Greetings, travelers. Welcome to the first installment of the Hearthstone Tournament Recap, brought to you by the team at Coin Concede: a Hearthstone podcast dedicated to making the competitive side of the game more accessible to you. We?re here to bring you an update on the last week in tournament Hearthstone – and while we’re all very excited for The Boomsday Project to come out in a scant few days, there are still a couple of major tournaments to celebrate the end of the Witchwood meta. Let’s dive right in!

The first year of the HCT Tour Stop circuit is continuing forward in Tokyo, and these officially sponsored near-weekly tournaments are great for keeping tabs on a constantly evolving tournament meta. As a reminder, all HCT events are Conquest format – in this format, both players bring 4 decks from 4 different classes. Before the match, players ban one class from their opponent’s lineup. After that, they must win with each of their decks and they cannot keep playing a deck that has earned a win. This is a typical “Best of 5" format. The tournament consisted of 16 players who had all placed in the top 4 of qualifiers from months prior. After 3 rounds of group play, our elimination rounds looked like this:

Hinaya ended up taking the tournament as a hometown hero over Alan870806, with Hunterace and Machamp rounding out the top 4. Hunterace’s hot streak continues – for those unaware, he is having an unbelievable year,...