It's time for the first of three Masters Tour event, and this time we're heading to Las Vegas, Nevada. Over 350 players from Asia-Pacific, Americas and Europe regions gather to fight over three days for their share of the glory and the $500.000 prizepool (up from the initial $250.000 thanks to the community). Find out all the details below.
REMINDER: Don't forget to tune in as Twitch drops are active again. You'll get one Rise of Shadows pack for three-hour watch and another with six hours.
Masters Tour in a nutshell
- 200+ players through open qualifiers and some more through invites (Full player list for Las Vegas)
- Interested in trying out a qualifier yourself? Here's a guide I made some time ago.
- Three events this year: Americas (Las Vegas, June 14-16), Asia-Pacific (Seoul, August 16-18), and Europe (Bucharest, October 18-20)
- Best performing players of 2019 Masters Tour events are eligible for invites to the 2020 Hearthstone Grandmasters
Tournament format
- Specialist format is used throughout the tournament
- All games are played as Best-of-3, exclulding the finals which will be Best-of-5
- A total of 12 Swiss rounds, with Top 8 advancing to dual tournament format groups
- Day 1: 7 rounds of Swiss, players with 4 or more wins advancing to day 2
- Day 2: 5 rounds of Swiss and the initial matches of Top 8
- Day 3: The rest of Top 8 matches
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) | Japan JST (UTC+9) | |
| June 14 | 9:00 | 12:00 | 18:00 | 1:00 (June 15) |
| June 15 | 9:00 | 12:00 | 18:00 | 1:00 (June 16) |
| June 16 | 9:00 | 12:00 | 18:00 | 1:00 (June 17) |
Stream
You should be watching this through Twitch though so you'd get those packs, remember!
Comments
Oh my my, Lucky me ; I actually got the 2 RoS packs as well as a classic pack from having a twich tab open as I was AFK
I'm usually not lucky with those freebies
12 rounds of Swiss?! Whew, seems like a lot of Hearthstone. Is that comparable to large tournaments in other CCGs? I don't think the HCT ever had more than 7 rounds, and tournaments like DreamHack never had more than 9, but I'm not entirely sure.
I'm not complaining about more HS, and I suppose it's a good thing for players to be able to offset unlucky losses with more games, but 7 rounds is a lot to play in one day.
found an answer in the earlyer comment
Thank you so much for doing these guides. I'll let it slide that you forgot to mention that there would be some Warrior versus Warrior matches. LOL. Obviously, I'm totally joking around, because fortunately I could do something else while keeping the window with the live video running, you know how it was for me, I had a window where things were happening, and then a window where things were a little slow.
Reminder: Make sure to click away your inactive status on Twich every now and then.
Its the price to pay for free pack(s?)
Brackets for the tournament can be found here.
Take a look a few different pairs playing... It's like a deja'vu... Warrior vs Rogue or Warrior vs Warrior. Actually, it's a bit boring watching same decks over and over. I understand, that players choose the most efficient decks. But that's describe the current meta situation a lot.
Hee declists ???
Decklists weren't available at the time of writing. Should a public link to all of them exist, I'll add it to this post. We'll also add the top 8's decks to the site once the tournament progresses that far.
Shouldn't be as many since most of them will be almost identical aside from the sideboards
I love these guides. Use them most every event. Thanks for still doing them.