After a long battle between 16 Southeast Asian Hearthstone teams that started last Sunday (March 15, 2015), Team Begal Begajulan from Indonesia emerged as the champion of the Captain’s Draft SEA Hearthstone tournament. Second place went to Thailand’s Loveless and third to Singapore’s Mech Warriors. The grand finals was held online on March 21, 2015.
Begal Begajulan’s members are Aldy "Ignis” Wirawan (the team captain), Andreas Aditya “Nyiknyuknyek” Hermawan, David "Keps” Darmawan, Putra "Yuiboss" Al Kauser, and Yoshioka "Yoshiokawa" Wakhid. The members have never met each other; how they became a team was made possible by Farando (the Hearthstone Indonesia community admin), who grouped all three Indonesian teams by region. Garuda Rising was from Jakarta, Winged Hope from Surabaya and Begal Begajulan are the rest of the members who were scattered across Indonesia. A poll conducted within the Indonesian community then decided the team’s name, much to the amusement of the members, because Begal Begajulan roughly means ‘chaotic motorcycle hijackers’.
“The most memorable moment was when we played in the semifinals against Singapore’s MechWarriors...” - Ignis, Begal Begajulan team captain.
When asked how the team prepared for the tournament, Nyiknyuknyek said, “We were using Skype [sic] to play and discuss strategy together--from drafting until the actual gameplay. Prior the tournament, we discussed which class is the favourite of each player and we made sure that each class can be played by at least two people, just in case one is not available during the tournament date. Yuiboss was supposed to handle the Rogue class, but it was always picked by our opponents; Yoshiokawa was also supposed to handle Warlock (zoo) and Priest, but these classes don’t really fit in the current meta. However, even if they were not able to play, they still stayed on Skype and discussed during our other teammates' games."
“The most memorable moment was when we played in the semifinals against Singapore’s MechWarriors. The score at that time was 2-2 and our team sent Paladin while the enemy was Oil Rogue. We almost lost but I kept saying that we'll win. It turned out that the enemy didn't have enough combo to kill us and we just topdecked a Coghammer--it was exact lethal. So much win!” said Ignis, the team captain.
“I think Captain’s Draft format is best for teamwork. My team all helped each other in every single match we played. We listened to each other." - ckpbs, Loveless team captain
In the finals, there were obvious technical issues at Loveless’ side however the players agreed to continue the game since it was stated in the rules that a loss by disconnect is still counted as a loss. After the games ended, second-place Loveless' team captain remarked, “I think Captain’s Draft format is best for teamwork. My team all helped each other in every single match we played. We listened to each other. At first I did not think that my team could go this far, you know like Philippines' OCWG (Ozzy, Chalk, Waningmoon and Genji) has very experienced players, but we have great teamwork and bond between our team mates. And I want to thank TGU, another team from Thailand, for their great support."
"I would say lets get better together since [sic] players from the SEA Hearthstone community are not known in the international competition scene. I would love to see players get to something like maybe top 8 at Blizzcon this year,” added Nyiknyuknyek.
As mentioned in the previous coverage, this Hearthstone tournament was played using Captain’s Draft format, which was inspired by llegar’s DraftKO from hearthstoneopen.com and Captain’s Mode of DotA. The tournament was a collaboration between the different Hearthstone SEA community admins and Blizzard SEA, and this is the first online Hearthstone SEA tournament initiated and organized by the players themselves. The tournament was streamed at Complexity Gaming’s twitch channel, twitch.tv/colcast. Complexity Gaming’s General Manager, Kyle “Beef” Bautista and Hearthstone Manager, Sören “Fantasy” Vendsahm casted the two-day event, and was joined by Hearthstone professional player, TheJordude at the finals.
Decklists
Indonesia - Begal Begajulan | Thailand - Loveless | Singapore - Mech Warriors
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