The Wizards Trial NA 1

Overview

Saturday May 4th, 2024, 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM EST and Sunday May 5th, 2024, 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM EST
The Wizards Trial NA 1

• Monthly NA tournament of The Wizards Trial series hosted by Illuzion Gaming with double elimination bracket, multi-match sets, and hero drafting.
• Signups: Closed
• Bracket: Start.gg
• Organizer: Dave

Rules

• Double Elimination
• All sets are Bo3, but if more than 8 teams round 1 winners sets are Bo1.
• Grand finals is a single bo3 there is no bracket reset.
• Map one is chosen by a banning phase back and forth in discord chat until only one map is left.
  • Higher seed bans first.
• After, the losing team chooses the next map(s). You cannot play the same map twice in a series
• Higher seed hosts game 1(Unless both teams agree on a specific host with best setup for that series).
  • The losing team of that map will host the next game (even if it is the same team as the game prior).
  • The host must be in NA.
• Team comps are chosen through a draft (managed through google slides).
  • Mirrors are allowed.
  • Each team gets one ban.
• Kajir and Rutger are both banned due to bugs.
• The top 3 teams qualify for The Wizards Summer Invitational on 8/3 (NA) and 8/10 (EU) that will have a prize pool in a small bo5 tournament featuring top level qualified teams.
  • In order to claim at least 3 of the players from the qualified team need to be on the roster in the invitational.
• EU players/teams are allowed to play but the games must be hosted by a player in NA

Teams

Illuzion	Dave	Cypress	BluetheDemon	Anubiscs	nth	PurpleBunz	KBR	teki
Deception EU	Northstar	LaundroMatt	BlenBurner	floof	Little Hornet	HypnoticOwl	Vicaversaversavica	Roxaseroth
core worked better	nox	Lystic	Classy	swaggy	CrazyMetic	BenSBMirage	trashcanclippy
Nightmarish	Jynx919	Trillogi	ImAirZ	MethazineDream	slenderking43	LordShmoke
Mirage	ghstnte	viipaulADRIAN	foodknight	Nix	Flipsy
Gimmick	Luckytiger	Rooz	ysoostund	Wulf Starr	SMS AceofSpades	Tyler
Soggy Ballers	Ezra05b	SimplyMerry	ABlackPixel	SurprisedWatermellon	PeteTheFish
Hex	Cryptic	Ptooie	Maybe	Sinsofaninja	INeedAnOriginalName	MORTARIONMOTH

Results

Final bracket

Place	Team	W - L
1st	core worked better	6 - 0
2nd	IlluZion	4 - 2
3rd	Deception EU	6 - 4
4th	Soggy Ballers	5 - 4
5th	Gimmick	3 - 5
5th	Mirage	2 - 4
7th	Nightmarish	1 - 4
7th	Hex	0 - 4

Notes

• One series on the first day took over hours to be played due to hosting / connection issues.
• Day 1 ended at 6:50 PM with only 2 rounds being played.
• Day 2 ended at 7:06 PM with only 2 rounds being played.
  • Final two rounds of play were rescheduled to the following weekend.
  • Two back to back series in losers bracket went to game 3 and took over 3 hours to play.
    • The first series started at 1PM and the second series ended at 7PM.
  • The last two rounds were initially postponed, then cancelled as the teams couldn't find time to play.