Viewers vs Streamers, Selection 2: 64 players, 8 places

About the day

Sunday, the second selection day of Viewers vs Streamers. The 64 players who survived Saturday started again from 0 points and played seven more rounds for 8 places in the semi-finals, where the 8 invited streamers are waiting.

• Lyme won the day with 50.5 of the 63 points a player could score, and DKing missed the semi-finals by half a point.
• The best comp of the weekend is on neither tier list: 12 of the 13 boards built around The Last One Standing finished in the top two.
• Armor got players to the late game and did not win it: heroes with 15 or more armor won 15 of their 94 boards, half as often as the rest.

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Every board below is interactive. Hover a minion, a trinket or a hero power to read the card, and press ▶ VOD to watch that fight on stream.

How the day went

The points are the same as on Saturday, 9 for 1st down to 1 for 8th, but the cuts are steeper: 31.5 points after six games is more than a 4th place in every one of them. The lobbies were harder too, the average lobby rating went from 13,158 in round 1 to 14,590 in the last one.

The eight who went through, with their Sunday points:

Lyme took 50.5 of the 63 points a player could score. DKing finished on 39, half a point short. Over both days together Sevel collected the most, 94.

Day two in numbers

Counted over the 161 boards from 37/42 lobbies that could be recovered from streams and logs. As on Saturday, the table takes the last fight of each lobby, 1st against 2nd, in the 30 lobbies where both boards are known, and a tribe counts once per lobby:

	Beasts	Undead	Murlocs	No clear tribe	Pirates	Elementals	Mechs	Quilboar	Menagerie	Demons	Aberrations
Won the lobby	6	4	4	4	3	2	2	2	2	1	0
Reached the final two	7	4	6	8	4	2	3	3	6	3	4

	Won the lobby	Reached the final two
Beasts	6	7
Undead	4	4
Murlocs	4	6
No clear tribe	4	8
Pirates	3	4
Elementals	2	2
Mechs	2	3
Quilboar	2	3
Menagerie	2	6
Demons	1	3
Aberrations	0	4

This covers far more of the day than Saturday's table did, which is more representative of what actually won and lost the lobbies.

• In 8 of the 30 finals both players were on the same tribe: Quilboar, Undead and Beasts twice each, Demons and Murlocs once.
• Dragons won 4 of their 5 finals on Saturday and did not reach a single one on Sunday.
• Aberrations reached the final two 4 times and lost all 4.
• Murlocs, with no win on Saturday, took 4 lobbies, and one of those boards is the longest fight of the day.
• The Last One Standing was on 6 boards: two 1st places, three 2nd, one 3rd.

Trinkets

106 different trinkets showed up on these boards:

Transcribing Typewriter was the most picked trinket on both days. Maldraxxus Dagger was on fewer boards than on Saturday, 8, and still won 3 of them.

Round 1: Daggers and a Felboar mirror

Lobby 4: Demons with two Daggers

DempseyRoll won on a Demon board with two Daggers through Souvenir Stand. Jaws of Death on Clapper and Imp-lusionist fired their Deathrattles at the start of every combat: Fodders, keywords and scaling through Wrathguard. Amalgamation made Balinda and a Leeroy Demons, so they could eat the Tavern for keywords too.

Sindragosa

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Read from a stream · may be inexact▶ VOD

xiaoliaoo took 2nd on Reno. Toreth's Blessing let his Sin'dorei keep its DS for three hits while it stripped keywords, but a Quil board fed by Gems could not grow as fast as Demons eating the Tavern.

Reno Jackson

×2

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Lobby 3: Felboar vs Felboar

Two boards built around the same minion - Felboar. shamanovskii had a golden one, with a Divine Shield, as he was playing Inge on 1 health.

Inge, the Iron Hymn

Lyme's Felboar was way smaller with two Hot-Airs behind it. The same plan a few turns behind, and Lyme, a player that ended with the most points for Sunday, gets a 2nd.

Marin the Manager

Round 2: Admiration

catlamity's Mechs have one huge minion, a Glambot powered by Geomant's 24 gems per click and two Admirations for combat. The Dagger is where the second Admiration comes from. All of it on Skycap'n Kragg at 2 health, securing 1st place.

Skycap'n Kragg

polskikabak had a solid board of Quilboar at respectable 10k, and a hand of ten cards, but the Mechs were enough to get through it: 2nd.

Zerek, Master Cloner

Round 3: a Menagerie that lived and a Murloc scam

Lobby 5: Beasts on 1 health

The last round before the first cut. Dwarmm, at 1 health, played Lobster Beasts: golden Deathstriders, a golden Lobster and a golden Gryphon, two Tituses. One of the Chickens taunted to not get a Titus sniped by a relatively small Sin'dorei, say 50/50.

Sir Finley Mrrgglton

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Archeron5842 put together a Menagerie instead and its tempo kept him alive while the others died: a solid 2nd. In a tournament that is sometimes the best plan - to go for pure tempo instead of dying while trying to go for a 1st.

Sire Denathrius

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Lobby 6: a hand full of Venomous

Grzelu won this one with scam. Three golden Diremucks pulling out the hand full of Biles with Frostwolf. Absolutely disgusting amount of minions with Venomous.

Scabbs Cutterbutter

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rakafakaTTV had the right answer in mind: Underrots for anti-scam, and a cleave to kill some bigger targets. It still lost, 2nd place, but that was a very good effort, unfortunately for him - no Undead in lobby.

Tae'thelan Bloodwatcher

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Round 4: everything at 12,000

DumplingDan on Sire Denathrius with a Menagerie. Tamsin's hero power gives a decent stat boost early on and Last One clears the difference through buffing said minion if it doesn't die immediately, which boosts the deathrattle.

Sire Denathrius

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Dwarmm had a good beetle board with them reaching up to 2k attack, but that still wasn't enough to win the fight.

Farseer Nobundo

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Round 5: turn 20 and the biggest board of the day

Lobby 3: two Leeroys against three big minions

The longest final combat in all the boards I have. FanJka, on Murloc Holmes, did not try to match the other side's size. Two Leeroys, one of them with Reborn, kill whatever kills them, were the perfect response to a board with exactly 3 high-statted minions, and two Heroic Broodmothers clean up the rest.

Murloc Holmes

Reno Jackson

Lobby 4: Undead

The biggest board of the day belongs to a player who did not make the top 8. Haunted on A. F. Kay: a golden Drustfallen Butcher with the Golemancy.

A. F. Kay

polskikabak went for scam, but Golemancy with gigantic stats and good hits must've done the trick. 2nd place, and still one of the eight at the end of the day.

Murloc Holmes

Lobby 2: a Hogrider mirror

Sevel, the best player over both days, on Marin: two golden Bramble Tunnelers and two Turbo Hogriders.

Marin the Manager

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GOTOR8 played the same Tunnelers and Hogriders but lacked in stats and took 2nd. Both are in the semi-finals.

Sindragosa

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Round 6: tribe mirrors and Daggers

Lobby 4: Undead vs Undead

ChessMan's golden Drustfallen Butcher with two golden Snazzy Phantoms.

Marin the Manager

Read from a stream · may be inexact▶ VOD

Maverick played the same comp with a Butcher, but I suppose got bad hits and less summons.

Zerek, Master Cloner

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Lobby 2: Beasts and Beasts

GOTOR8 on Reno with 6 golden beasts and a Titus, increasing the attack through Offensive Sacrifice.

Reno Jackson

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Alutemu's beetle board had great attack numbers and the fight was a 50/50 on whomever takes it, which Gotor8 won.

Farseer Nobundo

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Lobby 1: the Dagger again

Lyme again, with Elementals and, you guessed it, a Maldraxxus Dagger. Ichoron with a Toreth's + Invulnerability is an absolutely disgusting combination, where it has to be hit 3 times before it's even open to get killed, and other Dark Gifts were on point too. 1st place, and the round that put Lyme through with a game to spare.

Reno Jackson

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Round 7: Beetles

Two lobbies of eight, the top 8 by points go through. FanJka on Captain Eudora won one of them with a classic Beetle board that Alutemu had a round earlier: Scorpids, Reborn Slamas and Beetle trinkets. The biggest minion before combat is 19/25.

Captain Eudora

GuacHS's Aberrations took 2nd, which was enough: both went to the semi-finals. It is FanJka's second 1st place of the day.

Master Nguyen4.3k/2.3k

Heroes, both days

Heroes are counted over both days, 298 boards, since one day is too few for 80 different heroes:

Reno Jackson was the hero of the weekend: 21 of these boards, 9 of them winners. Three Renos went into a late fight on 1 health, and two of them won it.

Armor gets you there, it does not win

The same boards, split by the armor the hero starts with:

Heroes with 15 or more armor are almost a third of everything that reached the late game, so the armor does its job: it keeps a player alive long enough to collect placement points, but they turned those boards into a win only 15 times out of 94, half as often as the heroes with less armor.

The hero power is not always the hero's

On 117/274 boards where the hero power is known, it is not the one that hero starts with. Those boards finished in the top two 62% of the time, against 34% for the boards still on their own power. The two that showed up most are both about the end of a game: surprisingly, Stay Frosty, 9 boards and 5 wins, and not surprisingly Frostwolf Fervor, 8 boards, 5 wins and 7 finishes in the top two.

What was strong over both days

Every board I have from both days, 298 of them, sorted by the comp it is built around. The comps and their core cards come from two tier lists, Firestone's and HSReplay's. A board with pieces of two comps goes to the one its biggest minion belongs to, and a board built around nothing on either list is "No clear comp".

A board only gets captured if its player was still around late in the game, so the average placement across all of them is 2.92, not 4.5. Read every number against 2.92.

Comps seen fewer than six times, 13 boards in all, are left out of the table.

• Menagerie, by a mile, and it is on neither list: 12 of the 13 boards built around The Last One Standing finished in the top two, 7 of them 1st. Tea Set, the Gatekeeper Amalgam comp that HSReplay calls Menagerie, is a different board: 7 of those, 5 in the top two. Four of the Last One Standing boards also had an Amalgam, as one more body.
• Snazzy / Butcher Undead: 10 of 14 in the top two and nothing below 4th.
• Lobster Beasts were all or nothing: 11 firsts and 8 finishes at 5th or lower.
• The S tier did not run the weekend: Felboar, Lobster and Azerite are S on both lists and all three finished at the average or below it. APM Undead is the one S-tier comp above it, on 6 boards.
• Eternal Knights did what both lists say: 11 boards, no 1st place.
• The Dagger: 17 boards with a Maldraxxus Dagger, 6 of them 1st, an average place of 2.18. As long as you manage to survive holding the Dagger, a win is a matter of time (and the opponent not having a Dagger of their own).

What comes next

Lyme, Sevel, GOTOR8, Alutemu, GuacHS, FanJka, DumplingDan and polskikabak play the semi-finals A on November 13 and semi-finals B on November 14 against eight invited streamers, and the final is on November 15.

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Big thanks once again 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.