The world championship and the winning pot of as much as half a million dollars will be fought live on Areena and Twitch.tv from Thursday 24 February. from.
The new world champion will be crowned at the end of Sunday’s semi-finals and final. The best players in the world are fighting for the prize pool of $ 500,000, or just over € 440,000 – including, of course, the fourth-place finisher in the Pro Tour. Jonah “Serral” Sotala.
In the prize cabinet of the 23-year-old Finnish star, you can find both the World Cup gold from Anaheim in 2018 and several World Tour championship trophies, but on the stage of Katowice’s Spodek Arena, Sotala has not yet been able to celebrate a victory.
– The championship would mean a lot to me, because I haven’t achieved it yet. And in general, I have always enjoyed playing in Katowice, Sotala said of the Finnish club he represents. In the ENCE bulletin (you will switch to another service).
This year, the best competitors in the world are once again facing a tough challenge in Poland. The top three on the world list are Korean stars Cho “Maru” Seong-ju, Lee “Rogue” Yeol and Cho “Trap” Seong-hobut opposition to Sotala is also offered by the tops of the “rest of the world”, such as France Clément “Clem” Desplanches and the defending champion, Italian Riccardo “Reynor” Romiti.
The broadcast in will start on Thursday with Group A matches at 12:50 p.m., and Sotala’s Group B will hit the boxes at about 6:15 p.m. Famous Finnish StarCraft scholars act as commentators on ‘s broadcasts Juha “Divinesia” Nurmenniemi, Samuli “Elfi” Sihvonenand Benjamin “Bunny” Clean.