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Viagame House Cup Survival Guide
Viagame is hosting a 16 man tournament this weekend at the GD House in Stockholm, Sweden! The tournament has a $20,000 USD prize pool and features 8 invited players, and 8 players from an online qualifier. First place at this tournament takes home $8,000 USD!
The tournament is running a different format than you may be familiar with, more details can be found below.
Stream
The event has concluded. You can catch all the VoDs here!
The Groups
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
|---|---|---|---|
 Amaz |
 TidesOfTime |
 Kolento |
 RDU |
 Forsen |
 ek0p |
Reynad |
 Gnimsh |
 Logan |
 Vodkita |
 Mlasic |
 Alesh |
 Jinshen |
Pappastoma |
Faramir |
Seloko |
Brackets
Format
Players will participate in GSL style group play during the first part of the tournament. All matches will be Best of 5. The top 2 players from each group will advance to the Quarterfinals on the second half of Saturday.
Each series starts with a Pick and Ban phase which allows the players to pick their decks for the upcoming games and ban their opponent's decks. Picks and Bans works as follows:
- Ban one deck from your opponent.
- Pick two of your decks.
- Ban two decks from your opponent's new deck pool.
- Pick two of your decks.
- Ban one deck from your opponent's new deck pool.
- Take your remaining deck.
The first game in the series will be blind-pick, meaning neither player knows what the other is playing. Game two and onward, the winner will choose their deck first (which can be their winning deck or another), followed by the loser picking their deck. Once a deck has been defeated, it is removed from that player's deck pool for that series.
Schedule
All times below are in CET (GMT +2), and are approximate. Games sometimes go longer or shorter and the schedule may not be accurate.
| Stream 1 | Time | Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| Semi Finals #1 | 14:00 - 16:00 | Ended |
| Semi Finals #2 | 16:00 - 19:00 | Ended |
| Grand Finals | 19:00 - 00:00 | Ended |
Decklists
Viagame will be providing us will full decklists once the event has concluded. Stay tuned.
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Posted Oct 12, 2014 (Naxx Launch)i found games http://www.viagame.com/channels/viagame-house-cup/460431
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Posted Oct 12, 2014 (Naxx Launch)Grats to everyone involved in this tournament. After they fix the minor problems they had on friday, everything went smooth. Also big Kudos to Kolento, the one true Based God
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Posted Oct 11, 2014 (Naxx Launch)I don't think I have seen RDU beaten down so much before.
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Posted Oct 10, 2014 (Naxx Launch)i missed day 1 ='(
Where can i found the results?
or have a reboadcast?
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Posted Oct 10, 2014 (Naxx Launch)Am I the only one who doesn't like the format HS tournaments are using, bans and best of what not?
It about the same entertainment/format if they each were given a coin to flip, then it'll be over.
Edit:
I understood some people would take this personally(idk why, some feedback wouldn't kill you) so let me explain in more detail.
In the format they use now, best of 5 with active veto system. Looking in the game in a whole there are about 7 recognized strong tournament decks. Which of 4 are the most played. What this means is there is almost only repetitive decks in each tournament according to popular. There are some who "gamble" with some out of the ordinary deck.
Which means, if you could not follow that. You'll see the same plays 90% of the time with the only difference being the staring hand and player. However it may be, those players will almost always do the same move if given the chance. That's why I mentioned the coin flip. Because it's like watching a replay. I can't imagine people enjoying that for to long. I know I don't. But I don't blame the players, it's the format.
A veto system is something I agree on. however best of 5 does not suit this game at all. Why? Because of what I wrote above. There is no "originality" and with a sample of best of 5 in this game, there is nothing that says or point shows "who was the better player".
I would like to see it be something more of best of 12 or 14. Then there would be some more interesting plays and a better chance to see just that, the better player. That means chaining the Veto system as well. Perhaps it works in a game as LOL where there're over what, 100 different things to choose from? With a total veto of 6. Don't think I'm comparing both games, I'm just giving an example on a sample size that works.
In hearthstone you get to remove a class as whole and I don't know what I think about that.
What about you? Do you like to see the same plays over and over or broad the potential of Hearthstone as an E-Spot game?
That's my opinion and I stand for it.
(i'm not the best at grammar and spelling)
tl;dr HS tournament format makes it to repetitive and the 'best of' counter is to low to determinate who was the better player.
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Posted Oct 10, 2014 (Naxx Launch)wd to everyone
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Posted Oct 10, 2014 (Naxx Launch)Anyone else tired of this dumb "use-many-decks+ban-opponents-decks" format?
It's time for this game to put its big boy pants on and play real TCG format. Preferably - one deck, best of 3 + top 8 swiss.
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Posted Oct 10, 2014 (Naxx Launch)Hearthstone doesn't lend itself to traditional TCG tournament formats. There are no sideboards, the decks are much smaller and therefore games are decided much quicker.
I think the format here was a bit overkill, but I don't think that one deck/best-of-three gives players a good enough representation of their respective skill.
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Posted Oct 10, 2014 (Naxx Launch)Reynad needs to stop being invited to tournaments, because he's become a joke. He still thinks he's one of the best in the world, but where has he proven that?
So far, he's the only invited player knocked-out of the tournament.
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Posted Oct 10, 2014 (Naxx Launch)Please don't auto-play the streams when loading the page :(
And definitely not BOTH streams
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Posted Oct 10, 2014 (Naxx Launch)I bet 1600 dust that the champ wont be either Amaz, TidesOfTime, Kolento, Forsen or Reynard.
Also, hi mom!