Zest and Life will take over the Starcraft 2 World Ranking next week. But that’s not the only thing the first major tournaments of the year changed. Here are five lessons we have learned. Weiterlesen
The Intel Extreme Masters World Championship starts today in Katowice, Poland. 117,707 dollar are to be won and instead of only rewarding the winner, this year each contestant has won at least a little piece of the cake. The „prize-cake“ will go to South Korea solely as usual, no foreigner made it to the finals of the ninth season of IEM. But that doesn’t hurt the competition – we even got four complete rookies in Katowice. Weiterlesen
The next four days of Starcraft will be dominated by IEM Taipeh, the last stop of the World Tour before the upcoming World Championship in March – and i got the ultimate survival guide for you. Weiterlesen
It’s down to eight at Intel Extreme Masters San Jose: Among them the second best foreigner of all time, the leader of the current World Ranking, the only player who won IEM twice and many more – here are nine facts you should know about these eight players. Weiterlesen
Normal human beings are nearly unable to remember a time when a foreigner won a major tournament in Starcraft (it was Ilyes ‚Stephano‘ Satouri in 2012). All big events this year were won by Koreans, but only two of them won more than once. Weiterlesen
Lee ‚Flash‘ Young Ho has won his first major title in Starcraft 2 after two long years of trying: He dominated at Intel Extreme Masters Toronto this weekend, leaving his teammate Joo ‚Zest‘ Sung Wook without a chance in the finals. Other high ranked players disappointed. Weiterlesen
Wow! Six out of the ten best players in the world will gather in Toronto, Canada, this weekend to fight for the IEM-championship and a place at the IEM World Championship in 2015. Yoon ‚TaeJa‘ Young Suh, Choi ‚Polt‘ Seong Hun, Jang ‚MC‘ Min Chul and Kim ’sOs‘ Yoo Jin got invited to the party while Lee ‚Jaedong‘ Jae Dong has to fight his way through the double tournament, but surely will make his way to the main tournament. Weiterlesen
The legend made it: Lee ‚Flash‘ Young Ho will play at IEM Toronto in two weeks. He survived the Asian Qualifier by beating four world-class players – and see who will follow him to the main tournament. Weiterlesen