CD Projekt Red Announces Winner of GWENT Challenger #4 Tournament
CD Projekt Red recently held the fourth GWENT Challenger tournament, which took place over the course of the weekend. The tournament participants were competing for a guaranteed place in the GWENT World Masters tournament, as well as a substantial monetary prize. CD Projekt Red has now announced that the tournament was won by Daniel “Damorquis” Morkisch.
The Winner of the GWENT Challenger #4 Tournament
The fourth GWENT Challenger tournament was live-streamed by CD Projekt Red over the weekend. During the event, the studio finally gave fans their first look at Gwent: Homecoming; a long-awaited overhaul of the Witcher card game. The overhaul was meant to have been shown during the during the sixth Gwent Open. The Challenger tournament itself was a competition between eight Gwent players from around the world. Indeed, the tournament offered portions from a prize pool of $100,000. In addition, the tournament winner will get a place in the GWENT World Masters; the biggest tournament for the Witcher card game. As reported by Gamasutra, CD Projekt Red published a press release announcing the Challenger tournament winner; Daniel “Damorquis” Morkisch, from Germany. The final positions of the eight competitors, and their winnings, are as follows.
The Tournament’s Final Results
Winner: Daniel “Damorquis” Morkisch (Germany); $57,000.
Finalists:
- Daniel “Damorquis” Morkisch (Germany); $57,000.
- Ilias “AretuzaAndyWand” Karamanis (Germany); $24,250.
Semifinalists:
- Benjamin “Kolemoen” Pfannstiel (Germany); $8,800.
- Damian “TailBot” Kaźmierczak (Poland); $2,800.
Quarterfinalists:
- Oleksandr “proNEO” Shpak (Ukraine); $2,200.
- Raffael “GameKingAT” Iciren (Austria); $2,200.
- Alexander “Aerth3n” Prokopiuk (Poland); $1,750.
- Zehua “LpHanachan” Zhao (China); $1,000.
The final match of the tournament pitted two fellow members of TeamAretuza against one another. “AndyWand clashed with Damorquis in our first all-German final.” stated CD Projekt Red’s tournament summary; “Both of these players had practiced together so were well aware of each other’s decks beforehand, and they both opted to ban Arachas Queen. The first game took us back to the early days of Closed Beta, with both point totals exceeding 200. It was Damorquis who claimed first blood but the 3-0 dream wouldn’t be possible. AndyWand’s line-up was geared towards defeating Foltest and the reverse sweep was on. The final game — a Foltest mirror — saw a typically long R3. Unfortunately for AndyWand, he was unable to thin down to his own Knight-Elects, while Damorquis had an insane amount of passive point generation to secure the day.”