On Tuesday 27th July the most anticipated title of the year is released, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. We hugely believe in the potential of this competitive game so we will be starting competition right from the start with eleven cups for you to participate in on release day.

Whether you get your copy first thing in the morning and late in the evening, there will be a cup for you to play in.

Looking for more cups? Check out the cup portal!

Release Day Madness

   Begin: Tuesday, 27.07.10 14:00 CEST, one cup every hour until midnight
   Meeting place: #esl.sc2 on Quakenet IRC - web chat is available! Each cup has its own chat room on the cup page.
   Structure: Up to 64 or 128 players per cup
   Replays: Replays must be uploaded to the match page (not zipped) immediately after the match. You'll gain penalty point for missing replays starting at the quarter finals!
   Coverage: All coverage is allowed! Please send us your streams to:
online-pr@turtle-entertainment.de so we can link them here.
   Map pool: Blistering Sands, Desert Oasis, Scrap Station, Steppes of War, Kulas Ravine, Lost Temple, Metalopolis

Gameaccounts

StarCraft II Name.Character code

The format is Nickname.Character code e.g. TheRogue.123

To find your nickname and character code, login to Battle.net in-game then hover over your avatar (in the top right hand corner) OR click the friends icon and 'Add friend'.

Click here to enter your "StarCraft II Name.Character code" gameaccount on the ESL

How to sign up?

First you must register on the ESL.
Register your StarCraft II Battle.net (EU) gameaccount
Edit your profile and enter a contact method (IRC, ICQ, MSN, Skype, XFire) - make sure to show it publicly!
Then fifteen minutes before the cup, choose the cup below and you can    Sign up

Release Day Madness Cups

14 CEST - Release Day Madness #1
15 CEST - Release Day Madness #2
16 CEST - Release Day Madness #3
17 CEST - Release Day Madness #4
18 CEST - Release Day Madness #5
19 CEST - Release Day Madness #6
20 CEST - Release Day Madness #7
21 CEST - Release Day Madness #8
22 CEST - Release Day Madness #9
23 CEST - Release Day Madness #10
24 CEST - Release Day Madness #11

While waiting for the cup you can play in the 1on1 Ladder

Feedback

If you have any feedback - bad or good - about anything we are doing in StarCraft II then please go ahead and post in the feedback topic in the forum.

We are looking for admins!

Would you like to help to run the Cups and Ladders at the ESL SC2 section? You know exactly what the SC2 community needs and you would love to be a dedicated admin? Then apply now!

Your Admin team