Hats off to Team Genji Blue for finishing first in the Pro Team Standings for Season 3! A double threat in the Hearthstone Championship Tour (HCT) Pro Team Standings, Team Genji fields two rosters. Their Season 3 lineup featured the following players:
Team Genji Blue
Team Genji Red
The Season 3 roster for Team Genji Blue featured Monsanto, Seiko, and Swidz, who took home a total of 217 combined points. Speaking to the entire crew, we got some great perspective on their attitude and aptitude as a unified force.
Across this roster, there’s a lot of competitive Hearthstone experience. “I started competing in early 2016,” Sintolol says. He was inspired to push harder after seeing Philipp “Nicslay” Hehn make the 2016 HCT Europe Winter Championship. PNC made it to Spring Playoffs around the same time. “I wasn’t very good back then,” PNC says, laughing. “If you play a lot, you don’t even have to be that good,” Sintolol shoots back.
Monsanto thinks there’s some wisdom to that, however. “I just played more and more progressively until I became semi-pro,” he says. “Play a lot, and then you get good!” Sintolol suggests that the time investment is often as important as—if not more important than—straight skill level.
Great MindsTen people are smarter than one.
You get the sense there’s chemistry and camaraderie among the team as they chirp each other back and forth. Speaking on playing as part of a team, Sintolol says, “It’s not only us. We’re part of larger practice groups. We talk to the other teams—Tempo Storm or F2K, for example—about decks and lineups. You don’t have time to play a ton of games when you have to travel, so we theorycraft together. Ten people are smarter than one.”
Discussing how to play and test in the early days after a new set launches, Monsanto says, “I just play thousands of games.” His advice to anyone looking to figure out a new set is just to play as much as possible. Sintolol also likes to just jam lots of games: “I usually wait for my friends and teammates to come up with something,” he jokes.
The Best AroundI think we’re really good—probably among the best.
Overall, the team says they’re excited about the field. Their joint belief is that the dialogue with the other teams—all of whom love Hearthstone—gives everyone a sense of being a part of something bigger.
Congratulations to Team Genji on their success in Season 3, and best of luck in the Transitional Season! These are players you can be sure you’ll see in tournaments throughout the remainder of the 2018 Hearthstone Championship Tour.
Who’s your favorite Team Genji player? Let us know in the comments!
