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Celebrate independent StarCraft 2 with the DreamHack Open Stockholm this weekend
Poor DreamHack, we all cried. Left out of the StarCraft 2 World Championship Series, shunned from the cool kids’ table where Blizzard and its new pals MLG, ESL, and OGN / GOMTV were planning to...
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What the Starcraft 2 World Champion Series must learn from Riot's LCS and...
What are eSports tournaments for? If you’re a fan, you’re looking for drama, suspense, and passion. Tournaments have to be more than just demonstrations of skill.Two examples: over the weekend at...
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StarCraft 2 WCS 2013 Season 1 premier league regional finals dated
Gosh, that’s a mouthful. The StarCraft 2 World Championship Series, Blizzard’s first ever hash at a unified annual tournament, has been ticking over for about a month and a half now. Victories have...
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StarCraft 2 WCS Europe Season 1 regional finals start tomorrow: we know the...
So far, our Rob’s found himself less than whelmed with StarCraft 2’s inaugural World Championship Series. A “bloodless intellectual exercise”, it’s failed to fuel the sort of big personalities you’ll...
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Wargaming launches World of Tanks North American eSports League, future...
World of Tanks has taken a massive step into eSports with the announcement of a Wargaming.net League North America (WGLNA), which will hold World of Tanks 7-on-7 tournaments throughout the rest of the...
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Blizzard recap StarCraft 2 World Championship Series to date in a handy set...
Back in April, Blizzard snapped up a team of former IPL staff to work on “high-quality web and mobile content” for their own games. Now, I’m not entirely sure that the same bunch is responsible, but...
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What eSports means to Blizzard; it’s "not viewed as a primary revenue driver"
Wednesday saw Blizzard engage in an AMA post-mortem of their recently-concluded global StarCraft 2 tournament. Key eSports figures from the company answered questions about WCS Season 1, the future of...
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StarCraft 2 WCS 2013 regional finals dated for same weekend as Dota 2...
Blizzard are crackers, and they want everyone to know it. They’ve gone and scheduled the final leg of StarCraft 2’s Season 2 to coincide with The International 3 finals - Valve’s very own weekend of...
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Blizzard explain WCS / International finals clash: "There was only a small...
This morning we learned that Blizzard had decided to build their StarCraft 2 Season 2 league finals right through the middle of Dota 2’s picturesque International 3 weekend. Half a day of...
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Blizzard offer high-res StarCraft 2 WCS streams through Twitch premium subs
Blizzard are calling their new Twitch subscription option a ‘ticket’, but it won’t gain you entry to the WCS’ Gamescom grand finals or anything else in the weeks leading up to it. Instead, it’ll simply...
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Blizzard launch clever little StarCraft 2 WCS streaming app for iOS
Canny Blizzard have made what I’m choosing to interpret as an admittance of defeat in the StarCraft 2 WCS / Dota 2 International scheduling conflict of their own making. Thanks to their new iOS app,...
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What Blizzard are doing at Gamescom (aside from the WCS Season 2 finals, obvs)
I’ll bet the crackle of anticipation has reached the pitch and tone of a freshly-splashed bowl of rice crispies in Cologne today. Months of training have enabled next week’s events. That’s right:...
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Minecraft Barcraft is a thing, and it's happening right now
The WCS Season 2 global finals have dutifully rumbled into being at Gamescom, and scores of faces are glued to a huge flatscreen TV. On the screen, as in bars like this one all over the world, somebody...
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WCS Season 3 schedule revealed from now until Blizzcon 2013 finals
Waiting for the rest of StarCraft’s current competitive season to be dated hasn’t been as nerve-wracking as it might have been, because we've known precisely when the Global finals are: BlizzCon 2013,...
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WCS eSports Trading Cards to be doled out at BlizzCon and BarCraft events
With the global finals just a couple of days away, I think it’s safe to uncross all digits and appendages and say that StarCraft II’s World Championship Series has been a success this year. That was...
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2013 in review: eSports' growing pain and growing gains
It was inevitable, really, that eSports would start consolidating and falling under more centralized control than they’ve been in the past. But it’s striking how quickly eSports went from being a wild,...
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NASL bids farewell to Starcraft 2, Blizzard, and the WCS
The North American Star League have announced they’re parting ways with Blizzard and will no longer support competitive Starcraft 2 and the World Championship Series.“Alas, fate has scouted our fast...
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Radical changes for WCS StarCraft in 2015 — the full rundown
Speaking of StarCraft’s Global Finals, Blizzard have just announced some fairly comprehensive changes to the way the WCS is going to work in 2015. Gone are WCS Europe and America and in their place is...
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Why pro StarCraft 2 has rejected the classic maps
If you tune into any StarCraft tournament this month or next, you’ll note that everyone is playing on the same map pool we’ve had since midsummer. In fact, just last week, the DreamHack Open Twitter...
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NetEase and Blizzard launch new StarCraft 2 league, Gold Series Pro League,...
For a dead game, StarCraft 2 leagues sure are multiplying in Asia. Chinese internet conglomerate NetEase just announced that they will be operating their own WCS-style tournament, the Gold Series Pro...
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