The first Grandmasters Season of 2022 continues! As the final year of the competition is a lot shorter than usual, this will be the last week of the regular season. You can find everything you need to know below.
This Week's Format
Every week will follow the same tournament format, with only the gameplay format changing.
- Best-of-five Last Hero Standing.
- 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 after this week, top 8 point earners of each region will advance to Playoffs.
To learn more about the competition format for 2022, check out the spoiler below.
Quote From Blizzard Season 1
During weeks 1-3, 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 week:
- Week 1: Conquest
- Week 2: Trio
- Week 3: Last Hero Standing
- Playoffs: Conquest
Season 2
Season 2, Grandmasters: Last Call, will feature the top four of each Season 1 region, joined by the top four players by Masters Tour Points from the last three Masters Tours of 2021 and the first three of 2022. This group will form a singular 16-player global region. The final four-week season will feature high-stakes matches, with the winner advancing to the 2022 World Championship.
Trio
Grandmasters is being retired in style, with an experimental new format! Joining Conquest and Last Hero Standing is the brand-new Trio. We are excited to see how the Trio format performs when played at the pro level and if well received then we’ll consider how to possibly implement it in other Hearthstone Esports tournaments. Here’s how the format works:
- Hearthstone Esports team will create 5 unique groups of three classes each.
- Groups may share one or two classes.
- Players will choose one of the groups.
- They’ll submit three-deck lineups that include each class within their selected group.
- Group selections will be private, without any knowledge of what other players have selected.
- Matches will be best-of-five, with each winning deck becoming unavailable for the rest of the match.
This Week's Pack Drops
The pack distribution follows similar guidelines than in the previous seasons:
- Grandmasters Week 1-3: Fractured in Alterac Valley (max 2 packs)
- Grandmasters Playoffs: Fractured in Alterac Valley (max 2 packs)
While the original blog suggested there would be only two packs in total for the first three weeks of the competition, everyone got two packs last week as well. Therefore everyone should be watching the stream this week again.
Stream Schedule
You can find the starting times of each region's streams below. The schedule is the same each day.
West Coast PST (UTC-8) | East Coast EST (UTC-5) | Europe CET (UTC+1) | Korea KST (UTC+9) | |
| Asia-Pacific | 2:00 | 5:00 | 11:00 | 19:00 |
| Europe | 7:00 | 10:00 | 16:00 | 24:00 |
| Americas | 12:00 | 15:00 | 21:00 | 5:00 |
You can find all the matches, results, and decklists (including the off-stream matches) on the official tournament site.
Asia-Pacific Grandmasters
AlanC86
Alutemu
Bankyugi
Che0nsu
DragonMan
GivePLZ
glory
grr
hyung
lambyseries
MegaGliscor
Mighty
okasinnsuke
posesi
Shaxy
trahison
Europe Grandmasters
Bunnyhoppor
Casie
Felkeine
Floki
Frenetic
Furyhunter
Gaby
J4YOU
Jarla
Leta
Rdu
Seiko
SuperFake
Viper
xBlyzes
ZloyGruzin
Americas Grandmasters
CaelesLuna
DimitriKazov
DreadEye
Fled
Fr0zen
GamerRvg
killinallday
languagehacker
LeandroLeal
lunaloveee
McBanterFace
Monsanto
Nalguidan
NoHandsGamer
Pascoa
Pun
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!
Comments
I've already get the 2 packs the first week, this week i've tried to get those "bonus" but nothing happened... i bet last week "bonus" was just a youtube mistake...
Funnily enough they've updated the original blog to say that every week should give you packs. I've definitely had the stream open for more than required as well but zero packs so far for the week. Hopefully they're just slow this time.
Wow, they made a true article about this! Well I hope i get some in the next days, too bad the 2nd week was a silent bonus and i missed it.
Also the page in my language is not updated yet (probably it won't be updated at all)
Edit: i got them!
Oh wow, that's the first time they've done that as I recall.
For those that haven't received yours yet -- I suspect that's everyone --, don't fret: the latest I've received packs for watching a GM/Masters Tour weekend event is on the following Tuesday.
Speaking of Masters Tour, the second one of the year (dubbed "Ruins of Alterac") is happening this weekend. Don't forget to tune in to get your packs!
Yeah, can confirm that I haven't gotten more packs after having gotten 2 from the 1st week. Dont think it'lll come too, its been 3 days after all.
Must be a typo, or they made a mistake on week 2. Can't imagine blizz getting too generous on purpose.
I didn't get any packs while I watched previous weekends... is there a cap maybe? do i need to somehow claim them from within Youtube?
EDIT: I found the cause of the issue... i was logged in with my old Youtube account with nickname, which isn't allowed to be connected to Battle.net. I had to manually switch to my Gmail Account in Youtube, which is connected with Battle.Net and gives the rewards.... I missed packs from 2 weekends in this way :(
I cant account for last week because I legit thought it wouldn't grant any more packs if you got it from the first week, but in general, make sure;
- Your battlenet account is connected with your youtube account
- You allow the youtube window to be 'active', which means you can't just let it run on a tab. Just open another window if you need to do something else.
- You don't mute youtube. Just mute the entire tab instead
You'll usually get the packs instantly after fulfilling the hours requirement. Usually. Otherwise, be prepared to wait at least a day or two.