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Wow, what's a balanced game

Deranged Doctor

That was the true hero in Dogs' deck ^^

Quote from Fyrfytr998 >>

This tournament makes me question the deck tracker sites. (...)

 You are forgetting one important detail here : A tournament isn't exactly like your standard ladder

Quote from Vayazu >>

You do realise deck building is only part of the challenge. Dog earned his title by winning the most games and no one can take that away from him. I'm not sure if knowing how many warriors are in the tournament constitutes an unfair advantage.

 Well...if what was said is true, then changing from Paladin to Mage most certainly did help him win the tournament. No disrespect to his skills, but if he ran OTK Paladin, it would have been over on Day 1 for him.

Hopefully this is all false, and he can enjoy his win. As I said before, this tournament has turned me off of the specialist format.

Dog cheated. Deck list were leaked and he changed to mage to counter warrior meta.

From Battlefy

We are investigating claims of exploits regarding the Battlefy API w/ respect to the Hearthstone Masters Tour. The use of exploits in games and supporting platforms like Battlefy violates our terms of service, tournament rules, and most importantly, the integrity of competition.

There were a group of people who leaked the percentages of all classes brought to vegas through Battlefys API. Battlefy is a third party tourney client used for this tournament . The problem with this is that there was still time to edit your decklists. If I can remember correctly, about 40% of people brought warrior. Several people switched their lists to counter warrior because of this. A lot of pros are saying that dog originally had OTK paladin, which is an almost unwinnable matchup against warrior. It’s almost sure hat he would not have won this tourney. However, he switched to non cyclone conjurer mage list as it’s much better than warrior. If nothing was leaked dog doesn’t win

Frozen seem to contradict this when he talked about their deck testing/choice during the live broadcast.

I'll wait for more evidence...

You do realise deck building is only part of the challenge. Dog earned his title by winning the most games and no one can take that away from him. I'm not sure if knowing how many warriors are in the tournament constitutes an unfair advantage.

That's a really BOLD statement. I mean that's bordering on slander especially since you have no hard evidence he did that. Players have switched decks at the last moment in MANY different tournaments and formats and games. That's why there is a timer which gives you a specific amount of time to change right up to the point of the timer expiring. Why they change or don't change you cannot say because it's not YOU making the change.

More importantly is that nobody needed to leak or read that info that the field was going to be a majority of Warrior. Any halfwit could have figured that out just from the state of the meta. Also do you honestly think DOG is going to play the deck he is taking to 100K tournament on stream for everyone to see? His practice partner is FROZEN who consistently brings outside the meta decks that he never discusses or plays for others to see.

Nice fake witch hunt you are keeping alive from some butthurt troll reddit post. 

Big if true

Dog won the tounrament with a deck he should never have used. He didnt get punished for his wrong deck selection - but that's exactly what should have happened. That's how competition works.

BIG Part of the challenge is choosing the right deck and assessing its risk against all other decks. That's no less important than winning the games. It's always about risk and reward.

 Knowing exactly which decks you encounter in the tournament is a GIGANTIC advantage

Biggest problem here: People love dog -> deserve the win.

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Quote from Gwavana >>

You should  NEVER believe deck tracker sites when it comes to stats, even with a premium account it's not that relevant.

All you can tell from them is : what deck is the easiest to play? Hunter bomb is easy to play therefore on top of the list, cyclone mage is hard to play, so it's behind in their list. Simple as that. That's why the aggro decks are always on top of their list whatever the meta.

If you want relevant info you can google vicious syndicate, and read their meta analysis or just check what decks are played in the top 50 legend. From what I saw you see almost no hunter in these ranks, which are mostly made of rogues mage and warriors.

Last, decks like mech hunter are super easy to counter in a secondary deck, 3-4 tech cards will totally annihilate its power.

 

 Nah, the data complied over tens of thousands of games gives better insight than individual GM players; do we really need to explain variance in detail for you people?  Cards like Spirit of the Shark has proven this, certain lists are weaker and the data is simply there; ignoring it is the definition of arrogance, to think you know better than the fucking facts.

Dog is our good boy. Congratz! 

Good boy!

rurururu

Gratz Dog!

Good Doggo, redeeming yourself from last year! 🐶