AoE2 DE premiered 2 years and 3 months ago, that's where I got 2 years from. I count DE as a new chapter, because we upgraded from peer-to-peer connection into dedicated servers. AoE4 was announced in 2017 and Microsoft was interested in releasing DEs and sponsoring tournaments, because they had...
The interest in AoE2 in the last 2 years was supported by the fact that AoE4 was on the horizon. But AoE4 is a disappointment to a lot of people, I'd say to the majority of AoE2 community. The prospects for AoE franchise are quite modest and I find this decision by Hera reasonable. It looks like...
The ideal solution for Microsoft, AoE streamers and communities would be if AoE4 was a real successor to AoE2. I sense that the backlash primarily comes from the situation, in which AoE4 and AoE2 are direct competitors for sponsorships, sales, players and viewers. AoE4 didn't and won't replace...
It's a shame that DM lobbies won't be ranked to retain the ladder. It's understandable that they are removing the matchmaking, but ranked lobbies would be a favour for DM fans.
The best year in the history of Aoe2. Masters of Arabia with 50k prizepool. The world championship with the gold standard settings, it's going to be special.
I feel like top 7 seeds are too strong to be beaten. YinYang has Yo who is top5 in the world and can carry games, perhaps vivi-tim-jibatong could be challenged by Belgium-Daniel-Angelina, but it's a long shot. I watched Rulers of Rome in round 1 and they won easily, but they are not too...
What a great times for Age of Empires 2! An era of prosperity and renewed interest, big thank you to all those people who worked for years to make this happen.
I watched tournament VooblyOfficial youtube collection and Katsuni and Memb casts were something special. Katsuni was slow, composed, enjoying himself streaming and Memb was the emotional, explosive colour caster. It worked so well with these contrasting personalities, great times when it was...
All Secret players at some point reached 2500 1v1 rating, Nili reached 2300 for the first time this year after many years of being around. AoE2 requires a lot of mechanical skill and who knows if Nili will ever be able to get to the top15. I'd say perfect candidate would be Mbl, I wonder if...
If there's a significant skill gap between teams, which is likely to happen in a big 3v3 tournament, I'd say is the best to have as broad map pool as possible, at least for home map picks. I think it would benefit series if the home map pool had many unpopular, unusual maps, then instead of 3-0...
Another idea would be to let players choose only from bottom 16 civs, excluding top15 to showcase the least popular choices. I feel there's more variety in strats and units at the other end of the civ list.
I watch F1 too, have been following since 2007. I also watched some other motorsport series throughout the years, DTM, WTCC, WEC or Blancpain GT Series. Sadly 2019 season is heading towards Mercedes grabbing both titles for the 6th time in a row, without much challenge. Today in Hungary Mercedes...
Interesting thing about the bracket is that, if you measure players' strength by highest 1v1 rating reached, Frantic was the only team to put their more promising player to the bottom part of it. Upper side is pretty stacked, TheViper, Mbl and TheMax can't all reach the semifinals and Nicov...
I feel like Bo3 series are too short to be covered live as a single event, can be over in less than an hour. If you're late, might as well start with a VoD. The tournament was designed with an idea of streaming series together, i still prefer watching games back-to-back on EscapeTv streams, but...
The important thing to point out I think is that TheViper hugely influenced the expert scene over the last 7 years or so. I believe that without him, other players wouldn't have reached such heights of gameplay and skill. He's always motivated others to get better and better. And even lower...
I think that Liereyy is the better early game player and TheViper has an advantage in late game. So if he can drag games out without big losses, his imp macromanagement will carry him to victory. Liereyy's aggression may be deadly too, so I think it's a perfect exciting final, which can go...
Perhaps it doesn't affect many people, but I think it's easier to find time on Saturdays, at least I can say I'll miss the stream because of the change. It's unfortunate that this happens for the most epic 4v4 series.
I don't exactly understand why streams in Chinese can't happen on the day after streams in English. Only Chinese players have problems with keeping the results secret, surely they can tell their viewers to wait for official streams. I feel like it's the right decision to put a ban on live...
Black Adder has a good point that games would become more repetitive, but one way to offset that consequence would be to add more maps to pools so that players would have to adapt more. For instance, there's green arabia, arabia without cliffs, arabia without lakes, arabia-like maps with...
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