt is cheat
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Posted May 22, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Sludge Belcher was the same way, but 1 more mana.
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Posted May 19, 2018 (Witchwood)Almost 50% of decks are Paladin and Warlock
das nice
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Posted May 18, 2018 (Witchwood)As the tournament advances, deck diversity decreases...
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Posted May 19, 2018 (Witchwood)If you want to look for positives, there are more Shamans than in previous playoffs. And Alkaiser brought a Murloc Mage, that's certainly something different. But other than those its quite monotonous, yeah. Luckily even Blizzard acknowledges that and the nerf patch is coming soon!