The Hearthstone Esports year continues with the fifth Masters Tour event, this time taking place online in "Stormwind". Over 400 players from all regions will compete for their share of the glory, $250,000 prize pool, and the prospect of getting an invitation to Hearthstone Grandmasters. You can find everything you need to know below.
YouTube Drops Return
This is a reminder that YouTube Drops have returned!
- Watch 2 Hours of Masters Tour Stormwind to earn 1 Year of the Phoenix Pack.
- Watch another 2 Hours of Masters Tour Stormwind to earn 1 more Year of the Phoenix Pack.
You must be logged in on YouTube and have your Battle.net account connected to earn YouTube Drops. You can find further instructions in the spoiler below.
Quote From Blizzard YouTube Drops Return!
You can earn up to two Year of the Phoenix card packs this weekend as you watch Masters Tour Silvermoon! On any of the above YouTube channels, watch two total hours to receive one pack and two more hours for your second. Time watched is cumulative throughout the weekend, so even if you can’t watch for the full four hours in one sitting your time will still count toward earning the Drops.
Connecting Your Accounts
Before you can receive rewards, you’ll need to link your YouTube and Blizzard Battle.net accounts. Here’s how:
- Log in or create an account on YouTube.
- Navigate to Account Sharing under “Connected Apps” in Settings.
- Select “Connect” next to Battle.net.
- Follow the simple prompts to finish connecting accounts.
- When connecting accounts, be sure that you’re currently logged into the Blizzard account on which you’d like to receive your Drops.
Tournament Format
The Masters Tour format has changed a little bit from the first three events of the year as the Swiss has been shortened from the previous nine rounds.
- All games are still played as Best-of-5 Conquest.
- 4 decks with 1 ban.
- A total of eight Swiss rounds, with Top 16 advancing to single elimination.
- Day 1: Four rounds of Swiss.
- Day 2: The remaining four rounds of Swiss.
- Day 3: Top 16 single elimination bracket.
Notable Attendees
All Grandmasters have been invited to the event but we've had their images up on our weekly posts, so it's time for others to have the limelight! The full list of invited players can be found here.
Caimiao
DeadDraw
Dizdemon
Faeli
Furyhunter
Kranich
Leaoh
Maverick
OmegaZero
Orange
Pascoa
Syf
Tincho
Tredsred
Turna
XC
Stream Schedule
In case your timezone isn't listed below, check out the sidebar on the official tournament site. It should display the schedule in your local time.
West Coast PDT (UTC-7) | East Coast EDT (UTC-4) | Europe CEST (UTC+2) | Korea KST (UTC+9) | |
| October 22 | 6:00 | 9:00 | 15:00 | 22:00 |
| October 23 | 6:00 | 9:00 | 15:00 | 22:00 |
| October 24 | 6:00 | 9:00 | 15:00 | 22:00 |
Streams
This tournament will be streamed on the Hearthstone Esports Youtube channel, as accustomed. Don't forget that Youtube Drops have returned to Masters Tour events, so you should watch at least 4 hours while logged in!
Comments
It really is so carp. I queued up/played the stream before it started because I was going out. Came back and it was playing some 2017 final.
If they don't move back to twitch and build that tournament mode, then RIP HS esports.
Even with drops on, there's only 400 people watching. A single twitch streamer gets more than that.
There was some kind of network problem and when the stream died YouTube's player decided to automatically switch to a VoD of a different tournament instead of waiting for the stream to come back.
I think they must have realized long ago that their streams did much better on Twitch, but Google paid to have HS esports as a YouTube exclusive and that contract likely hasn't run out yet.
I ran into that issue as well, but I assure you it's an unusual one. Still doesn't excuse the mess. I always left the broadcasts on before without any trouble.
In this case it looks like the HSEsports channel had some technical issues halfway through (it also kept disabling the "live" function for me). It even broke down at some point, the numbers went down greatly. The main Hearthstone channel broadcast seemed to be more stable later on. And yes, it's strange they have multiple broadcasts like that, but each does get at least several thousand viewers. Yet far from the greatness we'd like to see.
Thanks! I never knew there were drops in this thing! I would've missed them if it were for you!
Too bad they are Year of the Phoenix packs, I don't know why they don't give latest expansion packs in this things.
"Oh hey, Youtube packs, why do I never go for those?"
*remembers that Youtube forces you to basically dox yourself to connect accounts*
"oh yeah, that's why"
Thanks Frosty - I'd miss a lot of free packs if OOC wasn't great at letting me know this stuff is happening.