Warlockguy won The Forever Open on Sunday, October 18. In the best-of-five championship match, the Warlock beat Neepzen, another Warlock, 3-1, and takes the champion's $50,000 and the title of Death's Duelist. The final closed the first big duel tournament of WoW Forever, played with level 30 Horde characters on the beta: 36 finalists, the four best of each class, met in a double-elimination bracket in Hyjal Crater, the arena Blizzard opened for the event.
The tournament guide keeps the format, the prizes and the rules as the organisers published them. This page gives the results: the champion's path, the final, and the top player of each class, who takes $5,555.
How Warlockguy won
Warlockguy came from the qualifiers on Saturday with six wins out of six, like every Warlock in the finals, and had to win two tiebreak duels, against Sylak then Muffinrat, to stay among the four Warlocks. Warlockguy entered the bracket as seed 20 of 36.
In the winners' bracket, where every match is a best of three, Warlockguy lost no game until the last match:
- Round 1: 2-0 against Skeelz (Shaman);
- Round 2: 2-0 against Lamelol (Paladin), the fourth seed;
- Round 3: 2-0 against Jázggz, a fellow Warlock and the fifth seed;
- Semi-final: 2-0 against Minpojke (Druid);
- Winners' final: 1-2 against Neepzen, the first loss.
That loss sent Warlockguy to the losers' bracket, where a second loss ends a run. Warlockguy won the losers' final 2-0 against Cdewx (Shaman), the best Shaman of the tournament, and met Neepzen again in the championship match.
Neepzen had come through the winners' bracket unbeaten, seed 27 of 36: 2-0 against Allyana (Mage), 2-0 against Sodapoppin (Druid), 2-0 against Gomzy (Paladin, the third seed), 2-1 against Azzu (Paladin), then 2-1 against Warlockguy. The final had no bracket reset: one best-of-five match decided the title, and Warlockguy took it 3-1.
The top player of each class
Beside the champion's $50,000, the $100,000 prize pool pays $5,555 to the best-placed player of each of the nine classes. In a double-elimination bracket, the later a player is knocked out, the better their place.
| Class | Player | Best place in the bracket |
|---|---|---|
| Druid | Minpojke | winners' semi-final, then out in the losers' bracket in the last six |
| Hunter | Fvp | out in the last 16 |
| Mage | Allyana, Teleporter, Venruk and Yonezka (four-way tie) | all four out in the same round, in the last 32 |
| Paladin | Azzu | winners' semi-final, then out in the last six |
| Priest | Nieze | out in the last 12 |
| Rogue | Justwoo | out in the last 16 |
| Shaman | Cdewx | third: the losers' final |
| Warlock | Neepzen | second: the championship match |
| Warrior | Mag | out in the last 24 |
Two cases follow the organisers' own rules, as they published them:
- The champion's class. Warlockguy is a Warlock, and the class prizes come on top of the champion's share. When the champion's class has a prize of its own, it goes to the second-best player of that class, the organisers' update of October 6 says. So the Warlock prize goes to Neepzen.
- Players who tie. The rules split a class prize evenly if two players tie. The four Mages were all knocked out in the same round of the losers' bracket, and the results list them as a four-way tie for the Mage prize: Allyana, Teleporter, Venruk and Yonezka. The rules don't say how a four-way tie is split: each one's share is for the organisers to confirm.
