Recent content by nimanoe

Not what he said. If I had to answer, yes they should be criticized and they have been in the past to the point where they had to apologize and some of them got punished for it. If there is something that they should be criticized for please post the proof and we maybe we can come to a...

What are you even talking about? We've already discussed the racist quote from Capoch, the language that got MbL banned and Hera's behaviour when playing from a smurf. If the pro's really did something comparable to what Big Scoob did why not post it and proof that you're right?

Great tournament with an amazing conclusion. I think the player cams were great, felt like they added something, the interviews were fun as well. I think the idea of having the communication between teams recorded is pretty cool, maybe in the future it's possible to release some highlights as a...

He has been playing AoE2 for months now, basically since N4C ended.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AoE_Saracens/comments/v93qm8/how_to_get_infinite_gold_with_saracen_market/

As others have mentioned here and in the other thread, I think the criteria for invited players needs some sort of overhaul. There's currently 4 different groups: No invitations, invites based on results, half of the players are invited and less than half of the players are invited. This seems...

That doesn't make any sense, I don't think sponsors like start.gg, Surfshark or steelseries care about having control, they just want to get as many engagements or sales as possible.

To add to that, 12k of that 44k for the Road to Wololo is paid for by start.gg EGC in general has been doing a great job at getting outside sponsorship, whereas AoE2 is much more reliant on Microsoft

I get the point being made, but the post I replied to said most tournaments didn't have open qualifiers, which simply isn't true Besides that, I think the ATP rankings are very forgiving to lower level players, so while getting an invite certainly helps a player get some ATP points, if they...

What tournaments have been invitational lately? Almost every big tournament has a qualifier for at least 50% of the total available spots. What you said would be true a couple years ago, but I don't think it's correct anymore. Looking at the upcoming and latest 1v1 S-Tier tournaments: RBW...

Great work! I think the ranking is fairly accurate, Liereyy and MbL are obviously rated too low, but that's because they haven't been active lately, not really a fault of the system. I really like the suggestion from @USC_kiky above to look at how many top players played in the tournament. I...

Some sick games today. Does anyone remember the last time there was a reverse sweep in a bo7? Pretty insane that Yo came back from that

You do know what Kappa means right?

I don't think anyone is scared of legal ramifications, but especially streamers or other known figures in the scene still have a lot to lose and very little to gain by spoiling "secrets". Microsoft is still sponsoring them ( in) directly and some of them get early access to new content. It...

Just to make sure, we're talking actual sheep here and not cows or water buffalo's right?