The first Grandmasters Season of 2021 continues! We've reached the final week before Playoffs and the pressure is high as the players are fighting for their survival as well as a spot in the top 8. You can find everything you need to know below.
This Week's Format
This year every week will follow the same tournament format, with only the gameplay format changing.
- Best-of-five Conquest.
- 4 Dual Elimination groups with top 2 players advancing (only Decider matches streamed on Fridays).
- Top 8 play through a single-elimination bracket to decide the winner.
Players will be gaining points based on their performance, and at the end of the seven-week period, top 8 point earners of each region will advance to Playoffs while the bottom 4 will be relegated from Grandmasters. You can find the current points standings here.
For the entire competition format for 2021, check out the spoiler below.
Quote From Blizzard Weeks 1-7: Weekly Dual Tournaments
During weeks 1-7, players will compete in a Weekly Dual Tournament format, starting each Thursday, to earn placement in the weekend Top 8 Stage. Players will receive points based on total number of wins each week, which will determine final standings before Playoffs.
- All 16 players in each region will compete against each other off-broadcast in Dual Tournament Group play on Thursday.
- On Friday, the 4 Decider Matches will be played to determine who joins the Top 8 per region, live on YouTube.
- The Top 8 players compete in a single-elimination tournament on Saturday, with the Top 4 advancing to Sunday.
- Gameplay format changes every other week:
- Week 1: Conquest
- Week 2: Conquest
- Week 3: Specialist
- Week 4: Specialist
- Week 5: Last Hero Standing
- Week 6: Last Hero Standing
- Week 7: Conquest
Week 8: Playoffs
The Dual Tournaments lead into Week 8 Playoffs, which will qualify one player per region to receive an invite to the World Championship at the end of the year, while four players from each region will be relegated.
- Top 8 players advance to Playoffs.
- Players 9 – 12 are safe from Relegation but are finished with tournament play for the season.
- Bottom 4 players in each region are automatically Relegated.
- The winner of Playoffs from each region are given a chance to compete in the 2021 World Championship. Season 1 champions retain their invites to the World Championship if they are not Relegated in Season 2. Relegated Champions have their invites passed down to the next eligible player, in their region, from Season 1.
Stream Schedule
You can find the starting times of each region's streams below. The schedule is the same each day.
West Coast PDT (UTC-7) | East Coast EDT (UTC-4) | Europe CEST (UTC+2) | Korea KST (UTC+9) | |
| Asia-Pacific | 2:00 | 5:00 | 11:00 | 18:00 |
| Europe | 7:00 | 10:00 | 16:00 | 23:00 |
| Americas | 12:00 | 15:00 | 21:00 | 4:00 |
You can find all the matches, results, and decklists (including the off-stream matches) on the official tournament site.
Asia-Pacific Grandmasters
Alutemu
Bankyugi
blitzchung
Che0nsu
DawN
GivePLZ
glory
Hi3
lambyseries
posesi
Shaxy
Surrender
TIZS
Tom60229
Tyler
Europe Grandmasters
AyRoK
Bozzzton
Bunnyhoppor
Casie
Felkeine
Frenetic
Jarla
Leta
Rdu
Seiko
Swidz
Viper
Warma
xBlyzes
Zhym
Americas Grandmasters
Briarthorn
DreadEye
Eddie
Fled
Fr0zen
Impact
killinallday
languagehacker
lunaloveee
Monsanto
Muzzy
Nalguidan
NoHandsGamer
Rami94
Tincho
Watch Live
You can watch all the action on the official Hearthstone Esports Youtube channel. Don't forget that you should be following the games on Youtube while logged in for those sweet pack drops if you didn't do so during the last five weeks already!
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Comments
For those that wish to see how things evolve:
Only players in a realistic danger of getting relegated are considered.
* relegation already certain ** still playing and can earn more points
Only players in a realistic danger of getting relegated are considered. Players with equal amount of points have been ordered by tiebreakers.
* relegation already certain ** still playing and can earn more points
Who needs what:
As a reminder, here is the updated schedule of events and rewards:
Grandmasters Week 1 (April 9 – 11) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packsGrandmasters Week 2 (April 16 – April 18) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *Grandmasters Week 3 (April 23 – April 25) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *Masters Tour Orgrimmar (April 30 – May 2) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packsGrandmasters Week 4 (May 7 – May 9) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *Battlegrounds Brawl: Battle of the Boars (May 12) : 2 Forged in the Barrens packsGrandmasters Week 5 (May 14 – May 16) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *Grandmasters Week 6 (May 21 – May 23) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *(Those marked with an * are shared rewards, i.e. you can only get 2 Year of the Phoenix packs at most from all those weeks altogether)
Are there any more packs up for grabs this week?
No packs if you already got two during Week 2 or later. Playoffs begin next week, and then there will be two new packs for everyone to grab.
For those that wish to see who plays when:
(*on a relegation spot, needs to win one or more matches)
Eliminated on Thursday, no stream time:
Deciders on Friday:
Straight to Saturday by winning initial group:
Thanks. Are Zhym and Swidz's relegation confirmed? I mean, isn't Ayrok technically only 1 point below Zhym and 2 points below Swidz?
If Ayrok loses to Frenetic, then he'll have only 6 points right?
Yes, the duo cannot get more points this week which will leave them to bottom 4 regardless of other results. AyRoK needs a big performance for sure, but he could still mathematically get to safety (although is likely to need help from other players with that). For reference, the current (after Thursday's matches) cut-off is 8 points, with Bunny in risk of relegation by tiebreakers.
I can add a small, updated relegation table here in the comments should you find that helpful.