KARDS - The WWII Card Game News

This summer has been a weirdly good time for abstract World War II card games. Early this month saw the release of the much-lauded deck builder Undaunted: North Africa as well as the announcement of the first expansion set for the series Undaunted: Reinforcements. The end of June also saw the release of Theaters of War, a set of single-player campaigns for KARDS - The WWII Card Game.

For the uninitiated, KARDS is a World War II-themed, free-to-play, digital card game from the relatively new indie development studio 1939 Games. It both looks and plays very much like Blizzard's smash-hit Hearthstone, albeit with a 1940s skin. Players have a steadily increasing currency to play cards onto the three-rowed battlefield, fighting for control of the middle row (the "front line") in order to attack and ultimately destroy the opposing player's HQ.

Despite these superficial similarities to Hearthstone, KARDS stands on its own as a well-constructed, fast-paced, almost painfully addicting card game based around a simple premise.

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Hello KARDS community!

We are super excited to share with you the next step in building our tournament ecosystem. The KARDS Open! For this first iteration we have partnered up 983 Media off the back of their successful Operation KARDS tournament to bring you the first ever cash prize open tournament for KARDS.

This is a part of our ongoing effort to make sure that there are meaningful outlets of competitions available to our players where they can test their mettle and reap the rewards of all those hours of theorycrafting and practicing.

Without further ado here are the details for the upcoming KARDS Open #1:

The KARDS Open #1 will be played over on Battlefy and you can find the registration page and all further information here:

KARDS Open signup

The tournament will be played over 2 weekends. The first weekend being the 25th and 26th of July and consisting of a Swiss Round and the finals weekend being the 1st and 2nd of August where players can stake their claim to the 1000$ prize pool!

All action from the top 8 will be broadcast live on the KARDS Twitch channel on August 2nd at 14:45 UTC. So make sure to tune in and see all the action from the first ever KARDS open.

[h3]About the tournament:[/h3]

The KARDS Open #1 will feature a 1000$ Prize pool and be completely open for everyone with free registration. All details on the breakdown of prizes and tournament format can be found below.


Prizes
1st: $500 USD
2nd: $300 USD
3rd: $200 USD

[h3]Tournament Format[/h3]

-Bring three decks from three different main nations (HQ)
-Ban one opponent deck, win with remaining two
-Best of Three Conquest
-Open deck lists
-Day I: first 4 rounds of Swiss play (amount of swiss rounds pending final entries)
-Day II: Second 4 rounds of Swiss play (amount of swiss rounds pending final entries)
-Day III: Top 8 Single Elimination Bracket

• The Encyclopedia and Help Bubble texts have been edited and added to.
  
• BLOCKADE now correctly worded.
  
• Tweaks and changes to text, including campaign text, card descriptions and historical text.
  

• Random card spawns in Battle now include Campaign cards.
  
• Excess damage from OT-34 and ISU-152 that was redirected to HQs by URA! Is no longer getting doubled.
  
• URA! effect now divides the damage correctly between attacked units and HQ. Multiple use of URA! during the turn has zero extra effect.
  
• Fixed rare cases where a destroyed Greyhound made affected units lose 2 attack instead of 1.
  
• B-29 SUPERFORTRESS no longer has incorrect operation cost when spawned by A FEW GOOD MEN.
  
• Changed label colors for some ToW cardbacks.
  
• Card reward pop-ups no longer show blurred images.
  

Hope you all enjoy our update. If you encounter any bugs, please report them in our KARDS Discord channel, thank you!

Hey Kards community!

With Season 15 coming to a close and the ladder resetting, it's time to get to know this month's Officer Club Championship participants playing for their share of the $1.000 prize pool. Read to the end for some other exciting news.



[h2]The Champions of Season 15[/h2]
As always, the top 8 players on the ladder each season qualify for the Officer Club Championship, so let's congratulate the following players for their qualification:

1. Jking7
   
2. Darkness
   
3. MerliniX
   
4. RainZone77
   
5. shadowtp
   
6. AriBigBehn
   
7. Blue_Blast
   
8. Hubblebub
   
9. 0CanadaBear0
   

Eagle-eyed readers might notice that there are 9 names instead of 8, and that's because Hubblebub and 0CanadaBear0 ended up tied on the ladder, both having 2826 points. Therefore, they will play a best of 3 series under tournament rules to determine who will take the 8th slot in the tournament.

[h2]Prizes and rules[/h2]
The 1000$ prize pool will be split in the following way:

• 1st place - 500$
  
• 2nd place - 300$
  
• 3rd place - 200$
  

This time around, players have to bring three decks from three different major nations, and once a player wins a match using a particular deck in a series, they can not bring that deck again until the following round. This means that to win the tournament, the winning player will have to win with each of their decks, making each player only as strong as their weakest deck, making for some exciting and entertaining matches!

[h2]Live broadcast on July 18th[/h2]
The second-ever Officers Club Championship (OCC) will take place on the 18th of July at 15:00 - 22:00 UTC. Join us for all the action covered by community casters and experience a unique insight into the highest level of play in KARDS.

Catch all the action live on Twitch - KARDSccg, Facebook, Youtube, or here on the Steam store page.

[h2]KARDS Open - cash-prize tournament for everyone[/h2]
Now, as an added bonus for those that read all the way to the bottom. Keep an eye out for an announcement for the first-ever KARDS Open that will offer any interested KARDS player a chance to compete in a KARDS tournament with a prize pool of $1.000!

Collect your well-deserved rewards from Season 15!

The season has ended on June 30th, 23-59-59 UTC, and now your rewards are waiting for your in the KARDS client.

Simply log into KARDS and collect your rewards - the rewards have been automatically delivered to your account.

Your ranks have been automatically lowered by one (except for Field Marshal which dropped to Major five stars) so that you can climb up the ranks again.


[h2]Winner of Season 15[/h2]
We also celebrate the winner of Season 15. After a strong battle between the top players in the Officer Club - the fight went across the release of the single-player campaign expansion Theaters of War - we had the winner.




Celebrate JKing7 as champion of season 15! After several top places in the previous seasons, JKing7 was able to beat the muli-season champion Darkness and so secured his first first place in the Officer Club.

Congratulations!

[h2]Qualification for World Championship tournament[/h2]
Congratulations also to following ten top ten players of Season 15 for automatically qualifying for the World Championship 2020 Tournament later this year (the other player in the top-ten are already qualified from the previous season):

1. shadowtp
   
2. Hubblebub
   
3. OCanadaBearO
   
4. osla biz bilirdik
   
5. pad
   
6. doge34_hs
   
7. Nemut
   
8. Pyroblast
   
9. El Chickenrice
   
10. toDIEisGAIN
    

[h2]Qualification for $1000 cash-prize tournament[/h2]
Starting with Season 15, we also have an regular cash-prize tournament for the top-8 of the Officer Club. The following eight players have qualified for this tournament later this month (more details to follow):

1. JKing7
   
2. Darkness
   
3. MerliniX
   
4. Rainzone77
   
5. shadowtop
   
6. AriBigBehn
   
7. Blue_Blast
   
8. Hubblebub
   

Congratulations to all the winners and contributors. Enjoy your prizes and rewards from Season 15!