#102 - The Angry Chicken: “Title”

• Garrett • Jocelyn • Dills

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Intro:  Welcome to The Angry Chicken!

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Tonight we’ll be talking about the new TeSPA tournament, the Nozdormu bug, a strategy discussion about hitting legend, your emails, and the winners for our giveaway from last week.

But first we will be sitting down with our guest this week. You can find him filling your brains with Hearthstone knowledge on Youtube, Twitch, and many tournaments, he is Kripparrian!

Interview with Kripparrian

Intro

• You are no stranger to Blizzard games. You are known for your achievements in WoW (as a member of the Exodus guild and as one of the top DPS Hunters). As well as your Diablo 3 accolades (first Hardcore Inferno difficulty Diablo kill). For those unfamiliar, what brought you into Hearthstone?

Streaming

• What was the motivation to go from being a guy who played a lot of games to someone who makes videos and streams?
• When are you gonna push the button?
• What do you think the future of streaming and gaming content looks like? Is this a job that you think you can keep doing forever?

Hearthstone

• How do you think TGT has affected the arena meta?
• What feature or change would you like to see in Hearthstone the most?
• You recently hit Legend for the first time. How do you feel about Hearthstone’s ladder system? How would you change it?
• Is there a way to min/max in Hearthstone? I figure if there is you would have found it.

If Time

• You’ve been part of many high-profile Hearthstone events. Is there one particular event you remember the fondest?

• Follow up: What about being involved in major events that didn’t end so well like ESGN?

• Twitter questions

Link to Kripp’s video detailing Brode’s Arena talk from TAC100: https://youtu.be/drPz6Pwe2Kc

News

You can submit stories and vote on the TAC subreddit at TACpodcast.reddit.com.

Nozdormu/Joust Bug Fixed

Last week, some less-than-honorable players figured out that if you played multiple Joust minions with Nozdormu on the board that the animations for the Joust would go longer than their opponent’s turn so that they could not play at all. Needless to say this set the forums and fansites on fire. Community manager Wirthun tweeted shortly after the uproar that this was a bug, Team 5 was aware of it, and it was being working on. This past Thursday a hotfix went live fixing this issue.

$100,000 TeSPA Hearthstone Tournament

Starting this fall TeSPA is putting on a Collegiate Hearthstone tournament with a $100,000 in scholarships as the prize.

The format of the tournament has a twist as it is team-based. Teams from the U.S. and Canadian colleges will consist of three players. All three players will be able to work together against their three opponent’s playing one deck at a time as a unit. Accounts can be switched in between games. The overarching format is a standard Best of 5 Conquest (first team to win with all three of their classes moves on).

The top team from each of four regions will move on to compete at the live finals event later this year.

16 Minute Hearthstone Turn

Perfect boardstate. Priest with Thoughtstolen Dreadsteed vs a Warlock. Both get the exact same board state of two super-buffed Jugglers and 5 Dreadsteeds which cause a near endless chain reaction of Dreadsteeds dying, coming back, and firing off one knife at a time for 16 minutes.

Patreon Thanks Before Strategies

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• Bryan C
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• Fatty E

Strategy

Getting to Legend with Kripp

• You’re well known for Arena in Hearthstone, but last season you reached Legend for the first time. How did you make the mental switch?

• Follow up: What tips would you give to fellow Arena players who have been wanting to make the constructed climb, but may not be sure how their Arena skills will apply?

• What motivated you to actually go for legend?
• Any chance you want to do it again?
• I know you like to make your own decks. How do you go about making a fun deck viable?

* Give Kripp the floor to promote all his stuff.

Emails

You can send your emails to TACpodcast@gmail.com.

Jeroen (Yer-own) from the Netherlands

Hello happy Cluckers,

I have a question concerning picks in Arena. Firstly, I tend go for the safe pick. A card that will always perform, in any situation. As a result I find it hard to draft a coherent deck. The one is maybe a bit more aggressive than the other. But I can’t get to draft mechs or dragons for example.

I guess the underlying problem is that I have no idea in the first ten cards how many more chances I will get to pick spells/dragons/aggressive creatures/etc. Therefore it seems to be a big risk to dive into a specific strategy from the start. However, in the last portion of the picks it is too late to jump into a specific deck, although I see perfect cards for it in these last picks (Mechwarper for example).

Could you give me some advise to navigate through the picks to get a linear and cohesive deck without taking too much risk? Thanks.

And thanks a lot for the show. I appreciate the laid back style mixed with playing advice. (I have been playing ‘free to play’ for ten weeks now. I listened to quite some of your shows already and it makes playing Hearthstone much more fun.)

Schandlich

Hello Chickens! I have been trying semi-seriously since GVG to get to legend. I usually get around Ranks 7-5 and then run out of time. So the last two seasons I have tried to get an earlier start. I usually play an "anti-aggro" deck I have been honing for the past few seasons and it works well for me. Eventually, I switch to a control deck and finish the season using that one. The part I am having trouble with is the transition.

I always seem to calculate incorrectly when the meta has shifted away from aggro and I find myself trying to force one deck too soon or too late in a meta that is still transitioning. I then find myself spending a good chunk of the remaining season bouncing around 10-8. Is there any advice you can give me? Love the show.

Outro

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Personal Stuff

Dill’s where else can everyone find you?

Follow Dills @WillieDills

Check out my stream at twitch.tv/williedillssf

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Joce where can you be found?

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