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Here are the top 200 players in Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. We'll update this list approximately every week until it's time to have them compete. Congratulations to these players. Your skill is an inspiration to the entire StarCraft II community.

This serves as a warning to all players who cheat and uses sc2 map hacks just to gain goals and sc2 achievements. From Blizzard Entertainment Blizzard Entertainment has always taken cheating in any form in Blizzard games very seriously, and that's no different for StarCraft II. If a StarCraft II player is found to be cheating or using hacks or modifications in any form, then as outlined in our end user license agreement, that player can be permanently banned from the game. This means that the player will be permanently unable to log in to Battle.net to play StarCraft II with his or her account.

Author : ACTIVILLAIN Here I will provide a breakdown of all the important maths focused on upgrades and combat. Say you keep asking yourself: "Should I upgrade weapons or armor first?" "Is it worth my 100 gas to get combat shields?" "Does it make a difference if I spend my money upgrading? or should I just get more units?" Take a look here, maybe you will find answers to those questions.

Author : Daxxarri This is part of an ongoing series where we'll highlight features of the StarCraft II community site. This time we're exploring one of the most useful tools on the community site: the search feature. Let's fire it up!

Blizzard Entertainment recently identified and addressed three issues that will ensure fair matches and an enjoyable ladder system. Here are the three main issues: Improved Matchmaking for Teams While the matchmaking system as a whole is looking very strong, one area we identified for improvement was matchmaking for arranged teams that were still in placement matches. We found these first few matches for arranged teams were giving them an unfair advantage against their opponents. Since so many new arranged teams were being created every day, this was resulting in a noticeable amount of imbalanced matches for team games. The corrections we've made should show an improvement for many team players, especially in the sub-Gold leagues.

We're proud to announce the release of Blizzard Entertainment's first new StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty custom map: Burning Tide!

Got skills on creating SC2 maps? Want to win some cool prizes while having fun doing maps? So what are you waiting for? Join the StarCraft II Custom Map Contest and you have until September 11, 2010 to submit your entry. From Blizzard Entertainment: We just wanted to remind you that the first ever StarCraft II Custom Map Contest will be drawing to a close on September 11, 2010. If you’re hoping for a chance to have your map featured at BlizzCon, win a trip to the convention, and score a cool $5,000 in the process, then put the finishing touches on your map and submit it before the deadline. Read the contest page to learn more -- don't miss out on your chance for glory!

Great news for SC2 map enthusiasts, Blizzard recently took considerations and increased the limit of map upload. Players may now upload 10 custom map and up to 50 MB of total map storage space. From Blizzard Entertainment: As part of our ongoing efforts to foster a productive and happy StarCraft II mapmaking community, we recently asked players to share their thoughts and ideas on how the custom map system might be improved. Some mapmakers noted that the current limits placed on custom map publishing felt too restrictive and, as a result, made their mapmaking experience less enjoyable.

When logging into StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, you may have noticed the “Play as Guest” button lurking at the bottom right of your screen. But what does this do? Is it the same as the “Offline” mode you’ve heard about? Can I play without even logging into Battle.net?

Sc2gears is a general StarCraft 2 utility for everyone who is interested in the game (either a player or just a game analyzer). Its main features are replay management and analysis for both individual replays and mass replays (multi-replay statistics). It provides easy but powerful and efficient replay management and basic statistics for starters, and advanced statistics and time development charts useful even for professional players. It is also a great asset to tournament and league organizers in quick analysis of tournament results.

From Blizzard Entertainment Read the original announcement here . How are the 16 participants selected? The Blizzard Entertainment eSports team will consider several discretionary factors when selecting participants for the Invitational. This might include your overall performance on the SEA/ANZ Battle.net, your rank within your home country, and any tournaments you might have won. The invitees won’t necessarily reflect the top 16 ranked players. As the region is very diverse, our plan is to ensure that every country is properly represented by players at a highly competitive skill level.

Here is a list of known issues being reported in Patch 1.0.3: • Mouse buttons cannot be set for Push to Talk. • Thor CE is not being displayed when the player has the proper flags. • Campaign Achievement completion stops at 99%. • The hotkey for Surrender is inconsistent. • Mac - Pressing the § / tilde key could crash the game client. • Losing your internet connection while loading a map will not warn you that connection to Battle.net has been lost.