Hearthstone Specialist - The New Competitive Format for 2019
A new format has been announced for Competitive Hearthstone! The Conquest Format is being replaced by Specialist this year, and brings a form of side-board Hearthstone.
Blizzard says they are excited to see how it performs and that they are eager to implement community feedback as needed. Here's how it works.
- Players bring three 30 card decks to bring to the tournament.
- All decks must be from the same class.
- The decks are designated as Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.
- The Primary is your main deck that you are bringing to the tournament.
- The Secondary and Tertiary decks must have 25 cards found in the Primary deck, with the remaining 5 being your choice.
- For the first game, both players must use their Primary deck.
- In following games you are free to choose your Secondary or Tertiary decks, or continue using the Primary.
- Your opponent will not know which you choose.
The format begins post-world championship.
The majority of YouTube commenters have some sort of disease. Many of these exact same people would have probably liked the idea if it were presented early last year. They're on the hate train now and this colors the way they see everything.
Is it just me or does this seem like it would be a lot more one sided and boring to watch. Whoever has the good match up immediately has an overwhelming advantage.
This is amazing... I LOVE it
Pog
I think you missed saying 'kappa' after. Please stick with the program.
Probably not what people meant when they were asking for a new gameplay format...
People were asking for the new Game Mode, it was obvious a week ago that they'll announce a new Competitive Format (like Last Hero Standing or Conquest) - how can anyone confuse those terms?
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I think this is going to be interesting format. Should make tournaments go faster as well.
This could also explain the delay in adding the tournament tool into the HS client from last year. They wanted it ready to support this format as they finalized it. Hopefully this will spur on its inclusion soon.
On a side note, I don't think this is the only announcement coming today.
I really hope so!
P.S.: did you just write that because you have a feeling or because you know something we common mortals don't? lol
Because I had a feeling. Nothing exciting.