Starcraft 2 Official Page

To the StarCraft community, StarCraft is one of a kind, and we're committed to making sure that those of you who love this universe like we do have a home here for many years to come. Dell docking station macbook. With that in mind, we want to let you know about a development change we're making for StarCraft II as we continue supporting it for the long-term.

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• This is our vision for esports. This is the ESL Pro Tour for StarCraft II, a yearly competition that combines the past legacies of Blizzard, DreamHack, and ESL. Now in our second year we're building upon our system to ensure that anyone can sign up and play anywhere in the world. Our end goal is simple: Create a world where everybody can be.
• StarCraft II is a sequel to the real-time strategy game StarCraft, announced on May 19, 2007, at the Blizzard World Wide Invitational in Seoul, South Korea.910 It was eventually set to be released as a trilogy.1112 StarCraft II is free to play; multiplayer and the Wings of Liberty campaign are free, and all Co-op Commanders free until level 5, except for Jim Raynor, Sarah Kerrigan and Artanis.
• Jaedong played his first official StarCraft II match during the hybrid 2011-2012 Proleague Season 2 first round, and he was defeated by SK Telecom T1's Rain on May 20. In early June, he was one of the eight KeSPA-affiliated players to be sent to the KeSPA exhibition tournament at the 2012 MLG Spring Championship, where he eliminated Leta.

StarCraft II Proleague, also known as StarCraft Proleague or Proleague for short, was the longest running StarCraft league in the world and the most prestigious team league. Hosted by the Korean eSports Association (KeSPA), the league was played offline in South Korea. Proleague began in 2003 with the game StarCraft: Brood War before switching over to StarCraft II in 2011 and then discontinued in 2016. It was broadcast by SPOTVGames prior to being discontinued.

History[edit]

In 2003, the game broadcasting company MBCGame created the KPGA Team League, the first major team league in StarCraft professional competition.^[1] MBCGame's competitor, OnGameNet created their own team league in response and so two major team leagues were active in the early 2000s.

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In 2005, KeSPA merged the two team leagues to create the Proleague, a unified league.^[1]SK Telecom T1 swept the first two rounds of the newly formed league and ended up winning the grand finals as well to be the first champion. From its inception, the Proleague format had the teams alternate between 1vs1 and 2vs2 games in a best of five or best of seven match. However, the 2vs2 matches were discontinued in 2008, leaving only 1vs1 games.^[2] After the 2008 season, the format of Proleague changed again to span a longer portion of the year, typically starting from the end of one year and ending in the Fall of the next. The 2009 – 2010 season led to the creation of the modern Proleague format where teams face off each other in four or five rounds of round robin. At the end of the season, the highest scoring teams face off in a single-elimination playoffs bracket to determine the champion.

Prior to the release of StarCraft II in 2010, Blizzard Entertainment, disputed with KeSPA over intellectual property rights of broadcasting StarCraft games.^[3] This put pressure on KeSPA and in 2011 the case was resolved with an eSports commentator noting that the case was a push to expand the broadcasting market into StarCraft II.^[4] The 2011 – 2012 Proleague ended up being a transitional season for the league as featured both Brood War and Wings of Liberty. Each match was played alternating between Brood War and Wings of Liberty, with each player having to prepare for both games as well.^[5] Following the closure of MBCGame in 2012, SPOTVGames broadcast Proleague alongside OnGameNet.^[1]

The full transition into StarCraft II came into place for the 2012 – 2013 season which also featured EG-TL, a partnership between rivals Team Liquid and Evil Geniuses which made them the first non-Korean team to play in Proleague.^[6] EG-TL did not achieve much success in Proleague and ultimately pulled out of the league in the following season. OnGameNet stopped broadcasting Proleague starting the 2013 – 2014 season, leaving SPOTVGames as the sole broadcaster for the league.^[7]

KeSPA announced on October 18, 2016 that Proleague would be discontinued citing sponsorship issues, declining amount of professional teams, and match fixing scandals.^[8]

Tournaments[edit]

OnGameNet and MBCGame Leagues[edit]

MBCGame hosted their first major team league in 2003.^[1]

OnGameNet also hosted their own team competitions in 2003 and 2004.

United League[edit]

OnGameNet and MBCGame came together to host Proleague starting in 2005.

Hybrid League[edit]

Prior to the switch to StarCraft II, the 2011 – 2012 SK Planet Proleague Season 2 league featured both games.

StarCraft II Leagues[edit]

Proleague fully switched to StarCraft II starting with the 2012 – 2013 season.

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Teams[edit]

For the 2016 season, the final season, there were 7 teams in Proleague.^[9]

Prize Pool[edit]

The prize pool for the grand finals of the 2014 – 2015 Proleague season was a total of 70,000,000 KRW.^[10] In addition, each round had its own separate prize pool and additional awards were given out to outstanding players.

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcd'MBCGame: In Memoriam'. January 31, 2012. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
2. ^'스타2 프로리그 2014, 프리시즌 이벤트전 개최' [StarCraft 2 Proleague 2014, Pre-season Event Information] (in Korean). December 11, 2013. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
3. ^'StarCraft Losing in Gaming League'. May 19, 2008. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
4. ^'Blizzard – KeSPA license official'. May 17, 2011.
5. ^'[SPL] Opening Day'. May 20, 2012. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
6. ^'Unholy Alliance'. December 4, 2012. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
7. ^'[스타2] SK텔레콤 스타크래프트2 프로리그 2014시즌 – 미디어데이 (+ 사진)' [[StarCraft II] SK Telecom StarCraft 2 Proleague 2014 Season – Media Day (and Pictures)] (in Korean). December 14, 2013. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
8. ^'KeSPA announces discontinuation of StarCraft ProLeague'. October 18, 2016. Retrieved October 18, 2016.
9. ^'Proleague Media Day'. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
10. ^'2015 SK Telecom Proleague Playoffs'. Retrieved November 25, 2015.

Starcraft 2 is Official

Nine years after the launch of Starcraft, nine years of a loyal and dedicated cult following, and nine years of a South Korean nation watching televised networks of the game, Starcraft has finally announced it's sequal: Starcraft II.

In a stadium in Korea on May 19th, Blizzard announced Starcraft II with a fanfare of teaser trailers and gameplay videos. When I heard the news, I couldn't believe it, and was shocked. Sure, I knew SC2 would have to come out someday, but after waiting 9 years, I had not invested any hope into it.

You see, I'm a major Starcraft fan. While I don't really play anymore, I do from time-to-time reinstall the game and play for a few days before uninstalling it again. It's my favourite game of all time, and believe it or not but I've spent more time playing Starcraft than I have doing 'website stuff'.

Part of why I learned Korean and a small part of why I moved to Korea was for this game. Omsi hamburg keygen.

Anyhow, enough dramatics. But it will help set up why I'm so gung-ho about this.

First off, for those interested, here are some quick links:

Starcraft II Official Site:
Starcraft2.com

YouTube Videos of Gameplay Presentation with Commentary:
Sc2 Unit Description Video Part 1
Sc2 Unit Description Video Part 2
Sc2 Unit Description Video Part 3
I think somebody found a leak that insinuated the release would be slated for 11/20/2007, and while that would make sense for the Christmas season, I really doubt it will be that soon. If I had to guess, it'd be more likely released either late Winter or Spring 2008. If it is indeed out in November, that's all the more awesome though.

Anyhow, as many people know, I prefer (and encourage) to build/work with websites on subjects/topics that I enjoy, which is why I have sites pertaining to movies, poker, web development, mma, etc. Since you guys now know how much I love Starcraft, you can logically assume what's coming next.

That's right. Opportunity time! While this particular situation doesn't best exemplify striking while the iron is hot because Starcraft (the original) has been out for 9 years and thus a ton of domains are already taken, it still shows the value of it.

I went out and purchased the following domains:

• StarcraftForums.info
• StarcraftForums.net
• StarcraftForum.net
• StarcraftForum.org
• StarcraftForum.info
• StarcraftTips.com
• StarcraftHelp.com
• StarcraftCheats.net
• Starcraft-Forums.com

Most of those I plan to resell in the future so they were simple investments, but I definitely plan on developing a Starcraft 2 site. I have to. it'd be wrong for me not to.

I'm currently in negotiation with a few more domains as well. Free slots wheel of fortune games online. I'm doing this more for competition reasons than anything else though; I plan on making at least a Starcraft Forum, possibly an entire site, and so I want to make it as hard as possible for other SC 'start-ups' to compete with me.

Thus, I also made a few phone calls 🙂

I contacted the South African Honorary Consulate. Why? Well back in '97 I had a run in with… just kidding. He actually owned the domain SC2.net and so I bought it off him. It will take about a week before it's in my hands though due to the escrow process. Ugh, I paid a lot for the domain. Exactly how much, I won't say, at least not yet. Help calm me down by saying it's a good domain please 🙂

Lastly, I almost got Starcraft2.net believe it or not. I had made several high offers on the domain to the guy, but he was adamant of developing it. I mean no disrespect to him but I think he should have accepted my offer. He sounded like he could just throw up a quick-n-basic site and rake in the dough… maybe he can prove me wrong.

Domain isn't everything though, especially since SC is 9 years old. Which makes this potentially a lot more difficult for me. However, since I know a lot about the game, that will help me as well.

So yeah, I'll probably be developing StarcraftForums.net/SC2.net. I've already hired a great vBulletin designer.

1. Wow…what madness.

   Tyler, you list 7 forums at the top of your blog that are far from active why not put some effort into marketing and promoting the sites you already have?

2. I'm pretty excited about StarCraft 2 as well, I saw the announcement on Yahoo yesterday.

3. C auto clicker. Well, As Usual I miss all these important gaming announcements, which is is pretty sad as my Main site is a Gaming New site 🙂
   Anyways, I heard it was going to be a Starcraft MMO. and I was about to buy a related domain. Nice save of $10

   I use to play SC, then around WC3 came out , I quickly transfered.

4. YEAH!! I'm waiting for this game like forever :)) i love it

5. wow that is great news, i can't wait for SC2! wish ya good luck with your new forum 🙂 off to play a game of WC3…

6. SC2 should be awesome. The first one was great; only multiplayer game you could play on a 28.8kbps modem with no lag.

7. I have
   starcraft2.sc

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8. I'm a HUGE SC fan. I'd love for you to develop the forum. I'd be all over it faster then I'd be on Alba's behind.

   hehe. Good luck with the projects old friend.

9. I think the worries over a forum are just. There's no doubt you will be able to find someone to create a nice skin for it but you'll need luck for it to get off the ground (publisherforums and the others look nice but you'd struggle to say they have taken off despite being online for a while now).

   Getting a decent looking web page and tacking the forum to it might be an idea. You'd need to work quickly as there are probably a few others with a similar idea but if you could get a site up which looks as flash as your forums and fill it with news about the new game you may be able to secure yourself as one of the de facto sites for Starcraft 2 news.

10. This has nothing to do with this post, but I was curious about merendi.com. Is that your 'company', or did you set that up with anyone else?

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