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The HearthPwn Class Creation Competition Returns With Trials and Errors!

Update: We're extending this phase until Jan 23rd. Everyone who enters will move on to the next!

Greetings, card creators! We're back once again with our fifth Class Creation Competition - Trials and Errors! We've looked back at the previous competitions, taken the lessons we've learned from them and applied them here to hopefully give you guys your best ever competition. What does this mean? Well...

Longer Submission Phases

One of the common issues creators faced - exacerbated to the extreme in our Year Creation Competition - was a lack of time to complete their submissions, often feeling like they've put out rushed and unfinished work or not submitting at all. Our timetable this time is based on a suggestion from CheeseEtc - instead of lasting around half as long as the full Season, this competition will last the entire 20 weeks of the main Season. This does mean that we'll be far less likely to extend deadlines, but hopefully the increased submission windows will make this a non-issue.

More Freedom

One of the tricky things about running these competitions is that it's impossible to cater to everyone. In the last two CCCs, competitors were given extra challenges that they needed to meet the criteria on, beyond just creating the correct amount of cards. Some were silly and fairly trivial to do - some were not. While lots of competitors enjoyed this extra challenge as a means to get their creative juices flowing, others found them overly restrictive and an impedance to their vision for their class. As such, we've come to a compromise on the extra challenges - in Phase I, there will be no extra challenges that you must complete. From Phase II onwards, the three extra challenges will be added back in. Speaking of which...

Less Clutter

One of the sticking points of the last CCC was the 'Challenge Polls', in which we allowed you the competitors (as well as those merely spectating) to choose which three of six challenges you would have to abide by in the next phase. This was fun thematically, but a slog to get through and overall just an added annoyance for us to keep track of. As such, all challenges in future phases will be hand-picked by Shadows, with no extra Challenge Poll phase. This does mean that Shadows won't be competing, to avoid any bias, but not to worry - he is still finishing off those three expansions from the YCC.

Phase 1 Requirements - The Concept

Before you get to creating dozens of cards for your class, we want to hear your proposals. Here are the requirements for your Phase I Entry:

• The Class Name - No Death Knights, Monks, or Demon Hunters
• A Hero Portrait
• A Hero Power
• Up to five (5) example cards
• A unique keyword IF your class has one - it doesn't need to
• Ax explanation about the above.

If you want to take part please read the entire post linked here. We'd like to keep our disqualifications to a minimum.

You have until January 20th 23rd to submit your Class Concept in this thread, after which we will have three days of voting to see who goes on to Phase 2. All the details on how we've scheduled the competition can be found in the submission thread.