Last week we announced the celebration of StarCraft 20th Anniversary on Twitch where you will be able to get drops and use a limited time global emote all throughout the month of March. Now, we are excited to announce that Twitch Rivals is making a return this month, and what better game to feature than StarCraft!
Kicking off at 9:00 AM PST today, 8 of your favorite StarCraft 2 streamers are competing in the $25,000+ Rivals SC20 Achievement Hunt Challenge, where they race to see who will be the first to acquire all achievements from the Wings of Liberty, Heart of the Swarm, and Legacy of the Void campaigns by March 28th, with a bonus being awarded to the first player to get the Lost Vikings Gold achievement! The race will be streamed on all of the streamers personal channels.
Streamers competing in achievement hunt challenge:
Mana might be pulling of a brilliant move in the FFA, everyone thinks he is dead, but he built a Nexus right when his last pylon died with a probe he hid in a warp prism. If he actually gets second with this :D
This sounds like a fun interesting event! I was wondering what was up with the Achievement Hunt's lol, that is a lot of money for something like this, woah =p
Sc2 is much more popular on twitch ( and maybe the most important game of Twitch history) than Brood War so it makes sense that there is more Sc2 than BW for this celebration.
I wish anyone could compete. You'd be smart to do the 8 hour playthrough first, then a Brutal playthrough, then pick up any left over achievements after.
all of them? this will take awhile...streamers/pros are usually shit at campaigns, so the brutal campaign runs themselves will take awhile, and then replay them on hard for achievements...yea this will be a long race
On March 13 2018 10:25 Cricketer12 wrote: all of them? this will take awhile...streamers/pros are usually shit at campaigns, so the brutal campaign runs themselves will take awhile, and then replay them on hard for achievements...yea this will be a long race
They're given over two weeks to do it so they expect that. It'll probably be over long before that, though
This is a very subtle way to promote the purchase of campaign modes since sc2 has gone f2p. Anyone else catch this? Blizzard is using twitch, and twitch is using popular players to shill for blizzard. Interesting to say the least.
On March 13 2018 13:10 ReachTheSky wrote: This is a very subtle way to promote the purchase of campaign modes since sc2 has gone f2p. Anyone else catch this? Blizzard is using twitch, and twitch is using popular players to shill for blizzard. Interesting to say the least.
This seems like the absolute best type of marketing. "Let's create an awesome event to show people how awesome our stuff is" is the type of marketing I'd like to see being done all the time. I mean, if I have to be marketed to...
Shows great confidence on Blizzard's part, too. They've decided that if they just SHOW people the campaigns, people will want to buy them.
Can anyone guess how far the streamers have progressed? I know its hard, but i just joined the streams and have no clue where they are at and who is leading haha
On March 13 2018 06:13 Zzzapper wrote: I may be the only person to have done an sc2 speed achievement hunt stream before, they should've invited me
Just out of curiosity, what was your time?
I actually never finished that run. I was going for 1000 achievement points rather than all campaign achievements so it was pretty different than this contest. Time should've been 3-3½ hours (I spent a couple of hours finding a somewhat optimized route) but I did the run right after f2p was introduced and it died about 2 hours in due to a bug where most of the challenge missions were unavailable on f2p accounts. If it's been fixed, I might do another one at some point.
Anyway, with the campaign speedrun experience I have, I'm pretty sue I'd be able to do all achievements in one (marathon) sitting. A conservative estimate would be 18 hours.
i understand Incontrol s stance regarding people pointing out he might not win, but is there a particular reason while he s not taking the challenge seriously?
i understand Incontrol s stance regarding people pointing out he might not win, but is there a particular reason while he s not taking the challenge seriously?
Monday I had a sponsored stream for GamesWorkshop Tuesday my internet wouldn't let me stream Wednesday I am doing it but still have life obligations like taking my dogs to the vet
I'm getting really fucking tired of explaining to people why I am not dropping everything and pouring my 20 hours a day into this when I was asked to do it on Friday 3 days before it started. I need people to chill the fuck out.
i understand Incontrol s stance regarding people pointing out he might not win, but is there a particular reason while he s not taking the challenge seriously?
Monday I had a sponsored stream for GamesWorkshop Tuesday my internet wouldn't let me stream Wednesday I am doing it but still have life obligations like taking my dogs to the vet
I'm getting really fucking tired of explaining to people why I am not dropping everything and pouring my 20 hours a day into this when I was asked to do it on Friday 3 days before it started. I need people to chill the fuck out.
hey man, i wasnt trying to nag you, I was just curious, and TL is my main source of sc info, and since this is the thread, and there wasnt an explanation, i asked. Didnt think you d answer personally. Im glad there wasnt something worse that held you up, cheers!
i understand Incontrol s stance regarding people pointing out he might not win, but is there a particular reason while he s not taking the challenge seriously?
Monday I had a sponsored stream for GamesWorkshop Tuesday my internet wouldn't let me stream Wednesday I am doing it but still have life obligations like taking my dogs to the vet
I'm getting really fucking tired of explaining to people why I am not dropping everything and pouring my 20 hours a day into this when I was asked to do it on Friday 3 days before it started. I need people to chill the fuck out.
hey man, i wasnt trying to nag you, I was just curious, and TL is my main source of sc info, and since this is the thread, and there wasnt an explanation, i asked. Didnt think you d answer personally. Im glad there wasnt something worse that held you up, cheers!
Yeah, sorry. I am getting a lot of people harrassing me about this and it sucks. Everyone kinda says the same thing "HEY! I don't read [TL, Reddit, Twitter, your stream title, your channel etc] and they then there are the people who just want to try and start shit.
It was meant to be fun.. we are getting paid to do it and I have 0 chance of winning. It's becoming a really dumb thing though with how some people in the community are treating it
On March 15 2018 12:49 Charoisaur wrote: And I still have no idea what's meant with the "drops" I read about everywhere
So after 2 hours of watching a sc2 stream that has drops activated you should get a BobToss spray and picture.
There is also a chance to get co-op commanders or announcers. 3 will drop every 15 minutes I think.
On the achievement hunt streams it's also possible to get a warchest skin bundle, but it's even rarer. You have to link your twitch and battle.net account for this to work.
Seems like Destiny got this by a pretty big margin, turn out the secret was just not to sleep for 3 days. It would have been more fun if they did a regular speed run with a clock with a whole week to do it. No saying that Destiny dosen't deserve it, but he really isn't looking too good right now.
I wonder if this event was planned on having every streamer involved on a specific schedule and dissolved into Destiny, Neuro and UpATree pulling all nighters.
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