Clash of the Hippo 5 - 2v2 Event feat. Capture Age

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Clash of the Hippo 5 is a 2v2 Tournament hosted by Nili_AoE. During the 11th and 12h of May 8 teams will fight for a $1,300+ prize pool.
All games will start in Feudal Age with Medium resources guaranteeing action packed games. In addition to that stone walls/gates will be delayed to Castle Age and slinging to Imperial Age.

Nili_AoE will be using Capture Age for the entirety of the event.
CaptureAge, created by Dico & SirLaurenceNZ, allows Age of Empires 2 to be broadcast in ways that have never been seen before in Team Games! The CaptureAge team have developed many exciting features to reveal during the event.

Schedule​

• Saturday 12:00 GMT - Quarter Final #1 - Bo5: Nicov + Mbl vs LaaaaaN + dogao + miguel
• Saturday 14:30 GMT - Quarter Final #2 - Bo5: TheMax + Villese vs Yo + Lyx
• Saturday 17:00 GMT - Quarter Final #3 - Bo5: TheViper + TaToH + JorDan vs BacT + ACCM + St4rk
• Saturday 19:30 GMT - Quarter Final #4 - Bo5: Liereyy + Hearttt + Hera vs DauT + slam

• Sunday 12:00 GMT - Semi #1 - Bo7: Winner of QF#1 vs Winner of QF#4
• Sunday 15:00 GMT - Semi #2 - Bo7: Winner of QF#2 vs Winner of QF#3
• Sunday 18:00 GMT - Finals - Bo9

Prizepool - $1,300+

$1,000 guranteed by Nili and $300 added by the CaptureAge team.
All streamers are collecting to further increase the prize pool

1st - $585 (or 45%)
2nd - $325 (or 25%)
3rd/4th $195 (or 15%)


Mappool​

• Arabia
• Chaos_Pit
• Coast to Mountain
• Continental
• Dry_River
• El_Dorado
• Flooded_Cross
• Golden_Hill
• Graveyards
• Rift_Island
• Team_Acropolis

Mappack should go in this folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Age2HD\Voobly Mods\AOC\Data Mods\WK Hippo Mod\Script.Rm

Game Settings​

Spoiler: Game Settings

All games will be played with the Wololokingdoms Hippo mod: no stone walls/gates in Feudal, -370 stone at the start
Game: Random Match
Size: Medium (4 player)
Difficulty: Standard
Population: 200
Resources: Medium (Resulting in the start of 500 Wood, 500 Food, 300 Gold, 30 Stone)
Game Speed: Normal
Reveal Map: Standard
Starting Age: Feudal Age - Imperial
Victory Condition: Conquest
Team Together: [X] Yes
All Techs: [ ] No
Allow Cheats: [ ] No
Lock Teams: [X] Yes
Lock Speed: [X] Yes
Record Game: [X] Yes
Multi Building Queue: [MQ]

Player Restarts
There are no restarts for this tournament.

Sling
You are only allowed to give ressources to a team mate after you reached Imperial Age.

Civilizations
Pick civilization without repeating within a series.
For the "Hidden Civilizations" under "Advanced Settings" in the Voobly Game Room Settings menu must be enabled during every game.

Bugged Map & Admin Restarts
A player can request bugged map restarts during the first 3 minutes (game time).
A bugged map is defined as the following for standard resource starts:
Gold: Less than 5 tiles of a main gold cluster are at least accessible on one side, extra gold are excluded.
Stone: Less than 4 tiles of a stone cluster are at least accessible on one side, extra stones are excluded.
Berries: Less than 4 tiles of a berry cluster are at least accessible on one side.
Animals: Spawned with less than the standard resources or the animals being trapped.

Graphical Mods
Any graphic changes that only affects the player's Age of Empires II are allowed.

Cheating
Cheating is not allowed under any circumstances. Players using any kind of cheat will be disqualified from any future Nili-Events.

Respect & Fairplay
Every player must respect their opponent. Bad behavior will result in a warning and may lead to an immediate disqualification of the player. This tournament values not only great skills, but also sportsmanship and fairness. Any insult, non-PC behavior or flaming will not be tolerated. Laming and mind games in game are allowed.
Players are requested to limit the time between games as much as possible to make the experience as smooth for everyone as possible.

No Smurfing
All players have agreed to the no smurf rule.

Stragglers
Players are not allowed to delete the straggler trees which spawn within 10 tiles of an opposing player’s Town Center. This rule does not apply if the straggler treewhich is being deleted forms part of a wall for the defending player. "Laming" of fish is forbidden aswell.
On maps where main forests are exclusively straggler trees it is strictly forbidden to delete straggler trees from opponents (using the "palisade trick") unless they are being used as part of a mid-section of wall.

Player colors
Players have to use the same color in every game of a series.

Coast to Mountain
On the map Coast to mountain you are only allowed to build a barracks, stable or archery range after your TC is finished.

Map Drafting

Spoiler: Game Settings

Higher seed := A
Pick A
Pick B
Ban B
Ban A
Pick A
Pick B
Pick B
Pick A
Pick A
...

Streaming Policy​

Spoiler: Streaming Policy

• All the games will be streamed on http://www.twitch.tv/nili_aoe who is also guaranteeing the prize pool.
• Every caster/player is allowed to stream
• 50% of all donations & bits are going into the prize pool (same for Nili_AoE)
• The relevant time is considered starting with the pre-game show and ends with the after show
• Every caster should clearly state to his audience that streamers are working together to generate a prize pool (and that 50% of all donations/bits are going into it)
• The maximum a caster has to pay is $500
• POV streams have a rate of 20% with a $200 max and a 2 minute stream delay.
• Spectator Delay in Voobly will be set to 2:30 minutes.
• Most relevant casters have been informed of this before

 

[n0brain]

awesome, totally unexpected

 

[dodageka]

Amazing! Super excited for this

Why not spice it up even more by using standard victory and giving us epic fights for the relics?

 

[MembTV]

i just knew about this streaming policy in this post.

gl.

 

[Bowserlord]

playing a bo7 and bo9 on same day could be tricky for the players performance

 

[n0brain]

maybe, but games probably will be a lot shorter too. no darkage is takes a couple minutes less and more aggressive games should often end earlier too

 

[Nili_AoE]

remember that games are 8-9 minutes shorter and we wont have restarts

 

[dodageka]

Do you need a different mod for the change in starting resources and moving stone walls to castle? If it can be done via map script that could make (future) spectating of the recorded games much easier I think

 

[Nili_AoE]

The mod already exists and Jineapple said that the map changed wouldn't be that easy.

 

[Michaerbse]

remember that games are 8-9 minutes shorter and we wont have restarts

To be fair dark age and restarts are probably not what challenges players the most mentally

 

[Spring_]

is there qualifiers or just going to be secret/am/sy taking 8 spots? lol

 

[Nili_AoE]

is there qualifiers or just going to be secret/am/sy taking 8 spots? lol

• 8 highest Teams will be picked. (I might consider a Show Match between #9 and #10)

 

[n0brain]

is there qualifiers or just going to be secret/am/sy taking 8 spots? lol

if each of those three get 2 teams signed up, than thats 6 out of 8, so still two spots left :P

 

[nimanoe]

niliHype looking forward to seeing another crazy Hippo tournament!
Also great to see that CaptureAge is used for this event and that it apparantly is updated for 2v2 as well!

• 8 highest Teams will be picked. (I might consider a Show Match between #9 and #10)

How will the teams be decided, by highest rating, current rating, a combination or something different?
And what does $1300 GTD mean (the GTD part)

 

[Nili_AoE]

GTD = guaranteed
seeding by the teams, ranking system like NAC2

 

[T90Official]

Sounds great!!!

 

[OrnLu528]

2v2 tournament with interesting settings and capture age? Seems like a decisive niliOhBoy to me!

 

[noobishere]

GTD = guaranteed
seeding by the teams, ranking system like NAC2

When you assume everyone knows poker terminology

 

[DemEyesRed]

Looking forward, hhhhhhabibi!

PS: I like the font you used for the banner

 

[Toom03]

Looking great! Maybe you could link the sign up into your post. Just in case...
so excited for Capture age in 2v2 :D

 

[ImRiver]

Cool event

 

[uberkerl]

what is the coast to mountain policy designed to do? Am I reading this correctly that it prevents docking?

 

[Nili_AoE]

You can build your dock whenever you want.

I want players to place their TC first and then the military buidlings.

 

[JaimeAOC]

niliHype niliOhBoy

Sounds and looks great, Capture Age was awesome during HC2 and I'm sure it will be another succes here.

niliLove

 

[nimanoe]

Coast to Mountain
On the map Coast to mountain you are only allowed to build a barracks, stable or archery range after your TC is finished.

Maybe add towers to this rule?