This weekend the Grandmasters 2021 Season 1 saw it's opening weekend, the first of 8 weeks of action that will decide who is going to get relegated from Grandmasters and who is (eventually) going on to compete for the World Championship.
Video Recaps
Since we are posting our article close to the ending of Day 3, not all of the matches might have been put onto YouTube yet, so check the official Hearthstone Esports YT Channel for the uploads later here!
- Week 1 Day 3 Full Recap: here.
- Week 1 Asia-Pacific Finals Recap: here.
- Week 1 Europe Finals Recap: here.
- Week 1 Americas Finals Recap: here.
- All The Recaps: All Regions.
Road to Playoffs
The Grandmasters Season 1 is divided into 7 weeks of weekly tournaments, where everyone scores points for their results that week. After those 7 weeks the Top 8 in the points standing in each Region will play in an 8th and final week of competition to decide who goes to the World Championship. The bottom four in the points standings on the other hand will automatically relegate from Grandmasters. The remaining 4 players who ranked 9th through 12th remain Grandmasters, but do not get to play for a spot in the World Championships this season.
Below is a graphic that shows both the monetary gain as well as the points players can score each week.
Week 1 Results
Top 4 Single Elimination: Americas
Grandmasters 2021 Season 1 Week 1 Winners Decklists
These are the decks of the Region Winners this week!
NoHandsGamer's Americas Grandmasters 2021 Season 1 Week 1 Winner Decks:
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Thijs' Europe Grandmasters 2021 Season 1 Week 1 Winner Decks:
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Alutemu's Asia-Pacific Grandmasters 2021 Season 1 Week 1 Winner Decks:
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Posted Apr 13, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)After the patch update I got my 2 packs!
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Posted Apr 13, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)Thijs won btw haHAA
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)Where Pack?
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)Cool, can we have nerfs now?
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)That's what I feel about this "event" exactly
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)sorry, but ever since they canceled the world championship from blizzcon and put this weird format up for sale i am not interested at all in HS as "esport" especially because they are catering to the "known streamers"
AND WHERE LAMBO, I MEAN PACKS
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)Lunacy mage appearing multiple times. Imagine if renounce darkness warlock was a tournament tier deck lmao
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)Not interested. Where is f*** drops??
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)Thijs wasn't specifically Watchpost Rogue. It was plain old Tempo Rogue.
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)Yeah, there wasn't even Watch Post synergy in that deck.
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)RNGMasters 2021.
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)RNG fest at its best! there were games were the entire thing was ruled by rng, 100%!
I’m also stunned that people are willing to share all those personal details mixed with YouTube history and loads of data for two hearthstone packs!
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)Don't worry, it's google, they already know everything lol...
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)Yeah to 100% google knows everything already. Some things you can avoid. Google is not one of them.
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)All 3 winners brought same class for their decks
Edit: Woops pardon me, Thijs used warlock instead of priest
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)Kinda funny (and sad) that we’re more interested in the packs than the results of this RNG fest.
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)What is more funny (and sad) to me is that you are interested in the packs, while saying that it is RNG fest.
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)I'm still impressed at how Deck of Lunacy, supposedly a meme card, become such a powerful legendary used by everyone at tournaments.
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)I really hope they don't increase mana cost. For 3 mana I don't know if it will be as reliable. They really should make it so the mana increase of the cards is not always 3 and instead it's a range. That way you can't make your lunacy cards become so consistently good.
That way it wouldn't be unplayable-level. It seems that they're going to hit Incanter's Flow also. It'd be dumb and lazy of them if they kill the 2 core cards of an awesome deck. We can agree it's OP af right now, but it's also one of the most fun decks in years in Hearthstone IMO.
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Posted Apr 12, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)Agree with everything you said. The unpredictable increase means the deck remains true to it's original design. Nerfing the cost of the card means the outcomes of your increase remain relatively consistent and all you do is play Lunacy at a later turn - absolute waste of a nerf.
It feels bad to get absolutely wiped by this deck but it is also definitely one of the most fun decks to ever come out of Hearthstone. A deck that includes every other classes spells and has a good chance to win? Sign me up.