The Hearthstone esports year begins with the first Masters Tour event this weekend, and we'll kick things off in Arlington, Texas. Over 350 players from all regions gather to compete for their share of the glory and the $250.000 minimum prize pool (which will be increasing with the Dragon Masters esports bundle). The stakes are high as, in addition to the prize money, the players are fighting for the chance of getting invited to Hearthstone Grandmasters at the end of Season 1. Who has found the perfect way of utilizing the new adventure's cards and takes home the trophy? Tune in to find out!
Tournament Format
- All games are played as Best-of-5 Conquest.
- 4 decks with 1 ban.
- A total of 9 Swiss rounds, with Top 8 advancing.
- Day 1: 5 rounds of Swiss, players with 3 or more wins advancing to day 2.
- Day 2: The remaining 4 rounds of Swiss.
- Day 3: Top 8 single elimination bracket.
Notable Players
Plenty of well-known players here as all Grandmasters have been invited (with one exception) in addition to a lot of other experienced tournament-dwellers. The full list of invited players can be found here.
BoarControl
Bunnyhoppor
Eddie
Firebat
Justsaiyan
Monsanto
Muzzy
Orange
Purple
Rdu
Surrender
Tom60229
Tyler
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 PST (UTC-8) | East Coast EST (UTC-5) | Europe CET (UTC+1) | Korea KST (UTC+9) | |
| January 31 | 7:00 | 10:00 | 16:00 | 24:00 |
| February 1 | 7:00 | 10:00 | 16:00 | 24:00 |
| February 2 | 7:00 | 10:00 | 16:00 | 24:00 |
Stream
No more Twitch as Blizzard moved their esports streams on Youtube.
Comments
The tournament brackets can be found here. We'll add the decks of top 8 to the site later on.
Ugh, gotta remember to go to YouTube now. I hope their Google paycheck was worth it.
Its always a little strange how grandmasters gets to join masters tournament.
Still, rooting for Orange to get his place back.
Thijs will not participate in tournament.
That seems to be true. Blizzard only gave links to the list of invited players which is never the true participant list. There were around 360 invites and now that battlefy has the stats, 258 participants.
We sent out a tweet and Facebook post 40 minutes before this article was published and so it was unaccessible. That was my fault since I did the scheduling on this article and for that, I apologize!