14 DAY TRIAL // The team at ESL is announcing that the Starcraft 2 World Championship will hold its final this year in the city of Poitiers, France, and that gamers will be playing matches between April 3 and April 5, with a total prize pool of 217,000 dollars (200,000 Euro) offered.
The best 16 players from Europe, North America, South America, China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and Oceania will take part and the main commentary team is O'Gaming, with English language hosts set to be announced soon.
David Kugelmann, product manager at ESL, states, “Gamers Assembly, which has been steadily growing since its conception in the early 2000s, was the perfect choice of location for the Season 1 Finals as it offers a fantastic setting in which to have some of the world’s best players compete.”
The full list of involved players is made up of: Jens ‘Snute’ Aasgaard - Norway, Choi ‘Polt’ Seong Hun - South Korea, Grzegorz ‘MaNa’ Komincz - Poland, Sam ‘Kane’ Morrissette - Canada, Park ‘ForGG’ Ji Soo - South Korea, Joona ‘Serral’ Sotala - Finland, Wang ‘XiGua’ Lei - China, Dario ‘TLO’ Wünsch - Germany, Patrick ‘Bunny’ Brix - Denmark, Jared ‘PiG’ Krensel - Australia, Sebastien ‘FireCake’ Lebbe - France, Ke ‘Has’ Yu Feng - Taiwan, Tobias ‘ShoWTimE’ Sieber - Germany, Shin ‘Hydra’ Dong Won - South Korea, Vesa ‘Welmu’ Hovinen - Finland and Hu ‘MacSed’ Xiang - China.
Information about the ways to attend the event have not yet been offered by the ESL and details will also soon be provided about the Twitch schedule for the event.
The ESL runs a wide array of eSports events associated with titles ranging from Hearthstone to DOTA 2 and more.
Legacy of the Void for Starcraft 2 might arrive this year
Just before the start of the World Championship for Starcraft 2, the team at Blizzard will deliver the multiplayer beta for the final installment in the series, Legacy of the Void, which is supposed to run for a relatively long period of time in order to allow the company to gather feedback from the player community.
The studio has already detailed a range of changes that it plans to make to the core game mechanics and to the units.
The biggest of them is that the flow of time in Legacy of the Void will be completely synced with that of the real world.
No official launch date for the new Starcraft 2 content has been offered so far by Blizzard, but the community expects to get access to it before the end of 2015.
