Another installment of the Hearthstone Masters Tour takes place this weekend in Seoul. This is tour stop number 2, with Dog defeating Gallon in the finals of Masters Tour: Las Vegas in June. Over 350 players are invited to Seoul to participate for their chance to take home part of the $500,000 prize pool. The event spans 3 days and has a stacked field with many of your favorite pros and streamers. This is the first mainstream tournament since the release of Saviors of Uldum, so it will be interesting to see how the meta evolves.
Twitch Drops Return!
With Twitch drops once again active, viewers can earn themselves two Saviors of Uldum packs and have a chance at winning a Classic pack each hour.
Tuning in for 3 total hours will grant you your 1st Saviors of Uldum pack. You'll receive a second when you reach 6 total hours. Additionally, 1500 viewers will be picked each hour to win a Classic pack. Make sure you link your account through the settings menu on Twitch prior to watching!
Rewards can be obtained during the following time frames:
- Between 6pm PT, August 15 and 3am PT, August 16
- Between 6pm PT, August 16 and 3am PT, August 17
- Between 6pm PT, August 17 and 3am PT, August 18
Tournament Format
- Day 1: Seven rounds of Swiss.
- Day 2: All players with 4 or more matches won will compete in 5 more rounds of Swiss, with the top 8 advancing to intial rounds of two dual-tournament format groups.
- Day 3: The top 8 return to complete the tournament.
All matches will be best of three under the guidelines of the Specialist Format, with the exception of the Semifinals and Finals which will be best of five.
Notable Players
- Alutemu | - Amnesiac | - blitzchung |
- bloodyface | - BoarControl | - bozzzton |
- Bunnyhoppor | - Casie | - che0nsu |
- DawN | - Eddie | - ETC |
- Fenomeno | - Gallon | - Flurry |
- Fr0zen | - FroStee | - glory |
- Hunterace | - Jarla | - justsaiyan |
- Kolento | - Monsanto | - muzzy |
- Nalguidan | - Orange | - Roger |
- Pavel | - PNC | - killinallday |
- Rase | - Rdu | - SamuelTsao |
- Seiko | - Mryagut | - languagehacker |
- Staz | - StrifeCro | - Surrender |
- Swidz | - NaviOOT | - tom60229 |
- Tyler | - Viper | - Ostkaka |
What's Next?
Season 2 of the Hearthstone Grandmasters begins on August 23rd. Competition will continue every Friday through Sunday with the newly modified Conquest format to crown three more winners who advance to the World Championship at Blizzcon. The final Masters Tour event happens in Bucharest beginning October 18th.
Been watching for 12 hours total now, didn't get my two packs. I get Overwatch tokens with no issue usually so idk where's the problem, account is linked.
Watched for 7hrs, been like more than a day and still no packs.
I watched 3 hours with my account linked etc, but no pack for me. :(
Did not recieve any packs yet watched probably more than 12 h
Anyone having issues with twitch drops? I've gotten my first SoU pack but not my 2nd and I've been leaving my twitch stream on since Friday Morning
What a shitshow that was. Hour in and they tell us that it's pre-recorded. Every damn match had a mage in it and every single mirror was determined by who could get off Luna's Pocket Galaxy first.
Note how the Hearthstone website itself says the following (which contradicts the article above):
This means that European players are eligible for Twitch drops between 3AM CEST and 12PM CEST (noon).
Fixed it in the article. I suspect this is a fix Blizzard made to the official article too, cause I'm fairly sure it was not written like that before.
When will packs be available? I'm watching for 4 hours and didn't get one... Thx
I had the same, last time it was added immediately. Weird.
Mage Vs Mage
Warrior Vs Mage
Yea, I'll skip that thanks.
The format is really what is encouraging this problem. Why they still use this PoS is beyond me when they already announced a new better format.
Any links to the actual Twitch page or am I missing it?
Didn’t Blizzard learn from the last tournament that everyone hates “Specialist” format? Guess it’s Twitch AFK weekend for me.
Where is disgusting toast?
Thijs is listed as attending but he said on stream he is not going. He makes more money from streaming, so he’s staying at home.
Go Fr0zen <3
You know that you can run Twitch in afk, don't you?
Wow so all I have to do is glue this tournament in front my my face for 6 hrs to get 2 packs. Gee wiz that’s a steal! Good thing I don’t have a job and my mom does all my wiping for me
No, all you have to do is link your account and let twitch run in the background while you wipe yourself.