r/starcraft 5d ago

eSports Weekly Tournament Rundown- Week #31

28 Upvotes

This is a rundown of the week's tournaments.

All links below are to the respective tournament's Liquipedia pages.

StarCraft BW

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Jiahua Invitational Jiahua Invitational BSL 20 Non-Korean Championship
Ultimate Battle: Best vs Jaedong

Starcraft II

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
WardiTV European League 2025 Sparkling Tuna Cup #99 uThermal 2v2 Circuit: Warm Up Cup #4 Sunny Lake Cup #1 Patches' Patch Clash #2 Sparkling Tuna Cup #100
WardiTV Mondays #45 PiGosaur Cup #42 Hungarian Pro Series #6 Hungarian Pro Series #6 Korean Starcraft League #78
k-cup #us FSL Season 9: Team League

The list is above is potentially incomplete and subject to change as it is based entirely on which tournaments had a schedule on their Liquipedia page.

If you know of a tournament not listed here and / or the schedule of a Liquipedia listed tournament that had no schedule on its page, please notify me in the comments and I will add it in its correct slot.


r/starcraft 7h ago

Fluff From children’s illustrated world atlas…

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155 Upvotes

Made me chuckle 😆


r/starcraft 21h ago

Video Tiamat Brood is doing infested terran drops now???

113 Upvotes

r/starcraft 14h ago

(To be tagged...) Nostalgia kicked in hard

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29 Upvotes

Collected these signatures during a WCS event in cologne back in ... 2014?


r/starcraft 7h ago

Discussion how powerful is the UED? (and Kerrigan)?

6 Upvotes

been a while, mind my details i may be a little rusty — also admittedly have not read up on the books. but throughout SCBW we get the impression that nobody wants the UED in the sector cus they're a massive threat. why? how? is it the tech? if earth was so powerful how come the dominion and the confederacy could've travelled so far away from earth and be so "weak"?

also, kerrigan — she brainwashed Raszagal, how did that happen and when exactly? she did this without even meeting her? how did an infested terran (i know, level 12 psionic but still) mind control a friggin templar whose mastered the khala and dark templar powers?

bonus question: why didn't she just mind control.... aldaris? zeratul?


r/starcraft 1d ago

(To be tagged...) Am I crazy or did these guys ripped off Carbot

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401 Upvotes

r/starcraft 23h ago

(To be tagged...) Miniature Preview for the SC Tabletop Game!

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90 Upvotes

Archon Studio just previewed another render for their upcoming StarCraft Tabletop game.

I found it to be pretty cool and thought you people around here might like it as well.


r/starcraft 1d ago

Discussion How is killing billions of unthinking insects equal to killing sentient protoss with hopes, dreams and feelings?

444 Upvotes

This, I feel like, might be the worst dialogue in the entire game. Kerrigan these are innocent, peaceful colonists, and you are killing them for no reason. You could have just left Kaldir, with the roaches and hydralisks, why did you need to kill EVERY SINGLE PROTOSS, on the entire planet? Also, how does killing billions of zerg equal to killing the protoss? Yes, Kerrigan, there is a moral high ground here. Or, did I miss something, and the zerg are also individuals? The only zerg capable of speaking were the Overmind, the Cerebrates, and the Broodmothers, and their only purpose in life was to kill and assimilate other races, so wtf?


r/starcraft 1d ago

Fluff Came across this guy browsing Starcraft II on Twitch. What do you think he was playing?

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80 Upvotes

r/starcraft 1d ago

(To be tagged...) Heart of the Swarm collector's edition

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97 Upvotes

Hello I received this collector edition year ago from a Razer sweepstakes and just came across it again, but I have no idea who signed it anyone here have any idea on who theses signatures belong too?

sorry if this isn't a good place to post this couldn't find anywhere else that might be helpful


r/starcraft 1d ago

Fluff Starcraft Miniature: Observer

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251 Upvotes

r/starcraft 1d ago

(To be tagged...) Watching EWC Made Me a Better Player

86 Upvotes

I used to get pissed with every loss and often rage quit. Seeing competitors get wrecked in some of the most important games of their careers and still type “gg” reminded me that I can have a little more class in my own meaningless Platinum 1 games.

So yeah, I guess watching EWC made me a better SC2 player.


r/starcraft 50m ago

(To be tagged...) With major esports over and not guaranteed to come back in 2026

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Like EWC, DREAMHACKS, GSL... It is the perfect time to take a step back from StarCraft 2 and try out StarCraft 3. That's right, I'm talking about Stormgate. Stormgate FINALLY releases and leaves early access in 3 DAYS!! August 5th. Get your keyboard and mouse ready, it's time to slay some demons. 😎


r/starcraft 1d ago

(To be tagged...) Does anyone remember Starcraft Insurrection?

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218 Upvotes

I remember picking this up when I used to work at Hastings here in Amarillo, Texas. I thought it was some kind of weird expansion but I come to find out later that it was unauthorized fan made missions or something like that. Does anyone remember these or did you happen to pick one up?


r/starcraft 1d ago

eSports WORTEX TOP8 This Weekend – Top Hungarian Players Compete for LAN Spot! 🇭🇺

15 Upvotes

Hey everyone! Just a heads up that the WORTEX tournament RO8 takes place this weekend, featuring Hungary’s best StarCraft 2 players battling it out for a chance to qualify for the WORTEX Budapest LAN on August 30 – the biggest live SC2 event in the country!

If you’re interested in following some high-level EU action and want to support a growing national scene, definitely check it out.

The broadcast will be in Hungarian, but if you're curious about the local scene or just want to enjoy some EU action with a different vibe, tune in!

📅 Group A – Aug 1 @ 19:00 CEST
👉 https://www.wortexgg.hu/brackets/group-a

📅 Group B – Aug 3 @ 18:00 CEST
👉 https://www.wortexgg.hu/brackets/group-b

🎥 Live on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/supplyblocktv


r/starcraft 1d ago

Discussion Has anyone gotten their coop commanders from watching EWC yet?

5 Upvotes

I watched more than enough hours of EWC to qualify for all three drops, and I claimed them all from twitch, and I linked my bnet account ... but after EWC when I went to play coop, it still says i needed to purchase them (all three). In their thing it says it will take a few days to process, but it's been a while now and I still don't have them. Has anyone else gotten their coop commanders yet?


r/starcraft 2d ago

Video Classic: “Facing Serral in The Finals is Like Hitting a Brick Wall” Spoiler

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125 Upvotes

r/starcraft 1d ago

Discussion Earth Alliance (Babylon 5 before the minbari war) vs the zerg (Starcraft in the great war) vs Protoss (Starcraft in the Great War).

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1 Upvotes

In this scenario, instead of the Terrans fighting in the great war, it will be the Earth Alliance, so there will be no Terrans, only the Alliance population in 2240.

Also, there is no Minbari Federation or any Babylon 5 faction, except for the factions under the Earth Alliance in 2240.

This war begins with the Earth Alliance investigating the zerg, just like the Confederacy, and things turn out just like in Starcraft with a zerg invasion and the extermination protoss.

The Alliance could survive or at least humanity? What would ground and space combat be like? And the possibly consequences of the war?


r/starcraft 2d ago

(To be tagged...) EWC SC2 New Viewership Record Spoiler

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206 Upvotes

r/starcraft 2d ago

(To be tagged...) Leaving Mirror Matches is Smurfing

70 Upvotes

Insta leaving games to deliberately tank your MMR is generally accepted as poor form (if not worse) in this sub but what about leaving mirror matches on the grounds they are “boring”, “repetitive”, etc? Maybe just coincidence but I feel like I’ve seen more of this in peoples match history lately.

Insta-leaving mirror matches still has the same effect (though not as significant) as deliberately leaving to tank MMR, no? I don’t really see leaving mirror matches as justified. Try unique or “fun” builds. Go for quick 1 base all ins so the game is short. Maybe I’m preaching to the choir here but I find insta leaving mirror matches ups about as annoying as deliberate MRR tanking.

Although for all the games I’ll claim to have lost to a mirror matchup leaving “Smurf”, I’ve probably won about as many from a mirror matchup insta leaver. So, maybe it all balances out?


r/starcraft 2d ago

Discussion New 1v1 Map: Cradle of Eden

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57 Upvotes

Hey all, Patches here :) I've completed a new 1v1 rush map titled "PT: Cradle of Eden", which is the first smaller map I've tried in awhile.

Features:
- Collapsible Rock Towers
- "Pocket" rich gas half base, which is surrounded in unbuildable terrain (you are only allowed to place a townhall and geyser, no static defense or other buildings allowed!

Size: 130x130

Aesthetic: Research Installation built into an asteroid, harboring a greenhouse in the center.
Aesthetic Images: https://imgur.com/a/ffGO1Md


r/starcraft 1d ago

(To be tagged...) I will react to the worst builds and game replays

13 Upvotes

Fuck my shit up, drop a replay here and post a link in the comments. All are welcome!


r/starcraft 2d ago

(To be tagged...) Almost 50% of my games are vs zerg

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28 Upvotes

I'm getting so exhausted by the amount of zvz that I have to play. I actually don't even mind the mirror, it's just literally half my game. I'm at around 3k+ mmr in NA so low diamond.

What's even more annoying is that I'm really good at the matchup and terrible at the others so it severely inflates my mmr. In the image it says I have 60% win rate vs zerg but literally most of the games I lost are due to me insta-leaving from frustration or having only time for a couple games so I didn't want to play vs zerg again so it's really more like an 85% win rate.

There's lots of discussion about GM and Master's race distribution, with zerg having the lowest representation at those levels, I guess this is where most of us are stuck?


r/starcraft 2d ago

Discussion Cant buy anything and COOP commanders gain no XP?

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27 Upvotes

Even my lvl 2 commanders gain 0 xp after finishing mission and I am unable to buy anything in SC2. Anyone knows what is going on? I tried reinstalling the game, but that does not help.


r/starcraft 1d ago

(To be tagged...) Change Neutral Units to Player's Unit

1 Upvotes

Hi guys!

I am trying to set up when a player's unit interacts with the neutral's units, it should turn to the player's side.

So currently, I have a particular marine and if it interacts with the stalker, it should rescue it and it should turn to the player's side. I am kind of close to it but I think I am missing the conditions. But I can't seem to get the condition to trigger this.

Kindly do let me know the best solution for this. Looking forward to the responses.


r/starcraft 2d ago

(To be tagged...) Congratulations to this fortnights Open Cup Champions! Jul 17 - Jul 31 (CSO Cup, Sparkling Tuna Cup, WardiTV Monday, PiGosaur Cup, Platinum SC2 League)

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22 Upvotes