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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1. Logo Says:
   July 26th, 2010 at 1:56 pm

   Hey love the interviews and I think this is a great idea for a show as well. One comment though, on the tournament sections can you mention which battle.net server any open tournaments are for. That way if someone is thinking about signing up for open tournaments they can learn from this show which oness are available based on server.

2. Tristan Says:
   July 26th, 2010 at 2:55 pm

   ah, very good idea!

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