Update: The tournament will be starting soon!
Blizzard has just announced the first invitational tournament of Year of the Gryphon – it’s Crossroads Innvitational. Like usual, they invite a bunch of well-known players and Hearthstone personalities and have them battle with custom rules, like deck list or class restrictions.
First everyone will play two Best of 3 rounds, with the only custom gameplay rule being that decks will have to contain at least 10 Forged in the Barrens cards. However, it’s the third round that gets more interesting. It will be a Best of 5 Blitz round, with every player having to put Nozdormu the Eternal into their decks. That’s something I have waited for ever since the card was showcased back at BlizzCon!
Update: Twitter announcement was removed and added again, except the part about Twitch drops. And here’s the official comment, apparently there will be no Twitch drops from the event after all…
A previous version of this tweet stated there would be drops for the Inn-vitational. While there are drops planned for the future, there will be no drops for this event. Sorry for the mix up!
— Hearthstone (@PlayHearthstone) April 15, 2021
Learn more about the event here:
Prepare yourself hero, the Crossroads Inn-vitational is just around the corner! On April 21, starting at 10:00 a.m. PDT, 20 Hearthstone creators will be split into two teams, the Northwatch Hold and Camp Taurajo, before battling it out for their share of a $100,000 prize pool!
How it Works
Competitors will assemble a 30-card Standard deck list using at least 10 cards from Forged in the Barrens, before playing through two best-of-three rounds against different opponents on the opposing team. One team point will be awarded for each individual game victory within a round, regardless of who wins. Three team points will be awarded for a clean 2-0 sweep.
Then, each team will play a 3rd round, the BARRENS BLITZ round, which is a best-of-five where all players are required to have Nozdormu the Eternal in their decks. One team point will be awarded for each individual game victory within the BARRENS BLITZ round, and five team points will be awarded for a 3-0 sweep!
Finally, when a player loses a round for the first time in the event they’ll become “Frenzied” for the next round, meaning any team points earned by that player are doubled!
It all happens on April 21 at Twitch.tv/PlayHearthstone and YouTube.com/Hearthstone!
