Esports World Cup SC2 Guide - Everything You Need To Know

[@JK-zj1bq]

Super excited! Great video!

[@yjhuoh]

I love when you make these videos

[@keizan5132]

Hell yeah, can't wait!

[@Zamiroh]

Let's go serral, woot!

[@ledrash6079]

Thanks a lot ZG! :)

[@ZombieGrub]

Any time!

[@ryanhodgson8676]

I want to boycott the Saudi Arabia content for personal reasons but I don't want to do that at the expense of great creators like you so have a sub and a like and a comment.

[@TheStreakify]

Good video, I haven't been following SC2 as closely the last few months and this snuck up on me. Thanks for letting me know to look out for it!

[@ZombieGrub]

No worries!

[@mfranco25881]

So hyped! All the players played on another level last year. Looking forward to seeing another tournament of great games

[@ZombieGrub]

Games already hyyyppe

[@BuddyWudzyn]

Thank you so much for this primer! I'm so busy nowadays but I love having a weekend (or just a couple consecutive days) where I have Starcraft on the big screen all day

[@Bimpy1149]

Love these pre tourny vids! Thanks for all the info!!

[@pr0meth1um]

LFG! Super excited. Great video ZG as always. Best pre tournament info.

[@Ehmiiz]

Thanks!

[@ZombieGrub]

No problem!

[@Sparky31388]

Thank you for this ZG

[@BestPrezz]

Man, when you explained the how the Tournament works, the "WHAT" in the corner, describes perfectly my thoughts :D What happend to go old groups? Anyway, more then hyped to see the GOAT, bringing home this title while in army.

[@BestPrezz]

Edit: Lowko is not casting?!

[@habarvaz]

Thanks for the coverage!

[@natecw4164]

Haven't been this giddy about a week of StarCraft 2 since the days of MLG. This is gonna be a GREAT tournament!!!

[@ZombieGrub]

Hell yeah!

[@jdhprogames]

Thanks for the video, I wouldn't have even known about this tournament othewise

[@ZombieGrub]

Happy to help!

[@schwanimal]

Thx 4 breaking it down!

[@Ttangko_]

"Everything You Need To Know", but doesn't include background as to how there's such high prize pools

[@sanguma]

thanks for the update 🙏

[@AudreyandmeAu]

I love the bracket layout

[@Magjes]

Thanks Zombiegrub

[@hamzaargoubi1433]

hey zombiegrub nice video hope u r rocking it as usual, btw isn't it Wednesday the fourteenth?

[@erikengler6900]

Great video, thank you. very instructive and informative. I have one question. what is the difference between this master and the master from katowice please? somehow I don't understand it. Will we have two world champions in one year? ...

[@jimmusamma1635]

Maru!!!!!

[@DJ-3maj]

Are replays from the open qualifier publicly available for download?

[@AudreyandmeAu]

Will there be a KZbin? I can’t watch live but would love to watch on delay

[@evophage]

I think having “what” up on screen the whole time while explaining the brackets is appropriate 😅. That’s unexpectedly convoluted.

[@ZombieGrub]

Haha unintended in that way but it works

[@miza6]

thx

[@Bajoli86]

With so much pricemoney it had to be a Saudi oilbaron who finances it🤣

[@marcelbenner993]

2:40 Isn't August 14th a wednesday? Damn, no Lowko casting.. that is sad. Him and Pig make a great duo.

[@norberthiz9318]

lowko is gonna be there too, I don't know why he isn't on the list , but he will be there for sure

[@ZombieGrub]

YUP oops I'll put it in the description

[@marcelbenner993]

@@ZombieGrub Thanks for clarifying :)

[@markjedigorian7489]

It's kind of strange to see a tournament with big prize money and without Rogue's participation 😄😄😄

[@gabapc]

and, lucky for everyone playing, sOs's time is past

[@Infernal07]

there is absolutely no way maxpax is going to be missing from the biggest prizepool SC2 tournament ever ! I know most of the controversies surrounding him, but at this point for me it is certain that maxpax is hiding something big and very dark (and i'm not talking about any zerg players). As probably the best european Protosse, he can potentially win more than he has in all his sc2 career so far. So there's no excuse for doing therapy to fix his social anxiety or whatever else excuses are online for him not being present. The SC2 community has gotten so used to maxpax being an online player only, it ignores this massive huge red flag.

[@Uksidorgje]

I do not get how you can t respect his decision in that regard. It is on him to decide if he wants to participate or not, we have no vote in that matter and thats good! I would love to see him compete too, but to be honest, if it is your first ever LAN Tournament and you play on such a stage, it might be too overwhelming. Playing some smaller stages would surely be better to start with. In addition to that, the money on the line might not be important to him.

[@Infernal07]

@@Uksidorgje this is not a decision to take, he's not a ladder silver player to want to stay private, he is practically the best Protoss in Europe. And that implies, on one hand that he's winning online money that maybe other pros would win if he were not this good. He is also a very important figure in this community, if his skill at SC2 is true, he has a moral duty to himself and his fans, to display it offline and on stage. There is a lot of pro players with crippling depression or social anxiety that still participate, with help therapy or other means. I feel like his case is so unique that there's a simple explanation of what is happening, that he winning by unfair advantages that he cannot legally bring to the offline environment. My mind can only be changed by a trust-worthy public figure from the SC2 community, be it a caster or another pro player, telling me that Maxpax truly has a privately kept condition that does not allow him to participate in offline events, even without disclosing what that is.

[@Uksidorgje]

@@Infernal07 Arguing that a person you don t know has the moral duty to display his skill to you by playing a specific tournament is ridiculous. I live in a country where you can choose what you do and where you attend and I think you are glad that it s the same for you. MaxPax can choose if he wants to do it or not. Also, others playing with conditions doesn t mean he has to do it, too. Conditions can vary. You wouldn t want to be judged and pushed like that by other people. Please try to show some empathy with that man. But there is one more thing I didn t get: If you knew for a fact that he is as skilled as it seems (from a trustworthy source), then you would let him have his peace and not complain about him not attending this tournament?

[@Infernal07]

​@@Uksidorgje He has won over 100k dollars in online tournaments. That alone is more than enough reason to prove he's a legit fair-player. And yes, if a trustworthy person from the SC2 community were to tell me "yeah dude, maxpax has a private reason to not attend offline events, even if im not gonna disclose it to you out of respect for maxpax", I would believe that person and permanently drop all the allegations about maxpax. But I havent heard any pro player or caster say that, so I'm sticking to the simplest explanation, that he's hiding an unfair advantage that he cannot bring to any tournament stage.

[@keizan5132]

Btw the finals being a Bo9 makes me feel afraid of having a Serral 5-0 Maru. We all know it's possible eventhough Serral is in the military as he already 4-0ed him being there.

[@ZombieGrub]

I'm afraid too haha

[@wesscott904]

Do we really need a competition at this point, just give the the cup 2 serral

[@MiloTheHusky]

I need some of that oil money

[@しらこ-465]

Too bad with all of this crazy money they didn't opt for a Star League format. Would be cool for SC2 to go out with a bang with an international starleague tournament rather than yet another weekend tourney.

[@Sturmraug]

It's a 5 day tournament, what are you on about?

[@しらこ-465]

@@Sturmraug Starleague format is a prepared tournament like GSL as opposed to a weekend tournament (even if it's more than a weekend)

[@panandcsupomona]

Hi ZG, firstly thanks for making these type of videos, I love them as well. Just one thing I did not agree with and almost always been an issue with SC2 competitive scene is that Zerg has been way too OP. Specially the early to Mid-game for Zerg remains broken. This is where very majority of the games are decided and even if the game goes to late game, Top tier zergs are able to squeeze out such major advantage that it becomes nearly impossible for the other races to compete. I hope they really adjust the early game for other races specially vs zerg to make the scene more balanced.

[@ZombieGrub]

The problem is that there's basically 4 Zergs that good. Serral, Reynor, Dark, kinda Shin. Lambo and elazer get "regular" results and are overrun by Protosd actually. So if you nerf Zerg, mayyybbbe you nerf Serral...but then you make the least played race in the top of the game even more difficult. Zerg is not OP. Serral is.

[@SnakeHelah]

@@panandcsupomona source: gold league knowledge

[@AudreyandmeAu]

Layout is great… best of 9 is too much

[@jkkim6928]

Just anyone but Serral, win please Otherwise it’d be a sure snoozefest

[@pahis1248]

not gonna watch. Greetings from Finland.

[@4utoxic]

noooo, not pig and rotterdam as commentators :(

[@jkkim6928]

PiG is good

[@Sturmraug]

Are you on shrooms? Pig is great

[@4utoxic]

@@Sturmraug he is bad. i'd need to be on shrooms to listen to him. I tried his yt channel and ... omg, so boring and entitled prick. Maybe it's some Aussie thing i don't get.

[@4utoxic]

@@jkkim6928 even that hysterical English sec. language Lowko is better.

[@choiswimmer]

Could be worse. Could be nathanias

[@y63r10n]

Now the Broadcast team is announced @liquipedia