Vespene Cup #1 — $300+ USD, July 10

Vespene.gg is a free platform we've been building around the idea that it should be easier to learn, improve, watch and enjoy SC2/BW. You can watch any replay in your browser, get AI coaching that reads your specific games, browse pro replays, and follow the whole esports scene from one calendar. No paywalls, no ads. If you like what we do, you can donate to keep the site running or buy vespene to fund prize pools or get additional AI prompts.



It's a replay site, a coaching tool, a tournament platform, a stream/vod viewer, a replay canvas, a visual-based build order creator, an obsidian-like note taking app, a pro leaderboard tracker, and an esports calendar where each feature feeds into the others.

You can play SC2 (and BW) replays on a canvas in your browser with real unit positions, production overlays, upgrade timings, fight breakdowns, economy graphs and a full build-order timeline. An AI coach sits in your replay and reads your specific replay, your build timings against benchmarks from thousands of pro games in the same matchup, your notes, your recent history. You can open it right on top of the replay and ask why your third base died.












We've developed a fully customisable and automated tournament platform to make tournament hosting, administration, prize pool management and communication between players/admins easier. We've even built a bot that can create game lobbies in the sc2 client and invite players and casters, and it's in the final stages of testing.

Customisation options we've built in include: bracket generation (single elim, double elim, groups, per-round Bo formats), map vetoes, ready-up lobbies, organizer check-in windows, and automated results... just upload the replay and the bracket advances itself. There's a live schedule and an integrated calendar with reminders, covering both your community cups and the pro scene.



Our site's monetisation model is pretty simple, uploading your ladder replays earns you Vespene (+1 per ladder game with replay uploaded). 100 vespene is $1 USD, so ladder heroes playing thousands of games a season could earn $10+ and dump it all into tournament prize pools. You can optionally buy vespene currency on the site to fund prize pools directly. Either a 'supporter' donation where 50% goes to site costs and 50% is granted to you as vespene; or a 100% vespene split and 0% to the site, so you can just top up a prize pool directly without needing to contribute to site costs.

Users add their vespene currency to a prize pool, then when a tournament concludes and the vespene is converted and paid out as Minerals, which are only withdrawable as USD and can't be re-spent on site. The end goal we have in mind is that players should automatically be paid after an event and get their winnings in <48 hours.

Our goal is to make an evergreen platform that can continue to grow grassroots esports and incentivise everyone to ladder and learn the games. We're adamant that nothing is paywalled, everyone should be able to get full use out of the site and learning tools for free and be able to support us via donations if they choose. No ads ever.