5 Reasons To Watch SC2 At The Esports World Cup!

[@Frank_144]

Let's support our SC2 Esports scene

[@kathorsees]

yup, let's go ^^

[@Sparky31388]

ZG releasing another epic sc2 content video. Thanks again

[@ZombieGrub]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@scottbruce7423]

Daddy Dark ftw!! Would love to see him knock serral out this time around. Then a Dark vs Clem or Dark vs Hero finals 🤤

[@jkkim6928]

It’s Serral VS Hero first before Dark

[@scottbruce7423]

@@jkkim6928 I'm talking semi's and finals. It's double elimination for most of the players. Or triple for some? It's something weird like that lol. ZG explained it in her last vid

[@jkkim6928]

@@scottbruce7423 gotcha 😘

[@Hlodowig-y2p]

I just wish it wasn't hosted in Saudi Arabia. Every attendees should be able to feel safe, regardless of who they are.

[@teddanville6996]

When Serral was winning 40-50% of the tournaments he was playing in 2020-2022, he was already the best player. In 2023-2024 he won like 90% of the tournaments he was playing. Last person to stop him was Clem at world team league late 2023 i think. Winning 90% if beyond goated in any sport, any competitive scene. In comparison, back in 2020-2022 when Maru has somewhat a decent performance against Serral, he sometimes went a year without winning a tournament (not including world team league).

[@kathorsees]

Serral is the GOAT, no question there. but... can you imagine if Maru beat Serral in a 400k finals? the deafening squeals of Maru's fan club. the smugness of Artosis and the howls of his crazed chatguys. my god... and as a (def not squealy) Serral fan boy - if he bops Maru again, I'm just going to feel bad. I can easily see people treating Serral as a dark villain of SC2 after 3 soulcrushing wins in a row. it'd be so heartbreaking for Maru. after such a tragedy, I can almost see myself not hating all terrans as a species anymore...

[@teddanville6996]

@@kathorsees don't worry too much about what other people think and do. If Maru can beat Serral then it create a good rivalry and more exciting SC2 games. Serral is only human, he also have bad days, he could lose to Maru or someone else if that day come.

[@kathorsees]

@@teddanville6996 you're right! I wasn't being too serious though, it's just a game after all. but it's nice to be passionate about something that doesn't really matter from time to time. peace! :)

[@Infernal07]

I am still very hyped for SC2, and I'm gonna say it, it doesn't need an RTS successor. What SC2 needs is for Blizzard to rent the SC2 Intellectual Property to a small developer with the only objective to "keep it alive". Meaning to make enough money to pay that specific developer team and a pro scene. The entire reason why SC2 died is because of bobby cashgrab kotick's exponential profit-seeking, the greed of wanting bigger and bigger profits at the end of every month, no matter the cost.

[@PerfectMarketingNow]

damn... those were some good points....

[@Sturmraug]

Been waiting for months. Can't believe it's finally here! 😮🎉

[@keizan5132]

Top notch content as always! Couldn't agree more with the "festival" part. Will be in tha chat helping new people out. It's gonna be a blast!

[@ZombieGrub]

Nice! Enjoy

[@michaelthorne4252]

Like I needed a reason to see the highest level of starcraft you know these guys are putting their everything into this to try and get second place to serral

[@BryanLawlor]

I'm cheering for Coffee. I didn't know who he was until yesterday, but he's the first player with the opportunity to STOMP Serral in this tournament. Best of luck, Coffee!

[@BestPrezz]

Not a serral fan huh?

[@BryanLawlor]

@@BestPrezz Serral is great. It would just be fun to see somebody beat him. 😄

[@47ness5]

personally? I’d rather a PvP finals over another Serral/Maru finals 😂 anyway, here’s hoping for the scene to keep going into the future 🤜✨

[@marcelbenner993]

Yo ZG, nice video! Do you guys or your organisations have statistics on viewership? Cause IIRC from 2016-2021 they were pretty stable... So did they drop after 2021? Or are other games simply that much more popular in regards to viewership that marketing can't make enough revenue? Do you know details?

[@rocketrockinit]

Awesome sauce

[@ZombieGrub]

😋

[@robertw4411]

I'm very appreciative of these kinds of vids! @KZbin, please accept this comment as 4 additional likes

[@robertw4411]

I also really appreciate including "almost nailed it" 😍🤣

[@gilachess]

I don't even need ONE reason. I am going to watch it !!!

[@MedicJR]

Have a good day everyone

[@AdityaMehendale]

:p The cat apparently likes to nuzzle up against the microphone, and it's summer.. Furminator-time!

[@AdityaMehendale]

..or leave it be, and you won't need a wind-filter :)

[@anders630]

Oh I just need one, Serral!

[@JCMiniPainting]

Dark simps unite.

[@Sgttv]

Well Age of Empires II is my favorite RTS, which is the genre I follow the esport the most. But I really like to watch Starcraft 2 every now and then and coming from aoe2, the game speed on sc2 feels like doubled which is amazing for the hype. They are just 2 different animals and I love watching both, but choose to play aoe because for me there is more variety in different civilization matchups as opposed to ZPT being all there is. Love from the aoe2 community and obviously I am cheering for Scarlett ♥

[@SlimStarCraft]

where do you go to watch this? and what time?

[@pollograssopollo]

You can check ANY sc2 tournament on teamliquid sc2

[@isaackvasager9957]

"dead game" and it has the highest prize pool ever? that's crazy. cool

[@sneakycuack1822]

One Reason not to watch it, is dat it is dirty money! Edit: Ok dat was unreasonable, i didnt even watch the video and sounded like i wanted attack you, I want to watch it so much dat(The SC2 Part of EWC), I almost broke my pinky promise to myself not to watch it, because i find this whole saudi esports/sports washing thing is mega disgusting, and the title just triggered me, so sorry for the random outburst, i end up watching a cast by harstem or winter anyway, but atleast i wont watch it live and maybe harstem doesnt mention it, and just says "good final watch with me" or something, anyway keep up the good work and stay away from saudi money :D Edit2: I can recommend Richard Lewis on the Topic of EWC if you want to feel bad about everything :D

[@NightRitual]

Saudi investment... ugh

[@real_MacrocosM]

@@NightRitual ...and ?

[@AbeSensei-j3s]

USA literally investing money to Israel to ehm... you know, bombing innocent children

[@tungdil2]

Iam still sad about Maxpax. Without him Protoss gonna have and extra hard time^^

[@dustin9797]

Great content! So hyped for EWC

[@sc2youtube744]

As long as serral doesnt win ill be happy

[@isaackvasager9957]

dumb question...where in the world do I watch this? I've googled "EWC SC2 championship" and can't find anything about the actual times/places to watch.

[@ZombieGrub]

twitch.tv/ewc_black KZbin @ewc

[@isaackvasager9957]

@@ZombieGrub thanks, i feel dumb for not being able to find it...but i was on the struggle bus. thanks!

[@kathorsees]

oh god. if Serral bops Maru AGAIN, it'll be just sad. but if Maru wins over Serral, Maru fanboys will absolutely explode with a torrent of piss-hot "I TOLD YOU SO!"s. man, I am not ready for a Serral v Maru finals...

[@Sturmraug]

I think we are in for a ride this week!

[@ryanhodgson8676]

What are we gonna do when Serral stomps through this contest only dropping one map (in like ZvZ to Dark again) and everyone gives up on SC2 again?

[@Joh00226]

be amazed over how good he is. nothing else to do.

[@sanguma]

sc2 :)

[@earllemongrab7960]

Protoss hope is MaxPax. And MaxPax is not playing. Bummer.

[@atutor1]

August 14th is a Wednesday fyi

[@ivankam3299]

I want to see Maru destroyed by Serral and Olivera in whatever order. It will be cool. (or by Showtime but this seems unreasonable)

[@skyryudo311]

That already happened last tournament though, and that was not even close nor really entertaining so I really hope Maru doesn't end up in the finals. Clem has the strongest TvZ of the terrans participating so that would be nice. Oliviera is good too but was only doing 8 racks all the time...

[@real_MacrocosM]

Huh?

[@ivankam3299]

@@skyryudo311 Thats exactly the reason i want it repeated. And again, and again. Seeing Maru destroyed by foreigners never gets old!

[@MrCthur]

Please don't be the last premier!

[@vincentrochette1387]

lets go EWC

[@cookinrelaxin45]

MC will win, easy.