#133 - The Angry Chicken: “Title”
• Garrett • Jocelyn • Dills
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Ohio State defeats UC Santa Barbara
The third TeSPA Hearthstone Championship started back in September and Ohio State is now the 3rd TeSPA HS Champion!
The finals took place this past weekend at PAX South. This championship used the Team Format which lead to some slower turns as teammate deliberations tend to result in.
The Finals went to the fifth and final game with Ohio State piloting their Mage to victory thanks in part to the questionable decision of UC Santa Barbara leaving Ohio’s Flamewaker alive longer than they should have (we all love drawing cards with Ancient of Lore but Flamewakers must die!).
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Why is the meta not shifting?
The game has been out for a couple years now and yet the most recent Tempo Storm meta snapshot features a top tier including Zoo, Tempo Mage and Midrange Druid. Secret Paladin is the only “new” addition.
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Sam
Greetings Featherless Fowl!
I was playing against a rogue on ladder using my new Golden Monkey Reno Mage deck. I played a mad scientist on turn one and by turn three, it deathrattled a duplicate. I played Elise Starseeker on turn 4 not really thinking about duplicating her but simply trying to get my glorious monkey out as soon as possible. By that time I realized I was playing against a fatigue rogue and once he removed my Elise, giving me two more in my hand, I learned quickly how effective of a counter she can be against fatigue rogue (but mostly just fun).
I played another Elise on turn five and he sapped it back to my hand. Eventually I got another one out, which he vanished back into my hand. He double cold light oracled and I discarded two maps, but I knew more were on their way. By the end of the game, I had played 6 Elise Starseekers because of his combination of 2 saps, 1 vanish, my duplicate, and my original Elise. The rogue kept the game going for quite a while probably just allowing me to have my fun, as I kept drawing for my maps then monkey until I finally played it. Although the deck isn't very consistent, it sure is fun to play around rank 14, where you still see a variety of fun decks among the competitive ones.
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Hey gang, just wanted to throw a tiny contribution at the secret discussion from show #132. The only point where I disagree with your opinions regarding secret tempo is that the priest, druid, shaman, warrior, and warlock classes have absolutely no way to "play" during their opponent's' turns whereas the classes with secrets do. What would be nice, or would at least be worth looking into is some method for providing the same mechanic to help even things out. Okay, that's all. Keep up the great work, love the show.
Tony
I keep getting the into situations in the arena where my opponent puts a blessing of wisdom on my minion. At what point should I not attack? when should I be ok to attack with this minion? I have had it happen early and late game. when do I decide it is ok to keep attacking regardless of the opponent getting a card draw out of it?
Alan
Hey TAC Crew,
About a month ago I finally upgraded to a new iphone, and the first thing I did was download Hearthstone! At first, I thought it was great and I loved being able to play Hearthstone anywhere.
However, I soon realized that I actually hate having it on my phone- I found myself constantly wanting to play it in situations where normally I would not have, such as over lunch break at work, in the bathroom (no shame!), or really any time. I was trying to squeeze in games when I probably didn't have the time, just because I could. Because I could play it anywhere I found myself doing other things I enjoy less because all I wanted to do was play hearthstone.
In the end, I deleted Hearthstone and am now slowly returning to my old ways of playing on my computer or ipad (when my wife isn't using it, ha!).
Just wondering if others have felt this way and thought it might be a nice topic of discussion on the show.
Thanks so much!
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