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context: previous meta madness tournaments were by invitation only, this one is opened up to the ‘public’ so the first set of games are a round-robin style of each team playing other teams before the bracket phase. There are 4 groups of 4 teams; the top two of each group advances. So 16 teams to start that’ll get cut down to 8 based on points earned.
A scheduled team didn’t match the match, so a heroes lounge team filled in at the last moment.
The series is a good mark on why META madness is so enjoyable: good offmeta picks, and not just same game, but different faces.
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and another change compared to previous tournaments. The first map in a series gets picked by the organisers. In this case it’s BHB
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Here the second series:
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the third series (Circus Clowns vs Unleashed):
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Thanks for sharing 
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3rd vod also has murky shenanigans to boot
Might want to mention that Meta Madness has a pre-selected pool of banned heroes, and heroes banned during draft cannot be played for the rest of the games.
Which is explained at the beginning of each video
Very likely, people reading this have never seen the videos. Probably because they dont know how it’s different than any other HotS game.
To be completely transparent, I haven’t.
I did watch live in 2019 I think, and now I’m keeping this open to check this out in a wee while.
There is so much stuff on Youtube, I never get to watch it all. 
YouTube is my Nemesis and my future Money giver.
the fourth series (WNT Orange vs La Croisade):
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Praying for a Valeera
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fifth series (Circus Clowns vs La Croisade)
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juice pirates (medic backdoor strat) and mass ‘specialist’ picks (former label) are some highlights in this series.
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Group A final series (Unleashed vs Welcome to Nandos)
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Start into Group B (Scuffed Team vs heroes Lounge FC)
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second Series Group B (Spocency vs Scuffed Team)
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nice to see some of the team-themes making it through.