BlizzCon is coming and we’re down to 8 players for the Hearthstone World Championships for 2016. And before you ask, yes these are different decks. The players were allowed to change and alter their decks after the group stage!
Top-8 Brackets
Event Information
All times are PDT.
- Quarterfinals: November 4th, 2016: 12pm – 2:45pm, 5:15pm – 7:45pm
- Semifinals: November 5th, 2016: 10:30am – 1:30pm
- Finals: November 5th, 2016: 1:30pm – 3:45pm
- Stream: Official Hearthstone Twitch Channel
- Learn More: Official Blizzard Heathstone Championship Tour Information
- Calling all of the action will be venerable host Dan ‘Frodan’ Chou, who will be joined by an alternating array of talented casting team duos: Simon ‘Sottle’ Welch with Alexander ‘Raven’ Baguley, TJ ‘Azumo’ Sanders with Brian Kibler, and Nathan ‘ThatsAdmirable’ Zamora with James ‘Firebat’ Kostesich.
Here are the deck lists from the group stage: Hearthstone World Championships 2016 Group Stage
Deck Changes
Overall there was a drastic drop in Hunter, while there’s been a resurgence in Warlock Zoo.
- The biggest and most interesting change was HOTMeowth was switching his C’Thun Warrior to BLOOD WARRIOR!
- HOTMeowth also switched his Secret Face Hunter to Warlock Zoo.
- JasonZhou changed his N’Zoth Warrior to a Dragon Warrior.
- Hamster stuck with the same group of classes, still the only one bringing Priest and Paladin.
- DrHippi swapped his Control Warrior for Dragon Warrior, and switched his Hunter for Zoo.
- Cydonia switched out the C’Thun Warrior for N’Zoth Warrior.
- Che0nsu decided to bring Tempo Mage instead of Midrange Secret Hunter.
- Amnesiac cut his Warrior list in favor of Zoo, and changed his Aggro Secret Hunter list for a Midrange version.
Deck lists are after the jump!
Class Distribution
Deck Type Distribution
Most Popular Legendaries
24/40 Decks
20/40 Decks
13/40 Decks
12/40 Decks
8/40 Decks
8/40 Decks
6/40 Decks
4/40 Decks
Most Popular Epics
9/40 Decks
6/40 Decks
5/40 Decks
4/40 Decks
Most Popular Rares
27/40 Decks
8/40 Decks
8/40 Decks
8/40 Decks
When were we supposed to pick our second champion? Would have been nice if Blizzard gave us a reminder, also update us when we might see these packs.
Shit, looks like I missed out on the second voting and I picked Thjis the first time, oh well not like I really need them.
We never got to pick a second champion, the second date was for people who missed the first one.
Oooooooh…..Damn knew I should have gone with my gut and picked hotmeowth lol :p
It’s not fair that you cant revote if ur choosen didnt qualify , but you can choose whomever u want now if u didnt choose already
You can choose who you want now, but you don’t get packs for their past wins.
So if you pick someone now and they lose right away, you only get 1 pack, not 3.
No, i cant 🙂
I choose in the first pick period. (sadly)
But thats just dumb to pick in the first period as it seems. Just disadvantages in choosing then.
if he didnt qualify
You can potentially get 2 more packs by choosing early. How is it advantageous to pick later, when there are fewer chances to earn packs?
They made it perfectly clear that it would work this way.
Where is ThijsNL?
He lost in the group stage.
JasonZhou changed his Dragon Warrior to an N’Zoth Warrior. (X)
JasonZhou changed his N’Zoth Warrior to a Dragon Warrior. (O)
Fixed, thanks.
But Jason has played whole tournament as N’zoth Warrior, isn’t he?
Yeah, I fixed the issue. Thanks!
Common Amnesiac you wonderful, slightly socially awkward teenager you! Win me lots of packs, you know you can!