Last night ESEANEWS reported Jordan “nothing” Gilbert and Dimitri “kluluz” Primaky have been banned from the ESEA Network until March 3rd for account sharing. They were both caught sharing accounts with users on an ESEA-O team.

You may only play on one team per game, including multiple accounts.

ESEA Rulebook

It should also be noted that this is not the first time n0thing has been banned from a league for account sharing after he was banned from CAL for a similar incident.

n0thing will have to miss the next seven ESEA-I matches for EG. EG has brought on former DINC member Liridon “quas” Ademaj until March. The ban also prevents EG from practicing on the ESEA client. It is unclear yet if there are any additional punishments from EG regarding this ban.

Patch 1.2.1 has been pushed to the Battle.net North American test servers as of this morning. The patch contains a few bug fixes and a preview of new ladder maps. The official patch information can be found below.

StarCraft II PTR Patch 1.2.1 Notes

General

• A special sneak peek at new ladder maps is now available!
• Matchmaking has been updated to better match players queuing with pre-made teams in 2v2, 3v3, and 4v4 brackets.

Bug Fixes

General

• Fixed an issue where the title of a conversation window was scaling rather than truncating.
• Fixed an issue where the Match History score screen was displaying “Null” for the map info for all games played before Patch 1.2.
• Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause players to be improperly disconnected from a game.
• (Mac) Fixed an issue that would cause the Control key to become stuck when holding Control and minimizing the game window, then going back to the game window and attempting to use Control+1 to create a control group. 

Maps

• Fixed an issue with foliage that would die and become visible through the fog of war when a player spawned as zerg.

StarCraft II Editor

• Fixed an issue where copied-and-pasted units were not set to the correct height in-game.
• Fixed an issue where the table view scroll-bar position was reset when switching objects.
• Fixed an issue where secondary sort priorities were not working properly. Model name is now the secondary sort so that models are listed in alphabetical order after being sorted by the mod they are contained in.

To learn more about the patch or how to become a part of the PTR, click here.

GGvision has given community a great interview with the one and only Dario “LiquidTLO” Wünsch. TLO talks about going back to playing random, and playing Bloodline Champion. He also talks about getting Rank 1 in the Euro Servers.

Source: GGvision

With StarCraft II starting to take off pretty seriously now in South Korea, the players have decided it is time to have a Players’s Association. 

Sung Je “IntoThe Rainbow” Kim, Ki Soo “Tester” Seo, Jung Hwan “Cezanne” Kim, and Gyung Lak “Junwi” Park were all nominated for the voting process. Gyung Lak “Junwi” Park received 26 out of the 84 votes, making him the first President of the Player’s Association.

Thank you to all the players who voted for me, I will try my best to become a president that every single player will respect and enjoy.- Gyung Lak “Junwi” Park

Junwi is expected to be the president until the end of 2012. His first action as president will be to have his clan, Incredible Miracle(IM), run a blood drive for Jung Ho “Violet” Woo, who was diagnosed with Acute Leukemia.

Source: ESFI

Dreamhack has announced that their prize purse for the 2011 in the amount of $235,000 (1.5 million SEK), 2.5 times greater than last years purse. The prize purse will be distributed over multiple events, including Dreamhack Summer and Dreamhack Winter.

Below is the official release from the Dreamhack organization:

DreamHack Winter 2010 was a true milestone as an event, attracting 17 768 visitors and renewing the world record as the Largest Computer Festival in the World with 13 292 unique computers in the network. DreamHack Winter also saw huge success on a global scale. Breaking records for international competitors, attendees and viewers made it the largest International event to date for DreamHack.

The DreamHack on Tour eSport finals culminated at the eSports arena ‘DreamArena Extreme’ with thousands of gamers live in the audience. Tens of thousands of gamers’ worldwide participated in 17 international qualifiers. 1, 4 million viewers from 92 countries followed the action from home, with SVT Play as the official broadcaster in Swedish. DreamHack crowned six new DreamHack-champions who competed for the 650 000 SEK Prize Purse.

2011 will be yet another historic year for DreamHack and its community by breaking the one million mark in prize money for eSports alone. Today DreamHack and partners are proud to present the sum of SEK 1, 5 million in DreamHack’s Prize Purse for 2011. The Prize Purse will be distributed over multiple events and the official tournament games will be presented shortly.

-The Prize Purse and tournaments will reinforces yet again DreamHack’s position as one of the leading eSports events worldwide. This year we will intensify our work around eSports, hold more qualifiers and focus on an even greater World Finals at DreamHack Winter in November, says Robert Ohlén, CEO of DreamHack.

First Official games to be announced live at Inferno Online, Stockholm, February 4th
Friday February 4th, DreamHack will participate in the launch party of the first Swedish eSports game ‘Bloodline Champions’ BLC. The presentation, party and exhibition tournament, with eSports stars such as TLO, SjoW and GeT_RiGhT, will be broadcasted online by LevelupTV. At 18.30 CET Stunlock Studios will present their Bloodline Champions eSports plans for 2011, and DreamHack will announce the first part of its 2011 eSports programme.

Make sure you don’t miss this, presentation and Livestream starts 18:00 CET.

Dreamhack

More information about Dreamhack and its 2011 events can be found by clicking here.

Major League Gaming, via their website, has announced the first details for their MLG 2011 Pro Circuit. The circuit will feature six tournament stops with three gaming titles, however there will be no World of Warcraft for this season. The 8th Pro Circuit season will feature over $1 million in cash and prizes, one of the largest overall pots in gaming history.

MLG has also announced that they will be adding Call of Duty: Black Ops to the game list. MLG had the following to say about the addition:

We’re still hard at work on the final details regarding Call of Duty®: Black Ops in 2011, and we’ll soon be ready to announce more information, including specifics about the available prizes.

Today, we proudly bring you the location and dates of the first two Live Competitions. We kick off the season in Dallas, TX on the weekend of April 1-3. From there, the Pro Circuit will head to Columbus, OH on June 3-5. Columbus and Dallas have proven to be popular mainstays on the Pro Circuit, and we’re thrilled to return in 2011.

Online registration for all MLG Dallas titles will open on Tuesday, March 1 at 7pm ET. The Halo: Reach tournament will feature 208 teams, while the StarCraft 2 tournament will see 272 players square off. Come compete alongside the best players the world has to offer in some of the most massive brackets in gaming history. More details on registration, including pass prices and the bracket size for Call of Duty®: Black Ops will be announced soon.

Major League Gaming

For the official prize list and more details about the 2011 season, click here.

Artosis has been doing some video interviews with a lot of the Code A qualifers. Here is one of the interviews with FXOmOOnGlaDe explaining what he did to get to South Korea, and also talking about what it feels like to live there.

Other interviews incluce Oak , FXOBoSS, Torch, Spades, VTLanier, and cArn.

To see the rest of the interviews visit Artosis’s Youtube channel.