In the scene of Starcraft 2, the term ‘royal roader’ is used for someone who captures a major title on their first run through. Originally coined in the Brood War days for the OSL specifically, the term had spread to any major recurring tournament in the Starcraft 2 yearly season. There have been a few [...]
Empire.Violet Wins MSI Battlegrounds

Kim “ViOlet” Dong Hwan of Team Empire Gaming has won the MSI Battlegrounds at the Green Forest Cafe in Southern California. Violet marched through the double-elimination, 32-man bracket, and refused to lose even a single map. The Starcraft 2 part of the event which included 16 teams of League of Legends was casted by Day[9] [...]
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Today, I had the pleasure of interviewing Chuck “Chuckie” Stephen Gunn, who was partly responsible for the Quantic Gaming/Team Vile merger that happened earlier this week. In this interview, we discuss the merger, the players it affects and how it affects them, as well as some of the more pressing issues regarding Quantic and the [...]
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Today is the Grand Finals of the Iron Squid tournament and casted by TotalBiscuit and d’Apollo. This live report thread will bring you up-to-date news of what is going on. Will the GSL Code S champion, and heir to the throne Moon “SlayersMMA” Sung Won defeat unproven Zerg master Kang “TSLSymbol” Dong Hyun? Or will [...]
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Now that all four semifinalists of this season’s GSL Code S tournament have been determined, let’s take a look back and see who they defeated to get there, and what it means going into their repsective semifinals. Day 1 of the Code S Quarter-Finals saw two very heated matchups in Johan “QXG.NaNiWa” Lucchesi versus [...]
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