Key Tournament Dates for your Diaries in 2016

**Gondorian** · 11-17-2016, 09:37 PM

For those wondering about sign-ups for Regionals, they will go up on Monday, after we know who made it through to WC2016 via the Pro Tour Finals.

Each regional will take place as a Swiss event, with the top scoring (undefeated) player from each automatically going through to the WC Grand Finals. Depending on the number of entrants in each, there could be 2 or 3 more spots available per region. If there are more players tied in 2nd place (or 3rd or 4th, as required) than there are spots, there will be a play-off between them over the following days to determine who takes the spots. This approach ensures that everyone tries their best through all swiss rounds (rather than intentional draws happening in later rounds to secure Top 8) and avoids the need for a second day with a Top 8 single-elimination. I hope that makes sense.

As for Grand Finals format, it will be identical to last year:
- Day 1 will be 32-player swiss decklock, over 5 rounds of best-of-three, to find Top 8 players.
- Day 2 will be 8-player single-elimination decklock with best-of-five per round.

**AKKYO** · 11-19-2016, 02:58 PM

Please teach me how can I join these tournaments

**Catenzo** · 11-28-2016, 03:15 PM

What about mid week wildcard qualifier?

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**Gondorian** · 11-28-2016, 06:35 PM

Wildcard 1 will be 6pm GMT on Sat 3rd Dec
Wildcard 2 will be 11am GMT on Mon 5th Dec
Wildcard 3 will be 6pm GMT on Wed 7th Dec

All will be single-elimination, best-of-three-games per round, decklock events. The winner from each wins a WC2016 invite. The runner-up from each becomes a Reserve for the Grand Finals. (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).

The Wildcard Qualifiers are open to anyone who has not already qualified for WC2016 finals and they are free to enter.

To compete in them, you need to either:
* PM me on Telegram 30 mins before the stated start time to confirm your in-game name and the hero you will use
* send me an in-game mail 30 mins before to confirm the hero you will use.
This is so that I can prepare the bracket and start promptly and also so that players can't decide the hero based on the bracket.

**Vince19992** · 12-09-2016, 06:47 AM

@Gondorian

Do we have to use the same decks in both day 1 and day 2?

**Gondorian** · 12-09-2016, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by Vince19992

@Gondorian

Do we have to use the same decks in both day 1 and day 2?

Yes. It will be the same as last year. Sorry for not making that clear.

**Kross** · 12-09-2016, 12:34 PM

Sorry if this is posted somewhere else, but when do Finals take place? I don't want to miss the stream

**Gondorian** · 12-09-2016, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by Kross

Sorry if this is posted somewhere else, but when do Finals take place? I don't want to miss the stream

No worries. It is actually in the OP, but I'll paste it again here anyway:

- Day 1 starts at 6pm GMT on Sat 10th Dec and will be 32-player swiss decklock, over 5 rounds of best-of-three, to find Top 8 players.
- Day 2 starts at 6pm GMT on Sun 11th Dec and will be 8-player single-elimination decklock (using same deck as Day 1) with best-of-five per round.

**Kross** · 12-09-2016, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by Gondorian

No worries. It is actually in the OP, but I'll paste it again here anyway:

- Day 1 starts at 6pm GMT on Sat 10th Dec and will be 32-player swiss decklock, over 5 rounds of best-of-three, to find Top 8 players.
- Day 2 starts at 6pm GMT on Sun 11th Dec and will be 8-player single-elimination decklock (using same deck as Day 1) with best-of-five per round.

lol for some reason I didnt realize this thread was as long as it was.. I didn't see the OP.

Thanks