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The sign-ups for the StarCraft Community Tournament have now closed down. Stay tuned for the exciting qualifier round that will be held on May 24th and 25th in cooperation with GosuGamers for the privilege of competing in the finals at the Worldwide Invitational in Paris and the chance to win great prizes! All participants will receive an email with further instructions in the coming days.

At the 2008 Blizzard Entertainment Worldwide Invitational, all attendees will have the opportunity to witness some of the world’s top StarCraft, Warcraft 3 and World of Warcraft players compete in exciting matches. In addition to these professional gaming matches, community player tournaments will allow you to show your skills for fun and glory – and some amazing tournament prizes. Sign up to compete with other members of the community in Blizzard's upcoming StarCraft tournaments and use your skills to come out on top! Compete in the StarCraft: Brood War qualifiers hosted by GosuGamers to win your spot in the StarCraft: Brood War finals! Check out the Community tournaments page for more information!

• New World of Warcraft Hero Class: Bard
• New StarCraft II Unit: Tauren Marine
• World of Warcraft on a Console
• Diablo Loot Piñata
• Forums: Bears and Buckets and Walruses, Oh My!

• Check out TeamLiquid where the staff members semioldguy and Last Romantic posted their coverage in the StarCraft II TeamLiquid Coverage Part I and Part II with detailed game decriptions. If you have any questions, you can Ask LR about StarCraft II or Ask semioldguy about StarCraft II.
• On Starcraft.org you can take a Photo Tour to have a look at the Blizzard Museum and check out the Emmy that was awarded for the South Park episode. Read their article on the Swarm for more Zerg hands-on experience.
• GosuGamers takes a look at the Queen in StarCraft II and answers your questions in the Open Q&a with Raistlin. They also published an Interview with Samwise Didier. You should also take the time to see their Zerg Unit fact sheet and the Community Reaction to Zerg as well as the reactions of the ProGamers with the match-up between sAviOr and Bisu and the Pros Perspective on SC2
• sclegacy has put together a report of their "Day at Blizzard" headquarters with an insight on the campus as well as their thoughts on the Zerg and the Gameplay of StarCraft II.
• IncGamers also stopped by the Blizzard headquarters and has plenty of information for you in their Zerg coverage with the official trailers, a preview on the Zerg Queen, the Press Q&a and the general Zerg Preview covering all units.
• On the fansite Starcraft2forum Joneagle_X writes about his trip to Irvine. For more information have a look at his Q&a Thread and his model of the new redesigned Nomad!
• Last but certainly not least GameReplays also gives you an insight on their visit to Blizzard and get to test StarCraft II themselves. Check out their impressions in the StarCraft II Zerg Details & Trialer.
• More information is available on sc2blog who have a summary of everything that has been going on the past couple of days in their Blizzard's Rush: 36 hours of Zerg
• If you still thirst for more information, check out the sites sc2blog, Planet StarCraft, Blizzplanet, StarCrafttwo.com, myMYM, StarCraft II Australia, StarCraft II Player, StarCraftLive, Starcrafttwo.com and StarCraft II Zone.

• GameSpot: Hands-on - Zerg Rush, Interview with Art Director Samwise Didier (Video) & Interview with Lead Game Designer Dustin Browder (Video).
• IGN: StarCraft II Hands-On, StarCraft II Zerg First Look, Video Special: Blizzard Studio Tour, Zerg Unit and Zerg Structure list and Video Interview with Chris Sigaty as well as Zerg gameplay trailers.
• Gametrailers: Interviews with Chris Sigaty on Zerg Evolution, Comparison Interview and Recapturing the Magic - Interview with Art Director Samwise Didier
• Gamespy: StarCraft II Preview, Interview with Dustin Browder