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The pinnacle (4) tournament should be boycotted.

The Pinnacle 4 was advertised as being an open tournament. The team manager posted a topic a few days ago which showed that 5 different people were invited who lost in the qualifiers.

Removed link of deleted thread.

Once people showed their disagreement with how the tournament was setup the post was deleted.

Amaz's reply : https://www.reddit.com/comments/2zhs8e/slug/cpj23w8

Backspaces reply on the invited players :

http://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/2zhs8e/the_pinnacle_4_tournament_should_be_boycotted/cpj6xpw

Without notice the rules of the tournament were changed to round robin:

https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/2zhs8e/the_pinnacle_4_tournament_should_be_boycotted/cpj996p?context=3

The Pinnacle 4 will not be offering blizzcon points: http://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/2zhs8e/the_pinnacle_4_tournament_should_be_boycotted/cpj9z03

Amaz's reply on twitter:

https://twitter.com/ArchonAmazHS/status/578271526920679424

Seems like the Reddit community likes jumping to conclusions...kind of disappointed.

Out of the 128 people qualifier why wouldn't someone who ended 2nd on the ladder be picked for the tournament? Or at least sent a generic message saying he was not picked?

http://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/2zhs8e/the_pinnacle_4_tournament_should_be_boycotted/cpji6ei

itzbolt (I believe he is a good player but why was he accepted if he didn't meet the qualifications?) has no top 100 finishes and he got accepted, he is friends with Nooberry in real life (moderator on a lot of team archon who helped sift through applicatons).

  • Zeriyah
    Posted 10 years, 9 months ago (Source)

    If a community tournament organizer follows the above conditions, the community tournament organizer may run his event without further license from Blizzard. A tournament that is being operated under the above license is neither officially supported nor endorsed by Blizzard and the community tournament organizer must notify the participants of this fact.

    How does this gel with the idea of giving points toward Blizzcon for events? That seems like a rather concrete example of official support for an event.

    If you have additional questions regarding tournament licenses and Hearthstone World Championship points, please contact us at the email address listed in this blog post.

  • Zeriyah
    Posted 10 years, 9 months ago (Source)

    hi Zeriyah thanks for your post. As CM of this game, can we please ask you to monitor all tournaments that are giving points? This is serious and we hope Blizzard takes it seriously as well instead of letting team owners do it their way.

    We monitor all tournaments that are giving points.

  • Zeriyah
    Posted 10 years, 9 months ago (Source)

    Are there any plans in the works to set up very explicit tournament guidelines for TOs who want to run independent events, with a real system of controlling those who don't conform to the standard?

    We do have tournament guidelines in place - they can be found here. Additional contact information for tournament organizers that may have questions can also be found on that page.

  • Zeriyah
    Posted 10 years, 9 months ago (Source)

    Woah, hold up. This tournament awards points towards Blizzcon World Finals? Really?

    Edit: CM_Zeriyah just informed me that no, Pinnacle 4 does not award points to the Blizzcon finals.

    The Pinnacle 4 Tournament does not offer points towards the Hearthstone World Championship. To see which tournaments are currently providing Hearthstone World Championship points, please see this blog post.

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