After a short break, competitive Hearthstone is back in business. Following a month of downtime, the fourth season of the Masters Tour is back and ready to proceed. With $250,000 on the line for 400 players, we’ve got an event on our hands. Read on to learn How to Watch Masters Tour Silvermoon!
Event Background
As I’ll reiterate, the Masters Tour 2021 Silvermoon is the fourth season of the 2021 season of Masters Tour events which fall under the grand scheme of Grandmasters 2021.
Like other events in the series, another $250,000 will be up for grabs at this online event. Also a recurring feature is the Open format – now with 400 players registered for this upcoming event.
Accordingly, the event will run from 27th to 29th August. Usually, we take this opportunity to list the competitors – this isn’t very possible with 400 contenders although a full list is available here.
In summary, competitors are either qualified as Grandmasters, through the in-game ladder, Masters Tour Qualifiers, China Gold Series, other third party events and previous contenders at Masters Tour Dalaran.
Format
In terms of format, multiple stages are always a feature of large Hearthstone events such as this one.
As usual, it kicks off with the first round – Conquest. Here, with all games BO5, players must submit ‘decklists’ consisting of chosen cards.
To advance a player must win a game with each of this three decks (Sets of cards) to win, making sure that all cards are separate. Meanwhile, a losing player can use whatever cards he wishes until even.
This style of play combined with Swiss Rounds (8) will quickly shorten the competition from 400 to 16 players across 2 days of competition – very impressive.
At the end of the swiss format, we’ll have the top 16 players surviving. Accordingly, this players have earned their spot int he final stage – Playoffs. Here, a simple single elimination bracket will serve as the final determiner.
Note that besides prize, the top 4 seeds also earn Grandmaster points too.
Schedule for the Masters Tour Silvermoon 2021
For this event, no official schedule has been revealed. It’s likely that initially only the most exciting games from the Conquest stage will be broadcasted, while the Playoffs will receive full attention.
We recommend staying up to date with the official event page here.
Watch the Masters Tour Silvermoon 2021 on esportsguide
You can also watch the Masters Tour Silvermoon 2021 live stream via our very own website. Providing an extensive list of the biggest esports together with streams for each esports match live today or upcoming matches.
Predictions
It’s honestly insane how many competitors Hearthstone manages to invite to these events. Hence, predicting a winner is very tough.
What we’ll do, though, is look at the past event – history is a good predictor of the future. Here’s how the top 13 for Masters Tour Dalaran a few months ago looked like:
- ShuiMoo
- OmegaZero
- reqvam
- Leaoh
- SuperFake
- Gaby
- okasinnsuke
- HSKeDaiBiao
- Bunnyhoppor
- StrikeReaper
- Monsanto
- MegaGliscor
- Yueying
One thing is that the top 4 is primarily dominated by Chinese players. Perhaps this could be an indicator of future events.
Beyond competition, we know that this event needs to start pulling in more viewership for competitive Hearthstone. With the last few events struggling a little, it would be great to see at this point in time.
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