Starcraft 2 esports betting

Starcraft esports

Starcraft 2 is the biggest real-time strategy (RTS) esports title around today.  Here we will talk about the game and what look out for when looking for Starcraft 2 betting. The biggest tournament organizers as of now are ESL and AfreecaTV along with the developer Blizzard. The tournaments are annual leagues and championships, such as ESL Pro League, Dreamhack Masters, World Championship Series, World TeamLeague and The Korean Starcraft League.

Matches and rules

Starcraft 2 is, just like its predecessor,  mainly played in the 1 v 1 mode. Each player picks their race and starts out on one of many maps with only a base building and a few worker units. The game ends when either one player gives up or when all buildings are destroyed.

Tournaments normally start out with a group phase to end up in a single elimination bracket. Matches are played in best of 1, 3, 5 or 7 maps. Maps vary from tournament to tournament.  Different maps are believed to favour different races, making it a very important factor when trying to predict Starcraft 2 betting.

Betting information

Finding Starcraft 2 odds is easy due to most esports betting sites covering Starcraft 2 esports. The fact that Starcraft 2 still receives frequent balance updates makes it very important to keep up to date with the current state of the game.

Starcraft betting sites

As we mentioned above, most esports betting sites do indeed offer esports betting on Starcraft 2. Since most matches are played in a bo3 format they almost exclusively offer moneyline bets. Most sites also offer odds just one to two days before the match is played, so it can be good to keep an eye on the betting sites daily to be sure you don’t miss any bets.

Betting difficulties

When trying out Starcraft betting it can be hard to find good information on players’ current shape due to most Starcraft content being published in Korean. Along with the fact that there are three different races in the game. Here it is important to realize the races all play very differently against each other.

This is making it very dangerous to assume that because player A beat player B, who in his turn beat player C, player C  then would stand no chance against player A. Maps can also be considered to severely favour a certain race matchup. Making it is very important to read up on these aspects when looking for good value in Starcraft betting.

About the game

Starcraft is an RTS (real-time strategy) game that consists of three races. Terran, Protoss and Zerg wage war against each other. Blizzard’s biggest RTS was released in March 1998, soon to become the world’s first big esports title. Starcraft quickly grew incredibly popular in South Korea. One could even say it has become somewhat of a national esports there. They have since dominated the competitive scene for more than two decades it has been considered an active esports.

The expansion called Starcraft: Brood war was released in late 1998 and has since then been the version of choice for major competitions. Late 2017 when Starcraft: Remastered was released. Starcraft: remastered is a graphically enhanced version of the game, besides that and some better spectator features. It is essentially the same game and does not have to be taken into account when looking into Starcraft betting.

Starcraft 2 and expansions

Starcraft 2 is as we mentioned an RTS game, developed by Blizzard and released in July 2010. Just like in the original game Starcraft 2 consists of three races, Terran, Protoss and Zerg fight for galactic dominance. The game has since release received two expansions, Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the void.

The expansions added new single-player campaigns as well as new units for multiplayer.  Legacy of the void currently being the version on which all esports takes place on and thus the version that is relevant to look at regarding Starcraft 2 betting.

Starcraft is to this day, mostly active in, as well as dominated by, South Korea.

Written by Jarhead

Jarhead is the founder of Eportsbetting.gg and works as a marketing specialist within iGaming. This guy grew up with gaming and experienced the very first hits on iconic SEGA, Nintendo NES, Commodore 64/128, Atari, Amiga 500 and gaming on his very first PC - a 286 beast where he ruled in Ultima V. Jarhead's favourite games and skills are in Overwatch, Rocket League and Hearthstone.