Revealing the invites and full player roster of ASUS ROG StarCraft II Summer 2015 Tournament along with the commentary team who will bring you the RTS action taking place in Helsinki, Finland on July 30-31.
The ASUS ROG StarCraft II Summer 2015 Tournament presents a total of 32 talented players around the world. Half of the players enter the tournament via an invite while the other half have fought their way into the competition through online qualifiers during the past couple of weeks. With roughly two weeks to the event, we are now excited to announce the full list of players which will compete in ASUS ROG StarCraft II Summer 2015 Tournament in the end of July.
Additionally, we would like to present the commentary duo who will be joining us in Helsinki to guide the audience through the two action packed days of StarCraft II. The casting desk will be overflowing of insight as we are pleased to welcome our commentators, the renowned players Chris “HuK” Loranger and Benjamin “DeMusliM” Baker.
Invited players
- AT.uThermal
dPix.FanTaSy
dPix.Patience
dPix.TRUE
elfi
Happy
TargA
Welmu
Liquid.Bunny
Liquid.Ret
Liquid.TLO
Liquid.Snute *
Mill.Lilbow
Mill.MarineLorD
mYi.Serral
prOp.NaNiwa **
StarDust
* Liquid.Snute replaces Mill.ForGG who cancelled his participation.
** prOp.NaNiwa replaces the qualified player cSc.DMC who could not take part in the tournament.
Qualified players
- Qualifier #1
Qualifier #2
Qualifier #3
Qualifier #4
* As the next in line from Qualifier #2, Prime.KeeN replaces yoeFW.Ian who had to cancel his participation.
Streams & Casters
The tournament will provide a free HD main stream on Twitch.tv from www.twitch.tv/rogtournament_sc2 with Chris “HuK” Loranger and Benjamin “DeMusliM” Baker providing the commentary. Both Loranger and Baker are esteemed professional StarCraft II players who have been part of the game since its beginning and played in multiple high level tournaments including some of the past ASUS ROG tournaments. On top of their player career, they both have taken seats at the caster table before and proven to be talented commentators with deep understanding of the game. The stream production will be handled by Black Molly Entertainment.
On top of the main stream, ASUS ROG StarCraft II Summer 2015 welcomes multiple community streams in different languages. Community streams will help us cover more games that would otherwise be possible on the main stream in just a two day time frame. We will announce the list of community streams later.
Schedule
- Thursday, 30 July
- 12:00 GMT (+00:00) -- 15:00 GMT (+00:00) — Group Stage 1
16:00 GMT (+00:00) -- 21:00 GMT (+00:00) — Group Stage 2 - Friday, 31 July
- 12:00 GMT (+00:00) -- 21:30 GMT (+00:00) — Playoffs
ASUS ROG
Republic of Gamers is a gaming sub-brand of ASUS that is comprised of cutting edge hardware tailored for serious gamers. The product branches include; motherboards, graphics cards, LCD monitors, gaming peripherals, desktops and laptops. This ASUS ROG Tournament will be solely powered by ASUS and ROG hardware.
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About ASUS
ASUS, the world's top 3 consumer notebook vendor and the maker of the world's best-selling and most award winning motherboards, is a leading enterprise in the new digital era. ASUS designs and manufactures products that perfectly meet the needs of today's digital home, office and person, with a broad portfolio that includes motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, displays, desktops, SFF PCs and all-in-one PCs, notebooks, hybrid devices, tablet devices, servers, multimedia and wireless solutions, networking devices, and mobile phones. With a global staff of more than 13,600 and a world-class R&D team of 4,500 engineers.