one of the way to enjoy holiday eh.

how does matching works in this kind of tourney?

oh. but i thought you'll be matched with random player in Brawl?

First thing I noticed... Hey, my opponent's hero is animated aka gold hero. Deep inside, I knew it was not going to be an easy one. Looks like I'll be dropping rank, I told myself.

Match starts. As always, I greet my opponent with a "Hello" (or whatever the Paladin guy says). 

I got a threat from that Warrior opponent. Ya, not a hello but a threat. Looks like it's going to be a mean battle... 

Turn 4, I had buffed a minion with +4/+4 and thought I'm doing great. That's when things started to go downhill for me. 

It felt like every turn, my opponent seems to have a legendary drop. I know there was one where it will spawn a 2/2 taunt minion at the end of turn. There's also the one that buffed his hero power to give him 4 armour each turn.There's also the one that gave me a card which deals me 10 damage when I draw it (and I did get that card mid game). There as also the one that cannot attach but will deal 8 damage to random enemy. And I think probably a few more that I could not remember.

I was on the defensive most of the time. 

It was not helped by the fact that at every turn, I felt like I was being taunted. Opponent kept spamming "I'm sorry" thingy. At one stage, I was about to just hit the CONCEDE button but because of the smug attitude I was getting (that "I'm sorry" thingy), I told myself to just go to the end and see what happens. I had clicked this "cogwheel" thing and almost hit CONCEDE button...

I guess my defensive moves paid off. OK, there were two occasions that his BRAWL helped... A bit. And I also had my share of board clears -- mainly with Equality + Consecration/ Paladin hero power.

But that buffed hero power and the cards that granted him armor + card draw, etc... 

Surprisingly, I managed to drag on... 

...Till... My opponent ran out of cards. One of his last cards was this legend that let him draw 3 cards and put any minion directly into battle field. So, that got him on the fatigue expressway.

I recall the last BRAWL was towards the end and he got lucky, ending up with his minion (down to one health).

I guess I got lucky as my next card (I still had a few cards left), I drew a "Muster for Battle". Weapon finished off his minion. He had nothing left. I had 3 minions and more health than my opponent.

He conceded.

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Your gf also play? So cool. The chest reward now get liao? Just now I play dun haf. U wat server?

A New Way to Play
http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/19995505

Exciting changes are coming to the Tavern! We’re proud to announce that we’re introducing game formats to Hearthstone! Whether you’re just getting into Hearthstone or you’re a seasoned veteran, the new Standard format will help keep Hearthstone fresh, exciting, and accessible for years to come, while the Wild format will preserve everything you already know and love about Hearthstone!

Well in some cases it's cheaper. For e.g. if you wanted Death's Bite, before you either have to cough up the USD or grind 2800gp for 4 Naxx wings just to be able to use it. Now you can craft for a measly 40dust each.

It's written there in the blizzard blog post: http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/1...o-play-2-2-2016

Under the section "Gone Wild":

"Some classes have too many cards that are just too high power level," he said. "It makes it very hard to make new cards for classes like druid, because they have so many really good cards in Basic and Classic. We have to do some nerfs to make sure we can still see a different druid deck as a new set comes out."

the bad thing however is, making old expansions non obtainable. this is because you can no longer purchase it...... so if your a new player or hadn't yet got it, you'll never be able to try it.... sounds retarded..... bad decision. you can still obtain the cards by crafting them, however people like me enjoy playing the boss adventure mode. so why bar people out just because they are late comers, or got around to it much later.....

Anyone playing this game at android platform? Internet review always say have log in issue. Is this correct?

wondering if anyone has participated in those tourney/ competition... can share your experience?

example of another upcoming tourney:
http://www.gosuhct.com/hearthstone/tournam...ast-asia-spring

iinm it should start at 1pm our time on 6th march 2016 (sunday).

i'm curious to know typically how long it can last... i mean, i know if go to final, then probably take like many, many hours...

but one round, typically... 1.5hrs? best of 3... so, assuming about 20mins per game... should also still be only 60mins. but i guess maybe player late, etc...

coz tempted to just join for the fun of it. after all, seems FOC to join and who knows... can get lucky. this coming tourney, got some cash prizes.

new patch/ version is horrible... at least for Android. i can't even get it to load properly... :S