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Hello everyone! We're back with another set of THLDOKU grids for you to solve. This week, the theme is finals. All players listed were involved in at least one series finals this season. As always, here are some basic rules to follow:
   Answers will be posted in the THL Discord server later this week.
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Hey everyone! We're here again with the next set of THLDOKU grids for you to solve. This week, grids focus on captains in unrated series. Grid 1 is entirely Pro Series captains, grid 2 is all Wild Series captains, and grid 3 is BGs/Pro EU.
As always, here are some basic rules to follow:
And now your puzzles: Hey everyone! We're back with the second set of THLDOKU grids for you to solve. This week, THL alum and food debater extraordinaire Donde made 3 new grids for the community.
As always, here are some basic rules to follow:
And now your puzzles: Hello THL,
For today’s interview, I have the captain and head honcho of F2L and Hall of Famer, Rebobson. Diamond: What do you look for when constructing your roster? Rebobson: The main thing I tend to look for with rosters is vibe, though obviously being good players comes into it as well. If I know somebody to be someone who's particularly prone to ranting, or salt, that always comes into my thinking, likewise if I know someone is super helpful, particularly towards lower seeds, that’s a major plus. I would always have a 1000 Legend player that helps their teammates over a top 10 Legend who doesn’t say much. At lower seeds in the PR series (<300PR or so), I don’t really look at PR, rather that players' attitude. The most important thing for players in that bracket is being receptive to advice and constructive criticism; the ones who are keen to learn and improve are always the ones who break out of that bracket, and are the ones I’m always happy to have back. Diamond: How would you describe your captaining style? Rebobson: My captaining style has changed a lot as the game has changed and time has gone on and I increasingly have become more established. I used to go pretty deep in the tank to help my players prep in the early days (we’re talking Boars and VONC here), and in those days, there were so many edges you could get with prep and stats, particularly in LHS (just don’t target Murloc Priest). Increasingly, I think as class identity has blurred and the game does rely much more on individual player knowledge in game. That’s less my focus, and now it’s more sitting back and letting people do their own thing. For any questions players have, I’ll always do my best to answer and go over their choices with them, but I do take it more passively and allow my players to do their own thing and come to me with questions if they have them these days. Though a big part of that is also my IRL commitments have drastically changed through the years; I’ve gone from an unemployed student to an employed engineer who’s getting married this weekend across the span of F2L’s existence, so I have really had to re-evaluate my relationship with THL through the years and changes thing up in order to keep things working. Diamond: You've won a lot of championships in THL, and Legacy is the last one you need to chase down; what do you think it will take to get there? Rebobson: I still have nightmares about the aforementioned Murloc Priest target that marred my closest attempt with VONC many years ago. Legacy is honestly the series you need the fewest things to go wrong in; if you have a player who’s not really enjoying that meta or just isn’t doing well, you’re basically down a player for most of the season. F2L: White have made so many playoffs, it’s probably only a matter of time before it eventually happens, just missed that little bit of luck that can be the deciding factor when you reach single elimination stages. Diamond: What seasons have been your favourite in your tenure in THL thus far? Rebobson: Oh man, there have been so many. Early days, the season with Vote of No Confidence in Legacy was exceptional vibes, likewise the championship winning season with the Boars. From the FTL/F2L era, it’s harder to pick single seasons, as it's been much more of a continuous, ongoing thing, which tends to continue in between seasons. The first FTL Pro title was especially sweet, given the historical context at the time. Honestly, the past couple of years have been a pretty continuous good time, and easily the best vibes through my time in THL. Hey everyone! We have a new (hopefully) weekly blog post for members to check out. THLDOKU is simple: each row and column will list a captain. The cells are then filled with a player that played under both captains in any previous THL series. That means Legacy, Hero, Pro, Wild, Trios, Pro EU, and BGs are all fair game.
Here are some basic rules to follow:
With that said, we have a few THLDOKU grids for readers to try out this week. Here are your puzzles: Hello THL,
For today’s interview, I have the captain of the Worldshakers, Remember the Titans and The One Owl-malgam Band, Copa. Diamond: What do you look for when constructing your roster? Copa: Hello! First of all, thanks a lot for having me, I’m excited to give an interview there! To answer the question: First, I don’t captain in the Legacy and Hero series. Therefore, I don’t have to take PR into account, which is very helpful for the way I build my rosters. Second, thanks to the many teams I played for during these two years, I know a lot of players I’d want to team up with. Now for the way I build my rosters: usually, I’m mostly looking for people who are communicative and fun to be around. So first, I ask the people I’ve played with in the past, or those I heard great things about. For example, for the first iteration of the Worldshakers, the very first time I had to build a roster, I asked SiNF3RN0 and Gummbii, who I know are great people and huge fans of Shaman. Then I looked for people who wanted to dive into THL. This is how most of the recruitment phases went for the Wild series: just looking for friends and/or people who want to give this series a try. Pro went a bit differently. At the time, I was playing for Owl’s team. We wanted to stay together, but Owl couldn’t fulfill the captain’s responsibilities. So, since I had some experience as a captain, I just took over the captaincy and it has continued like this since then. Same as the Wild series, I’ve been playing with the same people since the start: Hustle, Stinzy and Owl (except this season for the latter). And to fill the remaining slots, I asked good friends of mine and/or past teammates I wanted to play with again. Diamond: How would you describe your captaining style? Copa: I would say collaborative. I don’t see my role as a captain AND his players, I see it more like a player who’s playing alongside other friends, but I happen to be the one who register the teams and fill the subforms, basically. Diamond: How does captaining in the Pro series differ from the Wild series? Copa: It doesn’t differ much from my experience. I would say the commitment is a bit different maybe? Players in the pro series tend to tryhard more than in the Wild series, which is mostly made of either Standard players who are tipping their toes in Wild, or dedicated Wild players who play in high legend and nothing else. So, Pro players will usually spend more time prepping and building a lineup, though it’s also the case in Wild, but just less often. At the end of the day, in both series, I make sure my players are submitting their decks in time. I also try, as much as possible, to ask them about their strategy before they submit, mostly by sharing with them the scouting of their opponent, and trying to break it down to figure out a lineup. So yeah, it doesn’t differ much, apart from the commitment for some players, but I respect that. That’s about it. Hello THL,
For today’s interview, I have a Hall of Fame captain and arguably the greatest Hero Series captain of all time, Nineeyebrows. Diamond: What do you look for when constructing your rosters? Nine: Every roster I have captained has revolved around the core of SkrtReynolds/YouKittenMe/cmaccomph and me, so my job is just to find one or two who will mold well with us. Diamond: How would you describe your captaining style? Nine: Team-oriented? Like, I like to let my players decide what they wanna play and how they wanna approach each week. There is a lot of discussion between us all and I just focus heavily on all of us getting along and HAVING FUN. Diamond: Are there any moments over your time captaining that stick out? Nine: Hmm, the EWTWMSS season has to be my favorite. The shirts we got and all that were so incredible. Diamond: Do you find that you captain differently when you are playing versus when you are not playing? Nine: I find that I do, however the only seasons I did step back were seasons where we had AlwaysJustinTime on the team and that guy is so smurf that my job was easy. Hello THL,
For today’s interview, I have the captain of the Sleepyhead Shakers and recent Hall of Fame Captain, Seth(ForChrist). Diamond: What do you look for when constructing your roster? Seth: I try to find some players that I know from ladder or streams that I’ve interacted with. I look for players who want to have fun but also can be competitive with the best teams. Diamond: How would you describe your captaining style? Seth: Very laid-back, just checking in a few times a week to make sure matches are scheduled and played, decks are submitted on time, etc. I’m very hands-off for the most part; my team has been around a while so they got a good handle on it. Diamond: Do you have any interest in captaining other series besides Wild? Seth: I’ve captained in Pro before and enjoyed it, I may return to captaining Standard series in the future. Diamond: What seasons have been your favourite in your tenure in THL thus far? Seth: All of my Wild seasons have been a blast, but especially our championship season and my undefeated season are highlights. Hello THL,
For today’s interview, I have last season’s Legacy-winning captain and HearthCenter’s own Geranium Battle. Diamond: What do you look for when constructing your rosters? Geranium: I mostly look for players who will be happy at their team position for the entire season. Because I almost exclusively captain the PR series (Hero and Legacy), players will likely be locked into that position for the season. I look at everything I know about the player (THL performance, ladder performance, being talkative, self-confidence, preparation, really anything I can scrounge up) and then make a guesstimate on whether they will very likely have an even season or better. If an entire team goes even on the season, they are usually winning enough weeks to be in playoff contention. If a player goes even, they usually feel okay enough to not be down on themselves and have their playoff performance suffer. They do have to be happy in that position, though. During my first seasons captaining Hero, DoctorBOMD was a player who only wanted to play in the 4 seed, despite already having a solid performance as a Legacy 1 seed under his belt. Clearly, he’s broken free from that mental block, seeing as he plays at the top of his rosters in every series. Still, even if a player could compete at the highest levels, they have to want to play there, or else you risk them throwing up their hands and saying, “See? There’s nothing I could do! I might as well not even practice!” Having happy players means you can work with them to try and set them up for success so much easier. Today I am launching a brand new series, covering decks, mulligans, and potentially even spicier inclusions..
I also will be interviewing a member of the THL community each post and learning more about them and their styles of deckbuilding and play. In this article, I will be covering the new meta molder, Control/Tempo Warrior! My interviewee this time will be Nice Jewish Owl, a standout member of the community with a particular knack for Control Warrior. ===================== Q: Before we get started with the deck itself, NJO, what’s your reason for starting out in Hearthstone; what drew you to it? A: "I actually watched Kripp videos for a few weeks before I ever started playing Hearthstone. I don't know why but I [got] recommended some of his vids on Youtube and decided to try out Hearthstone as soon as it was released on mobile.” “(I think I played for at least a year or two as a mobile only gamer, I had a literal pen and paper deck-tracker to know whether my Reno was active in my Freeze Mage list)." Q: How long were you a mobile gamer for? A:”I don't remember when exactly I switched to playing on my computer, it was at some point in high school, so around 2014-2015.“ Q: When you first started the game, what was your initial favorite class, and how has it changed over the years if at all? A: "My initial favorite class was definitely Mage, I was a huge fan of Freeze Mage back in the day. I started playing Control Warrior around Scholomance, and with the birth of ETC warrior in Darkmoon Faire I became the Warrior 1-trick I'm known as now." Righteous! Now, let’s get right into the deck guide! |
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