Hello TL!
At the close of Cosmonarchy's latest tourney, Acropolis #3, we had pro player Sziky join us for a showmatch before the finals. It went the distance too, some really fun games! You can watch it here.

Our community liked it so much that some of our prize winners from the tourney gave their prize money back to sponsor more showmatches with pros, so this thread will be used to announce current and future showmatches!

If you want to learn more about Cosmonarchy, you should know that it's a massive Starcraft 1 conversion, and that it changes a lot about the base game -- aiming for slightly longer average game times, noticeably larger armies, and much more compositional diversity, with an average of 50 units per race!

You can check out some recent videos on my (Pr0nogo) youtube channel, including this playlist of our recent tournament! I also recommend our Discord server, it's a truly epic place.

Now let's talk about upcoming showmatches!

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Showmatch #2: Bonyth (P) vs Hawk (Z) vs UltrA
- Stream: YouTube & Twitch
- Date: Friday, 15 August, 12PM EDT / 6PM CET -- Countdown
- Format: 11-game KOTH (winner stays on)
- Prize pool: $200 ($30 appearance fee, $10 per map win)
- Maps: Bonyth decides first match participants, another player picks the first map, and challengers pick all subsequent maps!

The exact time for this one may be pushed back a little bit, but all players have locked in the date itself, and we will see you all then!

Previous showmatches:

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Showmatch #1: Sziky (Z) vs OyA (P)
- Stream: YouTube & Twitch
- Date: Wednesday, 16 July, 4PM EDT / 10PM CET -- Countdown
- Format: 7-game EOTW (all 7 played)
- Prize pool: $200 ($30 appearance fee, $20 per map win)
- Maps: OyA picks first map, loser of each map picks next map! We have a bevy of SC1 maps ported to Cosmonarchy, and will be using those for this showmatch.

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SC1 maps ported to CM:
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2 spawns:
Brainstorm (Blue Storm)
Demilune (Overwatch)
SmrtyCakes' Fridge (Heartbreak Ridge) [ice tileset]
Spinaltap (Vertebrae)
Watchpoint (Match Point)

3 spawns:
Frozen Sylphid (Neo Sylphid) [ice tileset]
Ironrot (Plasma)
Knife's Edge (Dominator)
Rageslave (Neo Rush Hour)

4 spawns:
Checkstealer (KICK BACK)
Decapitation (Shakuras Temple)
Endpoint (R-Point)
Leviathan's Lair (Requiem)
Mass Destruction (Oil Flow)
Paradise (Dante's Peak)
Rhomboid (Geometry)
Tesseract (Neo Luna)

If you have any recommendations for pros you'd like to see try this wild take on RTS, let me know!

LUCKY_NOOB

Bulgaria1435 Posts

July 16 2025 16:28 GMT

HYPE!

I wonder if S rank player, playing for the first time can beat B rank who's had experience with Cosmo?!

I think the countdown is wrong btw? It starts in like 3 and half hours from now.

Pr0nogo

United States307 Posts

July 16 2025 17:00 GMT

Yeah time.is was trolling me a bit, but it starts exactly 3 hours from this post! (And the timer should be fixed now)

Sziky wasn't able to overcome the knowledge gap in his first matches vs one of our better players (who is probably A or B rank in SC1), but he's improved a lot already IMO. He'll probably be streaming his POV so check him out on twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/szikyyyy

Pr0nogo

United States307 Posts

July 16 2025 23:25 GMT

Our first all-pro showmatch was a great success! We had 7 exciting ZvP matches, with a great mix of short, medium, and long games on a variety of new and old maps. OyA surprised by picking Cosmonarchy-original maps, while Sziky exclusively picked Brood War map ports like Luna, Neo Rush Hour, and Blue Storm!

The stream was a lot of fun and the VOD is available here!

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Since organizing this first showmatch, we've had a lot of interest from more pros, including Bonyth, Hawk, and UltrA! Depending on pro availability and turnout during the month of August, and our own crowdfunding goals, we could have 3-player KOTH groups like the old Ascension style format, where the winner stays on and the challenger picks the maps. That way we can look at all 3 races in their newfound glory.

I'm away on vacation for a few weeks, but I'll be back with more news come the first of August. If you have any suggestions for pros, formats, maps, and so on, drop a comment!

GGs!

sas.Sziky

Hungary292 Posts

July 17 2025 09:45 GMT

yes it was great i enjoyed it ggs, thank you for organizing!! i just reccomend for everyone try it!

Nirli

Bulgaria370 Posts

July 17 2025 14:47 GMT

Things are kicking into a higher gear, nice.

M3t4PhYzX

Poland4195 Posts

July 17 2025 19:06 GMT

On July 17 2025 08:25 Pr0nogo wrote:
Our first all-pro showmatch was a great success! We had 7 exciting ZvP matches, with a great mix of short, medium, and long games on a variety of new and old maps. OyA surprised by picking Cosmonarchy-original maps, while Sziky picked Brood War map ports only like Luna, Neo Rush Hour, and Blue Storm!

The stream was a lot of fun and the VOD is available here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXw0w1FDC7c

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Since organizing this first showmatch, we've had a lot of interest from more pros, including Bonyth, Hawk, and UltrA! Depending on pro availability and turnout during the month of August, and our own crowdfunding goals, we could have 3-player KOTH groups like the old Ascension style format, where the winner stays on and the challenger picks the maps. That way we can look at all 3 races in their newfound glory.

I'm away on vacation for a few weeks, but I'll be back with more news come the first of August. If you have any suggestions for pros, formats, maps, and so on, drop a comment!

GGs!

Will watch this now.

Thank You ery much for organizing and thanks a lot to the players for showing us some interesting games.

GGs WP!

Pr0nogo

United States307 Posts

July 18 2025 07:48 GMT

Happy to put on a broadcast, and happy that some pros are interested in Cosmonarchy! With any luck, we can keep some competitive developments going in the month of August...