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Professional StarCraft II competition features professional gamers competing in Blizzard Entertainment's real-time strategy game StarCraft II.Professional play began following the game's initial release in 2010, as the game was the sequel to StarCraft, considered one of the first esports and the foundation of South Korea's interest and success in competitive gaming. [1]
StarCraft II. StarCraft II is a military science fiction video game created by Blizzard Entertainment as a sequel to the successful StarCraft video game released in 1998. Set in the future, the game centers on a galactic struggle for dominance among the various fictional races of StarCraft. StarCraft II single-player campaign is split into ...
The StarCraft II World Championship Series (WCS) was a StarCraft II professional tournament series organized and sanctioned by Blizzard Entertainment that ran from 2012 to 2019. [1][2] For all but its first year of operation, it was the highest tier of professional StarCraft II competition. Its longest-running iteration featured two regions ...
2× IEM champion (2022 Katowice, 2024 Katowice) Joona Sotala (born 22 March 1998), [1][2] better known as Serral, is a Finnish professional StarCraft II player using the race Zerg. In 2018, Serral became the first non- Korean player to win the StarCraft II World Championship Series (WCS). [3][4] He won every major non-Korean tournament in 2018 ...
Team Liquid is a multi-regional professional esports organization based in the Netherlands that was founded in 2000. With the release of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Team Liquid signed their first professional players. In 2012, Team Liquid acquired a North American Dota 2 team, marking their first venture into multi-genre management. [1]
The 2019 StarCraft II World Championship Series was separated into two regions, WCS Korea and WCS Circuit. The format of the former remained consistent with the standard set in 2017, featuring three seasons of the long-running Global StarCraft II League (GSL) Code S with two smaller GSL Super Tournament events interspersed.
The AfreecaTV StarCraft League (ASL) (Korean: 아프리카TV 스타리그) is a StarCraft: Remastered tournament series hosted by afreecaTV [1] in South Korea. It began its first season in June 2016 and used StarCraft: Brood War for its first three seasons prior to the release of StarCraft: Remastered. It is broadcast regularly in Korean on ...
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. Kim Yoo-jin ( Korean : 김유진 ), better known by his gaming handle sOs, is a Korean professional StarCraft II player. He is the first two-time StarCraft II World Championship Series winner, claiming the title in 2013 and 2015. Kim spent most of his career playing for the Jin Air Green Wings team, from 2013 ...