{"id":12882,"date":"2021-02-19T19:06:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T19:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/shopify-enters-esports-announces-starcraft-2-roster"},"modified":"2024-07-19T09:26:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T09:26:25","slug":"shopify-enters-esports-announces-starcraft-2-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/starcraft-2\/shopify-enters-esports-announces-starcraft-2-roster","title":{"rendered":"Shopify enters esports, announces StarCraft 2 roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shopify, one of the biggest e-commerce companies in the world, announced today their esports organisation Shopify Rebellion.<\/p>\n

The first game Shopify Rebellion will support will be StarCraft 2, with 3 players joining the team: Julian “Lambo” Brosig, Sasha “Scarlett” Hostyn, and Byun “ByuN” Hyun-woo.<\/p>\n

ByuN is an ex StarCraft 2 world champion and GSL winner, who is considered to be one of the best Terran players in the world.<\/p>\n

Scarlett, known as The Queen of Zerg, is amongst the very best “foreigner” players in the world, and her Zerg playstyle is often considered impeccable when she is in good form.<\/p>\n

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If the fact that such a huge company is choosing StarCraft 2 as their first esports title sounds strange to you, the reason behind is the fact that Tobias “Tobi” Lütke, the founder and CEO of Shopify, is a huge StarCraft 2 esports fan and an avid StarCraft 2 player.<\/p>\n

This will not be the first time for Lütke to support the StarCraft 2 scene, as he was previously sponsoring several big StarCraft 2 tournaments, including the famous HomeStory Cup.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Tobias offered a retired StarCraft 2 pro Ryoo “SeleCT” Kyung Hyun an engineering internship based solely on his accomplishments in StarCraft 2.<\/p>\n

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Hey select. Happy to hire you into the Shopify intern program. Your Starcraft accomplishments are enough of a CV. Place is yours if you want it.<\/p>\n

— Tobi Lutke 🌳🌲🛒🕹 (@tobi) October 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obviously, Lütke has a very high opinion on StarCraft 2 and the skills needed to master this real-time strategy classic, and he even claims that playing StarCraft helped him in becoming a better businessman and decision-maker.<\/p>\n