CC - Episode 027

Coin Concede - Episode 027 “Tournaments and Cards!”

Kenny * Cora * Andres * Cinder

Intro

Welcome to Episode 027 of Coin Concede, a podcast about Hearthstone!

My name is Kenny and . . .

All the way from Thunder Bluff, Louisiana, we have Jase aka “Cinder” with us. How have you been?

All the way from Undercity, Georgia, we have Andres. How have you been?

Ladder?

And all the way from ____, California, we have Kenny. Kenny, how have you been?

If you have any questions during the show, tweet us @CoinConcede or ask in Twitch chat and we may read them in the emails section later on.

News

America’s Winter Champion Interview: Link

Search function expanded upon: Link

New cards: Forbidden Flame, Forbidden Shaping, Ancient Shieldbearer

Dept. of Corrections: Cinder said Chessdude’s w% on ladder with Rogue is 67%; it’s 60%. His w% with Druid is 67%. (wow!)

Change in tournament format for Spring Champs- bo7, single elim (prelims will still be bo5)

HCT EU Winter Championships

Unusual lead-up: all pro players eliminated in preliminaries (Kolento, Gaara, Rdu, Xixo, Neirea, Ostkaka, Thijs, Hoej, Powder, Sjow, SuperJJ); most remaining players are hobbyists
Results: Naiman 1st, DrHippi 2nd (both Hunter players ^_^), pokrovac and BunnyHoppor 3rd/4th
Notable player stories

DrHippi’s Freeze Mage ladder play, otherwise mystery
Pokrovac’s prodigy, trained by StanCifka, only player to take Priest
Tars’s joy of the game
Everyone else’s hobbyist approach

Notable stats:

In 26 matches, (Patron) Warrior banned 12 times; Zoo Lock banned 8 times

Only other bans were 2 Druid, both by Cereza, and 4 Mage, DrHippi’s Freeze Mage each time

Druid again most commonly played, 6 out of 8 lineups and 45% of games; 56% wr
Zoo next most common, 6 out of 8 lineups and 34% of games; 26% wr
Hunter taken by the two finalists; combined 60% wr (when mirror is taken out); both also only players with Freeze Mage

Final note: Naiman’s redemption

iTunes Thank You’s

K4PULET (Canada) - “Im not sure what I meant by that title but this podcast is great despite the incorrect turn one play the title describes. Never just coin and concede. Well unless its turn 15 and all you have is the coin so you might as well just play it and concede. note: If you get to that position in the game you did something wrong, Wait what was i talking about? oh yeah, great podcast. One star. I mean.. Five. Five stars”
Crime_alley (USA) - “Thanks for your feedback! We will try to keep this podcast as positive and informative as possible. Glad to have you listening!”

Stitcher Thank You’s

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Decksplanations

Conquest tournament lineup selection strategy

Different than ladder: ladder decks need to be good against most decks, tournament decks can be more focused because the meta is more “condensed”
Deck by deck: Analyzing a deck’s strong and weak matchups and overall win rates; developing a matchup matrix
Selecting the lineup: Narrowing down decks to balance the strengths and weaknesses of each deck based on expected decks
Consider: Taking off-meta picks to beat the above strategy
Best advice of all: If you do nothing else, take the decks you know
In the Game:

Ban strategy: identifying where your weakest matchup is in your opponent’s lineup
Selection order: Start strong, finish consistent
Studying the opponent: In a large enough tournament, you can study your opponent’s picks to find a pattern. Do they pick a certain deck first? Last? Do they stick with a deck when they lose? If you can predict the pattern, you can try to pick against their expected pick

Card Analysis

New card analysis

C’thun’s Chosen
Ancient Shieldbearer
Forbidden Flame
Forbidden Shaping
Forbidden Healing
Herald Volazj
Infested Tauren
DOOM!
N’zoth’s Tentacle
Hallazeal the Ascended
N’Zoth’s First Mate
Faceless Shambler
Undercity Huckster
N’Zoth, the Corruptor
Renounce Darkness
Brood of N’Zoth

Emails

You can write into the show by sending an email to CoinConcede@gmail.com

Outro

A heart-felt thank you goes out to Erik F for being our first Patreon sponsor, and to Chris B for being our second!!! Keep an eye out for specific changes we’ll be making to our patreon page. We’re coming up with some new exciting things to add for our closest supporters. Go check it out at www.patreon.com/CoinConcede

Thanks!

Thanks to Stéphane L. for letting us use his cover. Check him out on his channel linked on our show notes. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0jtEailO_LSFMikTj6eukg

And thanks to Zoezazu for creating our logo. You can find and follow her @zoezazu on Twitter.