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WCS Global Finals Roundup: Grand Finals
At the beginning of the day, four players vied for the ultimate title: the WCS Global Championship. The last title of Heart of the Swarm, the ultimate symbol of greatness.Soon, however, there were just...
View ArticleStarcraft 2 Q&A: Tim Ismay, Design Producer
As Life and sOs prepared to go head to head in the finals at BlizzCon, theScore eSports had the opportunity to sit down with Tim Ismay, a Design Producer for StarCraft 2. We discussed plans for the...
View ArticleMillenium parts ways with ForGG amid visa issues
Visa issues have prevented Millenium from renewing Park "ForGG" Ji Soo's contract, the organization announced Thursday.Rémy "Llewellys" Chanson, the manager for Millenium's StarCraft II team, explained...
View ArticleFlash on his role models: 'I don’t think I’ve really looked up to any other...
Lee "Flash" Young Ho is one of the most iconic professional gamers of all-time, dominating the StarCraft scene over his nine-year career. Flash was widely considered to be the best StarCraft: Brood...
View ArticleJin Air Green Wing's sOs on winning BlizzCon and his prospects in 2016
Kim "sOs" Yoo Jin is the reigning WCS Global Finals Champion, and arguably the most successful Heart of the Swarm player. His BlizzCon title was his second Global Finals victory, giving him wins at two...
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The most Memorable moments of StarCraft 2 in 2015
2015 was an exciting year for StarCraft 2. As one expansion came to an end, the hype and tension surrounding the final iteration of StarCraft grew as Legacy of the Void came closer to release.Before...
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MMA on his retirement: 'Every moment will be missed'
Under BoxeR’s tutelage on SlayerS, MMA quickly became one of the best Terran players of StarCraft 2. After SlayerS disbanded, MMA was one of the first premier-class Koreans to join a foreign team,...
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DreamHack ZOWIE Open Leipzig Preview: First Blood
A long, cold winter. A quiet, still time, punctuated only by balance whining, the partying of HomeStory Cup XII and the faint but growing sound of battle in distant Korea. An impatient, anxious, uncalm...
View ArticleKT Rolster trades Life to Afreeca Freecs for Leenock
Less than a year after his trade to KT Rolster from StarTale, Lee "Life" Seung Hyun will once again be switching teams, joining the newly-formed Afreeca Freecs lineup.KT에서 아프리카 프릭스로 트레이드 되었습니다 팬분들이 걱정...
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PtitDrogo: 'After the patch … Protoss is going to be the weakest race'
Théo "PtitDrogo" Freydière is the first champion of a premier event in 2016, and of the first in the new WCS Circuit. Playing for mYinsanity, the French Protoss defeated TLO, uThermal and finally Bly...
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IEM Taipei Preview: Champions, Ghosts and Foreign Hopes
With DreamHack Leipzig behind us and the first WCS Circuit champion crowned, the next step in the experiment of WCS 2016 is IEM Taipei, an eight-player invitational that will not be doling out Circuit...
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WCS Winter Championship Primer
After weeks of qualifiers, high-intensity preparation and shifts in the meta, the WCS Winter Championship at IEM Katowice is finally upon us. The tournament represents the culmination of Blizzard’s new...
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Learning new tricks: Snute finds his identity in Legacy of the Void
When we spoke to Jens "Snute" Aasgaard in the leadup to the WCS Winter Championship at IEM Katowice, he was in a period of high-intensity practice. On the line was $150,000, a direct seed to the WCS...
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Scarlett on the state of NA StarCraft: 'Neeb is a god'
Sasha "Scarlett" Hostyn was in Toronto this weekend for the Kings of the North StarCraft II tournament, along with seven other top North American players. Although Scarlett has been out of the...
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MaSa on tournament nerves and playing for eLevate
Maru "MaSa" Kim, the 21-year old Terran playing for Team eLevate, has seen a lot of success in the Canadian scene. True to form, MaSa recently defeated Marc-Olivier"desRow" Proulx, Sasha "Scarlett"...
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Creative Destruction: The making of Dark's first premier title
Last year's WCS region-locking forced some of Korea's top talent to return home from dominating America and Europe. The upside? Korea has become as competitive as we've ever seen it, as new (old) faces...
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Inevitability: Zest's ascent to the top of competitive StarCraft 2
Sometimes, watching Zest play can be frustrating. For someone looking to tease out the narrative of a series, he's a major obstacle. It’s not just that his style itself is relatively unremarkable — it...
View ArticleROOT CatZ: 'Blizzard is very committed to keeping StarCraft alive, and I...
During Dreamhack: Austin, theScore esports had a chance to talk to Paulo "CatZ" Vizcarra, the co-founder and captain of ROOT Gaming. CatZ spoke to us about balance, the StarCraft scene as a whole, and...
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Into Their Own: The DreamHack Valencia SC2 Roundup
One of the core narratives of StarCraft 2 has always been the non-Korean versus Korean dynamic. The rapid growth of a mainstream, parallel scene outside of Korea upon release in 2010 allowed for a...
View ArticleWCS Summer Championship Staff Picks
Ahead of the WCS Summer Championship, the staff at theScore esports took the opportunity to sit down and predict some of the outcomes of the tournament.Who will win the WCS Summer Championship?...
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