[Update] Deck Wars Bans Leeroy and Starving Buzzard - Page 2
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Whoisgoku
Canada3 Posts
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Latham
9510 Posts
Can someone remind me if Page/Tinkermaster were actually banned from tournaments way back when they were OP as fuck? I know hunter is cancer right now along with the festering gangrene known as miracoli, but with the ban system in place for most tournaments 1 of them at least gets banned. Are they as big of a problem as page/tink were, which might not have even been banned during their own heydays ? | ||
Jacenoob
299 Posts
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KillerSOS
United States4207 Posts
It makes it impossible for players to properly research correct decks going into a small event. | ||
ChanmanV
United States1156 Posts
Just really quick. The main reason for doing this was we saw an opportunity to do something a little different with Deck Wars that would create potentially some new and fresh decks in the competitive environment. Whether Leeroy or Buzzard remains in the meta after the nerf, who knows but we thought it would be fun to have the players battle in an environment where they aren't and see what happens. Cool things like do people ban hunter and rogue now or do you let them slide and see what your opponent brings? We thought it would be great to infuse this element to the event. | ||
ChanmanV
United States1156 Posts
Here's a quick look at the brackets too! | ||
Pythonidae
Belgium0 Posts
On September 13 2014 07:38 ChanmanV wrote: FYI, I just spoke with Blizzard and they currently are not comfortable with any tournaments including card ban rules in the tournament ruleset. So what this means is we will be going back to the more standard ruleset where no cards are banned from decks. Here's a quick look at the brackets too! So, Leeroy and Buzzard will not be banned in this upcoming Deck Wars? | ||
Heyoka
Katowice25012 Posts
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Hier
2390 Posts
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Jacenoob
299 Posts
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The_Masked_Shrimp
425 Posts
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Release
United States4397 Posts
On September 13 2014 08:32 Hier wrote: Why does Blizzard have a say in how this tournament is run? It doesn't require a license, as far as I can tell. I could be missing something, since I haven't followed the Hearthstone tournament environment too closely. I think blizzard expressed an opinion and the organizers made an independent decision based on this opinion. | ||
Came Norrection
Canada168 Posts
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ThunderChunky
United States24 Posts
That said, it would be an interesting novelty concept to ban certain cards and see what top players do. In that type of format you would probably want to ban one card per class and maybe some neutrals. | ||
Solmyr
Poland261 Posts
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Undead1993
Germany17651 Posts
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Fi0na
0 Posts
On September 13 2014 16:47 Undead1993 wrote: i don't know what blizzard's problem is. these guys invest money and promote your game, why can't they do the rules on their own? wtf. i don't like that by blizzard one bit It probably went down like this: : "hey, wouldn't it be great to have something different as our last tournament?" : "Oh, you know the two core cards that they are changing? What if we just ban them?" : "wow, that would be amazing. People playing decks outside of the meta. It's gonna be cra-zy" Randomly ban two cards Later this evening: RRRRINGGGG RRRRRINGGGG : "ChanmanV here, what's up?" : "Hey Chanman, this is, uh, blizzard" : "Awesome. What's up man?" : "Uh, not much. Got a year of vacation until the next 30 cards come out" : "Great stuff man, great stuff. By the way, what do you think of our tournament banning two cards?" : "Uh, this will be a bit awkward with new decks no one can test and stuff." : "Also Blizzard, uh, takes care of balance and stuff and provides the best hunter experience." : "You gonna have bad games and bad decks, uh, and it's not gonna be that much fun with no Leeroy" : "Yeah that totally makes sense. I never thought of it like that. Guess we're back to no bans then" Cards are unbanned | ||
Geo.Rion
7375 Posts
they basically said, HEY GUYS, OUR DATA SAYS THESE ARE IMBA, USE IT MORE for the upcoming events | ||
Undead1993
Germany17651 Posts
On September 13 2014 17:47 Fi0na wrote: It probably went down like this: + Show Spoiler + : "hey, wouldn't it be great to have something different as our last tournament?" : "Oh, you know the two core cards that they are changing? What if we just ban them?" : "wow, that would be amazing. People playing decks outside of the meta. It's gonna be cra-zy" Randomly ban two cards Later this evening: RRRRINGGGG RRRRRINGGGG : "ChanmanV here, what's up?" : "Hey Chanman, this is, uh, blizzard" : "Awesome. What's up man?" : "Uh, not much. Got a year of vacation until the next 30 cards come out" : "Great stuff man, great stuff. By the way, what do you think of our tournament banning two cards?" : "Uh, this will be a bit awkward with new decks no one can test and stuff." : "Also Blizzard, uh, takes care of balance and stuff and provides the best hunter experience." : "You gonna have bad games and bad decks, uh, and it's not gonna be that much fun with no Leeroy" : "Yeah that totally makes sense. I never thought of it like that. Guess we're back to no bans then" Cards are unbanned hahahahaha thank you very much | ||
Solmyr
Poland261 Posts
So true nowadays, patches with new content evry 12 months. | ||
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