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    Friday, April 10, 2020

    Starcraft We gotta have a real talk about this.

    Starcraft We gotta have a real talk about this.


    We gotta have a real talk about this.

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 07:54 PM PDT

    Games Fanart, Ilya Komarowski

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 07:15 PM PDT

    Comments from ESL on the recent EPT topics

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 12:38 PM PDT

    Okay this took a while to write, sorry for the wall of text but needed.

    Firstly, I really apologize for being distant in recent times. Our workload at ESL has been incredibly high and there's been a thousand moving pieces spread across our team as we are try to adapt to a different world. Evidently we haven't been paying enough attention to the details which has led to some strange decisions in recent months. In this post for you, I will cover all important topics that you as a community deserve to have insight into. I will start with our approach around the ESL Pro Tour point allocation, moving into the TakeTV situation, followed by the Super Tournament decision and then our outlook moving forward.

    ESL Point Allocation
    Firstly, to understand our intent around point allocation, it's important for you to understand our philosophy. Upon launching the ESL Pro Tour we had a very exclusive approach to our point system, prioritizing tournaments with the fairest possible conditions for players with the most equal opportunities. Within the last couple of weeks I spoke to some trusted friends within the SC2 community to discuss how we can start to adapt our philosophy to be more inclusive of other tournaments, cross server play, less ideal conditions etc. Our priority was to keep the ESL Pro Tour the central point of competitive play and an important pillar within the community. With that said, that gives you insight to our approach & intent behind working with TaKe & others around point allocation that would have been more challenging originally.

    TakeTV situation
    Now with understanding our intent. TakeTV approached us 2 weeks ago for point allocation. Our mistake here was simply oversight, we didn't go into enough detail focusing too much on the intent, we concentrated on the outcome rather than the process. We agreed & communicated to TakeTV ahead of their qualifiers that their tournament would receive points and that the distribution of points would be figured out once we understood their exact format details - once that was done, we communicated their point allocation which then went public almost instantly. I personally didn't even go into detail on the ratio of invite/qualifiers as I was pushing my team to find a solution to make the outcome we wanted, work. We rushed a decision while under pressure elsewhere and I see the consequences now, however I understand our mistake. I'll talk more about how we will fix that, along with other items at the end.

    Super Tournament decision
    Now to the Super tournament situation earlier this year. This one has a few angles, so bare with me please. Firstly I'll talk on awarding and then removing points & then I'll go into the decision on whether the tournament should have had points or not. Firstly, before any information was made public, we were in a healthy discussion with both Blizzard & AfreecaTV on our thought process and our decision which was that we wouldn't award ST points. Unfortunately we made a mistake to publish an outdated rule book which had an allocation for the ST despite our decision to not allocate. Once our team realized the mistake, we simply uploaded the correct rule book without the allocation and communicated accordingly. This timing and execution was poorly handled and I apologize to all players for this. Now let's talk about why the Super Tournament wasn't allocated points in the first place. At the time of the decision we simply made a mistake, it should have awarded points and I've addressed this internally and moving forward we will ensure mistakes like this don't happen again. However with hindsight the decision is even simpler, the Super Tournament should not have awarded points because it was not communicated to players ahead of qualifiers beginning, this is a critical item for us that players are given notice and will be a requirement for the ESL Pro Tour moving forward.

    Outlook moving forward
    I think its very clear we need to set some internal & external guidelines on how we need to work together with much better transparency and communication on our decisions. We will be rolling out changes in the next 1-2 weeks to make sure these situations don't happen again. Another piece of information I wanted to leave with you, is that we are working on some adjustments to the ESL Pro Tour and will be releasing information on some revamps in the coming weeks.

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    Zerg Mutalisk 3d animated fan art

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 02:31 PM PDT

    PartinG's chat tells his crush he loves her

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 10:23 AM PDT

    Some encouraging words for everyone dealing with everything that's going on.

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 04:20 AM PDT

    99% Useless Facts with feardragon #21 - 360 double scope

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 10:03 AM PDT

    Reminder: StayAtHomestory Cup group stage, groups A-G will be played today!

    Posted: 10 Apr 2020 12:28 AM PDT

    Starting from 10:15 GMT / 13:15 EEST / 19:15 KST / 18:15 CST / 03:15 PDT / 06:15 EDT with INNOVATION, ZEST, DENVER, SERRAL, SOLAR, REYNOR and DNS, among others, playing.

    Full brackets on Liquipedia.

    The broadcast will go live roughly 2 hours and 30 minutes after this post.

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    Kelazhur joins a team!

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 12:09 PM PDT

    A Note About BlizzCon

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 03:06 PM PDT

    2020 GSL Season 1 Pick-em - Ro 24 - Your Predictions

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 09:14 PM PDT

    First of all massively thank you to everyone that has signed up so far. I wasn't sure how interested everyone was going to be about this but there was a total of over 150 sign ups within the first 24 hours of going live which is a million times better than I was expecting. Anyway none of you are interested in that you are all here to find out what you have been picking for the 1st round of the Pick-ems!

    I have put all the results onto a google slideshow for now as I cant post more than 20 images into a single post and I didn't have time to edit it all into a smaller number of images as I am doing this whilst being "Extremely Busy" at work.

    https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SJzfAJW-91riffSzxGHVOhk-wkCenz2UmMoYXbGzxMY/edit?usp=sharing

    For the Ro16 I will look at presenting the information a bit better but for now this will have to do.

    You still have a chance to enter the competition if you haven't yet entries are open up until the start of the first game of the Ro24 in just under 24 hours time where you have a chance to win some awesome prizzes and bragging rights just for picking who is going to where in the GSL! You can enter the competition and read the rules in my original post here.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/fvz2ly/introducing_the_inaugural_gsl_pickem_competition/

    For those of you that have already entered thank you again. The winner of the Round of 24 and the entry period for the Round of 16 will be announced shortly after the groups for the round of 16 are confirmed on the 29th April.

    As always r/Starcraft Good Luck, Have Fun and Happy Picking!

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    Every time a hit a good connect

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 02:09 PM PDT

    Casters Calls Episode 1: feardragon

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 10:21 AM PDT

    Dark drops out of HSC?

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 08:18 AM PDT

    Looking for a player.

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 02:27 PM PDT

    I am looking and hoping that the person I played yesterday, is on this subreddit. My tag is Brojaybombs. You played Terran, we had a long hard fought battle and I lost. I was hoping we could get a rematch. It was the best game I've had in a very long time.

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    Small Online Community, All-Inspiration is Recruiting New Members of All Skill Levels

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 01:58 PM PDT

    First off thank you for taking the time to read this post. I will do the best I can to keep it short and simple. Feel free to ask any questions here or in the Discord. I'll do my best to get back to everyone.

    -TechFour

    What is All-Inspiration

    All-Inspiration is a small StarCraft 2 team that mostly is NA based but does have players from EU and AUS. We were originally founded in 2013 and have competed in various team and individual leagues/tournaments since then. We focus first on being a respectful and mature community of StarCraft 2 players and secondly as a group that provides competitive opportunities to players and helps them achieve their goals within the game.

    What Events Does All-Inspiration Compete In

    In the past, All-Inspiration has competed in every league we possibly could at the amateur level. Currently our player base is not as big as it used to be and therefore we are looking to add members to refill our rosters for various leagues so we can perform to our expectations on the upcoming seasons. Examples of leagues we compete in is Chobo Team League (Platinum through Masters 2 Proleague style). Alpha Team League (Diamond and Higher Live Proleague style), and All-In TheNydus (Diamond through Masters 1 All Kill style). Many players within our community coach each other or give feedback on replays so even if you are lower than that, we can help you improve. If you have no interest in playing in events, that is okay as well. We need practice partners as well.

    Requirements?

    The only requirement is to play at least 30 1v1 ranked games per season. As a StarCraft 2 team, we do want to keep our members to people who play StarCraft 2 at least on a semi-regular basis.

    How to Join?

    Joining is a simple process. First join our Discord from the link below. You will see a channel that lets you choose to join as a member or guest. Type !member to join as a member. Someone will then reach out to you and start you on a 1 week Trial Period. After 1 week, you will become a full member and will be given the clan tag in game. Note: The Trial Period may seem tedious and unnecessary, but it is our way of ensuring immature or disrespectful people do not become part of our team and ruin the community for everyone else.

    Not Sure?

    Not sure if you would like to join? That is completely okay. Join the Discord as a guest to get a feel for our community. If you feel like it is a good fit at a later point you can always join us then. Note: Guests only get access to part of the server.

    Discord Invite

    https://discord.gg/tyvYUWH

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    PSA: Tournaments tomorrow, the 10th of April

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 12:06 PM PDT

    Hey-oh good folks of Starcraft II! Tomorrow's a pretty busy day of tournaments and I figured I'd make a post to try and make sure as many of you as possible find all them. So, without further ado, in chronological order:

    Shyrshadi Open #12

    Starting from 0:00 UTC, 03:00 EEST / 09:00 KST / 08:00 CST / 17:00 PDT / 20:00 EDT

    High level America's tournament. Players TBD, but have included names like CHAM and CUDDLEBEAR in the past.

    StayAtHomestory Cup, Groups A-G

    Starting from 12:15 UTC / 13:15 EEST / 19:15 KST / 18:15 CST / 03:15 PDT / 06:15 EDT

    Pro level Starcraft II, with names like INNOVATION, ZEST, DENVER, SERRAL, SOLAR, REYNOR and DNS.

    Please note that Dark and PartinG decided to not participate after all and have been replaced by Denver and DnS, respectively.

    IndyK Crew Weekly Cup

    Starting from 16:00 UTC / 19:00 EEST / 01:00 KST / 09:00 PDT / 12:00 EDT

    High level EU tournament with past participants including the likes of MaxPax, Rail and Dimaga.

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    Enjoy the tournaments tomorrow guys!

    This has been a PSA.

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    Team Ranked in Starcraft 1

    Posted: 10 Apr 2020 12:03 AM PDT

    In the last year i really do enjoy to play 5-10 games of sc2 ranked team games as a relax from work . Its sad they don't have ranked for team games also in starcraft 1 . I tried to join custom games , but moust of the times you encounter people who play way way better .

    In starcraft 2 even as a new player you can enjoy 2v2 / 3v3 / 4v4 games , and they are fun to play

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    2020 GSL Super Tournament I Day 4 - Starcraft II - Tastosis - Highlights and Banter

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 05:01 AM PDT

    SC2 betting contest

    Posted: 10 Apr 2020 01:33 AM PDT

    Hey everyone :)

    A few months ago I did a betting contest for the Blizzcon :

    https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/dj5oyk/wcs_global_finals_bet_contest/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
    https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/552012-wcs-global-finals-bet-contest

    It was great, so i decided to do it more often from now
    This time it's for the new GSL season, but I'm planning to do it for more competitions during the year

    I created a dedicated Discord where i'll post updates, betting sheets and results :

    https://discord.gg/wRMWD6t

    The first betting sheet is here : https://forms.gle/yqHFzCxRBdN67wgz7

    The winner will win 1 month of Nitro or 1 twitch sub to the channel you want :)

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    Congratulations to the winners of Kung Fu Cup #12 and Xel'Naga Finest #1!

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 08:07 AM PDT

    Dream overpowers Dark in a clean 3-0 sweep in the Kung Fu Cup #12 finals! Congratulations to Dream!

    The full brackets for the concluded tournament on Liquipedia.

    A further congratulations to Clem for winning Reynor 2-1 in the finals of the inaugural edition of Red Bull Xel'Naga Finest!

    The full brackets for this tournament on Liquipedia.

    Tune in for both tournaments' next edition next week!

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    If race were randomized, who would be the most successful player?

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 06:45 PM PDT

    imagine a big tournament with all pro player has a rule that says all players must play on random, who would win?

    How about random but not your preferred race? (i.e. Serral random race can't be zerg/Maru random race can't be Terran)

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    Protoss or terran

    Posted: 09 Apr 2020 03:23 PM PDT

    Hello everybody!
    I am currently new in starcraft 2 and I am a bit frustrated,
    I don't know if I should play protoss or terran.
    I now everything the terrans can do but for me it is kinda boring and if I watch protoss players in tournaments or on streams i think the race looks so much more fun but the only thing that's holding me back is just my little knowledge so i just wanted to ask if I just should give up terran for a moment and look if protoss is the right for me.

    btw I will never play Zerg i find that race to be just not that exciting

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