AOE-II AoE News Episode 1: 1st till 17th of June 2018

[nimanoe]

When I first joined the AoE community @TOAO_Nai always made some posts on aoczone where she summarized the results of the past week or past few weeks. I always liked those posts and since she hasn't been around for a long time I decided to give it a try as well, so here's my attempt. I didn't really make any notes the last week, so most of this is from memory or what I could find on AoEZone, so I'm sure there's plenty of stuff missing. If you would like me to add something or have some other feedback, please share and I'll see if I can add it for the next time or update this post.

General Announcements:

• WololoKingdoms 5.7.2 has been released
• Userpatch beta v1.5 R7 has received updates
• R.E.D. Cup has finished
• Legacy of the Huns 2 has been announced
• KillerB's Arabia Cup has been announced
• Escape Champions League Fantasy Bracket has started

Tournament Results:

Spoiler: R.E.D. Cup:

The Final FFA's have been played and the winners are Project_Belgium for the high match, BloodyNival for the medium match and DarkAgePublicEducation for low match. The recs haven't been posted yet as far as I know

Spoiler: Titans of Arina:

There were three Grand Finals played over the last 2 weeks: The Gold Bracket Grand Final ended in a 4-3 victory for DauT, Edie and Miguel against Metal and Stefan. In the Bronze Bracket pete_martell, GoldenEnd and Kamigawa were able to secure a 4-3 victory against TeRRoR and DraCoNT. Finally, in the Lower Bracket King_Marv, Scogo and MagicRusher were only able to take 1 game against Fred, speedlimit and DarthMorthius, making it a 4-1 victory for them.

Spoiler: Francophone Coupe:

In this tournament for French-speakers Hera had to play Edie in the finals after Edie lost 3-0 to him in the Winner Bracket finals before. In the losers bracket finals Edie was able to secure a 4-2 victory against LB10 to get another chance at beating the Reformed Canadian. This time the score was much closer, but the result remains the same as Hera was able to get a 4-3 victory (no recs uploaded on AoEZone).

Spoiler: T90Series #8

Back when T90 did his 24 hour stream he also had Tatoh and MbL playing against each other on the No Wall Mod, as is custom for his series. Tatoh was able to win on these settings with a 4-3 scoreline. The recs haven't been posted as far as I'm aware.

Spoiler: Showmatches

I could only find two showmatches from the last two weeks, but I'm sure I've missed some. The ones I found were DauT vs Nicov where Nicov was able to win 4-2 and DauT vs MetalRTS, where MetalRTS was also able to win 4-2.

Spoiler: Nomad BattleGrounds Gold League

In the first round of this 2v2 Nomad tournament the results were as follows:
Yo & Vivi 3-0 _herb & YI__
Nick, Spaden & Pike 2-3 WhiteCourt & Noisick
Lyx & FengXin vs repard & classicpro will be played later
ACCM & CooL vs SeOul & AnhTien_ will be played later
TheViper, DauT & TaToH 3-1 Nobu & Carbo
saymyname & 4T 3-0 Riverplation & Twigg
IngreenHeaven, BacT & slam vs noboru43 & _balalaika will be played later
Stefan & MetalRTS 0-3 mentalist & Improvise
Nicov & MbL vs Viernes3am & Sophrosyne will be played later
Spring & Daniel 0-3 LB10 & Nili
TheMax & Villese 3-0 Higurashi & Fred
Edie & LaaaaaN 1-3 Rory, GKT_Cloud & Levi__
Hearttt & Liereyy 3-0 Faraday & Pag4nini
Error, Janik & Skull 1-3 Influenza, Juba & Josepreto
CL & Tim 3-0 Project_Belgium & Socksyy
Miguel & Bruh 3-1 pete_martell, GoldenEnd & Kamigawa

Spoiler: Nomad BattleGrounds Silver League

In the first round of the Silver Bracket the results were:
Singularity & Freeloading 3-1 Flatch & Mothump
LocoSer & Archer 1-3 Nico77 & i_am_ivan
There was also one game played in the second round:
Bulletchen & Marauder 3-0 DarkAgePublicEducation & Gluttony

Spoiler: Escape Champions League Qualification

In the qualifier the teams have to play a 4v4 game, a 3v3 game, a 2v2 game and two 1v1 games. For the 4v4 game they earn 3 points, for the 2 1v1s they earn 1 point per game, for the 2v2 they earn 2 points and for the 3v3 they earn 4 points. The first team to earn 6 points will then move on to the next round. The results are:
aM' 6-1 Russia F
NHN 6-0 Zappiens
Frantic 7-0 Team India
Lesto B 7-0 Handless
Reformed Coachers 6-0 Chilean Masters
Alliance eSports 6-0 5 Guys and a Goat
Suomi 6-1 CZ
Fly to Imperial 1-6 Ares_A
TyRanT 6-0 Clan Barba
Titans of Turkey 1-6 Discipules of Abraxas
Lords of Skull 7-0 Team Australia
VN A 7-0 VN B
Vietnam Legends 7-0 Los Borbotones
Sun 6-1 Ares_B
SY 6-0 Mancos Gaming
why u disrespecc 1-6 nC

Upcoming Tournament games:

Luckily for me I don't have to compile a list of all games since the tournament organizers already make a list:
Upcoming games for Nomad BattleGrounds
Escape Champions League Qualifier Round 2
KillerB's Arabia Cup
Once the games have been confirmed they will also be added to the calendar on the right and on aoe2calendar.

Good AoEZone topics:

In this post @red_panther analyzes a bunch of maps from TheViper, compares them to other maps and checks if the myth of TheViper using maphacks is true. It’s a long post but worth a read imo.

For the Escape Champions League @robo asks which format to use as qualification, a "normally seeded" 32 player single elim bracket or a modified one which makes qualification for top 6 spots easier, but gives better and more fair competition for the last 2 spots.

Discussion about the seeding in the ECL qualification bracket and how it affects teams.

@Grandmaster started with a new discussion on what strategies to use with which civ and he started with Aztecs and has now made a post about the Berbers.


YouTube uploads:

Here I'll show the YouTube uploads that are specifically made for YouTube and not too long, so no POV games and casted games.

Spoiler: Higher Quality Content made by Dave AKA Marauder

Spoiler: Escape Champions League Qualifier overview by Nili

Spoiler: KillerB’s Arabia Cup announcement by Killer B

Spoiler: The ultimate MbL clip compilation! mblHype! by theFireNation

Spoiler: Epic moments and crazy streamer: Episode 5 by Memb (editing by Deadvirus_1989)

 

[robo]

Very nice summary, good job nimanoe!

 

[Grandmaster]

Love this new compilation. Very handy! (Also thanks for the inclusion! Much obliged)

 

[12Tirador]

Really nice job nimanoe! Thank you, this is really useful