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United States8476 Posts
Source: us.battle.net
Much more info has been release about the 2015 Hearthstone World Championships, including exact region breakdowns and information on how to earn points. Most importantly, however, the announcement share the format of the world championship, a new format by the name of Conquest. Bye bye Last Hero Standing.
How to Earn Points
2015 World Championship Match Format – “Conquest”
- All matches will be best-of-5. The first player to win 3 games within the match is considered the winner of the match and advances.
- Each player must submit decklists from three unique classes prior to each stage of the event. Players may submit new decks prior to each stage of the event.
- A player must win one game with each of his three decks to win the match.
- When a player wins a game, the deck used by the winning player cannot be used for the remainder of the match.
- The losing player can keep the same deck used or switch to a different one of their choice.
- Players will be told what classes their opponent has available, but they won’t know which class is picked until both players have picked.
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I am very happy to see the maximum invites rule for big tournaments that want to award points.
Also nice to see a few more eligible countries than last year but there are still a lot of countries that are blocked out and no reason for that is given, which I find extremely poor from Blizzard. Only 69 countries are eligible and there are about 200 countries in the world. The most notable absentee this time is probably Slovenia, so for example all the players from [wikihs]Team MiA[/wikihs] will not be allowed to participate.
Don't get me wrong. There may be good reasons for not allowing all countries. What I find unacceptable is that Blizzard (once again) doesn't make any public statement about these reasons. I wish sites likes LH, GosuGamers or DailyDot that have some reach would write a critical article about this. Maybe that would force Blizzard to finally explain themselves. I think all the people who are from blocked out countries deserve to get a proper explanation but if the issue doesn't get any publicity from the notable people and websites in the scene, then I am afraid that Blizzard will find it easy to remain completely silent about the issue once again...
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I'm a big fan of this new format. Encourages players to build more well rounded decks and it eliminates counter picking strategy that plagued previous tournament formats.
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will this format be implanted into hearthstone client as a game feature? ...like, "Conquest Mode"?
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Conquest mode would be insane :D
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I'm a big fan of this new format. Encourages players to build more well rounded decks and it eliminates counter picking strategy that plagued previous tournament formats.
I agree. I also like that bans are gone.
I'm not sure what "stage" of the event means in this context--it's not defined in the Blizzard post--but it if it means "round" (e.g. Ro16, Ro8, etc) it would be interesting to see if players switch decks based on their upcoming opponent. (E.g. I know Amaz always brings his priest so I will cut shaman from my lineup this time, or change up my deck just for him.) This would help alleviate the problem where once the decklists are out on the internet (after the first couple of rounds of the tournament), other players can totally predict what your decks are. The element of surprise (and even last minute deck construction) will return.
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This might be a confusing format for some new viewers, I do like how they're shifting away from all the stupid counter decking where they just alternate though.
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I agree, the maximum invites rule was sorely needed. The new format looks interesting.
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I like that they're trying out a new format, though I do wonder how well the format is going to look like when Blizzcon will eventually happen. For all we know, there'll be a new standard format used by tournaments by then, and suddenly Blizzcon will be the only one to use some weird-ass format nobody plays anymore.
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On January 31 2015 10:14 TAMinator wrote:
This might be a confusing format for some new viewers, I do like how they're shifting away from all the stupid counter decking where they just alternate though. I think tournaments will make it understandable using a graphic on their stream overlay like this:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/sly8YQp.png)
"<Top Player> just needs a win with his zoolock to take the match!"
"<Bottom Player>'s control warrior is favored in that matchup, so if she plays Warrior first it's likely to come down to a zoolock mirror."
"Man, whatever happened to handlock?"
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This was the format I always played with my friends (though best of 7 with 4 decks). I enjoy this format much more, as counterpicking is lame IMO, as is one deck sweeping all of the games.
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EPT![[image loading]](http://bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cms/blog_header/0h/0HHGKDXV93ZX1422583900025.jpg)
