Last Chances to Qualify for WC2016 Grand Finals

[Gondorian]

For the past few years, the World Championships Grand Finals has been an invite-only affair, where players can win an invite in various ways throughout the year. In line with that, we've always left a small number of spots very near to the date of the finals for "wildcard" entrants. This year, we have three such spots available to winners of three single-elimination tournaments.

Wildcard 1 starts at 6pm GMT on Saturday 3rd December.
Wildcard 2 starts at 11am GMT on Monday 5th December.
Wildcard 3 starts at 6pm GMT on Wednesday 7th December.

These Wildcard Qualifiers are free to enter and are open to anyone who has not already qualified for WC2016 Grand Finals.

***To take part you MUST sign up in advance on the following page:

http://www.shadowera.com/wildcard2016.php

***You must also send me a Private Message on Telegram or in-game Mail at least 30 mins before the start of each event you are participating in to confirm your hero choice AND your decklist (and in-game name if using Telegram).

All Wildcard tournaments are single-elimination, best-of-three-games per round, deck-lock events. (This means you make one deck and use it in all rounds until you either lose 2 games in a round or you become the tournament winner!)

The winner from each wins a WC2016 invite. The runner-up of each becomes a Reserve for the Grand Finals in case one or more of the 32 invitees can't make it. (This means we will have 3 Reserves for Grand Finals and they would be taken in priority order based on number of entrants in their Wildcard).


Reminder of Grand Finals information is below:


GRAND FINALS FORMAT:
- Round one for Day 1 starts Saturday 10th December 6pm GMT+0.
- Day 1 will be 32-player swiss decklock, over 5 rounds of best-of-three, to find Top 8 players.
- Round 1 for Day 2 starts Sunday 11th December 6pm GMT+0.
- Day 2 will be 8-player single-elimination decklock with best-of-five per round.


GRAND FINALS PRIZES:
- Winner: iPad Air 2 (16Gb wi-fi) + $500 via PayPal
- Runner-up: $500 via PayPal
- 3rd place: $300 via PayPal
- 4th place: $150 via PayPal
- All Top 8: complete digital foil playset (4 of each CotC, DP, SF, LL Part 1 card in foil) + WC2016 Grand Finalist sleeves
- All other Grand Finalists: 50 digital cards of their choice + WC2016 Grand Finalist sleeves


GRAND FINALS PARTICIPANTS:
2015 World Champion: BP vince1992
Crown Tournament: BP Holy Punisher, TJ Majc, TJ Segalion
Slugfest: TJ Caparod, BP Itachi Uchiha, TJ Tdnine
Summer Seasonal Championship: A1 Fakekiki, RS Namcastle, Pasdev
Fall Seasonal Championship: A1 burnout1985, BP Killerheart, TJ Streetsahead
Pro Tour Finals: 17 Ecl1pse, RS Janor, A1 H1TACH1, RS Warbeast
Asia Regional Qualifier: A1 Beantalk, RS PhillipW, BP Recxjo, A1 Finneri
Americas Regional Qualifier: A1 Fordfff, Dvsklown, BP AmberFade, ryan318
Europe Regional Qualifier: 17 Ghibo, BP Shadow Mann, A1 Otto7, Ermel Silphion
Wildcard Winners: ? ? ?

[Gondorian]

Wildcard 1 is underway.

http://challonge.com/sewc2016wildcard1

[Gondorian]

***To take part you MUST sign up in advance on the following page:

http://www.shadowera.com/wildcard2016.php

***You must also send me a Private Message on Telegram or in-game Mail at least 30 mins before the start of each event you are participating in to confirm your hero choice AND your decklist (and in-game name if using Telegram).

I've updated the info above to make it mandatory to sign up on the web page in advance. This will help wildcard2 and wildcard3 start on time.

[Gondorian]

Wildcard 2 is now finished. Congratulations to RS Seadog for winning and Alendar for coming second.

http://challonge.com/sewc2016wildcard2

[Gondorian]

Some really epic matches took place tonight in Wildcard3, where A1 Betrayal4Life emerged the champ, narrowly defeating BP Maxi1230 in the final.

Here's the full bracket:

http://challonge.com/sewc2016wildcard3

So we now know all players invited to WC and the 3 reserves to be used in case of no-shows.

GRAND FINALS PARTICIPANTS:

2015 World Champion: BP vince1992
Crown Tournament: BP Holy Punisher, TJ Majc, TJ Segalion
Slugfest: TJ Caparod, BP Itachi Uchiha, TJ Tdnine
Summer Seasonal Championship: A1 Fakekiki, RS Namcastle, Pasdev
Fall Seasonal Championship: A1 burnout1985, BP Killerheart, TJ Streetsahead
Pro Tour Finals: 17 Ecl1pse, RS Janor, A1 H1TACH1, RS Warbeast
Asia Regional Qualifier: A1 Beantalk, RS PhillipW, BP Recxjo, A1 Finneri
Americas Regional Qualifier: A1 Fordfff, Dvsklown, BP AmberFade, ryan318
Europe Regional Qualifier: 17 Ghibo, BP Shadow Mann, A1 Otto7, Ermel Silphion
Wildcard Winners: A1 Surprise, RS Seadog, A1 Betrayal4Life

1st reserve is A1 Serenale from the biggest wildcard event (wildcard1) because DA GetRektMate can't make it.

2nd reserve is maxi from wildcard3, which was the 2nd biggest.

3rd reserve is alendar from wildcard2, which was the smallest.