StarCraft II players and casters

Written July 14, 2015 - 15:28

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 - Marc Schlappi
dPix.Fantasy - Jung Myung Hoon
dPix.Patience - Jo Ji Hyun
dPix.True - Yoo Ki Sung
elfi - Samuli Sihvonen
Happy - Dmitry Kostin
imG.Welmu - Vesa Hovinen
Liquid.Bunny - Patrick Brix
Liquid.Ret - Joseph de Kroon
Liquid.TLO - Dario Wünsch
Liquid.Snute ¹ - Jens Aasgaard
Mill.Lilbow - David Moschetto
Mill.MarineLorD - Alexis Eusebio
mYi.Serral - Joona Sotala
prOp.NaNiwa ² - Johan Lucchesi
StarDust - Son Seok Hee
KRN.Calt ³- Eetu Laustela
KRN.Namshar ³ - Christoffer Kolmodin

¹ Liquid.Snute replaces Mill.ForGG who cancelled his participation.
² prOp.NaNiwa replaces the invited player TargA who could not take part in the tournament.
³KRN.Calt and KRN.Namshar replace qualified players cSc.DmC and AT.Jona who cancelled their participation.

Qualified players

Qualifier #1
- mYi.PtitDrogo - Théo Freydière
- Prime.BboongBboong - Choi Jong Hyuk
- prOp.Zanster - Anton Dahlström
- Fuzer ³- Samuli Romppanen
Qualifier #2
- aAa.MiNiMaTh - Mathieu Perrus
- TSpec.Gamja - Kim Chang Gon
- Apocalypse - Kim Min Hyeong
- Prime.KeeN ¹ - Hwang Kyo Seok
Qualifier #3
- Roccat.HyuN - Ko Seok Hyun
- prOp.StarNaN - Daniel Ohlsson
- ~~AT.Jona~~ ⁴ - Jonathan Stelma
- Menace.ZhuGeLiang - Wenlei Dai
Qualifier #4
- pLine.Denver - Clément Coste
- TES.Guru - Szymon Nieciąg
- MVP.Losira - Hwang Kang Ho
- ~~cSc.~~~~DmC~~ ² - Dmitriy Bakhtiyarov

¹ As the next in line from Qualifier #2, Prime.KeeN replaces yoeFW.Ian who had to cancel his participation.
²DmC has cancelled his participation. The slot is filled by an extra invite, KRN.Calt.
³Based on Qualifier #1 results, Fuzer replaces ShoWTimE who cancelled his participation.
⁴Jona cannot take part in the tournament and he is replaced by adding KRN.Namshar to the invite list.

For more details about the qualifiers go to http://tournaments.peliliiga.fi/summer15/

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.