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Deck restrictions:
-Up to 1 Legendary
-You must use the same deck for all games within each round; however, you can adjust or switch decks between rounds.

Participants:
-browarod (Lashen#1485) (eliminated)
-Drrek (Drrek#1833) - THE CHAMPION!
-The Marti (ProfFaridoon#1925) (eliminated)
-soul seeker (SoulSeeker7#1684) (eliminated)
-Lampy 2.0 (TheDoctor#1648) (eliminated)
-Westy (Alabrel#1881) (eliminated)
-Master KChief (MasterKChief#1390) (eliminated)
-redemption101 (Ironblade#1966) (eliminated)

Format:
-Double elimination.
-Each round is best of 5 games. You can play all 5, or until someone has 3 wins, up to you.
-Final round will be best of 7 games.

Prizes: (paid for by browarod, fulfilled by Three Lions Gaming)
-1st place: Choice of 3 Early Church set packs (Phase One), OR $15 credit to Three Lions Gaming
-2nd place: Choice of 2 Early Church set packs (Phase One), OR $10 credit to Three Lions Gaming

Bracket, Matchups, and Results:
http://challonge.com/RedHearthJuly14
-Bracket was created by entering participants via the list above and then shuffling 4x.
(if anyone has a Challonge account and wants me to link you to the bracket, feel free to send me your username or email)

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The Finals have begun! Since this is the last round I won't put a date limit, but please try to finish it sooner than later, I'd like to have a fresh tournament for August.
-Reminder, the final is best of seven games as opposed to the best of 5 from previous rounds.

In my experience in Ranked mode, epics don't turn the tables of a game quite like Legendarys do. 

I would be okay with 0 to 1 Legendary and no restrictions on Epics, but I'm okay with a Epic limit.  The only possible problem I see is that the current low minion Warlock meta can fit within your build criteria.

I'm in. I'd like 1 Legendary and no epic restrictions (or maybe just like, 2).  I can understand the 0 legendary limit and would be okay with that too though.

Thanks for the feedback everyone! Based on people's preferences I've set the limit on Legendaries to 1 and that is the only restriction currently.

I don't know if everyone would be available on a certain day (like a Sat) to be on and do the entire tournament, so if not then we can just run it like ROOT with 1 match per week (or X number of days) and update as we go.

Would we want to do elimination or round robin?

I do think round robin would be more fun, and since the matches go pretty fast I was also thinking of having it be a best of 3 (or 5, or whatever) just so that you get to play for more than just a few minutes once a week, lol.

I do think round robin would be more fun, and since the matches go pretty fast I was also thinking of having it be a best of 3 (or 5, or whatever) just so that you get to play for more than just a few minutes once a week, lol.

Most tournament structures are double elim, best 3 of 5, final best of 7. Each player has 3 decks. Game 1 players blind pick their decks, then the losing player picks a new deck for the next game. Some tournaments also limit no duplicate classes, but I would have no problem with that as a restriction as this is a more friendly tournament and some people are new and do not have expanded collections.

With red101 signing up that makes us at 8 people, exactly enough for a double elim with losers bracket.

Which is why I said players should probably be allowed to play with duplicate classes if they wanted (hence, only 1 deck) . I like the system a lot because it gives the game a bit of a sideboard-esque feel to it by allowing the loser to pick a new deck for the next match (while the winning player must still play with the same deck from last game).

Also for any interested, the Hearthstone WellPlayed Cup for $3k is going on and being streamed right now with some of the best players in the game (Reynad, Trump, TidesofTime, KitKatz, Rdu (winner of Dreamhack Summer 2014), etc). You can check out the stream on Twitch at http://www.twitch.tv/wellplayedhs.

Using the 8 man tournament as an example:

http://www.printyourbrackets.com/pdfbrackets/8teamDouble.pdf


The 4 losers from the 1st round move down to the first round of the losers bracket and play each other.
The 2 losers from the 2nd round of the winners bracket moves down to play the 2 winners of the 1st round of the losers bracket.
The 2 winners of the 2nd round of losers bracket play each other.
The loser from the 3rd round of the winners bracket moves down to play the winner of the 3rd round of the losers bracket.
The winner of the 4th round of the losers bracket moves up to play the winner of the 3rd round of the winners bracket (Finals). Usually this is played out twice since one player will be undefeated. But since Hearthstone uses best of 7 for Finals, this really isn't necessary.

8 seems to be a good number so we can cap this first tourney here. I feel woefully uninformed, is Challonge a website?

So is this happening?

Alabrel#1881

I'm available most of the time after 6.

Drrek#1833

I go by TheDoctor#1648.