IGN made an awesome 5 minute summary of the entire Starcraft story so far

Every second now the release date of the most anticipated video game Sequel of all time hits shelves worldwide ticks closer. It has been an intense few years since that game changing video showed up at the World Wide Invitational and 4 months of beta testing showed us all that Blizzard still knows how to make a fun challenging game that has all the potential its predecessor had for competitive play.

Here it comes my friends, at long last.

Hell, it’s about time.

This Week in Starcraft 2:
Release is just a few agonizing hours away. Soon, Starcraft 2 will be available to the world and the floodgates of eSports will begin. Tournaments and players around the globe will play awesome games for various prizes. This podcast aims to be your weekly dose for someone who might not have the time to find this all. The show will have great plays from last week, news stories, and what tournaments are coming up next week as well as where you can watch them. I hope you all enjoy.

Last Week:

Razer King of the Beta:
TLO vs. HuK: g1 g2 g3
WhiteRA vs. DIMAGA: g1
WhiteRA vs. IntoTheRainbow: g1

Misc:
Idra vs. Masq g1 g2
WhiteRA vs. Masq

This Week:

King of the Beta Finals:
When: Today at 4PM PST, 7PM EST, Midnight GMT
Where: Day9.tv
Who: qxc vs Idra, Intotherainbow vs Tester
Prize Pool: 1st – $2000
2nd – $1000

ESL EU Release Day Hourly Cup:
What: Every hour, 64 or 128 players will fight for a ESL cup every hour. How to sign up.
When: 27/7/2010, 5AM PST, 8AM EST, 1PM GMT
Where: TBA, info at TL Thread

ESL Pro Series SC2 Germany:
What: Invite Only Cup, Best of 3
Who: TheLittleOne, HasuObs, Mardow, Socke, DarK.FoRcE, GoOdy, XlorD, iNSoLeNCE, Mondragon, miou, HoRRoR, NarutO, And3ad, hanf, iNfeRnaL, S.o.K.o.L.
Where: ESL TV
When: 7/27/2010, 6PM GMT, 1PM EST, 10AM PST

Global Gamers SC2 Invitational, RO32:
What: Online Tournament
Who: Signups to compete for a spot in a 16 person tournament with TheLittleOne, Jinro, NonY, DeMusliM, IdrA, TesteR, Huk, Strelok, Maka, White-Ra, QXC, Sen
Where: English: ICCup.tv, Italian: glhf.it, German: Forsti
Prize Pool: 1st Place: $1400 Intel Core i7-870 Processor + Intel BOXDP55KG Motherboard
2nd Place: $750 Intel Core i5-750 Processor + Intel BOXDP55SB Motherboard
3rd Place: $300 Intel Core i3-540 Processor + Intel BOXDH57JG Motherboard
4th place: “The Handsome nerd” T-shirt of choice
Best noob: “The Handsome nerd” T-shirt of choice
Ro8 Qualifiers: “The Handsome nerd” T-shirt of choice
Pimpest Play: $150 and one “The Handsome nerd” T-shirt of choice

Australia vs. Singapore Showmatch:
When: July 31st/ August 1st, 2AM PST, 5AM EST, 10AM GMT
Where: ICCupTV
What: there will be four 1v1 matches, each best-of-three, and a deciding ACE match if required. The loser will pick the next map. ProLeague style lineups will be used, with the player not being revealed until the previous match has completed. The ACE map will be a wildcard map chosen on the day out of the Blizzard maps on retail release. Also, players who lose the first map may pick any map from the Blizzard selection and are not restricted to those popularised during beta.
Who: Team AU: Moonglade, kjh, Legionnaire, Azz Team SC: Revenant, Nirvana, iceiceice, Tagan

Open Wolf Cup 3:
What: Open tournament
When: 8/1/2010, 12PM PSM, 3PM EST, 8PM GMT
Prize Pool: $50
Where: ScienceRob- Following MorroW
Ipp- Following Avilo
SirazTV- Semifinals/Finals dual with ThePassingShadow
ThePassingShadow- Semifinals/Finals dual with SirazTV
ProdiG- Not yet decided
Pull- Not yet decided
GosuGamers- Have not contacted me yet, but will probably help cover

News:
HDH 2 Announced:
When: Shortly after release
Invited?: Idra Nony TLO WhiteRa Arlock Artosis Axslav Azz Brat_ok CauthonLuck Catz Cool D’appolo Day[9] Demuslim Dimaga Drewbie Gretorp Hasuobs Haypro Huk Incontrol IntotheRainbow Jinro KawaiiRice Lalush Legionairre Lucifronn Lzgamer Machine Maka Masq MoonGlade Morrow Naniwa Nazgul NeansWong Orb Painuser QxC Ret Sen Sheth Slush Socke Spor Strelok Tasteless Tester TT1 Psy

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Sorry about the week off lady and gents, PainUser never got back to me =\

Jacob “LZ Gamer” Winstead is well known from way back to his early days as part of the Zerg trinity of Machine, himself, and InControl. Today as we await the release of Starcraft 2 just hours from when I write this. We all sit with baited breath for this game 12 years in the making. LZ and I talk about how excited we are, learn a little of LZs story, a little on his stream, Team EG, Gosu coaching, Gosu Camp, and just how many tournaments we will get to see his ravenous Terran player tear up.

Next week I am interviewing the woefully underrated Protoss player InKa. He is another member of Team EG and his guerrilla Protoss tactics make him quite a fierce beast. Even if you don’t know him this is an interview you cannot miss. Check the Team Liquid thread to learn about when to catch the show live.

Also be sure to check out the Socal LAN 5 being held in Ventura California. It is going to be a massive LAN with many of your favourite SC2 pros duking it out for a nice prize casted by none other than Diggity and Day[9]. It all goes down on August 14th and 15th. Check it out at http://tinyurl.com/socal5

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From the dark recesses of Quebec we meet the powerful Canadian Zerg player SLush! He slices, he dices, he comes for a bit of a shorter interview and we are happy to have him. We talk about Canadian esports again, Brood War, and of course Starcraft 2.

Next week we are going to interview PainUser the Terran American badass.Check the Team Liquid thread to learn about when to catch the show live.

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Also known as Huk Norris or The Incredible Huk, The Elitists podcast celebrated the 143rd anniversary of this great nation of Canada by interviewing Protoss player Huk. We talk about his surprising story on how he got into the scene and also about Canadian progamers and Canadian eSports.

Also keep a look out because we have another Canadian guest next week with SLush! Check the Team Liquid thread to learn about when to catch the show live.

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Known for his aggressive play style and his organic play, qxc the American Terran player has come to join us on the Elitists. We talk about his learning process, his clan, and a lot of his projects like his build order tester and his new question and answer show. Really great show worth a good listen.

Next week stop by and celebrate the birthday of Canada with a 2 week Canada day celebration featuring interviews with Canadian players. Next week we will meet the interesting Protoss player HuK and plenty more shows lined up as we get close to release. Check the Team Liquid thread to learn about when to catch the show live.

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Bryce “Machine” Bates, the power drone drones on about being the droniest drone making Zerg pro. He’s a strong member of Team EG, Gosu Coaching, and all around badass. Definitely a great listen from such a talented guy.

Did I mention he likes making Drones?

Next week we will interview the Terran player qxc. Check the Team Liquid thread to learn about when to catch the show live.

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I thought that despite the popularity of the Starcraft franchise, there isn’t much attention given to the awesome story behind the game. This is the first in a series telling the story of the Starcraft universe. This episode is the story of the original game from 1998.

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