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In the battle of the streamers, the Swede took on Brian Kibler and won the $2,000 first place prize after five games.
Following the ideas set by the Challengestone tournament, the GEICO Summer Brawl gave its eight competitors a deckbuilding task, though unlike Rania Hatzi’s creation, this one had somewhat convoluted parameters.
Three decks of three classes had to be built, only using cards which had two or more factors of 15 in their mana cost, stats or card text. Confused? Let us explain then.
The factors of 15 are 1, 3, 5 and 15. If a card has two or more of these factors on it, it’s allowed. For example, [card]Earth Shock[/card] is a legit card, because it has (1) as the mana cost and deals (1) damage. [card]Sen'jin Shieldmasta[/card] is also a legit card because it has (3) for attack and (5) for health. At the same time, a card like [card]Mad Scientist[/card] is not allowed due to being 2/2 for 2 (no factors of 15) and neither is something like [card]Whirling Zap-o-matic[/card] (3/2 for 2 mana, so only one factor of 15). Additionally, all players had to have [card]Nozdormu[/card] in their decks. Poor Lifecoach.
On the first day, it was Sebastian “Forsen” Fors who reached the grand finals. The popular streamer dropped only two games as he 3-0’d Jeffrey “Trump” Shih in the quarter finals and won a back-and-forth series against fellow Norseman Janne “Savjz” Mikkonen.
Forsen patiently waited for the bottom half of the bracket to be completed last night as he saw MTG veteran Brian Kibler make his second deckbuilding grand final after winning Challengestone #1. Though looking forward to taking his second gold medal in Hearthstone, Kibler only took one game off of Forsen and ended up falling 1-4.
This is the second tournament victory for Forsen after he took HTC Invitational in May. The Swede looks to be in a phase of improving tournament performance as he also snatched the silver at the HyperX Head-to-Head just three days after reigning over HTC.
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