#89 - The Angry Chicken: “Title”

w/ Michele Morrow & Amaz

• Garrett • Jocelyn • Dills

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Michele Morrow Interview

Voice of Alleria Windrunner, leader of Nerdist.com’s WoW guild, and one of the hosts of BlizzCon 2014.

For anyone who doesn’t know who you are out there, what do you do, or maybe, what do you not do might be a shorter list, but tell us about yourself and some of your projects.

Favorite class/deck in Hearthstone. Favorite card?

How do you play Hearthstone? Arena, Constructed? Casual games with friends?

Did you have any background with card games before Hearthstone?

How did the gig as the voice of Alleria come about and describe the process of voicing a character in warcraft universe.

I know you are the guild/raid leader for the Nerdist guild. What class/race do you play and where are you guys progression-wise? How did you come about that role in the game and what raiding mean to you personally?

I know we are a Hearthstone podcast but describe the feeling in the room at Heroes of the Dorm. What does the future of eSports look like to you and where do Blizzard games fit into that future.

Thoughts on Tavern Brawl?

Make up any feature for Hearthstone, regardless of how hard you think it would be for Yong Woo to make it. What would it be?

Who would be your choice to voice in the future or portray if you were cast in the Warcraft movie?

Amaz ATLC Interview

Reddit thread for questions

Archon Team League Championship Format

Teams

• Teams will consist of 3 players each

Decks

• Each player will bring 2 decks each
• All 6 decks across a team must be a unique class
• Each team blind picks a deck for a game, effectively picking the player as well.

• If a player loses with both their decks they are “Banished” (locked out until another teammate wins a game).

• The winning deck of a match is locked

• The first team to lock all 6 decks wins

Format

• 9 weeks of Round Robin

• During these 9 weeks each team of three players will play every other team once.

• At the end of the 9 weeks all the teams will have their scores tallied (including tie-breakers)
• First 2 teams advance directly to the live finale
• 3rd - 5th move on to the Satellite round

• 6th & 7th place compete in the Redemption round for the 4th slot in the Satelitte round
• The 4 teams in the Satelitte round compete for the other 2 finale slots

• The 8th place team is eliminated.

Reddit Questions

• Top voted question by Percinho: 

There's going to be 7 weeks of games to eliminate just 1 team. It is, effectively, a seven week seeding round. Traditional sports have 50% or fewer teams going through to the playoffs, and the LoL EU LCS has 60%. This tournament will have 87.5% of teams qualifying for the playoffs.

Does he think the momentum of the tournament will hold up for that long without much jeopardy for most the teams involved?

• Follow-up by LobsterPlayground:

Why is the tournament structured as it is? What are the benefits and drawbacks to allowing teams to progress so far and so long without being knocked out?

• CakeOrDeath:

Will teams know before hand which player is assigned to which class?

Gives away a lot of info and possibly allows for tactical play. For Value town for example if trump is playing warrior its very likely control. If its dog its probably patron.

How did the teams Forsen Boys and Value town get created?

• Multiple folks asking who are the casters

• Helderz:

Why isn't Amaz giving underground teams (good players, but not famous - for example mYinsanity or SK) a chance to get a spot in such a tournament?

Or will there be a possibility for underground teams to qualify at a future point?

• With that much prize money and time to work with (9+ weeks), why did you choose an invite only team format instead of running multiple individual tournaments with smaller but still significant prize pools?

Links

• ATLC Schedule: http://teamarchon.com/news/70-archon-teamleague-championship---schedule
• Format video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6zGheFLXUE
• Teams: http://teamarchon.com/news/71-archon-team-league-championship---the-teams

Outro

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Personal Stuff

Dill’s where else can everyone find you?

Follow Dills @WillieDills

The Instance - The World of Warcraft podcast so you don’t have to

TortureCast - A podcast by and for fans of the San Francisco Giants

Joce where can you be found?

Follow Jocelyn @GISgamer

The Gamers’ Inn

Follow Garrett @GarrettArt

NOMOONart.com for Garrett’s stream designs.

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