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Katowice25012 Posts
Saw this on the Blizzard site. Copy pasting all the information, the important stuff here is $100k first prize with a $250k overall prize pool.
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The Hearthstone World Championship table has seats reserved for the best players in the world. Read the details and full rules for our Hearthstone European Qualifier Tournament here.
The Hearthstone World Championship will bring together some of Hearthstone’s best players from around the world for a climactic showdown at BlizzCon 2014! The Hearthstone World Championship will offer a total prize pool of $250,000, with the first place winner receiving a whopping $100,000!
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Before that happens, there will be some friendly competition that will ultimately decide who will qualify to attend the Hearthstone World Championship with our European Qualifier Tournament. We’re ready to share the details of this tournament with you today!
How can I qualify for the European Qualifier Tournament?
There are a few ways to qualify. A total of 130 players will be participating in the European Qualifier Tournament:
- Be a top 16 Legend player from Ranked Play in April, May, June, July, or August.
- Top players from select community tournaments between April and August will be invited to participate in the European Qualifier Tournament. We will highlight those tournaments as well as how many qualifier spots are available in that tournament.
- A Last Call Tournament will be held before the European Qualifier Tournament to determine any remaining qualifier spots, up to 130 participants. Players must be a resident of the countries noted below and must have achieved Legend rank on the
- European Ranked Play ladder at least one time between April and August. Players residing in these countries are eligible to participate in the Last Call Tournament for the European region: Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, The Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Ukraine and The United Kingdom.
- Players cannot compete in multiple Qualifier Tournaments. If a player qualifies for multiple, they must choose one to compete in.
What can I expect at the European Qualifier Tournament?
The European Qualifier Tournament will have a total of 130 players and takes place in two phases. These 130 players will be matched against each other based on their cumulative placements in the European Ranked Play Rankings from April to August. The top 2 players with the highest cumulative placements will immediately advance to Phase 2 of the Tournament. Play your best each season!
All matches will follow a best of five “Last Hero Standing” format. Each player will bring three different decks to each match. If a deck is defeated during a game of the match, that player must change to a different deck for the next game of the match.
Phase 1 of the tournament will consist of “The Constructed Arena Phase.”
- Players will be matched against each other in a Swiss format based on their initial seeding.
- If a player loses three matches (not games) in Phase 1, that player will be eliminated from the tournament.
- If a player ends a round of the Swiss format tournament with a +5 match record, that player will advance to Phase 2. (Match records are determined as Wins minus Losses. 5-0, 6-1, or 7-2 records are all considered +5 match records.)
Phase 2 of the tournament is the “Final Qualifying Round.”
- In Phase 2 of the tournament, only 16 players will remain from the initial 130 participants.
- Players will be randomly seeded into four tournament groups of four.
- The top two players from each group are placed in an eight-player single elimination bracket.
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he top four players will advance to the Hearthstone World Championships at BlizzCon 2014!
Hearthstone Qualifier Tournament Comprehensive Rules
Keep in mind that not all countries are eligible to participate in the Hearthstone World Championship or the Qualifier Tournaments. Please refer to the comprehensive rules below for a list of eligible countries.
For the European Qualifier Tournament rules please go here.
For the comprehensive Americas Qualifier Tournament rules please go here.
We’ll see you at the European Qualifier Tournament table. A seat is waiting for you!
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Katowice25012 Posts
That whole breakdown annoys me, 100k to 50k to 15k seems insane but for a young game its sort of understandable.
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getting top 16 legend has little to do with being good and lots to do with having a lot of time to grind.
unfortunately that is not the case for me so I will try the last call allthough i dont see myself fighting through that swamp
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So if some guy guy from Europe dosent manage to get top 16 in Europe, can he still be able to try out get it in NA or Asia server?
If so that fucking sucks dick. WCS all over again.
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I like the format though, swiss followed by groups then elimination bracket.
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On May 23 2014 03:23 Capz wrote:
So if some guy guy from Europe dosent manage to get top 16 in Europe, can he still be able to try out get it in NA or Asia server?
If so that fucking sucks dick. WCS all over again.
yeah, koreans everywhe. . . oh wait.
well, atm I doubt that there is a severe skill disparity on the servers, so i doubt the worst case scenario will happen.
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On May 23 2014 03:31 Hryul wrote:Show nested quote +On May 23 2014 03:23 Capz wrote:
So if some guy guy from Europe dosent manage to get top 16 in Europe, can he still be able to try out get it in NA or Asia server?
If so that fucking sucks dick. WCS all over again. yeah, koreans everywhe. . . oh wait. well, atm I doubt that there is a severe skill disparity on the servers, so i doubt the worst case scenario will happen.
from what i've seen its like the opposite of sc2 with koreans being worse than non koreans.
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Katowice25012 Posts
TIME TO STRIKE BACK, BOYS
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In my view, randomness plays a huge role in Hearthstone. So I doubt it makes any sense to treat it as a serious competition/e-sport...
... and 100k for a winner that is mostly determined by luck feels somewhat strange.
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It's time to D-D-d-d-d--d-d-d-d-d-duel!
Sweet Jesus Moses that's a lot of moolah
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On May 23 2014 04:17 C[h]ili wrote:
In my view, randomness plays a huge role in Hearthstone. So I doubt it makes any sense to treat it as a serious competition/e-sport...
... and 100k for a winner that is mostly determined by luck feels somewhat strange.
I agree to an extent but it should still be fun to watch
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didnt they say a few would qualify via community tournaments?
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Why are some European countries excluded from the Last Call tournament like Portugal or Romania for example? That seems quite random and unfair to me.
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On May 23 2014 05:07 Eggi wrote:
didnt they say a few would qualify via community tournaments?
On May 23 2014 03:14 Heyoka wrote:
How can I qualify for the European Qualifier Tournament?
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[*]Top players from select community tournaments between April and August will be invited to participate in the European Qualifier Tournament. We will highlight those tournaments as well as how many qualifier spots are available in that tournament.
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Holy crap, did not expect them to match prize pool for SC2. Expected like 25K prizepool .
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In such a game of chance, why is the pool so tilted? Wouldn't a (slightly) more shared pool of money make sense? $5k seems low for being near top of world (9th) in comparison to $100k. I guess for sheer hype it could be $100k first prize sounds amazing?
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The phase one swiss style seems really cool, and a really good system! I'm a little confused about the community tournaments though, they say that they'll take high finishers from April to August, but they'll also tell us what tournaments those are? Seems like some tournaments would've already been played.
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On May 23 2014 03:22 Kleinmuuhg wrote:
getting top 16 legend has little to do with being good and lots to do with having a lot of time to grind.
unfortunately that is not the case for me so I will try the last call allthough i dont see myself fighting through that swamp
You clearly haven't been near top 16 to make absurd statement like this
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On May 23 2014 09:08 Darthsanta13 wrote:
The phase one swiss style seems really cool, and a really good system! I'm a little confused about the community tournaments though, they say that they'll take high finishers from April to August, but they'll also tell us what tournaments those are? Seems like some tournaments would've already been played.
They said they will announce ahead of time and there hasn't been any qualifying community tourney yet
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