Blizzard has now officially started the second and final phase of multiplayer beta testing for StarCraft II. As we reported yesterday Blizzard released a new patch for the beta build to testers that included a number of features not seen in previous beta builds. Late on Wednesday night Blizzard reactivated the beta on its Battle.net service.

As expected Blizzard has reset all of the beta tester's data from the first beta phase giving everyone in the second phase a clean slate. The second phase of the beta is currently scheduled to end just 11 days from now on July 19. StarCraft II's official release date is still scheduled for July 27.