The Eurogamer Summer Hearthstone Tournament™ • Gaming • General Gaming • Eurogamer.net

Benno 27 Jun 2014 11:03:52 11,854 posts
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Its over! Congrats to Rodpad for winning the inaugural EG Summer Hearthstone Tournament!

Thanks for taking part guys!

Okay guys, I have RNGed everyone into pairs (see below), and made a few alterations to the initially proposed rules to make things a little more fun. Make contact with your partner and arrange a game whenever convenient for both of you (but try and do it within a week or so!). A full list of participating players can be found below, complete with forum alias and battletag. Please read the rules carefully

Rules
- best out of 5 games
- use any deck you like (no Naxxramas cards) for the first game
- for subsequent games, the winner of the previous game must keep the deck they won with
- again, if you win a game, you must use your previous deck in the next game. If you lost the previous game, use any deck you like
- sort out disconnects between yourselves (i.e. do you need to replay the game, or was it already over?)
- the winner of each matchup needs to tell me the final score over EG PM, or the thread

Stakes are high!

Edited by Benno at 09:08:02 29-07-2014

Rodpad 27 Jun 2014 11:06:59 2,997 posts
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o/

MrTomFTW Moderator 27 Jun 2014 11:09:19 47,501 posts
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Stickying this mofo, cos I like a bit of competitiveness amongst the community

Benno 27 Jun 2014 11:11:47 11,854 posts
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Roddles wrote:
o/

Set an example and post your battletag!

Rodpad 27 Jun 2014 11:14:13 2,997 posts
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Whoops.

Rodpad#2931

IJ 27 Jun 2014 11:19:24 1,028 posts
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Great idea!

Battle tag: rowljoh#2624

Edited by IJ at 14:21:16 27-06-2014

faux-C 27 Jun 2014 11:22:38 11,204 posts
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Me me me!

fauxc#2216

THFourteen 27 Jun 2014 11:28:16 54,987 posts
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I'm in, THFourteen#2171

I'll also donate £10 to the prize, maybe we could split it 25%/75% for 2nd place / 1st place in that case?

Edited by THFourteen at 21:56:52 10-07-2014

Benno 27 Jun 2014 11:29:20 11,854 posts
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THFourteen wrote:

I'll also donate £10 to the prize, maybe we could split it 25%/75% for 2nd place / 1st place in that case?

Yep good idea!

opalw00t 27 Jun 2014 11:31:02 12,836 posts
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I'm in! Will add battletag later.

BeheretiK 27 Jun 2014 11:45:51 922 posts
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I'm in, battletag BeheretiK#2404. Also happy to donate £10 so maybe get a 3rd place in there as well. Seems better and can be split £15/£10/£5 then. Unless someone else donates as well in which case I will just leave it to Benno to decide!

THFourteen 27 Jun 2014 11:48:25 54,987 posts
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BeheretiK wrote:
I'm in, battletag BeheretiK#2404. Also happy to donate £10 so maybe get a 3rd place in there as well. Seems better and can be split £15/£10/£5 then. Unless someone else donates as well in which case I will just leave it to Benno to decide!

Works for me, the lower the prize comes the more chance I have of getting one... How about a wooden spoon hehe

Benno 27 Jun 2014 11:50:15 11,854 posts
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BeheretiK wrote:
I'm in, battletag BeheretiK#2404. Also happy to donate £10 so maybe get a 3rd place in there as well. Seems better and can be split £15/£10/£5 then. Unless someone else donates as well in which case I will just leave it to Benno to decide!

lets call it 15%/25%/60% as it would be nice to have quite a top heavy winners bonus! 3rd place will be able to get a pint out of it, I'm sure

BeheretiK 27 Jun 2014 11:52:11 922 posts
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Works for me. Not like I will see any of that money anyway! :-)

Gl3n Moderator 27 Jun 2014 13:28:41 6,901 posts
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I'm in

Gl3n#2781

I will bung in my spare Half Life 2 steam key and another tenner.

Edited by Gl3n at 13:30:57 27-06-2014

Mugwum Director of Audience Development, Greenlit Content 27 Jun 2014 13:51:22 625 posts
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I'm in! I'll kick in a tenner as well. How are we going to handle that? PayPal?

My battletag is Brrrammers#2813.

wyp100 Deputy Editor, Eurogamer.net 27 Jun 2014 13:56:15 41 posts
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I'm in and I'm good for a tenner.

wyp100#1704

Nice work!

Rodpad 27 Jun 2014 14:10:12 2,997 posts
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Uh oh. Trumpslayer is in.

Benno 27 Jun 2014 14:10:35 11,854 posts
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Mugwum wrote:
I'm in! I'll kick in a tenner as well. How are we going to handle that? PayPal?

My battletag is Brrrammers#2813.

PM me and I will reply with email for Paypal

Benno 27 Jun 2014 14:14:33 11,854 posts
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£60 prize fund, stakes are getting pretty high

might need to do some serious deck building theorycraft!

I wonder what the intra-tournament meta game will be like - hope its not a murloc fest

MrTomFTW Moderator 27 Jun 2014 14:14:47 47,501 posts
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And Benno was never seen again

Benno 27 Jun 2014 14:17:04 11,854 posts
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We can put a more well trusted forumite like Fruit_Salad to act as escrow perhaps?

THFourteen 27 Jun 2014 14:18:38 54,987 posts
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The winner has to buy 40 packs with his winnings and live-stream the opening on EG!

ResidentKnievel 27 Jun 2014 15:22:38 7,679 posts
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Yesss, so in.

ResiKesi#2902

I'll donate a tenner, too, I'll PM you.

wyp100 Deputy Editor, Eurogamer.net 27 Jun 2014 15:44:06 41 posts
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@Roddles you are not prepared

ResidentKnievel 27 Jun 2014 16:22:01 7,679 posts
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If we don't have a number of players equal to a power of 2 we'll probably have to do group stages, anyway, or some double elimination style thingy-me-do.

ResidentKnievel 27 Jun 2014 16:23:14 7,679 posts
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Benno wrote:
£60 prize fund, stakes are getting pretty high

might need to do some serious deck building theorycraft!

I wonder what the intra-tournament meta game will be like - hope its not a murloc fest

That Hungry Crab anti-meta

Benno 27 Jun 2014 16:39:35 11,854 posts
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ResidentKnievel wrote:
If we don't have a number of players equal to a power of 2 we'll probably have to do group stages, anyway, or some double elimination style thingy-me-do.

Yes will have to keep an eye on that. We have 12 people so far, if we can try and get 32 players, that would be wonderful.

Mekanik 27 Jun 2014 17:24:53 4,729 posts
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I`m up for this.

Mek#2512

I`m in Norway for the next few weeks with work but the missus has kindly (unknowingly so far) donated her ipad so i can hearthstone while away!

I`ll donate once i figure out some way of doing so