EmotesViewers vs Streamers, Selection 1: the best boards of day one
by TantrumUA ·
About the tournament
Viewers vs Streamers is an open Hearthstone Battlegrounds tournament by BlackBears and Shadybunny. 256 players with 10,000 MMR or more play two selection days for 8 places, and those 8 then face 8 invited streamers for a $5,000 prize pool. On Saturday, the first selection day, the 256 played seven rounds and the best 64 went on to Sunday. This page is that Saturday in boards: the most interesting final fights of the day, exactly as the players had them.
Every board below is interactive. Hover a minion, a trinket or a hero power (on a phone, tap it) to read the card, and press ▶ VOD to watch that fight on stream. A board marked "Read from a stream" was read by eye from a video, the others come straight from the players' game logs.
How the day worked
- Round 1256players
- Round 2256players
- −40 · cut line 5.5 pts
- Round 3216players
- −40 · cut line 11.5 pts
- Round 4176players
- −3 · left early
- Round 5173players
- −37 · cut line 21.5 pts
- Round 6136players
- −40 · cut line 28.5 pts
- Round 796players
- −32 · cut line 35.5 pts
- Sunday64players
- 1st
- 9
- 2nd
- 7
- 3rd
- 6
- 4th
- 5
- 5th
- 4
- 6th
- 3
- 7th
- 2
- 8th
- 1
After most rounds the bottom of the table goes home. The cut line is the total a player needed by then, and players sitting exactly on it were split by tiebreakers.
That changes what a good game is. On ladder the line is top 4. Here 4th and 5th are one point apart, and what hurts is the cut: after round 6 it stood at 28.5 points, roughly a 4th place in every single game, and Sunday took 35.5. A board does not only have to win lobbies, it has to not fall apart when it doesn't.
Day one in numbers
Counted over the 137 boards from 49 lobbies that could be recovered from streams and logs, almost all of them from the last fights of a lobby:
| Pirates | Dragons | Menagerie | Quilboar | No clear tribe | Beasts | Elementals | Demons | Mechs | Aberrations | Undead | Murlocs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won the lobby | 6 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Final boards | 7 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 24 | 7 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 7 |
| Won the lobby | Final boards | |
|---|---|---|
| Pirates | 6 | 7 |
| Dragons | 5 | 10 |
| Menagerie | 3 | 7 |
| Quilboar | 4 | 13 |
| No clear tribe | 6 | 20 |
| Beasts | 7 | 24 |
| Elementals | 2 | 7 |
| Demons | 4 | 14 |
| Mechs | 3 | 11 |
| Aberrations | 1 | 5 |
| Undead | 1 | 12 |
| Murlocs | 0 | 7 |
Note that the table is made from a narrow selection of boards that we could retrieve and does not represent the tournament as a whole, since day 1 had 164 lobbies total and 328 boards that finished 1st or 2nd, of which 79 are among these 137 boards.
- Beasts reached the last fights most often: 24 boards, 7 of them won.
- Pirates were there only 7 times and won 6 of them.
- Undead got there 12 times and won once. Murlocs got there 7 times and never won.
- was on 8 of these boards, and 5 of them won.
Trinkets
112 different trinkets showed up on these boards. The ones seen most, and the ones that won most:
Picked most
- 1
boards 13
won 5 - 2
boards 9
won 3 - 3
boards 8
won 2 - 4
boards 7
won 2 - 5
boards 7
won 2 - 6
boards 7
won 2 - 7
boards 7
won 0 - 8
boards 6
won 2 - 9
boards 6
won 2 - 10
boards 6
won 1
Won most
- 1boards 13
won 5 - 2
boards 3
won 3 - 3
boards 3
won 3 - 4
boards 4
won 3 - 5
boards 4
won 3 - 6
boards 5
won 3 - 7boards 9
won 3 - 8
boards 2
won 2 - 9
boards 2
won 2 - 10
boards 2
won 2
finished in the top two on 7 of its 9 boards. It shows up a lot below.
Round 1: Knights and the Last Ones
Lobby 24: four golden Knights
Tez fought for 1st at turn 16 with four golden at around 704/352 and a golden at 1,267/1,267. Tier lists put Knight Undead in C tier (Firestone) or B (HSReplay, for a different variation), and it still took 2nd, surviving to this fight on 2 health.
The Great AkazamzarakIt lost to Archeron5842's Dragons: a golden at 5,040/1,809, every minion shielded, and a in the trinket slot.
Skycap'n KraggLobby 16: Menagerie
JBPieGuy7 won with no particular tribe at all: two and five more minions, everything around 2k/2k. Grzelu's golden at 9,400/9,500 was the biggest minion in that fight and still finished 2nd: seven even bodies beat one huge one (well, Leeroy helped too, fair enough). The first Menagerie win of the day, far from the last.
Round 3: Mechs, Felboars and a 66k C'Thun
The featured lobby: Mechs against Felboars
th0rn3d's Mechs won at turn 18 on two minions: a at 85k/87k and a golden at 49k/49k.
ChessMan answered with two at 57k/102k and 65k/118k, playing Reno on 2 health. Bigger health, less attack, and 2nd place.
Lobby 14: a board of 671 stats
Sevel won with the smallest winning board I found: all seven minions together add up to 671 stats. The at 66,425/33,769 hits almost at Start of Combat thanks to the combination of and , which buff it by a few thousand more, and the board suddenly flips to 10k stats on every minion.
PromptPhilip had a golden Last One Standing at 9,100/9,100, a golden at 9,700/9,700 and, of course, a . But there were not enough stats and Leeroys to kill everything, 2nd place.
Round 4: seven tribes, one size
catlamity won with another Menagerie, a different tribe in almost every slot. The recently reworked Kodo makes spawn at about 26k stats.
Zerek, Master ClonerGOTOR8's very much on-meta Mechs had 16k stats in total and took 2nd without a chance.
Marin the ManagerRound 5: two million
KitsuneRO won the lobby with a at 2 million attack and on top.
Dwarmm had a 41k Demon scam board, but scam did not help against that many hits with those stats. 2nd place.
Round 6: two Daggers and a dream
bosola98 won the featured lobby with two . The board is just five copied over and over: pure stats, scam on the imps, and .
Titus, 2nd, had a Dagger too, and an early to level fast through . It ended as an Aberration board of 1,900 stats with a at 26.4k/14.1k. One Dagger lost to two.
Round 7: Elemental mirror
The last featured lobby ended in an mirror at turn 15, a rare sight after the nerfs to the minion. WobbleWeezy, on , won with the bigger golden Tempests, 12,000/12,000 and 7,600/7,700.
Gospodar's Tempest stood at 6,200/6,300. Both sides ran against scam and a few scam minions of their own, so it came down to size and good hits.
What day one showed
Tier lists did not decide these lobbies. Menagerie won again and again, a C-tier Knight board came within one fight of 1st, and a board of 671 stats took a lobby. 64 players went on to Sunday, where the lobbies only got harder.
Did I miss a lobby that deserves a place here? Tell me in the comments where you found this link, or in our Discord, and it can make it into Selection 2.
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Big thanks to everyone who shared their logs: Lyme, Gotor8, Polskikabak, NightKnight, FanJka and Titus, and to everyone who streamed their games.
All the boards recovered from streams and logs are in the board pool.
Boards taken from these streams