Frost Giant is a studio formed by veterans who previously worked on Blizzard titles like StarCraft II and WarCraft III.

Stormgate is poised to be a spritual successor to SC2 and has a lot of hype surrounding it. It would be disingenous to not allow the community to discuss this game, for that reason.

With /r/starcraft being one of the hundreds of subreddits going private indefinitely, I thought that I'd take the wheel and create a community for it on Lemmy.

This place is going to be run similarly to how things were on /r/Starcraft, with some slight rule changes. Please read and abide by the rules whilst on this community.

General Rules:

1. Follow the lemmy.world rules outlined in this link. Please note that these are instance-wide rules that do not just apply to this community.

2. Posts must be related to StarCraft. As long as it's related to Blizzard's hit franchise in some way (including but not limited to fan art, esports, gameplay, guides, events) it is generally welcome here.

3. No pornographic content. This isn't NSFWLemmy...

4. Hate speech (including homophobia, transphobia, racism, etc) is not tolerated.

Accusation Rule:

1. Any accusations made against an organisation commentator, streamer, pro player or other stakeholder within the greater SC community/pro scene should be backed up with evidence. Baseless accusations will be removed.

2. Do not encourage users to contact sponsors, teams or other stakeholders with negative feedback.

Temp Rule Changes:

• 23/06/2023 - posts involving Stormgate and Frost Giant Studios are permitted, at least until the game's release. Explanation here.

Useful Links:

• Liquipedia SC2 and Brood War- Online wikis maintained by Team Liquid dedicated to the BW and SC2 pro scenes.
• TL.net (formerly Team Liquid) - A forum dedicated to both SC2 and BW.
• Brood War livestreams on Twitch and Kick
• StarCraft II livestreams on Twitch and Kick

Youtube streams: https://www.youtube.com/@SOOPesports_EN/streams

SOOP streams: https://www.sooplive.com/station/gslenglish

Liquipedia: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Global_StarCraft_II_League/2026/Season_2

My initial takeaways:

• Terrans will have fewer ghosts, they'll be more squishy, do more damage to everything more easily but there will be fewer snipes overall. Fungal is useless against them unless you're currently charging banes at them.
• I think we can just right click lings/zealots onto scvs once now instead of spam shift-right-clicking to make them follow.
• Really good QOL changes <3

Youtube streams: https://www.youtube.com/@SOOPesports_EN/streams

SOOP streams: https://www.sooplive.com/station/gslenglish

Liquipedia: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Global_StarCraft_II_League/2026/Season_2

Also RSL continues May 23, 24, 30, and 31.

Calendar with GSL and RSL:

Youtube streams: https://www.youtube.com/@SOOPesports_EN/streams

SOOP streams: https://www.sooplive.com/station/gslenglish

TLnet preview article: https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/645163-code-s-season-1-2026-ro4-and-finals-preview

Liquipedia: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Global_StarCraft_II_League/2026/Season_1

VODs playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo2fPnM8EiQz5KVnuA3L77bEktv7Mk5NW

GSL Season 2 starts on the 20th, and RSL continues May 23, 24, 30, and 31.

Calendar with GSL and RSL:

Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/@ReviveSC2/streams

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/tastelesstv

Liquipedia: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/RSL_Revival/Season_5

VODs playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfdKYYIZIwoTcpeP8CybZ1NFU8dLZjXFt

Also reminder that the GSL top 4 bracket will be May 17th https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Global_StarCraft_II_League/2026/Season_1

Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/@ReviveSC2/streams

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/tastelesstv

Liquipedia: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/RSL_Revival/Season_5

Also reminder that GSL is still ongoing:

https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Global_StarCraft_II_League/2026/Season_1

Youtube streams: https://www.youtube.com/@SOOPesports_EN/streams

SOOP streams: https://www.sooplive.com/station/gslenglish

Season 1 and 2 schedules:

TLnet preview article for 1st day: https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/644937-code-s-season-1-ro12-group-a-rogue-percival-solar-zoun

Liquipedia: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Global_StarCraft_II_League/2026/Season_1

Also reminder that RSL Season 5 will be May 2-31 https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/RSL_Revival/Season_5

Hybrid online/offline but the money is good. If the crowd funding raises enough, then we also get a season 3.

Schedule:

Upcoming matches:

::: spoiler spoiler :::

Bracket:

::: spoiler spoiler

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Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/@ReviveSC2/streams

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/tastelesstv

VODs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfdKYYIZIwoTje5t5BlSr7F1tepVsSBdK

https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/RSL_Revival/Season_4

People still argue on team liquid whether all workers mine at the same speed, so I literally just tried it instead of theorycrafting

Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/@ReviveSC2/streams

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/tastelesstv

VODs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfdKYYIZIwoTje5t5BlSr7F1tepVsSBdK

https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/RSL_Revival/Season_4

Just an instant loss where they put you into rewind mode somehow. Please report every cheater that you see.

Stream: https://twitch.tv/x5_pig

VODs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKmPRMduwUyWuNUSgfrTc5pgl6EomJBEf

Maru vs Serral in 12 hours, Solar vs herO in 14 hours, and the top LB Quarterfinal in 16 hours.

Saturday is Clem vs Reynor, SHIN vs Showtime, and the other LB Quarterfinal.

Sunday is the semfinals and grand final.

Liquipedia results: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/PiG_Sty_Festival/7

And trying to translate all the names and terms into Dutch, it's hilarious xD

Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/taketv

• Friday, Jan 30 6:00am CST (GMT-06:00): RO24 Groups A & B
• Saturday, Jan 31 6:00am CST (GMT-06:00): RO24 Groups C & D
• Sunday, Feb 01 7:00am CST (GMT-06:00): Playoffs

Liquipedia: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/HomeStory_Cup/28

TLnet preview article: https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/643330-homestory-cup-28-info-and-preview

• Thursday, Jan 22 5:00am CST (GMT-06:00): Group A - ByuN, Trigger, herO, Rogue
• Friday, Jan 23 5:00am CST (GMT-06:00): Group B - Clem, ShoWTimE, Zoun, Bunny
• Saturday, Jan 24 5:00am CST (GMT-06:00): Group C - SHIN, Creator, Classic, Percival
• Sunday, Jan 25 5:00am CST (GMT-06:00): Group D - Maru, Cyan, Solar, Krystianer

Preview article: https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/643234-rongyi-cup-s3-ro16-preview

Liquipedia: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Rongyi_Cup

Streams:

• English: probably Wardi
  • https://www.youtube.com/@WardiTV/streams
  • https://www.twitch.tv/wardiii
• Chinese: http://www.douyu.com/3484
• Polish: https://www.twitch.tv/indystarcraft
• For more streams, check Twitch when the event starts, or see if anyone posts in https://tl.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=28327768

Also don't forget the WardiTV Winter Cup is resuming on the 27th and ending the 28th

https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/WardiTV_Winter_Cup/2026