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Blaze on July 31, 2006

Blizzard Entertainment is proud to announce the first annual Blizzard Art Contest! We're looking for talented artists to create their favorite characters, monsters, or locations from the Warcraft, StarCraft, or Diablo universes in both 2D and 3D formats. We'll be posting the winning submissions on our sites, and we're also offering some really cool prizes. Interested? Click here for more information.

SOLDIER on July 28, 2006

We are proud to present the three winning maps as well as the honorable mentions for our sports map contest. There were several excellent submissions, and the judging was extremely tough, but we had a great time playing all of these and hope you had fun making them. Go here to see the different prizes that will be awarded for this contest, and keep an eye out for more contests in the future on the Battle.net Mod Support site!

GolfCraft

Creativity: 8

Fun: 10

Technical: 10

Polish: 10

My Boomstick

Creativity: 9

Fun: 7

Technical: 8

Polish: 9

FrisCraft

Creativity: 9

Fun: 8

Technical: 8

Polish: 7

Honorable Mentions

SOLDIER on July 28, 2006

About six weeks ago, ToD stole the show at WEG, beating Grubby for the title. WEG has now released a video documenting the show, which took place in Hangzhou, China. This video was well worth the wait; check it out at the link below!

SOLDIER on July 27, 2006

Four new players have accepted invitations to the StarCraft Sandlot. Additional competitors will be announced soon, along with the remaining three community sites!

- Krzysztof "Draco" Nalepka
- Sha Jun "Pj" Chun
- Roger "Odin" Gimenes
- Jonathan "PltO" Walsh

SOLDIER on July 26, 2006

Zoator Survivor TD is a competitive single lane TD where you choose to represent 1 of 4 races, each with 4 different heroes. During each wave you have to kill as many of the creeps as you can with constructed towers before they leak into the south end of your lane. Each wave also spawns a boss creep. It is ok to let him get through, but if you kill him you get lumber. Lumber can be spent on offensive spells that disrupt and steal resources from other players, so don't pick on the weak guy - he can steal half your gold! In between waves, you have a hero in the area south of your lane, and you can use your hero to summon mobs for him to fight and earn more money by walking on the beacon. If you somehow manage to live for 40 waves, you will be crowned victorious. Check it out here!

Comic-Con 2006 is currently underway at the San Diego Convention Center from now through July 23. Blizzard is on hand at this year's convention, where show-goers can go hands-on with World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. Attendees will also receive a 14-day trial of World of Warcraft with paid admission. Visit us in booth #4615, on July 21-23 from 2-3 PM PDT, where Blizzard artists will be signing free World of Warcraft posters, while supplies last!

In Extreme AOS, the key to winning is upgrading and buying more units to keep up a constant stream of troops sent at your enemies. Four teams of two set up their bases in each corner of the map, from where your units will spawn and automatically "attack move" across the board toward your enemy's encampment. Choose a hero and assist your units however you can. As your hero gains experience and levels, you will be able to choose extreme versions of your spells that are more powerful than the regular ones. But what ever you do, don't die without an ankh in your inventory, or your hero is gone and you must pick a new one. Check it out here!

MeetYourMakers just released an interview with "ToSsGirL," a very popular Korean pro-gamer. This is a good read, as it shows what it takes to become a pro-gamer and the determination and skill it requires. Having established herself as a champion in female leagues, ToSsGirL expresses the desire to work her way up in normal StarCraft leagues as well:

"My goal is to stay at the top in normal leagues, not female leagues. Honestly, I don't expect to win the championship spot in normal leagues, but I also want other females to play in normal leagues, not just female leagues. If this happens, I will get a lot more satisfaction from playing in the leagues than before."

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We're happy to announce that FighterForum, one of the largest StarCraft communities in the world, has joined the StarCraft Sandlot tournament.

Korea FighterForum has long been a staple of the Korean professional Brood War scene, actively covering the televised leagues and players. It also publishes a weekly full-color print magazine, known as esForce, that deals with professional StarCraft gaming. Pocari will be heading up the FighterForum admin team. We'd like to wish a warm welcome to the first community representing the mighty StarCraft nation of South Korea.

In addition, we'd also like to present the latest group of players to be invited to the event. Please join us in welcoming the following five players, who bring the total number of announced StarCraft Sandlot competitors to 13:

- Dmitry "Advokate" Demichev
- Ho "In_Dove" Young Song
- Eugin "Strelok" Oparyshev
- Dae "CrayOn" Yoo
- Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson

The total draft pool for this tournament will ultimately comprise 64 players. Check back regularly to find out who the remaining 67 will be...

The first thing you need do before playing Card Shuffle is to pick a deck. You can choose from either one of 15 preset decks or you can choose mix and match for limitless possibilities. Some of the decks are accessible by typing in the commands -fire, -water-, darkness, -red, -blue, at the start of the map. Be sure to check out the in-game help menu by pressing F9 to find out more about picking your deck. After you have done that, let card battle be joined! Summon mythical monsters to attack your opponents and equip them with spell items to make them more powerful. The last man standing wins! Check it out here!