Hearthstone Tournament Poll

nesf

Please do not answer unless you are willing to play. We're deciding on format so I'm going to ask two questions (I'm sorry, I can't do two separate polls without two separate threads and I don't want to clutter the forum).

Question 1: Would you prefer fast tournaments (say 3 days to play your game per round) with switching between formats or would you prefer 3 slower tournaments at once (say a week per round) where we play different formats in each. Tick what you'd be happy with, so ticking both is fine.

Question 2: What kind of formats would you be happy to play, this is about card restrictions. Ideally we want a mix of restricted and very little or no restriction to cater for both newbies and experienced players. Hopefully people will be willing to play both types even if their win chance is low or the format not exciting for them.

The poll is public for obvious reasons.

Seifer

Limits on Legendaries.

I voted for no card restrictions but I'm happy to play other formats too. In fact drafting with certain rules could add a bit of a challenge.

DeSelby83

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

I voted for fast games and limit on leg and rares but to be honest i dont mind if we have to include them. This game is a good laugh and im not particularly good at it but its a lot if fun to play

Big Knox

Limits on Legendaries.

Voted for no restrictions as the card pool is small enough as it is but if the majority don't have access to much more than commons and rares I'm happy to go with the vote.

nesf

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

Ok, I'm calling it. I flipped a coin and it came up No Restrictions for the first tournament. The next tournament, if this one goes well, will have some restrictions on Legendaries (we can discuss what would be good here).

People can sign up here: http://challonge.com/boardshearth1

It would be nice if people signed up for tournaments even if they're not their preferred format since we don't seem to be overflowing with players.

(Anyone who currently is signed up above can drop out if they don't want to be in this one)

Big Knox

Limits on Legendaries.

nesf wrote: »

Ok, I'm calling it. I flipped a coin and it came up No Restrictions for the first tournament. The next tournament, if this one goes well, will have some restrictions on Legendaries (we can discuss what would be good here).

People can sign up here: http://challonge.com/boardshearth1

It would be nice if people signed up for tournaments even if they're not their preferred format since we don't seem to be overflowing with players.

(Anyone who currently is signed up above can drop out if they don't want to be in this one)

I'll sign up later today, on my phone at the moment. Hopefully we can get at least 8.

Xyo

Limits on Legendaries.

I can't for the life of me see where I'm supposed to sign up for the tournie? can anyone point it out

nesf

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

I'm a moron, try this link: http://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/2RZyzsP1XU

The other one works if you've an account already I think but the one above should be more straightforward.

Xyo

Limits on Legendaries.

nesf wrote: »

I'm a moron, try this link: http://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/2RZyzsP1XU

The other one works if you've an account already I think but the one above should be more straightforward.

Signed up now! very excite!

nesf

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

Big Knox wrote: »

I'll sign up later today, on my phone at the moment. Hopefully we can get at least 8.

If we don't make 8 by tomorrow I'll try and rope in a few players I know from my World of Tanks clan who play.

DeSelby83

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

I signed up anyway, I'll make up numbers

Big Knox

Limits on Legendaries.

I forgot to ask. Are we doing standard HS 3 deck elimination or just an easier 1 deck 1 game knockout?

Seifer

Limits on Legendaries.

I imagine a simpler format would be one deck but best of 3 each round; maybe best of 5 for the final.
There is way too much randomness involved for the rounds to be just one game.

Nody

Limits on Legendaries and Epics.

Signed up as well but as we're at 9 I'll happily sit out to make the brackets work (saves me the hassle to decide which deck I want to run, I'm tempted to try to craft a warrior pirate deck now that I've unlocked all the pirate cards...)

I think going the 3 deck style would be overkill at this stage; it require people to have most, if not all, epics and ideally a few legendaries of the right type to work out well.

Anyone

Limits on Legendaries.

Can I propose a "No Murloc" rule?

DeSelby83

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

can we get a few days notice of when this is going to start, just so we can set aside some time for it.

Seifer

Limits on Legendaries.

DeSelby83 wrote: »

can we get a few days notice of when this is going to start, just so we can set aside some time for it.

Well I presume players will have a few days to complete each round. So it'll be up to the two players that are matched to get their game played in time.

Nody

Limits on Legendaries and Epics.

Anyone wrote: »

Can I propose a "No Murloc" rule?

But Murlocks have the best voice effects :P (Besides you can build rush decks with most classes anyway with or with out murlocs)

nesf

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

Best of 3 is good I think, best of 1 is a bad idea when we're not very time constrained.

3 decks would be problematic for what Nody says, someone might have one solid deck and then two awkward ones. However we could do a sideboard tournament and allow a person to bring two decks or one deck + listed cards for swapping in and out? I think that's more interesting than restricting people to just one deck but doesn't screw over people who lack the epics/legendaries to make good decks for classes other than their main.

Thoughts?


Oh, and Nody, if it's not filled I'll poke one of the lads to join us.

nesf

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

DeSelby83 wrote: »

can we get a few days notice of when this is going to start, just so we can set aside some time for it.

There will be notice, I want to finish the brackets this week but I'll give people a few days to swap battletags and chat to their opponents in the first round (i.e. this will weed out anyone who isn't going to be active enough at the start and save us some hassle). Also you'll have 3 or 4 days to get your games in.

Xyo

Limits on Legendaries.

nesf wrote: »

There will be notice, I want to finish the brackets this week but I'll give people a few days to swap battletags and chat to their opponents in the first round (i.e. this will weed out anyone who isn't going to be active enough at the start and save us some hassle). Also you'll have 3 or 4 days to get your games in.

So sorry can you clarify?.. is it one deck and best of three games?

Kirby

Limits on Legendaries.

Signed up.

nesf

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

Xyo wrote: »

So sorry can you clarify?.. is it one deck and best of three games?

Definitely best of 3.

It's going to be one deck with people allowed to declare 10 cards (potentially 20 cards of a deck) they can switch in if they choose to. Unless someone has a good argument against this? I think 10 is big enough to allow pretty major changes if people feel they need them and allow for more reactive play than just going back into another game against a deck that perfectly counters yours.

Actually, just to make it simple, everyone declares their Hero. They must play this Hero for all rounds of the tournament. They are however allowed change cards in their decks either between games in each round or between rounds without declaring this.

We have 10, so we're going to start as soon as people have posted up their Hero and Battle Tag.

nesf

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

Boidhre#2670 - Druid

Kirby

Limits on Legendaries.

HokemPokem#2837 - Paladin.

Big Knox

Limits on Legendaries.

De7rag #2482 - Druid

nesf

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

Big Knox wrote: »

De7rag #2482 - Druid

Gah, Druid mirror match-up is annoying. :P

Nody

Limits on Legendaries and Epics.

Well to pick something not used so much (and that I've never played competatively) I'll go with Warrior.

Taylor365

Limits on Legendaries and Epics.

I would have joined this but sure

Anyone recording games?

Tar.Aldarion

Limits on Legendaries and Epics.

Will post My Id this evening

JaffOs

Limits on Legendaries and Epics.

nesf wrote: »

Definitely best of 3.

It's going to be one deck with people allowed to declare 10 cards (potentially 20 cards of a deck) they can switch in if they choose to. Unless someone has a good argument against this? I think 10 is big enough to allow pretty major changes if people feel they need them and allow for more reactive play than just going back into another game against a deck that perfectly counters yours.

Actually, just to make it simple, everyone declares their Hero. They must play this Hero for all rounds of the tournament. They are however allowed change cards in their decks either between games in each round or between rounds without declaring this.

We have 10, so we're going to start as soon as people have posted up their Hero and Battle Tag.

If we are going one hero I will need to check out my cards first, still new so I expected to get rolled every game (heartstone down at the moment)

Only got one legendary which is the worst one and the odd rare, things are going to be rough

Big Knox

Limits on Legendaries.

nesf wrote: »

Gah, Druid mirror match-up is annoying. :P

Yep definitely but have been playing nothing but Arena the last 2 weeks and want to test a new deck I've being putting together for constructed so no better time!!

DeSelby83

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

I'll have to check my deck too and build one. I have no idea what cards i have. I'll get on it

Seifer

Limits on Legendaries.

Will post mine this evening too.

Just to be clear; is it a knockout tournament or a league type thing where everyone plays everyone (that's the way it looks like it's set up on challonge.com)?

Xyo

Limits on Legendaries.

Sefrian#2780 rogue

nesf

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

Taylor365 wrote: »

I would have joined this but sure

Anyone recording games?

I can make the tournament 12 easily if another person wants to play. I just want even numbers.

nesf

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

Seifer wrote: »

Will post mine this evening too.

Just to be clear; is it a knockout tournament or a league type thing where everyone plays everyone (that's the way it looks like it's set up on challonge.com)?

It's Swiss, not knockout. Each round people play people with similar points to them if they haven't played before, at the end the person with the highest points is the winner. Swiss means people can get more games in, hopefully against people of similar level after the first two rounds have sorted people out and not just the one where they drew the strongest player in the first round and had no hope. Knock-out is good at top level for simplicity, here I'm not sure it's the best idea. Mathematically Swiss is preferable to Single Elimination anyway if you want to find the strongest player in a group of participants.

Seifer

Limits on Legendaries.

Fastpaws#2522 - Rogue

Nody

Limits on Legendaries and Epics.

Nody#2214 - Warrior as noted earlier :P

Nody

Limits on Legendaries and Epics.

nesf - Boidhre#2670 - Druid
Kirby - HokemPokem#2837 - Paladin
Big Knox - De7rag #2482 - Druid
Tar.Aldarion -
JaffOs -
DeSelby83 -
Xyo - Sefrian#2780 rogue
Seifer - Fastpaws#2522 - Rogue
Nody - Nody#2214 - Warrior
Anyone -

nesf

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

Ok, the tournament is ready to start, I'm just waiting on people to declare their heroes.

Anyone

Limits on Legendaries.

I will pick Shaman. ID is Anyone#2535

Seifer

Limits on Legendaries.

nesf wrote: »

Ok, the tournament is ready to start, I'm just waiting on people to declare their heroes.

What's the rule on disconnections? Hearthstone is flakey as fúck.
I propose that if there is a DC the "winner" can agree to a replay of the match at their discretion.

nesf

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

Seifer wrote: »

What's the rule on disconnections? Hearthstone is flakey as fúck.
I propose that if there is a DC the "winner" can agree to a replay of the match at their discretion.

We can let people discuss it themselves. If there's a dispute I will settle it. I wouldn't want people to win on a DC when they were on 1 Health and just a Loot Horder in hand with nothing for them on the board. If there the game was still in the balance though I think a replay is better.

Thoughts?

Taylor365

Limits on Legendaries and Epics.

Legend #2173 - Warrior

Seifer

Limits on Legendaries.

nesf wrote: »

We can let people discuss it themselves. If there's a dispute I will settle it. I wouldn't want people to win on a DC when they were on 1 Health and just a Loot Horder in hand with nothing for them on the board. If there the game was still in the balance though I think a replay is better.

Thoughts?

Seems fair; we're all a friendly bunch here I'm sure anyway

Tar.Aldarion

Limits on Legendaries and Epics.

TarAldarion#2866 Priest

nesf

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

nesf - Boidhre#2670 - Druid
Kirby - HokemPokem#2837 - Paladin
Big Knox - De7rag #2482 - Druid
Tar.Aldarion - TarAldarion#2866 - Priest
JaffOs - JaffO#2373 - Hunter
DeSelby83 -
Xyo - Sefrian#2780 rogue
Seifer - Fastpaws#2522 - Rogue
Nody - Nody#2214 - Warrior
Anyone - Anyone#2535 - Shaman
Taylor365 - Legend #2173 - Warrior
Caradoc - Caradoc#2429 - Shaman

The bracket is set: http://challonge.com/boardshearth1

People can play their games if they want to, I won't start the "4 days to play" until the missing details above are sorted.

JaffOs

Limits on Legendaries and Epics.

Crap, hunter i guess JaffO#2373

nesf

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

nesf - Boidhre#2670 - Druid
Kirby - HokemPokem#2837 - Paladin
Big Knox - De7rag #2482 - Druid
Tar.Aldarion - TarAldarion#2866 - Priest
JaffOs - JaffO#2373 - Hunter
DeSelby83 -
Xyo - Sefrian#2780 rogue
Seifer - Fastpaws#2522 - Rogue
Nody - Nody#2214 - Warrior
Anyone - Anyone#2535 - Shaman
Taylor365 - Legend #2173 - Warrior
Caradoc - Caradoc#2429 - Shaman

Updated list.

DeSelby83

All Class cards minus Legendaries plus some Rares.

Sorry for delay, will update my battlenet name when i get to computer in the morning