Hello everybody!
It is a great pleasure for me to announce the arrival of the 3rd edition of the Empire Showdown!
But, what is the Empire Showdown?
It is the 3rd edition of a tournament I organize. The idea is to gather professional players for 1v1 battles on an original map pool pack, and take the opportunity to turn it to a fund raising for an association!
The first competition was planned with French speaking players only, in favor of an animal shelter led by an association. We managed to collect 1700 €. (it was in 2018 if my memory is good)
I was very happy of this first attempt and wanted to retry this experiment with higher expectations in 2020.
I wanted to work for children, children which haven't got our luck. This is why I contacted the ARAME association.
It is a french association based in Strasbourg which aim is to help children facing disease, leukemia among others.
Link : https://www.association-arame.fr/
So last year, with the help of the Viper, hera, Tatoh, Nicov, Mbl, Lirrey, Mister Yo and Daut it is 17 200 € that we managed to collect! An unbelievable amount that, trust me, made a lot of people happy!
This year, ARAME came up to me to offer a new event planning together. I naturally accepted but having in mind greater ambition and ideas.
First of all to touch you even more and make you understand the everyday life of those kids.
So, during this edition we will have several speakers come up to the recording studio to testify.
We will have the nursing staff, a young adolescent girl facing the disease with her mother and also the founder of the association : professor Lutz. The objective is to get several points of view.
I will find an English speaking person to translate all the interviews so that the ones streaming their POV can inform their viewers.
These interviews will occur between each opposition to make the breaks interesting and organized. We also managed to book a 30 to 40 musicians orchestra to play video game musics (among which the age of empires ones!) to make the pauses each time nicer.
So, you might ask yourself who is going to attend this tournament 3rd edition? Here is the list of the attendees with invitation cards I hope will please you :
The tournament settings will be very simple with a direct knockout phase on a BO5 basis!
The map pool has been specifically thinked for this event in which each player will choose their home maps. First game played on Arabia.
More details here : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RdenJV1ivH0r6oM-hHkhsSPnF4XY7YUTO0FzIjVBhH8/edit?usp=sharing
The tournament will be played on 2 days. Saturday 3rd of July for all quarter finals on BO5 basis and Sunday 4th fort the semi finals and the final on BO5 basis too.
I also bet that if the 30k donation are reached this year, I'll shave my beard off... Last year, as said earlier, we reached 17 200€. I think I am safe lol.
I thank the players who accepted to attend the tournament! For the Viper, MbL, Daut, TaToH, it is the second time you accept to attend, without any hesitation and for this : thank you a lot!
For Jordan, Capoch, Project and Vinch, thank you for attending and for the interest you shown on this project!
If you have any question or ideas, feel free to contact me.
Thank you all !
It is a great pleasure for me to announce the arrival of the 3rd edition of the Empire Showdown!
But, what is the Empire Showdown?
It is the 3rd edition of a tournament I organize. The idea is to gather professional players for 1v1 battles on an original map pool pack, and take the opportunity to turn it to a fund raising for an association!
The first competition was planned with French speaking players only, in favor of an animal shelter led by an association. We managed to collect 1700 €. (it was in 2018 if my memory is good)
I was very happy of this first attempt and wanted to retry this experiment with higher expectations in 2020.
I wanted to work for children, children which haven't got our luck. This is why I contacted the ARAME association.
It is a french association based in Strasbourg which aim is to help children facing disease, leukemia among others.
Link : https://www.association-arame.fr/
So last year, with the help of the Viper, hera, Tatoh, Nicov, Mbl, Lirrey, Mister Yo and Daut it is 17 200 € that we managed to collect! An unbelievable amount that, trust me, made a lot of people happy!
This year, ARAME came up to me to offer a new event planning together. I naturally accepted but having in mind greater ambition and ideas.
First of all to touch you even more and make you understand the everyday life of those kids.
So, during this edition we will have several speakers come up to the recording studio to testify.
We will have the nursing staff, a young adolescent girl facing the disease with her mother and also the founder of the association : professor Lutz. The objective is to get several points of view.
I will find an English speaking person to translate all the interviews so that the ones streaming their POV can inform their viewers.
These interviews will occur between each opposition to make the breaks interesting and organized. We also managed to book a 30 to 40 musicians orchestra to play video game musics (among which the age of empires ones!) to make the pauses each time nicer.
So, you might ask yourself who is going to attend this tournament 3rd edition? Here is the list of the attendees with invitation cards I hope will please you :
The tournament settings will be very simple with a direct knockout phase on a BO5 basis!
The map pool has been specifically thinked for this event in which each player will choose their home maps. First game played on Arabia.
More details here : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RdenJV1ivH0r6oM-hHkhsSPnF4XY7YUTO0FzIjVBhH8/edit?usp=sharing
The tournament will be played on 2 days. Saturday 3rd of July for all quarter finals on BO5 basis and Sunday 4th fort the semi finals and the final on BO5 basis too.
I also bet that if the 30k donation are reached this year, I'll shave my beard off... Last year, as said earlier, we reached 17 200€. I think I am safe lol.
I thank the players who accepted to attend the tournament! For the Viper, MbL, Daut, TaToH, it is the second time you accept to attend, without any hesitation and for this : thank you a lot!
For Jordan, Capoch, Project and Vinch, thank you for attending and for the interest you shown on this project!
If you have any question or ideas, feel free to contact me.
Thank you all !