Season 1 2013 WCS Groupings and Race Distribution

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World Championship Series 2013 gets off to a turbulent start, and has now moved on to the next phase. WCS Korea has completed its Ro16 group nomination, while the other two regions have just getting started for their Ro32 matches. Although there are quite a number of controversies in regards to the final 32 players in America and Europe, the groupings are final and will not be changed. This post provides a summation of the list of players who got their names down in the world’s most prestigious Starcraft II tournament.

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WCS 2013 Prize Comparison

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The prize distribution for World Championship Series 2013 has been announced by Blizzard.

Clearly, the prize distribution for GSL Season 2 (WCS Korea) will be different from Season 1. The amount has decreased for the Korea league, albeit the overall prize has been increased to $1.6 million. This is because the prize pool has to be equally distributed among the three regions.

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TvZ Reaper Opening: Early 1x Tank Defense

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12/12 Reaper opening is the current metagame build in TvZ. Despite that the build gives the Terran player decent map control in the early game, especially with Reactor Hellion follow up, it is vulnerable to early aggression timings. This post is about how a minor build order change could help against such timings.

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