Celebrate the Finalists of the KARDS World Championship 2019

The World Championship Tournament culminated this weekend with thrilling matches. All sixteen remaining champions were set to win their matches and to qualify for the grand World Championship finale in December in Iceland - but only four spots were available!


The four Finalists get sponsored flights to Iceland, the home of the KARDS World Championship 2019 Finals, where they will compete for the title of the KARDS World Champion 2019 on December 7-8.

Additionally to the sponsored trip to the Finals, the Finalists will receive a total cash prize of $6.500.

With stakes this high, the weekend matches were highly anticipated. Both rounds, Saturday and Sunday, were played as best-of-five series.


With only sixteen champions left in the tournament and a tough qualification process behind, everyone still in the tournament is a top KARDS player and very strong. However, there are favorites like Gearbot (Winner Season 7), Cybernetic (Winner Season 6, Top-5 Season 7), and Drogear (Top-5 Season 7).

The biggest upset of round 4 (Saturday) was the defeat of Cybernetic - until then without a single match lost throughout the tournament. Fenrir did beat Cybernetic 3-1. Have a look at Fenrir's winning decks of Round 4!

The final rounds were incredibly tight with half of them going over the full length of 5 matches.


The final round of the tournament on Sunday saw the following eight KARDS champions competing against each other in best-of-five matches:

Drogear -vs- top lad
Gearbot -vs- tedimi
D13 -vs- GKZhukov
Fenrir -vs- GARRODRIVE

Drogear against top lad was nerve-wracking! Drogear scored early victories and was 2-0 ahead, but then top lad had a phenomenal comeback and won the following three matches in a row to a 3-2 victory for top lad!

Gearbot scored a clear 3-0 victory against tedimi. Gearbot has lost only two matches in the whole tournament so far and has an impressive track record.

The matches between D13 and GKZhukov were very tight and exciting. GKZhukov scored early victories and got in the lead with 2-0. But then D13 started his counter-offensive and scored two victories in a row to a 2-2. The final match then saw GKZhukov as the winner.

Fenrir started with a victory against GARRODRIVE, but then all following three matches were won by GARRODRIVE to a 3-1 victory!

Congratulations to these four champions winning the KARDS Championship Tournament.


To qualify for the Finals in Iceland, you have to be available to be in Iceland on the 7th and 8th of December (flights and accommodation are sponsored by the KARDS team). Unfortunately, top lad and GARRODRIVE are blocked these days.

As a result, we had a runner-up tournament between the four champions of round 5 that lost their matches. Two more spots were open on the Finals in Iceland!

This resulted in the following pairing in the runners-up tournament with best-of-five matches:

Drogear vs tedimi
D13 vs Fenrir

With this second chance to reach the Finals, the excitement was palpable!

Drogear scored, as in the round before, two victories! Then, tedimi won his match - a repeat of the previous round where Drogear lost 2-3? No, this time Drogear won the following match to the final result of 3-1.

The match between D13 and Fenrir started with a win for D13. But then Fenrir rushed to the victory with three wins in a row to a final score of 3-1 for Fenrir!


With all matches completed now, we can celebrate the Finalists! Congratulations to the following four KARDS champions:

Gearbot
Drogear
Fenrir
GKZhukov

All four winners will compete in Iceland on December 7-8 for the title of the KARDS World Champion:

We will have a live stream to cover the Championship Finals in Iceland. There will be, of course, commentary and news from the dev team.

Stay tuned for the details of the broadcast and reserve already those dates!



Before we get lost in the celebrations, a quick reminder of the KARDS World Championship structure. The Championship has a total of four stages, each with specific challenges and rewards:

• Stage 1 (completed). Qualification round. The top 64 went directly to the third stage (Tournament). Everyone else went to Stage 2.
  
• Stage 2 (completed). Challenge stage. Here, the bulk of the players from Stage 1 are competing for the top 64 spots to proceed to Stage 3.
  
• Stage 3 (completed). The Championship Tournament with 128 players. The four semi-finalists of that tournament qualify for the Finals.
  
• Stage 4 (upcoming, Dec 7 & 8). The Final of the World Championship. The top four players from Stage 3 will be flown to Iceland to battle for the title of KARDS World Champion 2019!
  

Don't forget to watch some Tournament matches on KARDS YouTube
and to get inspired by the Tournament decks of Round 4 + 5.