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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What could be the announcement to end all announcements – at least for this week – Marcus “ThorZaIN” Eklof joins Team Evil Geniuses! EG has earned the reputation of breaking new grounds now and then and announcing them with fan faire but you have to watch their unwilling announcement of today’s announcement. It’s funny and [...]
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These days, custom Starcraft 2 mods lack simplicity and poise that great games do not. Once an editor over-complicates or leave out a simple detail in a mod game, he can basically ruin it. Back in the days of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness, Blizzard Entertainment created a map editor with the functions of building a full scenario campaign level and [...]
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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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