

Without further ado, here are our picks for the best games of competitive StarCraft II. And hey, if nothing else, it’s a playlist of awesome esports videos to kill a weekend with. For others, we hope it can be a gateway to epic moments of StarCraft II history that took place before they started playing. For some, it’ll be a stroll through fond memories. With the last ten years of our journey in mind, we’ll be taking you through our personal picks for the best game of each year, adding some historical context along the way. The competitive scene took off when the game entered beta in 2010 ten years later, it’s still going strong.Īs StarCraft II’s tenth anniversary approached and we began brainstorming ways to celebrate, we thought: What better way to celebrate a legendary esports scene than to reflect on the best matches of its first decade? “Hell, it’s about time,” he said (in Korean, for those of us watching the tournament).įrom that primordial moment, StarCraft II would go on to hold a position of prominence within the storied arc of Blizzard esports. Tychus Findlay stepped into that now-famous gunmetal chamber and was outfitted with complex mechanical armor. For others, it was May 19, 2007, when the cinematic debuted onstage at a StarCraft tournament in South Korea. For some of us at Blizzard, it was during an internal Show & Tell session when the cinematics team revealed what they were working on. Part I: Wings of Liberty | Part II: Heart of the Swarm | Part III: Legacy of the VoidĮveryone remembers the first time they saw the StarCraft II announcement trailer.
