Congratulations to this week's open cup champions: ByuN MaxPax & Clem!

Tune in to The PondCast for our weekly recap: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNvYaBZQKBM)

Check out the brackets on [Liquipedia](https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Main_Page)

Long time fan. Unexpectedly found myself in Seoul this week for a wedding, and realised it's the same weekend as the ASL finals.

I can see the event has sold out, but I've seen other redditors suggest it worth going to the venue and seeing if you can stand at the back.

Anyone else planning to do this?

Calm's stream (MonstarZ University): http://play.sooplive.com/brainzerg7
Shuttle's stream (Dreams University): http://play.sooplive.com/jk890202

All the games on the regular version of Starcraft now seem so bland. There's not much of different strategies being used, every race is playing the same style. Terran always uses marine-marauder-tank/mine into banshee into ghost-viking and turtling. Protoss goes for blink stalkers, oracle and HT. Zerg usually has more variety, but they mostly play hydralingbane into mass lurker late game.

PatchesSC mod brought more variety, more new upgrades and aggression possibilities. It also seems more lore-accurate and appropriate. A lot of the changes are so cool and interesting, and i hope it grows into something bigger. Right now PatchesSC ladder is empty and most tournaments switch on over to live version, but i can't move on from the mod. Am i the only one here?

Starting to see why artosis hates your guts guys, u guys are fucking disgusting xD

But jokes aside, if terran represents the firepower and unkillable fortress, zerg represents the swarm and waves after waves of enemy attacks , I think protoss represents hypnotism and illusion and u guys are living up to it, it really brings the worst in me so well done xD

[Dark Templar Surveillance & Enforcement Log — Final Disposition of the Terran Base on Earth]

- First Visit Report: SCVs were throwing a dance party while tearing Marines and Medics limb from limb. ➡️ Firebat technology transferred for sanitation and containment purposes.

- Second Visit Report: When the first Firebats were deployed, those same SCV bastards broke down in tears, signed written pledges swearing, "We'll never dance again. We'll work hard and never tear Marines or Medics apart again!" But behind our backs, they converted the Firebats into club-style mirror-ball lighting systems and threw a 24/7 all-night fire-dancing rave. To make matters worse, they had the audacity to mock the Dark Templar and attempt a coup armed with industrial drills.

⛓️ Enforcement Measures: 24/7 Forced Vespene Gas Mining Automation System Activated

The Dark Templar linked every Extractor (Vespene Gas Refinery) in the base to the armor-suit operating systems (OS) of all 100 SCVs through a psionic network, executing a “Forced Labor Macro Programming” protocol.

- Anti-Dancing Shackles: The system was configured to deliver a 50,000-volt electric shock from inside each SCV's armored suit whenever it attempted to perform World War I or World War II trench-warfare dance steps, or even tried to hum the Terran battle theme with its mouth: “Baam~ baam~ ba-ba-baam~”

- Infinite-Power Refinery Drudgery: All 100 SCVs are now trapped in an endless loop, marching in perfectly aligned columns of four against their will. They walk to the Vespene gas geysers, pick up gas canisters, and deliver them to the Command Center—over and over again, with no possibility of escape.

i wanna be able to hold my own in ranked matches of brood war and not get completely stomped.

are there go-to build orders and whatnot that could help me get back into the game? it holds a special place in my heart but everyone is sooo good at it and i'm not!

Es starcraft una copia de Warhammer 40k?

Hey!

I'm the guy who's been making those StarCraft analog horror videos, and... I'll get straight to the point.

English isn't my first language, and I definitely can't pull off a convincing Southern American accent. So I was wondering if anyone here would be willing to help me record a few lines for the series.

Nothing professional is required. I don't mind if the recording quality isn't great or if you're not experienced with voice acting. I just need someone who speaks English natively.

It's really just a few lines

If you're interested, just leave a comment below and I'll get in touch. Thanks!

As a primarily Backend Java/Spring/Groovy Developer, the chance that I will actually get the role is close to zero, but I can now confidently say that I had a shot to help make a freaking STARCRAFT game, and I took it.

It's no secret that this matchup is horrific, but what specifically causes it? What can be done to make it more balanced?

What’s up, guys! It looks like we are back to 12 workers, and it does not seem like that will change anytime soon. Now is a great time to grind hard, improve, and climb the ladder!

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i have been enjoying the starcraft games recently and the lore so i would like to ask if there is more lore outside of the games like books.

If you have tried both games, which is your favorite to play and to watch - original Starcraft or Starcraft 2?

And which one you consider a better game?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jge5yuBKg5A

I had the song stuck in my head for weeks and decided to do something with it

Her name is 12 Volt

Hi, is hard very much different to brutal when it comes to difficulty?
I've tried Hard and so far I've completed the Zerg Campaign but I can barely go halfway in Terran's "All In" mission. And I've been doing the cheese strategy by building a lot of Hive Mind Emulators and I took out the Nydus beforehand.

It's important to keep track of what is going on with other Blizzard games.

There is only 3 games currently in "maintenance mode" in Blizzard right now

• Warcraft Rumble
• SC2
• SC:R

Warcraft Rumble has a small dedicated internal dev team working on it.

SC2 has no dedicated internal dev team or single dedicated year round dev working on it.

SC:R has no dedicated internal dev team or single dedicated year round dev working on it.

Warcraft Rumble is coming out of "maintenance mode"

• December 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyPl1O5Ixuc
• January 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My6NxU0a6nc
• February 2026: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFaJUPHNu5U

7 brand new skins and years of future events/event rotations planned out were added in February 2026 for Warcraft Rumble.

This is similar to what the HOTS team did to get HOTS out of "maintenance mode" when they added a new skin in 2025 and then in 2026 HOTS got it's first new hero along with a new content pipeline.

Warcraft Rumble's game design template was a missed opportunity

• Starcraft Rumble
• Overwatch Rumble
• Diablo Rumble

All could have been future possibilities if Blizzard saw the long term value/vision in what they created with Warcraft Rumble and how they could apply it to other major Blizzard titles/franchises/IPs/brands/games, instead of having narrow blinders on looking at just short term profits.

When will Starcraft RTS(SC2 and SC:R) come out of "maintenance mode" and how will Starcraft RTS(SC2 and SC:R) come out of "maintenance mode"

2029-2030 to make a new SC2 campaign that will be shadow dropped at/by Blizzcon 2030 to go along side the Starcraft 2030 game release.

This will be similar to what was done with WC3:R involving the Forsaken Kingdom, Forsaken Paladin, and WoW Forever.

The WC3:R dev team(Warcraft RTS) worked with Hive Workshop WC3 community modders to create Forsaken Kingdom.

For SC2 there would most likely be a reach out by Blizzard in some manner in 2028-2029 to the GiantGrantGames custom campaign makers/discord, SC2 Mapster community/discord, and the Mappers' Circle community/discord who does the TLMC maps/contests to assemble an all-star team to make the new SC2 campaign from the ground up.

Streams for the event will be here: https://www.sooplive.com/directory/category/StarCraft%3A%20Remastered/live

The popularity of the mod stemmed mostly from the absolute mess that was the previous patch. Now we've reverted back to 5.0.15, but it's not like that version was anything close to perfect. I don't have high hopes in future patches being good quality either, given their track record.

So I'm just wondering if tournaments are going to stick with Patches mod or go back to the live game, and in general how many players who moved to the mod are going back to live as well.

(Note: this is not to imply that Patches mod is bad in any way, just that it's very difficult for most people to be interested in playing a mod over the official game, no matter how good the mod is).