Hearthstone All-Star Invitational 2018 Survival Guide
The year's end is close but there is still time for one more tournament: Hearthstone All-Star Invitational 2018 in Taipei, Taiwan. 8 international invited players and will be joined by 8 players from Taiwan and Hong Kong, 5 of whom were decided by community vote. These 16 competitors will battle it out for glory and their share of $98,000 USD. Who will crown this year with a win? Tune in to find out.
The event will kick off with Community Night which includes show matches and community activities.
All the details you need for the event can be found down below.
The Players
Roger 
Tom60229 
Shaxy 
Virtual 
SamuelTsao 
kin0531 
BloodTrail MCweifu Schedule
The schedule for the event can be found below. If your timezone isn't listed, get out that calculator!
| West Coast PST (UTC -8) |
East Coast EST (UTC -5) |
Europe CET (UTC +1) |
Taiwan CST (UTC +8) |
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| December 28 |
2:30 |
5:30 |
11:30 | 18:30 |
| December 29 |
19:00 (Dec 28) |
22:00 (Dec 28) |
4:00 | 11:00 |
| December 30 |
19:00 (Dec 29) |
22:00 (Dec 29) |
4:00 | 11:00 |
Prize Pool
| Place | Cash |
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| 1 | $20,000 |
| 2 | $14,000 |
| 3 - 4 | $10,000 |
| 5 - 8 | $5,000 |
| 9 - 16 | $3,000 |
Format
- Best of Five Conquest.
- Single Elimination Playoffs.
Stream
You can watch the action on the English stream at Twitch.tv/PlayHearthstone
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Posted Dec 30, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)And Bloodtrail won against Tom 3-2
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Posted Dec 30, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)A bloodtrail is seen as a solid player.
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Posted Dec 30, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)Thanks Hatul! you are great.
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Posted Dec 29, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)Shaxy and Taiwan cheated at HCG, right? not just that, pretty sure they were involved with wintrading and streamsniping, too. even if it just means a temporary ban, they SHOULDN'T be allowed to compete this year
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Posted Dec 29, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)Wasn’t Roger involved in the HGG cheating scandal? If so, why was he invited?
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Posted Dec 29, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)He was one of the five players that got voted in (by people from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau). He actually even won the vote between 16 players so at least his fanbase didn't care about his actions. Whether or not he should've been shortlisted for the vote at all is another discussion, and that's where Blizz should've probably given more consideration to his recent behaviour.
Roger also qualified for Season 3 Playoffs that take place next month and as far as I know he's allowed to participate in that too.
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Posted Dec 29, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)You probably don't understand the "if so, why was he invited?" question, Frosty. He was clearly cheating and he SHOULD not be allowed to play AT ALL EVER. That's what the OP meant.
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Posted Dec 29, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)all lists
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Q1GR-Nwu_CS0eJ1aocN_Qfg5u_-vLpZq
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Posted Dec 30, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)Thanks for the link, all decks have now been added to the site too. They will be added to the post/posted separately at some point, I'd assume, but they can already been found here.
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Posted Dec 29, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)My chances to be blind are even higher than yours but, even if tournament truly kicked off now, I can't find decks on Battlefy yet?
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Posted Dec 29, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)They surprised me too by not having decks yet, usually they show them when the games start (in Swiss-format tournaments, at least). Maybe they'll wait until all first round matches have been played. Or possibly even the whole tournament. Or maybe they just disabled them altogether, that'd be disappointing.
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Posted Dec 29, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)The tournament is open decklist. I am sure cause casters had decklists and Hunterace published his in twitter
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Posted Dec 28, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)what did i learn whatching the stream: Taiwan commercials are weird...
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Posted Dec 29, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)5:30 **A.M.**
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Posted Dec 28, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)Taiwan cheated and shouldn't get to play.
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Posted Dec 28, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)FOR surrender!
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Posted Dec 28, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)Ill put my $ on surrender, muzzy, hunterace.
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Posted Dec 28, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)Great!
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Posted Dec 28, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)Surrender should bring a Surrender to Madness deck
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Posted Dec 28, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)Hahaha. Guys, guys! You guys should watch first game in final between streamers showmatch. Especially ending of this first match :D. Tons of fun and Frodan was finally broken :D.