Reflection on the past Gwent Open
I watched the event for the first time, which was quite entertaining and exceeded my expectations. Previously I didn't watch such events because I thought they would be boring if I'm not playing myself. In any case, here's what we can take out of this event.
1. MO Deathwish decks were unstoppable. Literally, there was only one match, where deathwish deck lost to non-deathwish opponent. All participants played those decks very well.
2. By some reason nobody except the future champion brought greatswords deck to the tournament. It performed really well and got permanently banned right after the first round where it showed dominating performance.
3. Skellige veterans deck sucks. The guy who brought it played very well overall, but that deck caused him a lot of losses and cost him an overall loss (lost all 3 games in semis only with that deck).
4. All NG decks were Calveit alchemy, all but one MO were Dagon deathwish decks (only one player brought AQ consume), all SC were Brouver Hoog elf swarms, all NR decks were pretty much identical Henselt machines with rams and reinforced ballistae boosting BB, SK decks were all different and every player had his own ideas what works the best (this was the only faction to have a variety of decks).
I watched the event for the first time, which was quite entertaining and exceeded my expectations. Previously I didn't watch such events because I thought they would be boring if I'm not playing myself. In any case, here's what we can take out of this event.
1. MO Deathwish decks were unstoppable. Literally, there was only one match, where deathwish deck lost to non-deathwish opponent. All participants played those decks very well.
2. By some reason nobody except the future champion brought greatswords deck to the tournament. It performed really well and got permanently banned right after the first round where it showed dominating performance.
3. Skellige veterans deck sucks. The guy who brought it played very well overall, but that deck caused him a lot of losses and cost him an overall loss (lost all 3 games in semis only with that deck).
4. All NG decks were Calveit alchemy, all but one MO were Dagon deathwish decks (only one player brought AQ consume), all SC were Brouver Hoog elf swarms, all NR decks were pretty much identical Henselt machines with rams and reinforced ballistae boosting BB, SK decks were all different and every player had his own ideas what works the best (this was the only faction to have a variety of decks).