Hearthstone Grandmasters 2021 Season 2 starts this weekend and there have been changes in its formats. There will also be gift drops throughout the tournament. Hearthstone Grandmasters 2021 Season 2 will start on August 13 and have its final on October 10.
Tournament Format and The Calendar
Hearthstone Grandmasters 2021 Season 2 will both use Last Hero Standing and Conquest formats. Specialist format, which was in Season 1, has been removed.
In Last Hero Standing format, the player chooses 4 decks and the opponent bans one of them. The winning player moves on to the next match with the deck they won. The losing player loses their deck and takes one of the remaining decks available.
In Conquest format, the player chooses 4 decks and one of them is banned by the opponent. Once a player wins a match with a deck they cannot play with that deck again. The losing player can change the deck. The first player to win a match with 3 decks will end the match.
The tournament will take place every weekend (including Friday) from August 13 to October 10. The tournament will have a break on the weekend of August 27-30, as it is the Master Tour.
- Streaming Platform: YouTube Gaming
- Days and Date: Friday, Saturday, Sunday: August 13 – August 22 and September 3 – October 10, 2021
- Broadcast start times:
- Asia Pacific Region : 12:00 (2 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. CEST / 6 p.m. KST)
- European Region: 17:00 (7 a.m. PDT / 4 p.m. CEST / 11 p.m. KST)
- Americas: 22:00 (12 p.m. PDT / 9 p.m. CEST / 4 a.m. KST)
Tournament Drops!
You can earn a total of 6 drops while watching Hearthstone Grandmasters 2021 Season 2. You get 1 package as a reward for every 2 hours of broadcast you watch from one of the Hearthstone esports channels. Since each reward is cumulative, even if you don’t watch all of them in one sitting, you will receive your 2 pack rewards when you watch 4 hours in total.
- Grandmasters Week 1: 2 packs of United in Stormwind
- Grandmasters 2.-7. Week: 2x Year of the Phoenix packs (Year of the Phoenix)
- Grandmasters Playoffs: 2 packs of United in Stormwind
Account Linking!
You must link your YouTube and Blizzard Battle.net account before receiving the reward. You can follow the steps below to link your account:
- Open (or create) a Youtube account.
- Open the “Connected Applications” section.
- Hit “Connect” from the Battle.net column.
- After connecting your account, the reward will come to your account.
Deck Distribution by Regions!
Hearthstone Grandmasters 2021 Season 2 first week decks have been revealed. Warlock was the most brought deck in America and Europe. Overall, the European players’ deck selection was OTK Demon Hunter, Face Hunter, Questline Warlock, and Questline Mage.
General game plan; Do not finish your questline with extremely aggressive decks against questline playing classes. The reason the Warrior deck wasn’t selected for Europe is that Questline is powerless against popular decks. Control Warrior may be slow. It looks like OTK Demon Hunter has been brought against Questline-based Warlock decks for America. These two decks have managed to become the most popular decks in America. In Asia-Pacific, on the other hand, there is a completely different distribution of meta and decks. This week, the meta was built on very fast decks and early completed Questlines, although the percentage of wins is still unclear due to the hectic meta of the decks.
