BlizzAlanDabiri

Yeah, we have in-house Blizzard tournaments fairly often. There are a lot of SC2 players across the company.

Personally, I am Grand Master on the Korean ladder. You might have seen my name, it's |||||||||||||||.

We've learned a lot from our previous launches, including the Wings of Liberty launch, and we're doing everything we can to make sure this launch goes as smoothly as possible. We have the advantage that we've been building on an existing platform that's been evolving for several years.

We've actually added a bunch of AI build types in the 2.0 patch and Heart of the Swarm. Some of those might even be recognizable as some builds popularized by pros. :) We'd love to continue to do this more in the future.

We've actually been looking into this, and hopefully we can eventually get something out to you guys.

Yeah, actually, we are not too happy with the way that has turned out. The goal of the Grand Master league was so that you could follow the best players in SC2 for that region. If everyone hides behind the same masked character name, it kind of defeats the purpose.

We've been discussing ways to improve this, but it is a delicate balancing act between providing some amount of privacy to high-level players while still allowing everyone else in the SC2 community the ability to track the success of the best players.

We're going to address this at some point in the future.