The first Grandmasters season of 2021 kicked off with Week 1 last weekend as 48 players started their journey with the common goal of gathering enough points to reach the Playoffs. You can re-live the action with our spoiler-free post below.
Finalists' Decklists
These were the players that reached the final in each region and the decks they brought for the opening week of Conquest.
Alutemu's Decks
glory's Decks
Thijs's Decks
Viper's Decks
DreadEye's Decks
NoHandsGamer's Decks
VoDs
Here are the links to individual match VoDs in spoilers below.
Day 1 - Initial Group Decider Matches
———- Asia-Pacific ———-
- Group A Decider - Shaxy vs Bankyugi: VoD
- Group B Decider - lambyseries vs Tyler: VoD
- Group C Decider - TIZS vs Blitzchung: VoD
- Group D Decider - GivePLZ vs che0nsu: VoD
———- Europe ———-
- Group A Decider - Warma vs Rdu: VoD
- Group B Decider - Leta vs xBlyzes: VoD
- Group C Decider - Swidz vs Casie: VoD
- Group D Decider - Jarla vs Bozzzton: VoD
———- Americas ———-
Day 2 - Quarterfinals
The spoiler below uses results from Day 1 games in naming matchups, so watch those first if you want no spoilers!
———- Asia-Pacific ———-
- Quarterfinal 1 - Alutemu vs lambyseries: VoD
- Quarterfinal 2 - Surrender vs GivePLZ: VoD
- Quarterfinal 3 - glory vs Shaxy: VoD
- Quarterfinal 4 - tom60229 vs TIZS: VoD
———- Europe ———-
- Quarterfinal 1 - Seiko vs Leta: VoD
- Quarterfinal 2 - Thijs vs Jarla: VoD
- Quarterfinal 3 - Bunnyhoppor vs Warma: VoD
- Quarterfinal 4 - Viper vs Casie: VoD
———- Americas ———-
Day 3 - Semifinals and Finals
Results
The results in full, including the preceding off-stream games, can be found here.
Discussion
The Grandmasters meta for this week was rather expected as Lunacy Mage, Secret Paladin, and Rogue in all forms were absolutely everywhere. At the other end of the spectrum were Warrior and Shaman with zero picks, the latter of which might find the situation quite familiar from preceding GM seasons. Over to you and your upcoming nerfs, Blizzard...
The weekend's matches contained some expectedly disgusting Deck of Lunacy highrolls and some less expected misplays and missed lethals.
The great results of the Japanese continued in APAC as practice partners glory and Alutemu reached the final with their identical lineups. Both players remained unbeaten before going head-to-head, with Alutemu coming up on top with a dominant 3-0 sweep. Europe's final had another unbeaten pair clash as Thijs and Viper battled for the important Grandmasters points. Viper's more aggressive lineup eventually fell just a bit short as Thijs was able to clutch a narrow 3-2 victory with his Control Warlock, a deck that was barely brought this week outside Europe. Americas saw the newcomer DreadEye reach the final unbeaten, but his Paladin ended up getting reverse swept by NoHandsGamer for a dramatic 3-2 win.
The winners of Week 1.
How did the newcomers fare in their first Grandmasters week? Each region had one promoted player in semifinals or better (GivePLZ, Leta, and DreadEye) as well as one player getting eliminated first in their group, leaving them with 0 points and no stream time (Hi3, Frenetic, and Impact). Fled and lambyseries, the first of whom brought the weekend's only lineup without Mage or Paladin, reached quarterfinals whereas Tincho got eliminated in the decider match of the initial group.
Grandmasters will continue next week with another round of Conquest. Don't forget to tune in!
Comments
I wonder what the win-rate for priest was, considering it was quite popular in GMs, but non-existent on ladder
The best I can do right now is to link L0rinda's stats from day 1, where Priest is at exactly 50% WR.
Thanks Frosty 🙃 I thought Priest was doing quite well from the matches I watched. Probably a difficult deck to play, seeing as it hasn't surged in popularity on ladder.
What a big scam this whole youtube drop thing is.
Everywhere people mentioning not getting their packs for watching the 2 / 4 hours (including me), it's been waaaay more than 48 hours.
I don't get it, why even do a promotion like this if your system is obviously not working?
I assume they've had a chance to deliver and change your mind by now? Still a pretty awkward system, all in all.
btw ... no drops :(
Same here. I connected my accounts, tuned in for 6 hours, waited 48 hrs, and... nothing.
Big ups to the man with no hands
And the Grandmaster plans
He likes electro-swing bands
And opens up cans....
....of whoop-ass.
Congrats NHG!