The fifth Masters Tour event this year took place last weekend with almost 400 players battling it out in an online tournament. In addition to a share of the prize money, the enticing prospect of getting invited to Hearthstone Grandmasters was on the line. You can re-live the action with our spoiler-free post below.
Top 8 Decklists
These decks carried their respective pilots to the final eight.
badajimpom's Decks
Dizdemon's Decks
Furyhunter's Decks
Gregoriusil's Decks
MaggoGx's Decks
msbc's Decks
Pun's Decks
Yuansu's Decks
VoD
You can find the VoDs of the three days of competition below. Day 1 had some broadcast issues and therefore consists of two videos instead of one.
Day 1 (Part 1):
Day 1 (Part 2):
Day 2 (Part 1):
Day 2 (Part 2):
Day 3:
Results
You can find out how the Top 8 single-elimination bracket played out within the spoiler below.
Recap
The tournament meta seems all but solved at the moment when taking a look at OffCurve's stats for the tournament. Rogue was clearly the most popular pick, with Garrote Rogue alone being more popular than any other class. Similarly, the runner-up Demon Hunter's Quest variant was more popular than the other eight classes, and the same was repeated for Quest Handlock, Face Hunter, Aggro Druid, and Libram Paladin (although Druids did have a good amount of Anacondra in the mix as well). Warrior and Priest were the clear bottom two, as accustomed.
The top end of the tournament results looked a lot like in previous Masters Tours: plenty of Chinese and European players with a couple of APAC and Americas players in the mix. This time it was Europe's turn to take the crown as an unusual lineup helped badajimpom all they way to the final, where he met the more well-known Furyhunter who already had one tournament victory under his belt from 2018. The latter didn't have the easiest tournament with plenty of 3-2 victories in the Swiss and nerve-wrecking reverse sweeps against MaggoGx and msbc in quarter- and semifinals, respectively. Nonetheless, Furyhunter managed to clinch another crown to his name and take a strong grip of one of the Grandmasters promotion spots.
Let's take a look how the Grandmasters promotion race looks like before the final stop Undercity in November. Remember that due to the player retirements there will be SIX spots for APAC and FIVE spots for Americas. Current and retiring Grandmasters have been removed for clarity.
| APAC | Points | Europe | Points | Americas | Points |
| trahison* | 16 | Floki* | 34 | Pascoa | 19 |
| MegaGliscor | 14 | Furyhunter | 29 | Pun | 17 |
| DragonMan | 13 | SuperFake | 26 | LeandroLeal | 13 |
| che0nsu* | 13 | Maverick | 19 | GamerRvg | 13 |
| Mighty | 12 | AyRoK | 19 | digo | 11 |
| HSKeDaiBiao | 11 | badajimpom | 19 | CaelesLuna* | 8 |
| 8 players | 7 | Apollion | 19 | 6 players | 7 |
| Sidi | 18 | ||||
| 4 players | 15 |
*recently relegated Grandmaster
You can follow the Race to Grandmasters on Blizzard's official esports page (not yet updated with Stormwind results at the time of writing). For full and up-to-date data, visit d0nkey.top.
Hearthstone esports year continues with Global Inn-vitational on November 7-14. Don't forget to tune in!
Comments
Ah, the proper VODs. Truly life saving. Even though they might've accidentally spoiled the final result for B.net clients across Europe, I'm still looking forward to catch up on several matches.
Seeing vastly different players and a greater selection of decks (not to mention varied caster pairings) always makes it far more entertaining, despite the meta not having much new to offer. The Stormwind backgrounds with small bouts of appropriate intermission music landed well, I missed the latter from previous MT.
This was such a great Masters Tour to watch, and as a Dutchman it's great to see Badajimpom do so well. Really hope he manages to snag some points in Undercity so he and Floki can represent the Benelux community in GM after the departure of Thijs and Tyler.