Artosis

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Player Information
Name:	Dan Stemkoski
Birth:	April 6, 1983 (1983-04-06)
Country:	United States
Race:	Protoss
Links
History
2010-04-27 - 2011-03-31 Meet Your Makers 2011-03-31 - 2011-09-16 Sixjax Gaming

To read about Artosis's StarCraft: Brood War career, see Artosis.

Daniel "Artosis" Stemkoski is a former StarCraft II and Brood War player, former manager of Sixjax Gaming and well-known commentator from the United States, currently residing in Seoul, South Korea. He is best known for commentating the GOMTV Global Starcraft II League main event alongside his co-caster Tasteless. He is a deeply respected member of the Starcraft community.

Artosis offers video insight into the GSL and GOMTV via his YouTube channel, including, but not limited to, interviews with all the foreign players who attempted to qualify for the GSL during the open seasons. Throughout the beta and continuing into the official release, Artosis was a vocal critic of Blizzard's race balancing decisions, asserting that they had severely weakened Zerg against the other races.

In Beta

• On March 24, 2010, Artosis was ranked first in the Platinum League division 7 with a 310-157 record for 1v1.

• Artosis competed in the very first StarCraft II beta show match sponsored by MLG, the MLG SC2 KotBH, where he lost 1-3 against Louder.

• Artosis was also invited to the TeamLiquid SC2 Invitational 2 and the HDH Invitational.

Artosis competing in Cologne, Germany.

Wings of Liberty

Artosis continued to actively play after launch. His gameplay is characterized by an extremely safe, economical and passive style. He strongly dislikes cheese and/or all-in gameplay.

His first achievement came as a 3rd/4th-place finish in the IEM US Regular Season Cup #2 which gave him a spot in the IEM Group Stages and a chance to qualify for the IEM Season V - American Championships. On top of this, Artosis traveled to Germany as one of the 10 invitees to the IEM Season V - Global Challenge Cologne, the first major live StarCraft event in Europe.

Artosis qualified for the GOMTV Starcraft II Open 1, but lost in the round of 64 against FreeSaGa, 1-2.

Playing Zerg throughout the beta, Artosis switched to Protoss in January 2011, although he was known for having a hatred for the Protoss race in Brood War, especially the Dark Templar unit.

On January 16, 2011, MYM announced that their SC2 roster would be reinforced, albeit leaving Artosis as an inactive member of the roster for the remainder of his contract. On February 24, Artosis announced via a Twitter post that he had left MYM.

Artosis maintained his desire to continue as a player, being picked as the coach for the World All-Star team for 2011 GSL World Championship. Despite ultimately losing, he helped the foreigners to a surprisingly strong 7-8 finish against the South Koreans. In addition, he applied and was accepted as one of the 50 invitees for the North American Star League. He was placed into Division 1, which he finished with 1-8, only winning his match against Grubby. He returned to cast the Grand Finals in Ontario California alongside Tasteless, iNcontroL, Gretorp and Day9.

On March 31, 2011, Artosis announced that he would be taking up the role of team captain for the North American organization Sixjax Gaming. They disbanded shortly after, on September 16, 2011.

On January 29, 2013, Artosis participated in the GSL 2013 Season 1 Code A preliminaries, only to be beaten 0-2 by Mekia.

He operates a very popular stream on Twitch TV.

Tournaments Cast

TSL 1 TSL 2 GSL 1 GSL 2 GSL 3 2011 Pokerstrategy.com TSL3 (two appearances in Ro8)

Blizzcon 2010 GSL World Championship GSL March (Code S and parts of Code A) GSL May (Code S) GSL Super Tournament MLG Columbus 2011

NASL Grand Finals in Ontario California MLG Raleigh 2011 MLG Orlando 2011 BlizzCon 2011 MLG Providence 2011 DreamHack Winter 2011

WCS Australia Nationals 2012 WCS United Kingdom Nationals 2012 Battle.net World Championship 2012

Artosis performing "The Handgun"

Trivia

• Known for the saying: "When you are ahead, get more ahead."
• Played Terran in Brood War.
• Dislikes the Marauder and the Colossus unit and loves mech play. In SOTG Episode 42 he said, "The less I see the Marauder the more I feel like switching back to Terran."
• Started up a website selling StarCraft related T-shirts with Tasteless called The Handsome Nerd.
• Is a vegetarian.
• Once dreamed of becoming a guinea pig farmer.
• Has 2 ferrets
• Once said that he'll swallow a sword if San advances from his Code S group and did not follow through after San advanced.
• Stated in his NASL Season 1 application video that the player he'd wanted most to come back to competitive play full-time was Day9 due to their competition in the past.
• Decided upon his name by combining the first two characters of his old ID "Archmage-Danny" with the "tosis" portion of the Korn song "Cameltosis"
• As of State of the Game Episode 44, stated that his five favorite players to watch (in no particular order) were Tyler, PuMa, NesTea, Sage and Alicia.
• Has 8 screws and a metal plate in his foot.
• Source of the Artosis Pylon.
• Became a father on January 14, 2012.

Beta Matches

Replay Packs

• Beta Pack (Patch 11)

Gallery

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Interviews

2012

• 2012-09-09 | After Thoughts with Artosis by itmeJP
• 2012-09-04 | Real Talk with Artosis by itmeJP
• 2012-07-01 | Interview with Artosis by Definitive eSports at WCS UK Nationals

2011

• 2011-08-24 | Interview with Artosis at the GOMTV Studio by UpCloseGamers
• 2011-06-28 | Artosis Self Interview in Cambodia by ArtosisTV

2010

• 2010-11-14 | Artosis interview at GSL Open Season 3 by ArtosisTV
• 2010-06-28 | Video Interview In-Game Footage with Artosis Co-casting by GLHF.it
• 2010-05-08 | Team Liquid Invitational #2 Interview by TeamLiquid.net
• 2010-04-03 | Artosis Interview about StarCraft II and on joining a Korean team by Fnatic
• 2010-02-18 | Artosis on SC2 and Kespa + Blizzard by AndroidBit

External links

• American Battle.net Account
• Artosis' personal blog