Battle of Africa 2 - Announcement (Prize: $20.000+)

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It is a great pleasure to finally announce the return of Battle of Africa.
Two years after the first instalment - Battle of Africa 2 will help set the standard as the first major team game tournament on Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition. The teams will be competing over multiple weeks to earn a portion of the fantastic 20.000$ prize pool thanks to the amazing sponsors that helped make this event happen:
Microsoft (11.000$)
Oracle455 (4.000$)
PkZ (1.000$)
MembTV (4.000$)

Once the event is concluded, MembTV will add 1$ per current subscriber to the total prize pool

Battle of Africa 2 will take place between 10th of May and 7th of June. It will feature an extended qualification stage with 24 teams - and the main stage, which will include the best eight teams in the world. In terms of maps, you will get to experience some great old classics from the original Battle of Africa, as well as some new exciting environments to shake things up.

An extensive thread with a full timeframe, rules and settings will be created very soon - but for now, the most important details are - all the games will be played as 3v3, fixed positions will be enabled and slinging will be banned until the slinging player has reached the Imperial Age. A general timeframe can be seen below:

Streaming is open for everyone - check the official handbook for more details.​

 

[Junior DauT]

hype hype and slam boi is also back

 

[SuperskinnyBLS]

Amazing !!!
Thanks to all the sponsors already !!! And the participants because they will bring us amazing games certainly!!!

 

[Rey_Fer]

with amazing new maps??

 

[ValakAoC]

Nice new

 

[tissuepapercatmat]

this is great news!

 

[linetyReborn]

great news , Tgs here we go !!

 

[Nikemenon]

Hype!!!

 

[tissuepapercatmat]

Remember "Land Maps" (TM)

 

[willdbeast]

Battle of Africa was one of the first tourneys I saw when I rediscovered AoE and one of the reasons I stuck around

I'm sure more new people see this and fall in love like I did :]

 

[Mouttie]

I'm so hyped, nice to finally see this happening.

 

[12Tirador]

There's probably a mistake on the dates posted above. First is says "Battle of Africa 2 will take place between 16th of May and 7th of July" and in the end it says June instead.

Great news! Super excited to watch the tourney

 

[bruanitos]

Thanks to all the sponsors. BoA was my most fav tourney in years. Hype hype.

 

[Chrazini]

There's probably a mistake on the dates posted above. First is says "Battle of Africa 2 will take place between 16th of May and 7th of July" and in the end it says June instead.

Great news! Super excited to watch the tourney

You are absolutely correct! Thank you - it's been fixed!

 

[Lord_patito]

Niceeeee

 

[JUDAS]

Team games at expert level are the jewel in the crown for AoC, nice annoucement.

 

[Holleridudodel]

soooo looking forward to it BoA1 was one of my alltime favourite tournaments! this gonna be good

 

[Byelo]

A team game tournament at last! I'm extremely happy to see this announcement and Microsoft stepping in again is a great sign. Time to put on the homer glasses and start the Suomi hype already.

 

[Tendo]

Simply awesome.
Qualification Round sounds damn interesting aswell!

 

[NOVAinc]

Looks terrific. Congratulations to Memb and thanks to the sponsors for making this possible!

 

[Marteens]

Vamos!!! so looking forward to it!

 

[Nicov]

All the top teams are composed by 4 players at least. Why does it have to be 3v3?

secret: viper tatoh daut nili slam
am: mbl lierey hera me heart (inactive)
suomi: villese max ruben zuppi pike (inactive)
SY: lyx yo vivi paladin yinghua (not sure about this one)
vietnam: bact saymyname accm cool
heresy is probably the only exception at the moment with laaan dogao miguel (melkor is inactive)

Im glad to finally see a major tournament happening but not having 4v4 like it has always been is rather dissapointing for me.

 

[Naraic]

Way to go Memb for organising this.

Congratulations.

Any word on how you will seed this.

 

[Hermes_Arg]

Great news!! And I'm glad Microsoft gets involved with money. Good luck to all!

 

[Toom03]

so cheap for microsoft :D still love it good to see teamgames rolling in :D