The HCT Europe Winter Playoffs 2018 Survival Guide
The first set of playoffs starts this weekend! The top players will go on to the Winter seasonal championship coming in late February / early March.
All the details you need for the event can be found down below.
If you are looking for decks for all the competitors, we've got a dedicated post with them here.
HCT Europe Winter Playoffs 2018 Notable Players
Looking for some of Hearthstone's best faces? Here you are! A full list of participants can be found here.
HCT Europe Winter Playoffs 2018 Schedule
The schedule for this weekend's 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) |
Japan JST (UTC +9) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 12 |
01:00 |
04:00 |
10:00 | 18:00 |
| January 13 |
01:00 |
04:00 |
10:00 | 18:00 |
HCT Europe Winter Playoffs 2018 Prize Pool
The money and HCT Points are distributed as follows.
Note the first four places don't pay out since they move on to the Winter Championship and will earn money and points there.
| Place | Cash | HCT Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1-4 | $0 | - |
| 5 | $6,000 | 11 Points |
| 6 | $5,500 | 10 Points |
| 7 | $5,000 | 9 Points |
| 8 | $4,500 | 8 Points |
| 9 | $4,250 | 7 Points |
| 10 | $4,000 | 7 Points |
| 11 | $3,750 | 7 Points |
| 12 | $3,500 | 7 Points |
| 13 | $3,250 | 7 Points |
| 14 | $3,000 | 7 Points |
| 15 | $2,750 | 7 Points |
| 16 | $2,500 | 7 Points |
| 17 - 24 | $1,500 | 6 Points |
| 25 - 32 | $1,250 | 6 Points |
| 33 - 72 | $1,000 | - |
HCT Europe Winter Playoffs 2018 Format
- Best of Five Conquest using the Year of the Raven Standard format.
- Each player bans one of the opponent's four decks.
- Seven rounds of Swiss, top 8 to dual-tournament format.
- Two Dual Tournament groups with top 2 of each group advancing to the next stage (Winter Championship).
- Semi-finals and Finals will not be played.
HCT Europe Winter Playoffs 2018 Brackets
We will not be covering the brackets here but you can check them out as they get updated from the event over on the official Hearthstone site.
HCT Europe Winter Playoffs 2018 Stream
You can watch all the action on the main stream at Twitch.tv/PlayHearthstone.
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Posted Jan 17, 2019 (Level Up Nerf)Where can you check the result? I only see the last 4 guy.
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Posted Jan 14, 2019 (Level Up Nerf)Germans be like: Diesmal kommen wir im Sommer!
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Posted Jan 13, 2019 (Level Up Nerf)Hearthstone is a game between 2 players with 30 cards each and in the end the Germans win.
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Posted Jan 12, 2019 (Level Up Nerf)you really cant do those news like 2 days before? literally if you dont check night before event like that your not going to know... guys cmon, seriously do PREVIEWs at least 2 days before the even not hours... how i am suppose to plan watching? i usually miss day. 1 because of that
you want to be reliable source of information.... then be...
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Posted Jan 12, 2019 (Level Up Nerf)We posted decks for the event a day before it started. I'm not really interested in doing preview content for events because then you end up with 4 posts per event and not that many people like HS esports. Doing a dedicated deck post (that tells you to expect an event soon), the survival guide, and the results post is enough.
Sometimes our deck posts are even earlier though and can definitely help increase awareness, we just had too many decks to get through with too many things keeping some of us busy. Poor Frosty added the majority of the decks in the site in all the spare time he had.
If we post the survival guide too early it gets bumped down and literally 10 people use it. I've seen it happen, I know from experience. I think it's a fair enough assumption that people are checking the site daily and should catch wind of a tournament before it actually takes place.
Ultimately though you're right, our system for Esports sucks and its an unfortunate balancing act. Hell I get enough hell for the fan creations posts being two a week (and sometimes 3 during huge comps) because "that's not what I want to see".
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Posted Jan 12, 2019 (Level Up Nerf)Better check out the brackets on Battlefy, the Blizzard page doesn't show me anything.
https://battlefy.com/hearthstone-esports/2019-hct-europe-winter-playoffs/5bb7bfed93247e03a54b3994/stage/5c35165c629d5b03db17c15b/results
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Posted Jan 12, 2019 (Level Up Nerf)I count on Thijs :)
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Posted Jan 12, 2019 (Level Up Nerf)It's t-t-t-tea time with Thijs! Good luck to all the competitors, but especially my favourite Euro streamer!
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Posted Jan 11, 2019 (Level Up Nerf)FWIW: China Playoffs have already taken place but because we don't usually cover the events over there and they're kinda on their own Hearthstone infrastructure / rules for events, the EU playoffs are considered "our" kickoff for the Winter Playoffs.
China Event Results BTW. Oh and decks can be found here (thanks Frosty) until they go up on the homepage this weekend.
Lionking came in first.
Yueying came in second.
Caimiao and Lingluanjing tied for third/fourth.