This weekend was home to the second Masters Tour event this year, taking place in Seoul, South Korea. We've recapped everything you need to know down below including decks! Beware, spoilers ahead.
Top 8 Hearthstone Masters Seoul Decks
First things first, here are the decklists from top 8 players of the tournament. Chinese player RNGLys came on top in Swiss rounds with 11-1 win-loss record with everyone else in top 8 (except Sooni with 9-3) ending at 10-2.
Outside of the five different classes represented in top 8, there were some good performers in other classes too. The best Shaman lineup ended at 9-3 while Paladin and Druid both reached a respectable 8-4 score.
I guess you all noticed who's missing. Gul'dan wasn't a popular pick and the performance of the class showed why. The only Warlock player reaching day 2 (lpackman) ended at 4-6.
The decklists of all players can be seen by clicking a matchup with the player-of-interest on Battlefy.
Hearthstone Masters Seoul Results
We're entering the spoiler region right about now. Tread carefully.
Group A
Group B
Top 4
Hearthstone Masters Seoul Recap
I'd imagine a lot of us were worried that the tournament would consist of countless Warrior mirrors given the state of the meta, but these tournaments always surprise you. Mage ended up being the most popular pick by far, and poor Garrosh landed on the second last place in overall winrates (46%), beating only Paladin (45%).
Guess who's back? Anduin was the big winner in Korea, ending at a whopping 59% winrate. Unsurprisingly, a big part of this success story was the highly favourable matchup against the most popular class Mage, with Priest coming on top 66% of the time. Only Shamans and Warriors were able to brag with 50+% winrates against the Combo menace.
Another clear winner was the Hearthstone scene of France as half of the top 8 spots were filled by Frenchmen, with three of them making it to top 4. Zhym and Felkeine had teamed up and submitted the same Highlander Mage lineup for the tournament, a strategy which proved to be quite effective as they found themselves going head-to-head in the Grand Final. Felkeine emerged victorious from the Mage mirrors, taking home the trophy and $88,739.
Full stats of the Swiss portion can be found on Battlefy.
Comments
Do you know where we can write a complain for the one of us that didn't get any packs ?
At least they have to nerf Luna's Pocket Galaxy now...right?
5 free packs , not even an epic, 0 compliants since I left it streaming on my PC while I slept.
Thought they were done with specialist though?
This was the last specialist event for the time being. GM (which starts this week) is the new format.
Starting next week in GM Specialist will (thankfully) be no more and the new format (4 decks with a shield and a ban) will be implemented.
Thought so too but guess this one may have been the last one already schedule - covering all regions - before change in format happens?
Thanks for the lists!
I had only one dropped pack but got the mighty missing "is it a save craft?" Siamat
:D glHF
Lucky you! I've been thinking of crafting him.
I got two packs but ended up with 80 dust.
I received a Classic pack but no Uldum packs (> 6 hours of watching). I hope Blizzard is fixing this otherwise no money from my side in the future
Yea sure. You didn‘t get all the free stuff you were promised and the evil evil company blizzard has to be punished for that ;)
2 guaranteed and 2 Classic packs! :)
Watched two full days and didnt get a single pack (and yes, i have everything linked and am eligible)
Did you watch the live shows or the replays?
actually both
Although the strongest classes haven't changed much it's still nice to see a little more variety.
Is it just me or the twitch drops did not worked on the last 2 days?
I got my 2 packs on the first day. But you can only get 2 guaranteed packs for watching (one at 3 hours and a second at 6 hours). The would be SoU packs.
I did get lucky and got a Classic pack for watching the last day. So I know the random packs were working the last day.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for the precision. I was assuming that we could get 2 SoU packs each day - after watching 3 & 6 hours worth of stream - on top of the hourly lottery for classic packs. I got 2 on the 1st day, then nothing and nothing on 2nd and last day. I does make sense. I can't complain anyway, as it was free and as I got a golden mage quest in my second pack ^^
Thanks for this article. Great stuff and nice to have it all consolidated into a nice package.