Age Community Awards 2020

Welcome everybody!

After the positive feedback of the 2019 awards, I decided to make a community voting for the 2020 Age Community Awards as well. Due to the pandemic, physical "gifts" to winners were cancelled last year, and will not have any this year. Instead, we will just have a voting, in which you can show your appriciation to the people and events of AoE2 in 2020.
Last year, we had a board of high-level players, casters and notable community members casting votes separately, but based on last year's feedback, we will have an entirely community based voting! Everybody is free and welcome to vote, and any vote counts as one!

For the fairness of the voting, everyone is kindly asked to only submit the form once! Thanks <3

Voting closes at: 24th January, 23:59GMT

Results revealed at: TBD (most likely around 30th January)

You can vote at: https://forms.gle/xzXkWGsMTEGV6XtGA
(it takes about 15 minutes to finish the questionaire)

Here are the categories in which you can vote:

Major AoE2 Events
These are the Liquipedia S-Tier events of 2020.

Smaller AoE2 events
Liquipedia A, B and C-tier events, excluding national and invitational events. Custom input (in textbox) is also available if you don't find your preferred one on the list.

Invitational Events
Liquipedia A, B and C-tier events, excluding national events. Custom input (in textbox) is also available if you don't find your preferred one on the list.

Player of The Year
The player that achieved the most in competitive AoE in 2020. To be added onto this list, a player had to be in at least one grand finals of an S-Tier 1v1 RM/EW event.

Most Improved player of the year
The Player that improved most to his/her 2019 competitive performance. Custom input (in textbox) is also available if you don't find your preferred one on the list.

Comeback player of the year
A player that was inactive in 2019, but came back for 2020. Custom input (in textbox) is also available if you don't find your preferred one on the list.

Community contributor of the year
A person that is not a major Twitch/Youtube content provider, and does the most for the community. Instead of selecting from a list, here you can name your top 3 in text boxes.

And finally, to a great popular demand:
Best AoEZone Drama of the year
Speaks for itself. Custom input (in textbox) is also available if you don't find your preferred one on the list.

 

[Lord_patito]

Great poll. I've already voted!

 

[Michaerbse]

Thanks for organizing this!

Comeback player of the year can only be Capoch imo. He was the only one on the list with really strong tournament performances, although he doesn't seem to be in his best shape anymore.
Also, no offense to Nadya, but she started streaming again like one month ago and has not participated in any tournament as far as I can tell. While the criteria for a "comeback of the year" are not clear and certainly not fully objective, I don't really know how this qualifies for the category.

For the most improved player, I don't really think Dark should be on the list. In some way he is probably the most improved player of the mentioned ones, but he is still not on the same level so it feels very difficult to compare him to the others. If you are looking at rank 20 to 50, there are probably a few others that come to mind (Barles, K4SVA, ...).
I voted for Hera. At the end of 2019 he was probably considered to be top 10. Starting with his breakthrough performance at NAC3, he was widely considered the clear #2 for some months. He took over the lead in the tournament elo ranking and has potentially been the most consistent player together with TheViper throughout the year.

 

[LidaKor]

Thanks for organizing this!

Comeback player of the year can only be Capoch imo. He was the only one on the list with really strong tournament performances, although he doesn't seem to be in his best shape anymore.
Also, no offense to Nadya, but she started streaming again like one month ago and has not participated in any tournament as far as I can tell. While the criteria for a "comeback of the year" are not clear and certainly not fully objective, I don't really know how this qualifies for the category.

For the most improved player, I don't really think Dark should be on the list. In some way he is probably the most improved player of the mentioned ones, but he is still not on the same level so it feels very difficult to compare him to the others. If you are looking at rank 20 to 50, there are probably a few others that come to mind (Barles, K4SVA, ...).
I voted for Hera. At the end of 2019 he was probably considered to be top 10. Starting with his breakthrough performance at NAC3, he was widely considered the clear #2 for some months. He took over the lead in the tournament elo ranking and has potentially been the most consistent player together with TheViper throughout the year.

At some categories, adding/not adding players was quite hard to decide. The reason why I added a custom textbox is exactly because this way you can add your preferred one if I forgot it from the list

 

[hallogallo]

I guess there is no way to change your vote once it's done? I voted too quickly

 

[LidaKor]

I guess there is no way to change your vote once it's done? I voted too quickly

Toss me a PM and we figure things out

 

[iViktorius]

maybe an oversight, maybe intention, maybe not technically possible, but at the very first question you can vote for the same tourney for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place 11

edit: btw, can you add a link to last year's Awards?

 

[Lavie_Head]

Returned with "good performance" is a bit of a stretch there, but thank you for the nomination

 

[LidaKor]

maybe an oversight, maybe intention, maybe not technically possible, but at the very first question you can vote for the same tourney for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place 11

edit: btw, can you add a link to last year's Awards?

Sure, will add a link.

It's not technically possible to prevent voting for the same in first and second. I could add it into one question (I did that last year), but then you can't select skip question

 

[HungryHungryHussars]

Contributor of the year can only be Pinztec Tim.

 

[Marauder]

I feel like there should be some sort of content categories outside of major tournaments. We've had a ton of really unique and inventive stuff come out of our aoe2 creators this year and it would be great to see that sort of thing recognized.

 

[oozkan]

I feel like there should be some sort of content categories outside of major tournaments. We've had a ton of really unique and inventive stuff come out of our aoe2 creators this year and it would be great to see that sort of thing recognized.

Like best players who plays with controllers.

 

[Marauder]

Like best players who plays with controllers.

I guess lol.

But there are a bunch of other people doing new things:
- k1 making his amazing highlight videos
- tatoh's feudal only acc
- guy on reddit making the real world cities in aoe2
- twest's pacifist campaign runs
- grathwrangs nutty stream effects
and many more

 

[Brohio]

Welp, guess I gotta research all these drama posts. Only to make my vote credible, of course.

 

[AxleHogenshmogen]

Contributor of the year can only be Pinztec Tim.

Tim's definitely a solid choice but I'd go with T90. The number of people he's brought into the community and the tournaments he's helped organize have done more to build a long term future for AoE2 than Tim's prizepools IMO.

Edit: Well turns out big streamers aren't allowed here so RIP to my ballot. Don't be like me kids, read the directions first.

 

[Ajajp_Alejandro]

Tim's definitely a solid choice but I'd go with T90. The number of people he's brought into the community and the tournaments he's helped organize have done more to build a long term future for AoE2 than Tim's prizepools IMO.

It says that you can't pick a major Twitch/Youtube content creator though

Btw, does anyone have by any chance links to some of the dramas listed in the poll? I tried searching for them with the search tool in the forums, but with little success.

 

[iViktorius]

It says that you can't pick a major Twitch/Youtube content creator though

Btw, does anyone have by any chance links to some of the dramas listed in the poll? I tried searching for them with the search tool in the forums, but with little success.

here are a couple of them

mrbean streamsniping:

Mr.Bean is a stream sniper

Was just playing 1v1 against him and then many people came in my stream saying he was stream cheating me, one of my guys took the print screen where you can see my screen on his second monitor. Lets try to get rid of these shitty people. :) P.S.: He still lost :(

www.aoezone.net

What Mr.Bean said about the stream sniping accusation

Context: https://www.aoezone.net/threads/mr-bean-is-a-stream-sniper.171017/ So I contacted him and explained what the community is saying about him (he does not know English and this website). Here are his answers: - About why he knows the drush is coming: he has been playing cuman for a while...

www.aoezone.net

rbw1 streaming:

Red Bull Wololo Non English streaming

We are pleased to announce that viewers can watch the Red Bull Wololo live in French, Spanish, Mandarin & Russian, in addition to the main English stream at https://www.twitch.tv/redbull. Live every day Thursday - Sunday starting at 13gmt. fr OGN_Empires es MembTV es Mario Ovalle (YouTube)...

www.aoezone.net

[KotD3] Official Announcement

This is definitly a question to raise. No bad feeling but there is a reality: when T90 organize Hidden cup most of viewers are on his channel. When Memb organized BO2, he did not fully benefit from it. Maybe less than T90. It sounds quite unfair. I wish Memb (and the KOTD team) will largely...

www.aoezone.net

https://www.aoezone.net/threads/red-bull-wololo-announcement.164640/page-4
(also rbw2 ofc, somehow only 1 post tho : https://www.aoezone.net/threads/red-bull-wololo-2-main-event.168380/#post-689584 )

capoch:

Capoch and his unfortunate coments

Yesterday on capoch stream, he makes some unfortunate coments, he was losing against a mexican player and he Blame him of sepect cheat, he said; that is why mexicans petes( ******s) and another bullshits, are banned for all the tournaments. I know that there have Been some cases where a couple...

www.aoezone.net

What type of community is the AoE community?

Hey guys, Due to the stuff that happened in one of my recent streams, I wanted to clear the air and post my thoughts and my sincere apology in a new thread so there are no hard feelings in the future. I don't usually have problems with people or anyone in the community (or any gaming/online...

www.aoezone.net

age of royale:

Age Royale - Battle Royale Preview

Battle Royale is coming to Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition in the upcoming November Anniversary Update, and we’ve planned a massive launch tournament to celebrate! Battle Royale pits up to 8 players against each other in a free-for-all contest fought to the last combatant standing. The...

www.aoezone.net

badboy:

I watched a pretty sus stream from badboy

Full VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/846040999 One example clip: https://www.twitch.tv/badboyaoe/clip/EndearingBovineCasettePhilosoraptor This afternoon (my time) I stumbled upon badboy's stream: https://www.twitch.tv/badboyaoe I think all of us have heard his name and his Tatars. This was...

www.aoezone.net

modri:

May I team Daut?

Here's the situation: 1. Both me and Daut were born in Yugoslavia and we thus had Yugoslavian citizenship. Later (in the 90s) the country broke into several smaller countries. I am Slovenian, he is Serbian. We speak different language but we'd easily understand each other speaking our native...

www.aoezone.net

dmrs3:

DMRS3 Winner a Champion or a Smurf?

So on September 26th, 2020 FT_Wintorez won the DMRS3 tournament by beating Silverhawk 5-2 in the finals. The DMRS3 tournament was a tournament created for lower level DM players/ RM players to motivate them to learn and play Deathmatch. The entry restrictions were as follows: To sign up, your...

www.aoezone.net

nac3 hera:

NAC 3 Main Event - All Info

From 04.01.2020 - 12.01.2020 the next episode of Nili's Apartment Cup is happening. It will be the first major event that will be played on Age of empires 2: Definitive Edition and is fully funded by Microsoft which resulted in a prizepool of $20,000 and will add 100% of all community donations...

www.aoezone.net

hc3 viewer party:
aoezone.net/threads/hidden-cup-3-london-corona-party.163642/

 

[Ajajp_Alejandro]

here are a couple of them

mrbean streamsniping:

Mr.Bean is a stream sniper

Was just playing 1v1 against him and then many people came in my stream saying he was stream cheating me, one of my guys took the print screen where you can see my screen on his second monitor. Lets try to get rid of these shitty people. :) P.S.: He still lost :(

www.aoezone.net

What Mr.Bean said about the stream sniping accusation

Context: https://www.aoezone.net/threads/mr-bean-is-a-stream-sniper.171017/ So I contacted him and explained what the community is saying about him (he does not know English and this website). Here are his answers: - About why he knows the drush is coming: he has been playing cuman for a while...

www.aoezone.net

rbw1 streaming:

Red Bull Wololo Non English streaming

We are pleased to announce that viewers can watch the Red Bull Wololo live in French, Spanish, Mandarin & Russian, in addition to the main English stream at https://www.twitch.tv/redbull. Live every day Thursday - Sunday starting at 13gmt. fr OGN_Empires es MembTV es Mario Ovalle (YouTube)...

www.aoezone.net

[KotD3] Official Announcement

This is definitly a question to raise. No bad feeling but there is a reality: when T90 organize Hidden cup most of viewers are on his channel. When Memb organized BO2, he did not fully benefit from it. Maybe less than T90. It sounds quite unfair. I wish Memb (and the KOTD team) will largely...

www.aoezone.net

https://www.aoezone.net/threads/red-bull-wololo-announcement.164640/page-4
(also rbw2 ofc, somehow only 1 post tho : https://www.aoezone.net/threads/red-bull-wololo-2-main-event.168380/#post-689584 )

capoch:

Capoch and his unfortunate coments

Yesterday on capoch stream, he makes some unfortunate coments, he was losing against a mexican player and he Blame him of sepect cheat, he said; that is why mexicans petes( ******s) and another bullshits, are banned for all the tournaments. I know that there have Been some cases where a couple...

www.aoezone.net

What type of community is the AoE community?

Hey guys, Due to the stuff that happened in one of my recent streams, I wanted to clear the air and post my thoughts and my sincere apology in a new thread so there are no hard feelings in the future. I don't usually have problems with people or anyone in the community (or any gaming/online...

www.aoezone.net

age of royale:

Age Royale - Battle Royale Preview

Battle Royale is coming to Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition in the upcoming November Anniversary Update, and we’ve planned a massive launch tournament to celebrate! Battle Royale pits up to 8 players against each other in a free-for-all contest fought to the last combatant standing. The...

www.aoezone.net

badboy:

I watched a pretty sus stream from badboy

Full VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/846040999 One example clip: https://www.twitch.tv/badboyaoe/clip/EndearingBovineCasettePhilosoraptor This afternoon (my time) I stumbled upon badboy's stream: https://www.twitch.tv/badboyaoe I think all of us have heard his name and his Tatars. This was...

www.aoezone.net

modri:

May I team Daut?

Here's the situation: 1. Both me and Daut were born in Yugoslavia and we thus had Yugoslavian citizenship. Later (in the 90s) the country broke into several smaller countries. I am Slovenian, he is Serbian. We speak different language but we'd easily understand each other speaking our native...

www.aoezone.net

dmrs3:

DMRS3 Winner a Champion or a Smurf?

So on September 26th, 2020 FT_Wintorez won the DMRS3 tournament by beating Silverhawk 5-2 in the finals. The DMRS3 tournament was a tournament created for lower level DM players/ RM players to motivate them to learn and play Deathmatch. The entry restrictions were as follows: To sign up, your...

www.aoezone.net

nac3 hera:

NAC 3 Main Event - All Info

From 04.01.2020 - 12.01.2020 the next episode of Nili's Apartment Cup is happening. It will be the first major event that will be played on Age of empires 2: Definitive Edition and is fully funded by Microsoft which resulted in a prizepool of $20,000 and will add 100% of all community donations...

www.aoezone.net

hc3 viewer party:
aoezone.net/threads/hidden-cup-3-london-corona-party.163642/

Thank you so much!

 

[Tarsiz]

Community selfless contributors who deserve a shoot-out:

Everyone who was involved in making and updating the following websites, that contain a wealth of information on how the game is played at all levels. For AoE2.net, it has even become a tool that is essential to the professional scene (since MS didn't seem to think good ladders were an important feature...).

- https://aoe2.net/
- https://aoenexus.com/
- https://www.aoe2insights.com/
- https://aoe2.club/

The people who keep updating and working on other websites such as aoestats (jerbot), aoe-elo (Mungo, pumukel, Überruschung, Michaerbse (who also deserves a shoot-out for updating the highest elo reached sheet) and hallogallo).

Nerfox for working on the amazing spreadsheets we have been using for multiple tournaments this year (OBNC, KotD3, WC 2020).

I'm probably forgetting others as well unfortunately.

 

[MaY]

lol i didnt know about the london meet up "in middle of the pandemic" drama , i need to hang out with the clowns, they love drama

 

[COYOTE_RAGDE]

vote todo por morena jaja 11bien firme con la 4t jaja11

 

[Philippe le Bon]

Ugh, glorifying drama, you guys never change. Sayonara!

 

[sahwa]

holy **** just read that HC3 meetup thread. even by the standards of aoezone those guys are stupid lol. makes me even more ashamed to be british 11

 

[JoshuaR]

lol i didnt know about the london meet up "in middle of the pandemic" drama , i need to hang out with the clowns, they love drama

The way this virus has spread... technically you could now consider it the BEGINNING and not the MIDDLE 11 sigh.

 

[_TheStriker_]

Community selfless contributors who deserve a shoot-out:

Everyone who was involved in making and updating the following websites, that contain a wealth of information on how the game is played at all levels. For AoE2.net, it has even become a tool that is essential to the professional scene (since MS didn't seem to think good ladders were an important feature...).

- https://aoe2.net/
- https://aoenexus.com/
- https://www.aoe2insights.com/
- https://aoe2.club/

The people who keep updating and working on other websites such as aoestats (jerbot), aoe-elo (Mungo, pumukel, Überruschung, Michaerbse (who also deserves a shoot-out for updating the highest elo reached sheet) and hallogallo).

Nerfox for working on the amazing spreadsheets we have been using for multiple tournaments this year (OBNC, KotD3, WC 2020).

I'm probably forgetting others as well unfortunately.

I would add the wololo kingdoms DE team to that list