Casting duties will be shared between the two participating team's captains, and trash talk will be encouraged. Each of these matches will reward prize money proportionally to the winning team's performance, in addition to one point per game win that contributes to the team's seeding in the next phase. For the round robin portion, each team will ultimately play each other team in a best-of-five match. Tournament play itself will be organized into a round robin phase and a playoff bracket phase. RELATED: Blizzard Reveals New Maps For Upcoming StarCraft II Season The list of casters includes CatZ, DeMusliM, feardragon, Maynarde, Nathanias, PiG, Rifkin, RotterdaM, and ZombieGrub. Participants in the tournament will be drafted onto teams of four by one of nine team captains, all of whom are professional StarCraft II commentators. Blizzard's sponsorship of the tournament will include a contribution of $150,000 of proceeds earned from War Chest 6 to tournament operations and its prize pool. Now in a new blog post, Blizzard has further detailed how this tournament will operate.Īs previously announced, the tournament will be called the War Chest Team League and organized by StarCraft II community fixture Wardi rather than by Blizzard itself, meaning that the tournament is to be entirely community-run. Last month, Blizzard began to detail its sixth War Chest and announced a new tournament that would be hosted in conjunction with the War Chest's release. Unlike a traditional battle pass system, however, proceeds from each new War Chest help fund the StarCraft II World Championship Series each year. These are seasonally available and battle pass-like in function, rewarding players with cosmetic upgrades as they're leveled up.

In 2017, well after the 2010 release of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Blizzard introduced War Chests to StarCraft II.

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