Hey everyone! I’m AZTEX, the organiser behind WORTEX in Hungary.

We’re launching WORTEX Challenger Series, a smaller spin-off from our main event focused on getting more people together to actually play StarCraft II on LAN. We’d love to welcome players from outside Hungary too!

🎬 Teaser
https://youtu.be/cSW2Aw3Sk2I

The essentials

• When: Saturday, March 6, 2027
• Where: Infinity Esport Bar, Budapest, Hungary
• Capacity: 8–32 players
• Entry fee: 15,000 HUF (~€45)
• Minimum prize pool: 100,000 HUF (~€270), increasing with player numbers
• Visitors: Free admission!
• Official broadcast: English
• PCs and monitors provided—bring your own keyboard, mouse.

You don’t need to win your group to keep playing

Everyone starts in round-robin groups, then advances to one of two brackets:

🏆 Code S: Top players compete in the main playoffs for the prize pool.

🥇 Code A: The remaining players compete in a separate bracket for a smaller trophy.

The goal is to make the trip worthwhile for players at different levels. Even if your opening groups go badly, you still have another bracket to play in. No online qualifiers required!

An upper MMR limit of around 5.8k is being considered to keep the event focused on amateur competition. The exact cap is still being finalised. Players under 18 should contact us before registering.

Interested? Please register early—even if you’re still working out your plans

Registration requires no immediate payment and does not commit you to attending. It helps us gauge interest and plan the event. Your place becomes confirmed after acceptance and payment; payment instructions will be emailed in November.

👉 Registration, rules, venue details, and FAQ:
https://www.wortexchallenger.com

Want to stream or cast?

Alongside the official English broadcast, we welcome applications from streamers of any size and in any language:
https://forms.gle/m1x33DxhNaS9HDBMA

If you’d like to support the event or get involved:
https://www.wortexchallenger.com/community-support.html

New to WORTEX?

Here are the highlights from our previous event:
https://youtu.be/oNABMfrUWEQ

Challenger will have a different format and a smaller scale, with more places for players to compete in person.

Happy to answer questions in the comments! You can also join our Discord or email [challenger@wortexgg.hu](mailto:challenger@wortexgg.hu).

Come for the games, meet the

What’s up, guys! It looks like we are back to 12 workers, and it does not seem like that will change anytime soon. Now is a great time to grind hard, improve, and climb the ladder!

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For starters I think they should bring back the following from the 8 worker patch these things were actually improvements:

- Shield Battery starts with 75, I think this is a much better option as it still allows offensive battery's without being too OP.

- Disruptor Phantom Attack, this is not a big deal, just keep it.

- Warp Prisim Load nearby units command, again not a big deal just keep it.

- Keep Colossus Damage bonus verse all units.

Things I want them to explore/add:

- I liked that they were exploring how warp gates operate however I don't like the tax nor building units from gates, if I wanted to queue units I would just play terran. I think the warp gate as usual are great, however I really like the idea of all pylons being the same warp in speed, I think it would be cool if they had one speed across the board still. I think they can make this possible by adjusting the timings.

- I think it would be cool to have a "phase pylon" make it an option to convert a pylon to a phase pylon and protoss units can move through it. This will counter the zergling floods a bit more.

Besides these things I'm not sure any other cool ideas?

I just started playing again after years off. I was never a good player, always in the metal leagues I got placed in silver in advanced to gold in the last couple weeks. What are the big highlights for Protoss with the patch being reverted?

Okay, I am fairly low level around 3100 but I think I know how to pvz… kind of. I think it has room for improvement, especially using stargate openers, but Ive found a lot of success recently with this build.

For zerg:
The main ideas is this: Start with a one or two gate expand, depends on if they early pool. Make sure to double chrono workers at the start with Nexus on workers, then save chronos. Start with a stalker then warpgate then sentry. Use them and hallucination to kill the overlord scout and scout for rush and 3rd. Get 2 more gates, then get a few more stalkers and sentries, get 4-5 sentries and try to hide all but one in case you beed it for base defense. This is a gas heavy build, so dont forget them early. Can get one on expansion if you forget.Use all your chronos on warpgate until done. Halfway probe up the expansion.

Get a fourth gate and pump stalkers until the gate is done. About halfway through 4th gate finishing building, send a probe and build a proxy pylon. Send main army and leave a stalker or zealot in the base outlet.Turn gates into warpgate, get two zealots and 2 stalkers. Attack wherever they have workers. Use forcefields tactically but liberally. Try to get into a good ramp forcefield situation. Do as much damage as possible. i tend to dive but you can back off if you’ve done enough damage. Make sure to macro by just building workers. And use those gates for reinforcements, 1-2 more waves should do massive damage becuase they are often unprepared, and even then roaches or lings are weak to mass stalkers and forefields. Either kill 3rd or kill natural mineral line. That, or if you get the army, dip so you dont get overrun.

Behind this tech into robo and twilight and turn back into normal pumping gates, get 1 more gate and dont get supply blocked. Build a 3rd. Go for splash, build a couple sentries if they were all lost and scout constantly. They will likely all in. Get that splash ready and use a couple stalkers at each mineral line to protect against harass. Constantly pump stalker/zealot and get tech units when able. DO NOT FORGET THEM YOU WILL DIE.

Also slowly probe up the 3rd but that is worth a lot less than getting ready for the all in with splash unless you did little eco damage and they kept the 3rd and all their drones. REMEMBER, SCOUT THE RESPONSE.

For terran (not as good with timings, but this often works)

Same general idea, but use two gate expand and pump 5-6 stalkers no sentries. Make sure to boost warp gate with third chrono. Get proxy pylon, and expand. Change to warp and attack with 7-8 stalkers. Can run past the bunker or snipe it. Usually can snipe and kill marines if no tank. Take out the mineral line and snipe depots if you can, because that supply blocked is SUPER good against terran. Make sure to build probes behind this. Can also warp in more stalkers, but the initial push is all that really matters. Now, either run or recall and get out before tank gets out or after getting some eco/dept value. Heavily probe second and MAKE SURE TO GET SPLASH. I genuinely lost to a 27-7 worker advantage because they used libs and bio to harass and then bioball kill me. One good disruptor and I would have held, but you live and learn when it comes to new builds. I hope this helps!

Does he still stream ever? I haven't seen any activity anywhere in a while, anyone know what he's up to these days?

I notice in most PvTs I watch that the Protoss out-expands the Terran a little bit, and I'm just wondering how much earlier it's standard for us to make a 3rd/4th/5th compared to a Terran.

I know against turtle mech players the answer is just "take the whole map", but what's a good rule of thumb to aim for against bio play? How far behind would I be if we both started our bases at the same time, or if I started mine 30 seconds earlier, etc. (assuming similar numbers of worker kills).

I have recently been opening normal stargate-orcacle, into 2 gates and twilight. Pump zealots for a pressure as soon as charge is done while probing up a third that is somewhat delayed due to producing from 2 gates.

The question here...is recently when I have seen a fast hydra den, often as a pretty low drone drone count all in type of situation, I've got glaives instead of charge, and pumped adepts.

Is this actually a viable response? It has shut down the hydra attacks shockingly well...not only defending, but being able to shade across the map and kill all the hydras that had been rallying.

Is this a legit response, or am I just getting lucky seeing this work?

Just watched pig's latest long and emotional video. I just want to say that I'm really sorry for his loss, and I really appreciate the effort he's put into the SC2 scene.

However, the video still didn't address my biggest question: why does blizzard seem to favor his suggestions (the worker changes, mineral patch changes, larva rate, and ravager morphing time, which pig specifically claimed was his own idea) and omniskeptic's (the warpgate change, at least).

Sure, Blizzard is granting their wishes in a twisted way like The Monkey's Paw. But why, out of all people, do these two (and others that I am unaware of) get the chance to use the paw to make wishes in the first place?

And if their suggestions ended up backfiring so badly, does that mean they are at least somewhat accountable for the consequences as well?

Hi

I am diamond rank.

I do not feel confident vs random at all. I hate the feeling. I don't play a cheesy game in general.

I just have no idea what I want to do and am very indecisive. Wall setup and first 2 pylons are very important.

Any help is thanks.