Beginning with Season 4, we’ve been experimenting with prioritizing tournament-style maps on the StarCraft II ladder. Now, in Season 6, we’re giving player-created maps the spotlight! TeamLiquid.net recently hosted the TeamLiquid map contest to offer enthusiasts from the StarCraft II community a chance to show off their map making skills. The competitors in that contest [...]
Category: "Terran Builds"
Armory Chat
Spent a little time this weekend implementing a IRC chat system into the website. The chat is currently hooked up to the QuakeNet IRC servers and will auto-join the #armory and #teamliquid channels. As of now, the chat is using an embedded QuakeNet iframe chat but I am open to test alternative systems. If you [...]
Protest PIPA and SOPA
In response to the two bills in congress, H.R.3261 “Stop Online Piracy Act” and S.968 “PROTECT IP”, we here at the Armory would like to raise awareness. These bills would destroy the internet as we know it, allowing ISPs to blacklist domains, enforce copyright that would restrict user-generated content and new innovative ideas. Unlike the [...]
2012 Battle.net World Championship
This year for Blizzard & eSports will be of epic proportions as they will be providing major competitive events for World of Warcraft and Starcraft 2. This of course means that there will be no BlizzCon 2012. This will allow Blizzard have more time squeezing out their three current games in development. Blizzard Entertainment is [...]
David Kim discusses balanace
David Kim recently spent some time answering some gameplay and balance questions after the G-Star event in Korea. Some of the Q&A pertains to HOTS while others are current balance problems. The following questions were answered: Mass Mutalisks vs. Protoss Protoss Win Rate is Too Low in Tournaments Carrier Removal in Heart of the Swarm [...]
Do you prefer the website with light text on a dark background, or dark text on a light background?
In preparation for the HOTS release next year, I want to ship out the new design of the website. The new design will be more wowhead-ish in that I will fit more content into the page with the removal of specific design elements. The outer frame of the site will be pretty design heavy however. [...]
Armory moving off GoDaddy; Possible downtime
In the recent events regarding SOPA, it has come to the communities attention that GoDaddy is a huge supporter. Since the Armory hosts its domains at GoDaddy, and with the recent boycott, I have decided to move my domains away from GoDaddy. More information about the boycott can be found here. You may expect some [...]
The Great Purge 2011
It has been almost 5 years (yes 5) since I launched this site, so I decided to do some cleanup. For both SC2A and D3A, I deleted all topics, posts and polls older than 1.5 years. There were no exceptions to the deletion as it would of been so granular and complicated, so sorry if [...]
StarCraft 2 Best Paying eSport 2011
We all know 2011 was a record breaking year for eSports but how much money was actually paid out in prizes? Over 5 million USD from the top 3 best paying eSports of 2011. #1 StarCraft 2 – $ 2,525,775 The best paying eSport of 2011 goes to StarCraft 2 with over 2.5 million USD [...]
2 Maps are being replaced in Season 5
Source: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/4103100/Season_5_Ladder_Map_Pool_Update-12_14_2011#blog Beginning with Season 4, we experimented with prioritizing tournament-style maps on the StarCraft II ladder. This has been working out very well not only because it’s allowed pro players better opportunities to practice on the ladder, but also because players across all skill levels can now experience the tournament feel when playing on [...]