The HCT Italy 2018 Survival Guide
This weekend is home to the HCT Italy 2018 Tournament! Players are taking part in glorious battle in Paese Del Sole over three days for their share of $25,000 USD and 191 HCT points.
All the details you need for the event can be found down below.
HCT Italy Notable Players
Looking for some of Hearthstone's best faces? Here you are! A full list of participants can be found here.
HCT Italy Schedule
The schedule for this weekend's event can be found below. If your timezone isn't listed, get out that calculator!
| West Coast PDT (UTC -7) |
East Coast EDT (UTC -4) |
Europe CEST (UTC +2) |
Korea KST (UTC +9) |
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| July 6 | 04:00 | 07:00 | 13:00 | 20:00 |
| July 7 | 02:00 | 05:00 | 11:00 | 18:00 |
| July 8 | 02:00 | 05:00 | 11:00 | 18:00 |
HCT Summer Championship Prize Pool
The $25,000 and 191 HCT points are distributed as follows.
| Place | Cash | HCT Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $6,500 | 15 Points |
| 2 | $3,500 | 12 Points |
| 3 - 4 | $1,500 | 10 Points |
| 5 - 8 | $1,000 | 8 Points |
| 9 - 16 | $500 | 6 Points |
| 17 - 32 | $250 | 4 Points |
HCT Italy Format
- Best of Five Conquest.
- Each player bans one of the opponent's decks.
- 9-rounds of Swiss (max 512 players).
- Top 16 players from Swiss move on to Single Elimination.
HCT Italy 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 Italy Stream
You can watch all the action on the main stream at Twitch.tv/PlayHearthstone.
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Posted Jul 8, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Yet another 1st place for Hunterace. This guy is on fire lately.
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Sweet ginger, the production value on Day 1 was the definition of scuffed.
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)The stream was a whole bunch of ad fest for Zotac. Audio was bad too.
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)E i mondiali XD?
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)If that's true, everyone will tech Nozdormu in his deck XD
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Decklist anywhere?
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)All decklists are available on Battlefy. Just click a matchup and you'll see the decks from both players. We'll have the decks from top 16 here on Hearthpwn later on.
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)This event has had a lot more issues than tour stops usually do but if I understand correctly the production which does not come from Blizzard but from local organizers is doing an event of this proportion for the first time (at least Sottle's tweet seems to suggest that). And the popularity of this tour stop has been huge, usual tour stops with Swiss have around 200 players, this one has almost 400. Let's hope they're able to overcome the issues during the weekend.
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Posted Jul 8, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Yeah i'm pretty sure we watch Twitch to watch actual content not commercials. turned it off after a shoprt watch because production was so bad and to much advertising.
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)bunnyhoppor might be the new Ropecoach
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)And yet Bunnyhoppor just won an event, and LIfecoach is one of the best control players in the history of the game. So while it may not make for the greatest viewing, it's pretty hard to argue the results of the methods.
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)I have nothing against some long turns in matches. I play with loads of control players that take their time, and I've learned to slow down and consider all my options. What I saw bunny do was not just consider his options in hard turns, but rope during turns that had very clear lines to follow, and often my control player friends noticed a number of those long turns ended up being misplays anyways. It's a strategy used by plenty of players in tourneys and on ladder: frustrate your opponent with the rope.
I'm not trying to take away from the skill bunny and life show when they play(ed). I mean, Bunnyhoppor is in HTC, not easy to do. What I am saying is he takes extremely long turns that often don't need to be long because there's the opportunity to fatigue your opponent mentally, which to me is a bit cheap.
Also, Maverick beat Bunnyhoppor today, so at this level if you're going to low-key grief your opponent, you should win to at least try to justify it.
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)To those about to fight... We salute you!
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Cool!
Is there a vote going on?
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)My dust is on A83650
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Figa finalmente qualcosa in Italia!
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)How about no :p
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)Justsaiyan is due for a first place finish. He always seems to play well.
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Posted Jul 5, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)cant wait to watch an Esports game where they rope every turn even tho most ppl can guess what they are about to play.
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Posted Jul 6, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)You think that is bad? Apparently a few players brought Even decks with odd costing cards! >.<