This weekend is the Hearthstone World Championship, Saturday December 12 and Sunday December 13th, from 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ET, 4:00 PM GMT, 17:00 CET. The conclusion of the year of the Hearthstone Grandmasters takes place fully online. The top 8 players will compete for their share of the $500,000 purse and a chance to become Hearthstone's 2020 World Champion!
Stream Links:
Day 1 stream: here.
Day 2 stream: here.
Finals stream: here.
Summary:
- Venue: Online
- Broadcast: Hearthstone Esports YouTube Channel
- Stream Times: Broadcasts begin at 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ET, 4:00 PM GMT, 17:00 CET.
- Dates: Saturday, Sunday - December 12th - 13th 2020
- Casters:
- Jia “Jia” Dee and Darroch “Darroch” Brown
- Simon “Sottle” Welch and Alex “Raven” Baguley
- Dan "Frodan" Chou and TJ "Azumo" Sanders
- Prize Pool: $500,000 USD
Interesting notes:
- There are no returning World Champions, meaning we will crown a first time champion, guaranteed.
- XiaoT and bloodyface have been at the World Championship before, but they are the only returning players this year.
- Silvername was relegated in Season 2 of GMs 2020, but has his shot at redemption having previously qualified for the Global Finals.
- Tournament Format
Day 1 - Hearthstone Tournament Stage - Saturday, 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ET, 4:00 PM GMT, 17:00 CET
- Dual-Tournament Groups
- Conquest with a Ban
- All Matches are best-of-five
Day 2 - Hearthstone Tournament Stage - Sunday, 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ET, 4:00 PM GMT, 17:00 CET
- Single Elimination Tournament
- Conquest with a Ban
- Semis and Finals - best-of-five
- The Players
Americas
Asia-Pacific
China
Europe
- Brackets
Top 8 Dual Tournament
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Jarla 3
bloodyface 1
XiaoT 3
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XiaoT 0
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XiaoT 1
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Top 4 Single Elimination
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Monsanto 0
glory 3
Jarla 1
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Jarla always into long and grindy game with satisfying win condition.. I like it.
I don't tend to agree with the part of the community that always says X expansion sucks... But this one indeed sucks. Most of the cool mechanics they added are either broken and a deck creation limitation (I'm looking at you Tickatus), or they won't work due being too slow and punished by agro. It's actually unbelievable that they didn't realized how fucked up the meta is.
I just hope that they were so occupied with the rewards track incident and now are too close to the World Championship for applying a balance patch, which IMO it'd have been a pretty good decision since most of the decks are the same as past expansion, or boring agro decks. This will be the most boring world championship ever.
I'm now used to them being responsive in balance patches. If they go back to the old way of taking MONTHS for applying balance patches, I think I'll stop playing. And I've never said that before, and I tend to laugh to people saying that bullshit. But I mean, the game is so boring right now... Every attempt I had done of playing something different, I get crushed at turn 6 at most. And I just refuse to play those agro shitty decks or fatigue decks just for ranking up. This is a fucking game, it should be fun, not like a job.
Aggro DH is annoying, but I'm still managing to have fun playing this expansion.
Perhaps the recent drama surrounded the game has clouded your perception of it these days.
It didn't, I'm happy with rewards track. Resources are better than gold. The fact is people tend to be spooky with changes. It had to be improved though, and I'm happy it was (although they stated since moment zero that they were going to constantly adjust and be aware of what the community said since it's a big change)
I don't know dude, I've played A LOT in previous expansion, which I think it was one of the best they had. And seeing exactly the same decks in a new expansion... It's boring.
Well, fair enough.
I do hope that there are some balance changes incoming, as well, anyway. Maybe the mini expansion will be a nice shakeup, too.
I'm trying to stay positive, because I still genuinely like this game. But it can always be improved. No questioning that.
I think there's a chance they'll just use these new card set drops between expansions to "balance" the game, resulting in less actual card changes
I don’t know if I’ll keep playing if they go through that path. Doing such thing would need to have a perfect balance team... And we know Hearthstone doesn’t have it, and due to the nature of the game not being so linear as other TCG, this is almost impossible to achieve. I find it stupid to go through that old path of accepting that they won’t change a single card for like two months. Is frustrating. And since this community in particular tends to be so toxic that they prefer to play the same deck like for 8 months in order to “win”... It’s a disgusting combo.
Looks like Bankyugi wants to commit a suicide with his Priest Deck. I hope he knows, what he is doing and i'll cheer this uncommon choice.
3 whole classes completely missing. Has it ever happened before?
And then: no nzoth, no yogg, no c'thun, no Y'shaarj. Such a successful expansion, ain't it?
Year of the mammoth had Shaman and Warrior missing, but probably year of the raven was the worst, it didn´t even had a world championship!
Let's get ready for some DEMON HUNTER MIRRORRRRRRSSSSSS.
Or maybe none at all. I guess everyone could just ban everyone else's demon hunter.
Also, not a single C'thun or Yogg to be seen. Not even in the "control" decks.
Do we know if any cards were banned? Like Yogg for example.
Funny you should mention this cause Iksar seemed to hint that it is actually Highlander Hunter who has the best winrate right now, and not more polarizing decks (read: Demon Hunter).
https://twitter.com/IksarHS/status/1337107272812511232
"Highlander Hunter reminds me a lot of Even Paladin in that it has often been the best deck in standard but is always overshadowed by some more polarizing but less powerful thing."
Some people brought Highlander Hunter in their line ups so it will be interesting to see how Hunter does this tournament and if it does better than DH.
I don't agree with Iksar, HH is very weak against pure aggro like DH and super strong against non-aggro, a textbook example of a polarised deck. Also, Even Paladin was only good at low to moderate levels of play, at high legend, it stood no chance against the infinite value/OTK decks like Odd Warrior, Control Priest and Midrange Hunter.
HL Hunter appears twice for bankyugi. Also do we know which decks are not played in Bo3 phase, or is it just 1 ban and you can use any of the 3 remaining decks?
It's Conquest. So, after one of your decks is banned you can play any of the remaining decks. Once a deck wins, it can no longer be played.
The bankyugi issue will be fixed momentarily. Thanks for the heads up.
Oops, that was meant to be a Highlander Priest deck, fixed now!
Also, judging by: https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/esports/match/36251
All matches will be Bo5, and not Bo3 in the first round. Makes sense since there's only 8 participants and plenty of time.
I changed the article to reflect this.
Did some of the players change? I'm sure they were different when the Choose Your Champion article dropped
Bloodyface just came out as a trans woman :). Blizzard changed her profile picture, as well as her pronouns in the interview. You can read her own words about it here.
Nope, exact same players.