When I saw a link to the list of payouts, the first thing I did was look up some AoE streamers. I'm glad to see that several streamers are making decent money from our game; actually I was hoping for more.
One thing to keep in mind is that even if a Chinese player can actually get to Europe, when he goes home to China after the tournament, he will have to quarantine in a hotel at his own expense for 14 to 21 days.
It is sad that a significant number of top players either cannot attend or will have to make a difficult decision about whether to attend this S-tier tournament. That cancels out the additional excitement that an in-person tournament would have had for me. So I think an online format would have...
I usually don't watch Memb unless he is the only caster showing a game I want to see (though I have total respect for his love for the game), so I was pleasantly surprised by two things:
1. The combination of Memb and Nili is surprisingly good. I didn't think that their casting styles would...
It is good to see new faces in the big tournaments, and upsets are always fun (who could have predicted the score of Valas vs. Slam, for example) but one has to imagine the brackets had some effect, with the first two brackets having 4 top 15 players and the second two brackets having 0. If...
It's good that this issue has been brought to people's attention. Now obviously the solution is to create map scripts so that it doesn't work. I'm sure the point of this mod is not to help people cheat.
It is simply disrespectful to remove ranked DM mere days after the conclusion of an excellent DMWC (and before the silver league has even finished). There must be a better way to accomplish their goals.
Hidden Cup was a great pleasure to watch. It's amazing that AOE2 has such a competitive scene now where top-level tournaments are happening more and more frequently, and every tournament has a high level of play, intense competition, and some epic games. Thanks as a viewer to the organizers and...
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