This year's National Championships are about to begin, with the first events kicking off in ten countries this weekend! We're excited to see our 2022 National Champions crowned, and watch as players around the world define the metagame heading into the World Championship at the beginning of November.
In case you missed it, you can find all the details on our National Championships below, but here's the full list of dates for this year's events:
Week 1:
- Australia: 10-11 September
- Austria: 11 September
- Denmark: 10-11 September
- France: 10-11 September
- Hungary: 10-11 September
- Lithuania: 10 September
- Malaysia: 10-11 September
- Norway: 10-11 September
- Slovenia: 10 September
- Vietnam: 11 September
Week 2:
- Bulgaria: 18 September
- Canada: 17-18 September
- Croatia: 18 September
- Czechia: 17 September
- Finland: 17 September
- Italy: 17-18 September
- Portugal: 17 September
- Romania: 17-18 September
- Spain: 17-18 September
- United Kingdom: 17-18 September
Week 3:
- Belgium: 24-25 September
- Greece: 23-25 September
- Hong Kong: 24-25 September
- Indonesia: 24 September
- Ireland: 25 September
- Netherlands: 24-25 September
- New Zealand: 24-25 September
- Poland: 24-25 September
- Slovakia: 24 September
- Sweden: 25 September
- Switzerland: 24 September
- Taiwan: 23-25 September
- Thailand: 24-25 September
- United States: 23-25 September
Week 4:
- Germany: 30 September - 1 October
- Singapore: 1-2 October
This season, we're pleased to announce that we'll have two guest writers discussing the developing metagame. Our full event coverage for the latest championships will be published each Wednesday, followed by Wesley Lingard's Draft metagame analysis on Thursday, and Yichin Liu's Classic Constructed metagame analysis on Friday.
You may remember Wesley Lingard for his two-part series during ProQuest Season 2, discussing defending and the reaction step. Wesley is an Australian competitive player, a staunch representative of Azalea, and uploads videos under the alias Endless Arrow. He'll be bringing the latest updates on the Draft metagame, and looking at some of the decklists that come in from around the world.
Yichin Liu joined us to discuss the Road to Nationals metagame in July, and wrote an earlier article on how to raise your draft skills in Uprising. You may also recognize him as one-third of the OK&Y podcast, his work as a Level 2 FAB judge, or for his community involvement writing articles as MalZenith.
We're pleased to welcome both Yichin and Wesley back as guest writers for the National Championships season, and look forward to sharing their thoughts on the developing metagame!
We'll also be featuring some deck tech videos over the season from three of our 2021 National Championships - Tariq Patel, Yuki Lee Bender, and Hayden Dale! If you want to see which heroes will be featured, stay tuned for our first video from Tariq on Tuesday.
Good luck to all players competing in their National Championship this season, and we look forward to sharing all the latest coverage with you as we crown our 2022 National Champions!