IEL Hearthstone Mixed Triples Tournament

A beginner-friendly team tournament with new formats.

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August 3, 2016, 6pm PT/9pm ET

Join us for a Mixed Triples Exhibition tournament, exploring several community formats for Hearthstone. This is a chance for both league players and new entrants to experiment with our new format. We encourage you to bring your friends.

Hang out in our Discord group while you play.

Teams

Teams are 3 people. Each person on your team will play 1 game per match. Winning 2 out of 3 games wins the match.
For this tournament, players will register individually and we will assign teams balanced by experience level.
You can spectate your teammates and coach them during the games, but obviously, you may not spectate opponents.
Teams may not use a hero class more than once per match. (i.e. Each of your three players must use a deck from a different class during the best of 3 match.)
Winning teams should take screenshots of their victories to validate in the case of a dispute.

Formats

The formats for the 3 games in each match are chosen from 5 possible formats:

Tavern Brawl,
Commons,
C4,
Standard, and
Wild.

Each team will veto one format, with the higher seeded team announcing first, leaving 3 formats for the match. Each format will be played by 1 of your 3 players for their single game against an opponent. Your team may decide which player plays which format.

Simultaneous Announcement of Player Assignments

Once the 3 formats have been determined, each team posts a message to the dropbox channel in Discord with their lineup: {format, player, hero} x 3. Once both teams have submitted, they share their choices with the other team. Admins can check the dropbox submissions upon request. Deviation from submission will result in a forfeit.

Example Match

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Team Alpha is seeded higher so they will ban first. They choose to veto Wild, because no one on their team has a strong Wild deck. Team Bravo then decides to veto Tavern Brawl, because they don’t like the randomness. That means this match will be best of 3 games: one Commons, one C4, and one Standard.

Team Alpha decides that their most experienced players will have the best shot at winning the more open formats so they decide that A1 will play Standard, A2 will play C4, and A3 will play Commons. Unbeknownst to them, Team Bravo has another plan. They decide to punt on the Standard game and have their least experienced player, B3, play that one. They put their top player B1 in C4, and B2 in Commons.

A3 has a pretty good Warlock Zoo deck for Common, so A1 and A2 have to pick something other than Warlock to play for their respective games. They decide on Druid and Hunter. Meanwhile B1 picks Warlock for C4, B2 picks Priest for Common, and B3 picks Mage for Standard even though it’s not a very good Mage deck.

Both teams announce their matchups. The 3 games to be played are:

A1’s Druid vs B3’s Mage in Standard
A2’s Hunter vs B1’s Warlock in C4
A3’s Warlock vs B2’s Priest in Commons

A1 predictably beats B3 in Standard, B1‘s Zoo beats A2‘s Hunter in C4, and A3‘s Warlock is too much for B2‘s priest deck, so A3 pulls off that upset win, giving Team Alpha a 2-1 victory in the match.

Decks

Decks may be modified throughout the tournament, and deck lists do not need to be submitted for this event.

Schedule & Forfeits

Tournament play will begin at 9pm ET, after check-in is complete.
Brackets are not finalized until notified.
If you are not available to play a match within a 15 minute grace period, your opponent may request a forfeit from the tournament admins.
Double forfeits (neither player online) in deadlocked matches will result in elimination for both teams.