The last seasonal HCT Champion will be crowned on October 15th. Sixteen players will be competing for their piece of the $250k prize pool, as well as one of four spots that will continue on to the HCT World Championship that will take place in January 2018. We have all of the deck lists and card stats below, as well as information on the event!
HCT Summer Championship Dates 2017
- Oct. 13 at 8:30 a.m. PDT – Group Stage
- Oct. 14 at 8:30 a.m. PDT – Group Stage
- Oct. 15 at 8.30 a.m. PDT – Playoffs
Casters
- Brian Kibler and Dan “Frodan” Chou
- TJ Sanders and Nathan “Admirable” Zamora
- Simon “Sottle” Welch and Alexander “Raven” Baguley
Livestream
- English: Twitch – PlayHearthstone
HCT Summer Championship Top-8 Results
The top-4 players will all get a chance to compete at the Hearthstone World Championships.
HCT Summer Championship Group Stage Results
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Most Popular Legendaries
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Most Popular Epics
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Most Popular Rares
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Does anyone know when the packs will be delivered to us ?
Soon, there’s no official date. I’d expect sometime this week.
Purpleee!!!!!!! how many packs will I get?
I vote him too. We’re going to get many packs! Yeeeehaaaa~
You will get three packs!
Just my input here but why complain about the current meta to those who are doing so? You play the game, you either enjoy it or simply quit. I enjoy all the decks, playing them AND going up against them, there not mindless nor do they take a higher level of thinking to pilot them, its mostly RNG based. Stop trying to put them in categories and just enjoy what Blizzard is giving us. 🙂
Maybe, cause this isn’t control meta they said that wanted to be…
But I can agree with you that there is no skill need to pilot those decks and makes me laugh hard when ppl saying that Highlander priest needs skill.
The only decks that needed skill are already gone (Miracle, Shaman mid, Warrior control, Freeze/burn mage, handlock).
This year had the worst metas of all time.
” I enjoy BOTH* of the decks…” … FTFY
That’s what wrong with the current meta – easily fixed though, play Wild.
*(oki technically Tempo Rogue makes it 3 decks in the current meta)
Basically, all winning lists with druid jade and tempo rogue… And of course, with the lovely solitaire priest.
The meta seems balanced.
whats not balanced about it? care to explain?
Attention the meta is better than it was before the nerfs. But:
1º At this moment around 20-25% of the meta is Priest. Followed by Rogue and Druid with usage percentages between 13-20% (note: Druid is more used to counter Priest). However, the percentage of Warlock, Warrior and Paladin is between 5-7% (which even highlights a decrease in their uses). This becomes more visible as higher the player’s ranking is.
2º Another very relevant data is the victory % of each list. Priest lists win rates (around 70%). Rogue and Druid win rates (above 60%). In opposition there are other lists, as it is the case of Warrior lists, with win rates of 40%. The percentage difference of win rates between Priest and many other lists is significantly different, greatly reducing the use of heroes/lists with decks perceived as not solid against Priest.
The general idea is: if you do not play with a list that has an acceptable performance against Priest the gaming experience is impaired (which in itself is not a lie).
3º The last reason is the Priest list itself (or exodia Mage, etc). It is not interactive (similarly to quest rogue) and there is no consistent tech card against it (being the consistent part the main problem), again, being the best hypothesis to play with decks whose mechanics themselves are good against Priest.
This is my vision/opinion, I may be wrong, or right.
If you look at these decks carefully, you will understand why Lifecoach has abandoned Hearthstone for Gwent again. Sad.
http://www.pcgamer.com/lifecoach-on-quitting-hearthstone-you-dont-get-rewarded-you-get-punched-in-the-face/
I can’t help but think there is a lot more to this than Lifecoach says in the article. It would not take a pro-level player a year of intense play to figure out that Hearthstone is not chess, or even poker.
Lifecoach became exactly that stuck-on-rank-15 player that says that the game is p2w.
If you want to go higher than 10rank is a lot more p2w.
Priest’s and Rogue’s have the higher win ratio (among with Druid) and the dust that is needed to craft those decks is only available to those that give or already gave money.
Lifecoatch is just an example, there are more Pro players that quited playing HS and ofc wasn’t about money cause they had already more than enough to live and spend for games.
Last time, before he quits, LC became top10 Legend but as he already said the point was that wasn’t the skill that brought him that place.
Simple as that “quantity over quality”.
If you have access at least at two top meta decks and you can play 8-10h per day you can easily reach Legend, there is no skill… You just need a lot of games, even if you have a bit higher than 50% (54 to 56% is fine to just hit legend).
I tried out myself and happened. For 1 month played 4h per day and stopped at 5rank, when next month played about 6-7h per day (not weekend) then I went 2rank…
So, if you go like streamers or “Pro” players for a near job-like ladder then you will be easily and mostly every month legend.
This has been true about CCGs ever since net decking was invented. Here’s how it works:
(1) New set released.
(2) All of the people with money and time on their hands (many of them pros) scramble to define the “next meta”.
(3) All of the less active players watch the first few weeks to see how the meta unfolds and then net deck for the best deck(s) they can play based on the cards they have available; the more rare cards increase in value based on those that are needed to complete the net decks.
(4) Some of the less active players who don’t want to/can’t put the time into obtaining a ranking whine about how horrible the new meta is because there are only 2-3 competitive decks (and they can’t afford to build them).
(5) Manufacturer bans/nerfs some of the more popular cards (generally from older sets, so as not to impact current sales) that make the competitive decks work.
(6) Some of the less active players who managed to finally assemble one or more of the competitive decks whine because their deck just got nerfed.
(7) Return to Step #1.
This has always been true. M:tG, Yo-Gi-Oh!, WoW (the original CCG), and all the others fell into this regime once they crossed into competitive play. It is the nature of the beast.
Does it take time to earn ranks? Yes; this is true of ANY competitive sport.
Is there skill involved? Yes; every game requires some modicum of skill.
Is there luck involved? Yes; it’s a card game, so luck is inherent. Some have more luck than others (Pokémon, Hearthstone, etc.), but they all have luck.
Is there an element of P2W? Yes; and this is true of EVERY CCG/TCG ever created. The best (Hearthstone being one of them) allow you to “dust” your unused/undesirable cards to create those you do want/need. The worst (Yu-Gi-Oh!) create new sets where there are only a handful (typically 1-3) of chase cards per set (the rest being complete junk), and if you don’t get lucky enough to draw them, then you can end up paying hundreds of dollars to stay competitive.
TLDR version: If you don’t want to PAY to have the cards needed to be competitive then play a non-CCG game, lower your expectations on your ability to consistently compete, or do the dailies/put in the time to build the card base you need. Blizzard is a BUSINESS and if they didn’t monetize their games then they would cease to exist.
Just my experience, for what it is worth.
I’d definitely play Gwent if it wasn’t so terribly plain and boring to watch. Those little animations + RNG in Hearthstone are what keeps players in the game 😀 … Gwent is probably better for competitive playing but Hearthstone is much better for ordinary players. RNG is super important factor in the game. Because it has the similar effect to gambling. When there is a chance you can get a great outcome and you actually get it, there’s a rush of dopamine in your brain which is highly addictive and makes you want it again… at least in Hearthstone you don’t end up losing all your money.
Rest in peace quest mage, pirate warrior, just like ladder.. its only lamezakus priest, tempo rogue and even scarier version of jade druid
Seriously? You’re complaining about two of the least fun decks to play against not seeing representation? Since when has someone other than Firebat cared about Pirate Warrior?
I really hate it when people don’t actually recognize just how much skill is required to pilot a Razakus Priest effectively. It certainly requires more thinking than Pirate Warrior, Jade Druid, or Secret Mage.
Quest mage is easy, just rush them down with any aggro decks or drop a dirty rat
Pirate warrior also.. nullify their threats with aoe, taunt, divine shield, gollaka crawlers any most midrange deck can win
We all know the “skill” is just draw cards, play removal, play kaza, raza then anduin
unfortunately this combo is just ultimately too overpowered..with almost no counters .. as you can see the pro players have tested this throughly. they bring the strongest deck in the meta ie. druid and priest.
this tournament will be the battle of calculated RNG when they drop dirty rat to fish out raza. expect a nerf to priest and another to the new jade druid because the new version is too strong
comparing how control decks are harder to pilot to aggro decks is kinda obvious
We’re missing SHRoyalBaiZe’s list.
Oh wait she’s under Baiz, sorry for the trouble admins XD
Yeah, I was confused for a minute too. I thought I missed her.