Lidakor, a long time AoE2 caster and tournament host, has finally fulfilled his life-long dream of casting a set at a S-tier LAN event.
Congrats to you @LidaKor!
Many may remember that Lida left AoE2 for AoE4 in order to pursue this goal, but I'm glad to see that it was his original home in...
There have now been several hints and explicit call outs for an upcoming GL LAN tourney.
First a tweet following Viper's loss to Lierrey at RBW:L - GamerLegion Twitter
"Tough day, but the next LAN event might just be around the corner."
Then Masmorra pretty much confirmed it in his interview...
3D!Bee has been disqualified after an investigation by MS/RBW/The GB Marxist Admin Cabal
He has been replaced by Lucifron, who was 3rd-4th place in the event that Bee used to qualify
Here's Bee's response: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP80TfH4zIQ
Here's MarineLord's take...
Super cool interview from Masmorra with Will McCahill, the business lead at Forgotten Empires. Studio Business Lead for World's Edge Studio at Microsoft
Highly recommend people watch it: Kings & Plebeians - Episode #11: Will McCahill, Business Lead for the AoE franchise
1. Will is a big nerd...
.. something
Could be a withdrawal from AoE4 or the franchise entirely. I know he was trying to go full-time last year but not sure if he is full-time now
https://twitter.com/kasvaoe/status/1513566045944131588
Yeah I know that thing is a book but it's one of the more coherent posts we have had in weeks and the comments weren't even the usual REEEEEEE dumpster fire
Today Jordan announced a $10k 1v1 tournament in AoE2 sponsored by Microsoft.
Focus on mixed maps (18 total) with a 256 player single elimination to get to a 16 player GSL.
AoE2 ded game KEKW
Golden League qualified participants have been announced!
https://twitter.com/EGCTV_AOE/status/1504561120299954177
There are still 2 days of open qualifiers this weekend that will qualify an additional 20 participants, but I think this is the majority of big names from AoE2.
Will our AoE2...
Hello good intentioned fellows of the 'Zone
I ran across a question earlier that I can't find a good answer to:
What do most Austrians do for transit?
Do they mostly bike?
Walk?
Drive?
Use public transit?
After watching MarineLord absolutely demolish his opponents so far, (15-3 through the semi-finals) I was shocked to see Leenock do the BRUTAL DOMINATION 4-1 on the semis.
Is AoE4 destined to be dominated by the Korean players just like SC2?
Or will it follow the lineage of AoE2 and be...
I've gotta say, I'm fairly surprised with The Snake's performance at NC4. After grinding AoE4 for the last 10 days or so, I figured he would be in better shape.
At the moment he is 0-3 and in last place of the 8 contenders. Looking a bit rough for the GOAT to make it into the semifinals
I hope...
About a week ago Liereyy announced that he was going to Git Gud at AoE4 to try to be competitive in upcoming tournaments (assuming Golden League since it is too late for NC4).
So how has that grind been going?
Well using the wonderful AoE4 World website we can look at his recent games...
Given that AoE4 is getting a $125k golden league for its roughly ~13k active players, when will AoE2 get a $200k platinum league for our roughly ~20k active players?
Can someone ask the tournament coordinator or check the tournament calendar?
As far as I know, almost every single A-tier or S-tier AoE2 and AoE4 tournament (and many smaller ones) have been posted to the 'Zone, and many have used this forum for scheduling, etc. It has become routine for players to check the main page to see what tourneys are coming up, and the calendar...
In Nili's recent "WTF happened in January" he flashed a screenshot of a graph that shows the number of players using Xbox GamePass and Steam for the various age titles (copied below).
I believe this data is taking the total unique players who have played a ranked 1v1 or TG and looking at their...
One of the things that surprised me about the recent NC4 announcement was that the $100k prize pool went entirely to the top 8 players. This has opened up some discussion about the ideal prize pool distribution for AoE1/2/3/4 tournaments. Note: this is not an argument about the total prize pool...
In a recent Masmorra interview (which you can watch here: Kings & Plebeians - Episode #08: Nili), Nili mentions that he thinks it is a "50/50" on whether AoE2 or AoE4 is a bigger game in 1 year.
So, fine citizens of the 'Zone, given the roadmap published by the Relic team on improving AoE4...
Today Nili announced that NAC4 is now N4C, and will be a $100K prizepool AoE4 LAN.
DeMuslim and Viper automatically invited for winning an S-Tier AoE4 tourney, and 6 will qualify.
Don't worry everyone, The Age of Empires media team has announced that they will soon be announcing the announcement of the next AoE4 patch.
The announcement meta is evolving
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