Atlantique Esports

On paper, Complexity is a team full of skill. With a roster stacked with two top 20 players, a former major winner, and a top Danish fragger, they should be regularly finishing high in big name tournaments. Yet for the last 5 top tier competitions the Dallas based org have not been meeting expectations, acting more as a simple speedbump that higher ranked teams must surpass in order to make deep runs. Below is a table of their last 6 main tournament finishes, showing these middling results. Tournament Placement Lost to IEM Cologne 13 th -16 th Virtus.Pro (2-1) BLAST Spring Finals 5 th -6 th G2 (2-1) IEM Summer 7 th -8 th Gambit (2-1) Flashpoint 3 10 th Sprout (2-0) ESL Pro League S13 5 th -6 th NiP (2-1) IEM World Championship 17 th -20 th Mousesports (2-1) All is...

               Well for you Starcraft folks out there, or for those curious about this weird space thing, then a big tournament has just ended. Dream Hack’s Summer season has come to an end with the Master’s Cup, and the finals ended 4-3 in favor of Reynor, an Italian Zerg beating out Maru, the Korean Terran. But I don't really want to talk about that, mainly because as a final series that game will be talked to death, and also well, I think someone like Winter can cover it much better than I could. Instead I want to one, give a primer on Starcraft for those who don’t know much about Starcraft and also just talk about one of the most beautiful games of Starcraft I have seen, Game 1 of the Round of 8 series Scarlett v. Innovation.  Let’s start by looking at this map, Blackburn.  I want to start with some really basic map info. Skip this paragraph if you know about the basics of SC. So, the goal for each player here is to gather the t...