Season One continues as we move on to week 2. As we mentioned before, this shortened season only features 4-weeks of competition. The winner of each region will advance to the 2022 World Championship. Unlike previous years, only the top 4 finishers will advance to Season 2. Those twelve competitors will join the top 4 Masters Tour points earners in a 16-player global region. Full details of the changes to this year's Hearthstone eSports can be found here. All the competition can be viewed over on the Hearthstone YouTube Channel.
- Venue: Online
- Stream: the Hearthstone YouTube Channel.
- Dates: Friday, Saturday, Sunday: March 4-6
- Casters:
- TJ “Azumoqt” Sanders
- Darroch “Darroch” Brown
- Jia “Jia” Dee
- Neil “Lorinda” Bond
- Alex “RavenCasts” Baguley
- Simon “Sottle” Welch
- Prize Pool: $250,000 USD
- Stream Times: Broadcasts begin at 2 a.m. PST / 5 a.m. EST / 11 a.m. CET / 7 p.m. KST
Drops Return!
Drops will be returning for Grandmasters Season 1. Viewers can earn up to four free packs just for watching the action live on YouTube. They will be awarded as follows for watching two hours of the stream. Viewers are required to link their Blizzard and YouTube accounts to claim packs -- directions can be found here.
- Weeks 1-3 - Fractured in Alterac Valley (max 2 packs)
- GM Playoffs - Fractured in Alterac Valley (max 2 packs)
Format
Once again Grandmasters will feature a rotating format from week to week. A summary of each week is below. This week features the debut of the brand new "Trio" format.
- Week 1 - Conquest
- Week 2 - Trio
- Week 3 - Last Hero Standing
- Week 4 - Conquest
Trio Format
- Each player will be presented with 5 groups of three classes compiled by the eSports team.
- Classes can overlap between the initial 5 available groups. Meaning more than 1 group might have the same class.
- Players select one of the groups and create a deck for each of the classes within that grouping.
- Selections are private -- the other players won't know their opponent's selections.
- Matches will be best of 5, with each winning deck becoming unavailable for the remainder of the match.
Standings
| Americas | Europe | Asia-Pacific | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Points | Player | Points | Player | Points |
| 1. Fr0zen | 5 | 1. xBlyzes | 5 | 1. Lambyseries | 5 |
| 2. Fled | 4 | 2. SuperFake | 4 | 2. okasinnsuke | 4 |
| 3. Lunaloveee | 3 | 3. Rdu | 3 | 3. Shaxy | 3 |
| 4. DreadEye | 3 | 4. Furyhunter | 3 | 4. Posesi | 3 |
| 5. Monsanto | 2 | 5. Viper | 2 | 5. Bankyugi | 2 |
| 6. NoHandsGamer | 2 | 6. Jarla | 2 | 6. GivePLZ | 2 |
| 7. DimitriKazov | 2 | 7. J4YOU | 2 | 7. hyung | 2 |
| 8. GamerRvg | 2 | 8. Gaby | 2 | 8. Mighty | 2 |
| 9. Nalguidan | 1 | 9. Casie | 1 | 9. glory | 1 |
| 10. Lnguagehackr | 1 | 10. Felkeine | 1 | 10. trahison | 1 |
| 11. McBanterFace | 1 | 11. Frenetic | 1 | 11. grr | 1 |
| 12. LeandroLeal | 1 | 12. ZloyGruzin | 1 | 12. MegaGliscor | 1 |
| 13. killinallday | 0 | 13. Bunnyhoppor | 0 | 13. Alutemu | 0 |
| 14. CaelesLuna | 0 | 14. Seiko | 0 | 14. che0nsu | 0 |
| 15. Pascoa | 0 | 15. Leta | 0 | 15. Alan86 | 0 |
| 16. Pun | 0 | 16. Floki | 0 | 16. DragonMan | 0 |
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