All In Cup - Official Announcement

We are proud to present the All In Cup, an Empire Wars 1vs1 event that will happen from the 6th of August to the 8th of August. The event consists in 8 invited players and 8 players that will have to fight through a qualifier on the 31st of July. All the players will be fighting for a $5.000 total prize pool. The event is sponsored by partypoker and hosted by Capoch & Ellie4k.

The qualified players will advance to the Main Event where they will meet the invited players: Lierrey, Nicov, F1re, Tatoh, Dogao, Vinchester, Villese and Capoch.

To sign up for the qualifiers, you must head to partypoker discord (https://bit.ly/3hEEm3g) and post your nickname, aoe2.net profile, discord username and steam profile url in #qualifier-sign-up.

You can check the promotional video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGg-1kYUdCA

You can find the Rules & Settings on discord and also more info regarding the giveaway and streaming/casting.

The map pool consists in Empire Wars ladder maps (11 in total).

We look forward to an incredible qualifier and main event!

 

Awesome, looking forward to it!

 

Always love Empire Wars!!!!

 

I assume it is written on the Discord channel, but could you also share here, from when until when the qualifiers will be an for how many players they are open (e. g. 64, 128...)?

 

I assume it is written on the Discord channel, but could you also share here, from when until when the qualifiers will be an for how many players they are open (e. g. 64, 128...)?

64 players, 31st of July starting at 15 GMT.

 

I might have missed something, but to me it's very, very similar to Redbull Wololo in terms of settings, 1v1, EW, invited players + large qualifiers, open + hybrid maps, consequent prize pool (a bit smaller)…

I imagine EW fans will be very pleased about All In Cup, but in terms of tournament singularity/originality it seems to miss the mark for me.

 

Nice, I expect EW tournaments to become more and more prevalent.

The frequency of so many $$ tournaments makes playing full time viable for a larger and larger player pool which is ultimately what will push the competitive scene forward.

 

how do u enter giveaway?

 

how do u enter giveaway?

From their discord server

Steps to follow:
1) Download partypoker software: https://bit.ly/AOEpartypoker
2) Create an account and active it doing a mínimum deposit
3) Contact us privately in discord to inform us that you have activated your account and wish to participate in the tournament
Countries participating: United Kingdom, Canada, Netherlands, Ireland, Hungary, Austria, Finland, Malta, New Zealand, Croatia, Moldova, Iceland, Luxemburgo, Gibraltar, Andorra

 

Maybe I missed it, but what does All-In mean here? Is there a special setting that you can't add more TCs or something?

Just confused by the name. Besides that, all hyped!

 

Maybe I missed it, but what does All-In mean here? Is there a special setting that you can't add more TCs or something?

Just confused by the name. Besides that, all hyped!

Hey!

There's no special setting regarding All-In, but since its a very popular meaning in poker, and Empire Wars games are much more aggressive with a lot of "All-In" plays, it made sense to put it that way.

 

I might have missed something, but to me it's very, very similar to Redbull Wololo in terms of settings, 1v1, EW, invited players + large qualifiers, open + hybrid maps, consequent prize pool (a bit smaller)…

I imagine EW fans will be very pleased about All In Cup, but in terms of tournament singularity/originality it seems to miss the mark for me.

Why does every tournament need to be different? In other esports every tournament is played with the same settings. AOE2 is almost only esport that have so many tournaments with completely different settings and gimmicks.

 

Why does every tournament need to be different? In other esports every tournament is played with the same settings. AOE2 is almost only esport that have so many tournaments with completely different settings and gimmicks.

What a question.
Because contrary to the other esport games which are less fleched-out in terms of content, AoE2 is a very rich game by nature (tons of different game modes, lots of official maps and even more custom ones, soon to be 39 civs), so we have the possibilities to create a different experience everytime?

And other esports aren't a benchmark, it's not an example we should follow. First AoE2 is a way better game than Fortnite, Rocket League, CS:GO, etc.
It's a medieval real-time strategy game. I believe we'll make the game even more popular in # viewers by capitalizing on its strengths which are variety, not by following formulaic trends that will inevitably get stale fast. Just imagine if we didn't broke out of that Hun War trend that lasted for years.

Excessive repetition and mindless copy/paste of tournaments is always a loss in my book. Always. It might not bore the newcomer audience, but it bores many of the regular Age 2 fans.

 

I think most of the regular aoe2 fans will never get bored by standard settings

 

I think most of the regular aoe2 fans will never get bored by standard settings

I have been a diehard aoe2 fan for like 6-7 years but recently stopped watching laddes games as well as most of the tournaments with RM settings as they are simply boring to me. Only EW delivers quality entertainment.

 

What a question.
Because contrary to the other esport games which are less fleched-out in terms of content, AoE2 is a very rich game by nature (tons of different game modes, lots of official maps and even more custom ones, soon to be 39 civs), so we have the possibilities to create a different experience everytime?

And other esports aren't a benchmark, it's not an example we should follow. First AoE2 is a way better game than Fortnite, Rocket League, CS:GO, etc.
It's a medieval real-time strategy game. I believe we'll make the game even more popular in # viewers by capitalizing on its strengths which are variety, not by following formulaic trends that will inevitably get stale fast. Just imagine if we didn't broke out of that Hun War trend that lasted for years.

Excessive repetition and mindless copy/paste of tournaments is always a loss in my book. Always. It might not bore the newcomer audience, but it bores many of the regular Age 2 fans.

You put a lot of pressure to tournament organizers who have to figure out a new setting or gimmick for their tournaments every time. With more tournaments using same settings means that the level of play with those settings gets higher. People have complained that the only 1v1 EW tournament we have is the Red Bull. This tournament will have decent prize pool and great players.

It will give a lot of great games for people who enjoy EW and it will also work as a practice for the players for the next Red Bull making that tournament also better. Before they could only really test their EW strategies in RB. Yeah, you could practice a lot, but practice will never completely substitute for real tournament game where both players are giving their best.

We have a lot of different tournaments which is great, but we also need tournaments that use "standard" settings more.