History Hit Open - Official Announcement

It is with great excitement that we are announcing the tournament History Hit Open - a 1 vs. 1 Random Map tournament! With a prize pool of $5.000 completely sponsored by History Hit. The event will hold up to 64 participants placed in a single-elimination bracket. 60 players will be seeded based on their ranking in the current 1v1 Random Map ladder and 4 spots will be given to wild carders.

You never heard form History Hit? Here is a quick introduction from the sponsor and host.

History Hit is a media network dedicated to making the past more accessible in the digital age. Along with our fast-growing history podcasts and subscription video on demand channel, we’re delighted to present our first ever Age of Empires tournament. We hope this will be the first of many competitive esports contests focused on historical gaming.

Find out more about History Hit on the official website - here.


Timetable

Round of 64 - 27th September – 3rd October
Round of 32 - 4th October – 10th October
Round of 16 - 11th October – 14th October
Quarterfinals - 15th October
Semifinals - 16th October
3rd Place match and GRAND Finale - 17th October


Prize Pool
The prize pool for this event is $5000 completly sponsored by History Hit.

1st place - $1.800
2nd place - $1.200
3rd place - $700
4th place - $500
5-8th - $200


Maps
The tournament will feature a collection of diverse maps:

• Arabia
• Cenotes
• Arena
• Hideout
• Northern Isles
• Gold Rush
• Lowland
• Mediterranean
• Cross

The event will have a custom map mod with custom versions of all the maps. Minor tweaks will be made to increase the competitiveness of the maps and ensure a smooth tournament.

Link to download the official mappack here.


Questions
If you have any questions about the event, feel free to ask them to me.

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Looks great, I appreciate the diverse map pool!

 

Hype . #procaster

 

What a pool map! hype

 

What a pool map! hype

yep had some headache thinking about that one 11

 

i'm really happy we have so many tournaments nowadays, despite i have 2 big doubts
1 we dont need 2k3+ tournaments and this one will include 64 ppl only, a restriced qualifier wuold have been so much better imo,
2 the mapool is not the best to be honest, so many uncompetitive / abusable maps (cenotes, northen isles, lowlands, and then the clown combo arena + hideout

in any case, i hope this event will go very well, i hope i'll enjoy watching some series and wish you the best amigo djangito

 

You should list the tournament round on the left side and date(s) on the right side for readability purposes. Map pool could use Baltic but the inclusion of Medi is still worthy of much praise. Nice to see a tournament played on normal maps without any memery and the sponsor seems to have a good mission too.

 

You should list the tournament round on the left side and date(s) on the right side for readability purposes. Map pool could use Baltic but the inclusion of Medi is still worthy of much praise. Nice to see a tournament played on normal maps without any memery and the sponsor seems to have a good mission too.

true will do

 

Map pool could use Baltic

I agree.

 

i'm really happy we have so many tournaments nowadays, despite i have 2 big doubts
1 we dont need 2k3+ tournaments and this one will include 64 ppl only, a restriced qualifier wuold have been so much better imo,
2 the mapool is not the best to be honest, so many uncompetitive / abusable maps (cenotes, northen isles, lowlands, and then the clown combo arena + hideout

in any case, i hope this event will go very well, i hope i'll enjoy watching some series and wish you the best amigo djangito

64 people only?

that’s quite a lot
Most tournaments have much lower spots and a qualifier for 512 people like in Red Bull is just not necessary

why complain about the map pool. It’s mostly standard maps and and every player has the chance to pick a home map which really suits him. And not some fake choice like „here are 4 different versions of Arabia, chose a home map“

 

I agree.

maybe but medi and baltic would be overkill imo

 

@FlyLikeDjango nice gl with the tournement i will follow it if i can

 

64 people only?

that’s quite a lot
Most tournaments have much lower spots and a qualifier for 512 people like in Red Bull is just not necessary

why complain about the map pool. It’s mostly standard maps and and every player has the chance to pick a home map which really suits him. And not some fake choice like „here are 4 different versions of Arabia, chose a home map“

what i meant was, why dont we involve more semi/non professional players for tournaments, for example most of high 19xx or 2k player will never try to tryhard and get better if there is no motivation (tournamets speaking) yesterday, hera as well was talking with chat about this kind of level's showmatches. in every important individual torunaments we will see Viper liereyy hera and Yo competing for #1 spot right? so what's the point of making lower tier tournaments where they will still compete in the same way, destroying everyone. there is a reason if football world cup is organized each 4 years and not every month right? and the same goes for chess, and many many other esports.
i'll make you another example: when OGN organized their European Rumble, all the italian community was extremely hype cuz they know vodka could be a competitor despite other big names were involved like Bugum. it's not NAC, but the event was amazing to watch and see some players like Clement playing like beasts. Clement is a high 2k1 player, but he had his chance to compete at a very high level; he trained a lot, he did an amazing tournaments till he got defeated by Vodka, the future champion

 

what i meant was, why dont we involve more semi/non professional players for tournaments, for example most of high 19xx or 2k player will never try to tryhard and get better if there is no motivation (tournamets speaking) yesterday, hera as well was talking with chat about this kind of level's showmatches. in every important individual torunaments we will see Viper liereyy hera and Yo competing for #1 spot right? so what's the point of making lower tier tournaments where they will still compete in the same way, destroying everyone. there is a reason if football world cup is organized each 4 years and not every month right? and the same goes for chess, and many many other esports.
i'll make you another example: when OGN organized their European Rumble, all the italian community was extremely hype cuz they know vodka could be a competitor despite other big names were involved like Bugum. it's not NAC, but the event was amazing to watch and see some players like Clement playing like beasts. Clement is a high 2k1 player, but he had his chance to compete at a very high level; he trained a lot, he did an amazing tournaments till he got defeated by Vodka, the future champion

i agree with you with that point.
There are no second class tournaments. There are the ones for „everyone“ where basically the top 20 play all the time and 4 people win like you said.
And then there are tournaments for lower players but the 19-22 are basically left out.

 

@King_Marv @zShades I agree with that in this tournament there still 60 spots via ranking whitch is a lot and dont forgett the 4 wildcards spot cutting out smurfs its very possible that 2k1 player can play in this event and still have a good showing. There was simply no time in making a qualifier due to redbull and other events.

Now i will be organizing more events in the future and i am planing on also including the +2k level. Actually i have the plan already completeted. Its just not happend yet because i dont know whats gonna happen with aoe4.

 

where we can sign up ?

 

where we can sign up ?

https://www.aoezone.net/threads/registration.178036/ here you find all information amigo

 

There are no second class tournaments.

European Rumble

European Rumble is a 1v1 Age of Empires II tournament hosted by OGN_EMPIRES. It is intended to be for players from Europe (including Turkey and Russia) with a 1v1 ELO between 2000 (current) and 2400 (highest).

liquipedia.net

 

I don't like ladder rating being used as seeding once again. For top50, it tells literally nothing about player's skill

Other than that it looks like interesting tournament, I will definitely be looking forward to it

 

what i meant was, why dont we involve more semi/non professional players for tournaments, for example most of high 19xx or 2k player will never try to tryhard and get better if there is no motivation (tournamets speaking) yesterday, hera as well was talking with chat about this kind of level's showmatches. in every important individual torunaments we will see Viper liereyy hera and Yo competing for #1 spot right? so what's the point of making lower tier tournaments where they will still compete in the same way, destroying everyone. there is a reason if football world cup is organized each 4 years and not every month right? and the same goes for chess, and many many other esports.
i'll make you another example: when OGN organized their European Rumble, all the italian community was extremely hype cuz they know vodka could be a competitor despite other big names were involved like Bugum. it's not NAC, but the event was amazing to watch and see some players like Clement playing like beasts. Clement is a high 2k1 player, but he had his chance to compete at a very high level; he trained a lot, he did an amazing tournaments till he got defeated by Vodka, the future champion

I've though about it a lots of time, and in theory I agree. the problem is... where you draw the line ?

Let's take out the clear top 4. Pum, Viper, Hera, Liereyy, and Yo gone. Right. then you have the top 5-15 who will dominate the event without doubt (Nicov, Villese, MbL, ACCM...)
If you want to cut them aswell... until which point do you cut ?

 

I've though about it a lots of time, and in theory I agree. the problem is... where you draw the line ?

Let's take out the clear top 4. Pum, Viper, Hera, Liereyy, and Yo gone. Right. then you have the top 5-15 who will dominate the event without doubt (Nicov, Villese, MbL, ACCM...)
If you want to cut them aswell... until which point do you cut ?

Well is easy everyone who played in a S tier tournament is cut out.

 

Well is easy everyone who played in a S tier tournament is cut out.

Then you cut Valas? Barles? Daniel ? Because they have played in RBW.

It's not that easy to make the cut

 

Then you cut Valas? Barles? Daniel ? Because they have played in RBW.

It's not that easy to make the cut

yes so what they are 2300-2400+ rating and pro Players top30 in the ladder

 

Well is easy everyone who played in a S tier tournament is cut out.

RIP all the 1400s in TOC

 

Personally, I'm thoroughly upset about this tournament. YES, it's an amazing idea. YES, as a Social Studies teacher, I'm a huge fan of history. However, the fact that Hamburger is not in the map pool is highly offensive to me and therefore I will be boycotting this and any other tournament in the future that doesn't include this map, even if it's a tournament I help run/ set up.

(I am of course just joking. Plz don't reply or quote and roast me on the internets)