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**Torniquet** · Tue, 19th-Oct-2010, 1:10 PM

Blizzard have just posted the player list for the Blizzcon 2010 Starcraft tournament.

http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/936927

Friday and Saturday, October 22 and 23
$45 000 cash and prizes.

Southeast Asia:-

Daryl “ice” Xiang,

Thanapol “RedArchon” Kuachat

Taiwan:-

Chia-Cheng “SEN” Yang,

Jen-Yu “SoftBall” Chan

China:-

Dai “Loner” Yi,

Ye “Luffy” Hao

Korea:-

Min-Soo “NEXGenius” Jung,

Han-Eul “MakaPrime” Kwak

Europe:-

Benjamin “mTwDeMusliM” Baker,

Dario “TLAF-Liquid`TLO” Wünsch

Latin America:-

Jian Carlo “Fenix” Morayra,

Patricio “Capoch” del Olmo

Russia:-

Dima “mTwDIMAGA” Filipchuk,

Oleksiy “White-Ra” Krupnyk

North America:

Christopher “HuK” Loranger,

KyeongHyun “SeleCT” Ryoo

Showmatch:- Friday at 7:30 PM PDT
Lim Yo-Hwan

"SlayerS_`BoxeR`" vs

"Fruitdealer" Won-Ki Kim

Shoutcasters:-
Dustin Browder,
Rob "Voice" Simpson,
Sean "Day[9]" Plott,
Nick "Tasteless" Plott,
Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski.

Also Hotbid on TL does confirm that TLO will be playing Zerg and is not a mistake.

Balance team and Dev team additional points.

- League icons changing depending on your rank, the higher the fancier the icon.

- I think they were also talking about with the Grand Marshall league that your profile becomes publicly available and like featured? Also get some big banner or something of the sort?

- Season 2 will come around eventually, MMR preserved, only one placement match ladder wiped.

- Featured replays being added highlighting good games from GSL, MLG or whatever. Believe this was set for the start of next year, around then.

- "Huge" plans for web integration, people want to see stats like they did with War3, they are interested and working on it.

- Chat Channels will be coming in the next one to two months, before the new year

- A system is being worked on that will allow replays to be watched with someone else at the same time *Timeline is set as "next year"

- Two new leagues are going to be added to the ladder, Master and Grand Master league

- As for the Master and Grand Master leagues nirvAnA mentioned the cutoffs apparently look like this.
- Master League is the top 1 to 2% of the region.
- Grand Masters League is the top 200 players.

Tournament Results
http://us.blizzard.com/blizzcon/tour.../starcraft.xml

Upper Bracket

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Lower Bracket

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Showmatch

Fruitdealer vs

SlayerS_`BoxeR`

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Custom Map Panel

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New Blizzard custom Maps near future
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/994843#blog
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/994844#blog
http://www.sc2mapster.com/announceme...blizzard-dota/

All-New Blizzard Custom Maps: Left 2 Die, Aiur Chef, and Blizzard DOTA

The team then went on to discuss how their design approach is applied in practice, using three upcoming Blizzard-made custom maps as examples. They also gave audience members some insight into each map’s inspiration and the overall gameplay.

Left 2 Die

Left 2 Die offers a cooperative take on the StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty campaign mission Outbreak (i.e. the mission where it was only safe to go out during the day), which received a lot of positive feedback from the community. Feeling that Outbreak created a dynamic, fun environment that encouraged coordination and promoted the importance of both offense and defense, the design team adapted this mission into a team-based mini-game that allows players to share tech trees, earn research points by destroying infested buildings during the day, and create elaborate ground defenses, all in the hopes of surviving through the night against hordes of slavering zerg zombies.

Aiur Chef

Players will get to wear the hat of zealot warrior chefs skilled in the arts of cooking and killing in this round-based mini-game. Every round of Aiur Chef will feature a theme ingredient, and players will need to fight (sometimes to the death) to collect components scattered around the map to make a variety of succulent meals. Each dish created using the theme ingredient will award points, and the player with most points at the end of all three rounds will be named Executor Chef, culinary guru of the entire Koprulu Sector.

The designers also shared the origin story for "Aiur Chef," noting that the inspiration for this particular custom map came while browsing through the unit list in the StarCraft II Editor. Upon discovering that there were a number of food objects available, the idea for a cooking-based mini-game where zealots skewered delicious treats on their psi-blades was born.
Allez cuisine!

Blizzard DOTA

After seeing so many great player-made maps based on Aeon of Strife and Defense of the Ancients, the designers felt inspired to create their own adaptation of these legendary StarCraft and Warcraft III custom mods using updated graphics, customized character models, and epic new environments.

Blizzard DOTA will be a 5-vs.-5 mini-game with a chess-board theme, featuring three lanes, two bases, creep-based farming, and an emphasis on protecting key structures. Players will get to choose among 12 iconic heroes from the Blizzard universe, including superstars like Kerrigan, Sylvanas, Jim Raynor, and Muradin Bronzebeard, each with his or her own unique abilities and tactics.

StarJeweled
Test your wits in this puzzler, which challenges you to match jewels according to color to gain energy, train troops, and crush your enemy's base.

Visit the Mapster link for Videos and Screenshots.

Blizzcon 2010 Vods http://www.youtube.com/user/noobclubru
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Adding points to main page and will continue to do so as points are made later in the thread to make it easier to read. Please let me know if ive missed anything or anything is wrong as i didnt see it all. Like i think there was like a lore or something discussion and a custom game one as well?