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I'm interviewing David the day before the beta goes live and would love to see the topics the community is MOST hungry to see covered. I'll draw bonus questions from this thread based on how interesting I think they are as well as upvotes so vote for what you'd most like to see. Thanks fam

Interview will be live at 4pm pacific/7pm east coast US on Tuesday 15th April (1am Europe on wednesday). You can watch on my stream www.twitch.tv/x5_pig and posted to my youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@PiGBattleAces later that day.

Hit me with your suggestions for questions that I may draw from in our interview!

We'll be doing this live on my twitch channel (www.twitch.tv/x5\_pig) starting at 15th November, 3pm pacific, 6pm eastern, (midnight central european) time (16th November 10:00 AEDT)

Planned topics so far are:

• Monetisation and progression
• new balance patch
• Patch cadence for the future
• other plans for the future of Battle Aces

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PiGFest 4.0's Carnival Day #1 is tomorrow and will be featuring Pro Showmatches.
Carnival Day #2 will feature Pros playing with/against Viewers on Wed 27 Sep 12pm cest.

CARNIVAL EVENT DETAILS

When: 18 September 2023 starting at 12pm CEST / 8pm AEST

Feature 1: Weird/funky map showcase with Astrea and Scarlett. This will test maps with really different mechanics/features so we can see what's out there beyond the standard ladder format.
Feature 2: PiG's Laboratory showcase with Astrea and Scarlett. Let's see what happens when we tweak setting

WHAT IS HAM CUP?

This 8-player invitational tournament was a sub goal from PiG's Subathon 3.0. Thank you to the Twitch community for their generosity!

TOURNAMENT DETAILS

Format: Single elimination bracket held over 3 days. Ro8 will be best of 5. Semi Finals and Grand Final will be best of 7.

Schedule: July 14-16 2023, starting at 12pm CEST / 7pm KST / 8pm AEST each day.

The first two days will each have two ro8 matches, with the winners facing each other in the Semi Finals on the same day - making it like a mini 4-player tournament to see who goes through to the Grand Finals.

Day 1:
MaxPax vs Clem
ByuN vs Scarlett
Semi Final 1

Day 2:
Dark vs Astrea

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Announcing PiGFEST 3.0!

Starting in just 2 weeks, lets inject some passion into SC2 :D Trying a new format this time! We already have confirmed a sick list of players:

• Oliveira
• Serral
• Hero
• Clem
• Reynor
• Maxpax
• Cure
• Dark
• Skillous
• Byun
• Solar
• More

SUPPORT PIGFEST! https://streamlabs.com/x5_pig/tip
All stream donations leading up to and during the event will be 100% added to the prize pool. I'm also adding $1000 from my own pocket + if we fall short of $2k I'll make up the difference.

DATES: 15-19 March 2023
TIME: 10AM CEST / 6PM KST / 8PM AEDT
STREAM: https://www.twitch.tv/x5_pig
NON-EN

This Wednesday from 13:00 Pacific, 16:00 Eastern, 22:00 CET PiG will be doing a Newbie Stream! This is an event all about trying to peel back the jargon, ditch the assumed knowledge and try to explain the fundamentals of Starcraft and encourage newer members of the community to take part in asking questions and thinking about their strategies!

Free replay coaching of players of all levels during the stream. You can upload your replay and question here: https://forms.gle/L6FP9KLNTZDXRxGk6

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There will be breaks in the coaching where I match up vs Diamond viewers in demonstration matches. Taking time to play challenges like having very slow

This Wednesday from 13:00 Pacific, 16:00 Eastern, 22:00 CET PiG will be doing a Newbie Stream! This is an event all about trying to peel back the jargon, ditch the assumed knowledge and try to explain the fundamentals of Starcraft and encourage newer members of the community to take part in asking questions and thinking about their strategies!

Free replay coaching of players of all levels during the stream. You can upload your replay and question here: https://forms.gle/L6FP9KLNTZDXRxGk6

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There will be breaks in the coaching where I match up vs Diamond viewers in demonstration matches. Taking time to play challenges like having very slow

This Wednesday from 13:00 Pacific, 16:00 Eastern, 22:00 CET PiG will be doing a Newbie Stream! This is an event all about trying to peel back the jargon, ditch the assumed knowledge and try to explain the fundamentals of Starcraft and encourage newer members of the community to take part in asking questions and thinking about their strategies!

Free replay coaching of players of all levels during the stream. You can upload your replay and question here: https://forms.gle/L6FP9KLNTZDXRxGk6

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There will be breaks in the coaching where I match up vs Diamond viewers in demonstration matches. Taking time to play challenges like having very slow

Hi Reddit, it’s PiG here,

Today I’d like to introduce you to a long-standing community member you might not be familiar with. His name is Thor. He’s been playing SC2 since day 1 and even created his own team. Thor has played 23000 games of Starcraft 2. Thor has no build order vs protoss and almost always loses to them, but he loves meching his way to victory in TvT and TvZ. He also calls himself a “giant noob”, yet hit masters 3 in 2016 and still chills at 4k MMR today. Only in Starcraft would such a self-effacing attitude be right at home.

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Thor and his wife had a baby boy named Ruzgar (wind) last year, and unfortunately he was born with SMA - Spinal Muscular Atrophy. This is