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In an editorial published yesterday on RTS Guru, Anna Kärrstrand Ovesson presents a handy breakdown of map design by taking an in-depth look at some of the factors that make for a great map, such as races, base placement, terrain, distance, and debris.

Season 5 is drawing to a close, and that means that all ladders will be locked soon.

Team Dignitas’s Steve Farrant recently interviewed Julia Childress, a Diamond league protoss player from Vancouver, BC, where she streams regularly on TwitchTV and goes by the name Ailuj.

Each new ladder season, we see a large amount of questions on the community forums asking, “What do I need to do to earn a League promotion?” Therefore, to better answer that question and bring about some additional transparency, we’ve put together some information to shed a little light on it.

We understand that picking out the appropriate desktop wallpaper to fit your tastes and complement your décor can be an arduous task. To that end, we’ll be offering you help every Tuesday by featuring a new downloadable Diablo III, StarCraft II or World of Warcraft wallpaper image on our community sites.

Community-driven tournaments are essential to the health and growth of StarCraft II as an eSport. Follow these steps to make sure that your StarCraft II tournament kicks off flawlessly.

Are you a veteran player? Are you new to StarCraft II and striving to improve your skills? In this weekly feature, we invite players of all skill levels to ask questions, share their tactics, post replays, and provide advice for understanding, executing and defeating today’s most popular strategies.

This week, we’re analyzing:

Spawn Larvae - What technique do you use to make sure that you never miss an inject? How do you manage your Larvae to build a better swarm?

Over the past five years, we’ve worked with the talented folks at DC Unlimited to create action figures of the highest quality possible. We've sculpted hordes of heroes and painted armies of villains, and today we’re pleased to welcome the latest interstellar additions to our lineup: the first series of characters from the StarCraft universe.

Hot off the presses and fast on the heels of the recently announced 2012 Battle.net World Championship event set for later this year, Team Liquid took the time to interview Ilja Rotelli, director of global community and eSports at Blizzard Entertainment. The interview looks deeper into the new structure of the Battle.net World Championship and the future of Blizzard eSports.