Frost Giant is a studio formed by veterans who previously worked on Blizzard titles like StarCraft II and WarCraft III.

Stormgate is poised to be a spritual successor to SC2 and has a lot of hype surrounding it. It would be disingenous to not allow the community to discuss this game, for that reason.

With /r/starcraft being one of the hundreds of subreddits going private indefinitely, I thought that I'd take the wheel and create a community for it on Lemmy.

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• Liquipedia SC2 and Brood War- Online wikis maintained by Team Liquid dedicated to the BW and SC2 pro scenes.
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Finally we're at the SC2 world championships, a 5 day long tournament, with a $1mil prize pool; $400,000 for first place!

(I suggest you sort the comments here by New)

Main Twitch Stream | Youtube Streams | Twitch Stream B

Youtube VODs Playlist

Liquipedia results | TL discussion thread

(Liquipedia says they start at 5am CDT, but Youtube is saying 4:15am, so there may be a long intro segment/ceremony)

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18 Players

Serral, Clem, Oliveira, Cure, Dark, Maru, HeRoMaRinE, Reynor, ByuN, GuMiho, Astrea, Coffee, Classic, Spirit, Solar, herO, ShoWTimE, and SHIN.

(ShoWTimE and SHIN both got in through the last chance qualifier, so they will start in the Knockout Bracket played on August 17th.)

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Format

• Main Stage (played August 14th to 16th)

  • 16 players split into Group A and B
    • Double-elimination brackets, and losing again in the Lower Bracket means you go to the first round of the Knockout Bracket.
    • All matches are Bo5.
    • The winner of each group advances to the Final Four.
    • The 2nd place of Group A faces the 2nd place of Group B
      • Winner advances to the Final Four.
      • Loser drops down to the Quarterfinals of the Knockout Bracket

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• Knockout Bracket (August 17th)

  • 16 Players
    • 6 players who lost in Group A Lower Bracket
    • 6 players who lost in Group B Lower Bracket
    • The player who lost the 2nd places match
    • ShoWTimE and SHIN, who won the qualifier back in July
  • Single-elimination bracket.
  • All matches are Bo3.
  • Finals are Bo5.
  • The winner advances to the Final Four.

(ShoWTimE and SHIN are starting in the Round of 16 of this bracket, but we don't yet know who will be top of the bracket or who will be at the bottom side)

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• Final Four (August 18th)

  • The winner of Group A, the winner of Group B, the winner of the 2nd places match from the Main Stage, and the winner of the Knockout Bracket.
  • Single-elimination bracket.
  • Semifinals (first matches) are Bo7.
  • Grand Finals are Bo9.

https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Esports_World_Cup/2024#Group_Stage

"Knockout Bracket: 13 players from the Main Stage and 2 players from the Qualifiers"

so Shin and Showtime will be in the knockout bracket, I'm guessing top left and bottom left of the bracket

so the top 4 will be made up of the 1st place from each group, the winner between the 2nd place from each group (with the loser going to the knockout bracket), and the last slot is the winner of the knockout bracket

Live stream on SOOP (new English AfreecaTV streaming site): https://www.sooplive.com/gslenglish

YouTube (restricted): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp92Zudsqvk

TL Preview article: https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/627208-code-s-ro8-preview-hero-creator-drg-dark

TL Discussion thread: https://tl.net/forum/sc2-tournaments/627211-gsl-2024-code-sseason-2-ro8-group-b

Results: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Global_StarCraft_II_League/2024/Season_2#Group_Stage_2

Semifinals and Finals will be on the 29th, but the start time will be 1h30m earlier than this.