The second Grandmasters Season of 2022 continues! 16 players will be delving into the post-balance change Castle Nathria meta in the hope of gathering enough points to reach the Playoffs. 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. Contrary to previous seasons, all matches will be shown on stream.
- Best-of-five Last Hero Standing.
- 4 Dual Elimination groups with top 2 players advancing.
- 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 three-week period, top 8 point earners will advance to Playoffs.
To learn more about the competition format, check out the spoiler below.
Quote From Blizzard Grandmasters: Last Call
During weeks 1-3, players will be separated into four groups for dual-tournament play. Unlike in previous GM seasons, all matches will occur live on broadcast. The two winners of each group will then play on Sundays. Players will receive points based on total number of wins each week, which will determine final standings before the Playoffs. The new weekly groups will be posted to the Hearthstone Esports twitter!
- Groups A and C will play first on days 1 and 2 and will always feature Asia-Pacific competitors.
- Groups B and D will play last on days 1 and 2 and always include the Americas competitors.
- The two winners of each group will form a top 8 that will play single-elimination matches to determine the weekly winner.
- Gameplay format changes every week:
- Week 1: Best of 5 Conquest
- Week 2: Trio
- Week 3: Last Hero Standing
- Playoffs: Best of 7 Conquest
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
In this final season of Grandmasters, there will be 2 packs available every week! As usual, you'll need to watch 2 hours to get one pack and another two to get the second one.
- Grandmasters Week 1-3 & Playoffs: Murder at Castle Nathria (max 2 packs each week)
Stream Schedule
Due to the different structure of the competition there are no regional streams and the daily streams have varying starting hours.
West Coast PDT (UTC-7) | East Coast EDT (UTC-4) | Europe CEST (UTC+2) | Korea KST (UTC+9) | |
| Friday | 2:00 | 5:00 | 11:00 | 18:00 |
| Saturday | 2:00 | 5:00 | 11:00 | 18:00 |
| Sunday | 3:00 | 6:00 | 12:00 | 19:00 |
You can find all the matches, results, and decklists (including the off-stream matches) on the official tournament site.
Last Call Grandmasters
Bunnyhoppor
Che0nsu
DimitriKazov
Fled
Furyhunter
Habugabu
Judgement
levik
Mighty
okasinnsuke
Pascoa
posesi
Pun
SuperFake
xBlyzes
ZloyGruzin
Watch Live
You can watch all the action on the official Hearthstone YouTube channel. Don't forget that you should be following the games on YouTube while logged in for those sweet pack drops!
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Comments
Pretty sure Ive watched 3 hours of GM so far, still no pack.
Anyone with the same problem?
Just adding my two cents. No packs here after what has to be five hours plus.
Same here, for what it’s worth
2 packs have been delivered, finally.
Here too - this morning.
still nothing here :(
There is some delay for YT streams usually.
I assume its the same this week. I personally had no problems getting from the previous weeks.
Its actually been consistently dropping it to me after each 2 hours in the past, which is why its surprising that it didn't this time.
Did you get yours after 2 hours?
Going from the past 9 months, I would say I usually get the packs the same day, sometimes right away, like you. There were one of two exceptions when I got the packs the next day, or even on Monday.
In other words, I wouldn't get worried yet if I were you.
Same here, I would normally "watch" the first four hours and close the stream right afterwards because the packs were received almost instantly. Today however, no packs to be seen yet after 5+ hours now. Strange.
Not yet. Though I'm not worried since they're usually delayed for me.
Bye Jia :(
Hope they pick Edel to fill Jia's shoes.
Some context: https://twitter.com/jiadee_/status/1560189424394190850
With Sottle increasing his involvement on the production side and Jia leaving, there's certainly a big gap to fill in terms of "strategic analysts" for casters.
Out of the guest casters they've used in recent months (Dragonrider, hunterace, Edelweiss, Jambre, etc.), Edelweiss is certainly the one who's come closest to fill that role, although I find her a bit 'stiff' -- I think she'll be fine if they give her the chance to get some experience at the casting desk.
P.S. I hope they do something to send her off properly, like a short retrospective segment on Sunday or during next week.