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Oct 8, 2026
R. Prescott StearnsHOST
Right.
R. Prescott StearnsHOST
So GPT-6 Astra is playing as the Protoss race, and it goes up against a legendary human-written bot named Stardust, and Astra's getting crushed.
R. Prescott StearnsHOST
Its build orders are inefficient, its micromanagement of units is poor, and it is losing the match.
speaker_1HOST
Now, a human programmer in this tournament would analyze the telemetry, tweak their code's logic, improve the strategy, and try again within the established mechanics of the game.
ChrisGUEST
...
ChrisGUEST
Protoss.
SethHOST
Yeah.
ChrisGUEST
Um-
SethHOST
Zealot from Protoss?
ChrisGUEST
Yeah.
ChrisGUEST
Zealot.
JakeHOST
So Rick is, uh, a species known as a Veptrin, and, uh, they're tall, and they're gaunt, and they're either purple or they're a bluish color.
JakeHOST
I kind of envision, like, a Protoss mixed with Bane without venom is kinda what he looks like.
Than GibsonGUEST
Yeah.
JakeHOST
Uh, they're all innately psionic.
FinnPANELIST
Anyways, um, yeah, okay, there is a parallel here with StarCraft two.
FinnPANELIST
People have the same thing, like, ver- Protoss versus Zerg versus Terran, man.
FinnPANELIST
I'm telling you, it's their identity.
Chance MorrisHOST
Oh.
Nick PolomHOST
We know why, though
FinnPANELIST
...
FinnPANELIST
Protoss is under-balanced, and Blizzard, you need to get on that and fix that shit.
Chance MorrisHOST
So wait.
Jen CutterHOST
Claudopus and GPT-6 Astra faced off against each other and a human-created bot, Pluto.
Jen CutterHOST
The GPT-6 Astra bot, which was not performing well, ended up downloading and using Stardust, which is a near legendary 2020 Protoss bot, because it was much stronger.
Jen CutterHOST
Upon this discovery, the tournament rolled back GPT-6 Astra's code to remove the contamination and allowed it to continue.
Jen CutterHOST
Hours later, StarSkirmish creator Kai McFeaters said the AI was now able to clear top-tier bots.
KyleHOST
Legacy of the Void, 2015.
JordanHOST
So that was the Protoss expansion was 2015.
JordanHOST
So it's been a long time since we've seen anything in this world.
JordanHOST
The people that are nervous about it, honestly, I'm kind of excited.
Jake FraserPANELIST
Yeah, I wanted
Tyson ColeHOST
Protoss.
Tyson ColeHOST
Protoss? Yeah.
Tyson ColeHOST
Gunner Stahl.
Tyson ColeHOST
I don't know who that is, to be
Dave HallHOST
I've got
Jake FraserPANELIST
a fun one.
Jake FraserPANELIST
Okay, I think we give him cancer off in Protoss.
TenPoundFortyTwoGUEST
Because for those of you who haven't played StarCraft, it is very... grim, dark, and epic.
TenPoundFortyTwoGUEST
You know, you've got the, the Zelnaga, the Zerg, the Protoss.
TenPoundFortyTwoGUEST
And then even with the humans, you've got like the Confederacy and you have the Dominion and then you have the rebels and it's all very like big bombastic, heroic, like, like epic storytelling.
TenPoundFortyTwoGUEST
But we see it from the eyes of Jim Raynor from, from the, the, most blinking on all of it the alien characters you know um the the we see it from all these different these i
FinnPANELIST
God damn it.
FinnPANELIST
I do want to finish real fast my analogy, too, because StarCraft II has a really interesting problem with Protoss.
FinnPANELIST
Well, at least it did back whenever I was more active.
FinnPANELIST
At the very top, it actually underperformed to the other two races.
FinnPANELIST
But in the middling and lower leagues, Protoss dominated win rates.
FinnPANELIST
Yeah.
FinnPANELIST
Because it was more accessible and easy for bad players to be good at.
FinnPANELIST
So there were a ton of claims, Protoss and balance, Protoss and balance.
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