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Uzzi: AoE in Mexico and Emma, Emma or Emma?
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Welcome, Uzzi, from the country of Aztecs and drug lords. Mexico for me has always been very interesting, but the situation is not easy. Someone would say, Mexico has a great potential in many ways, but the road is rocky. So there are a lot of things I would like to discuss. I know a lot about Aztecs, that the Mexican football national team is the best CONCACAF team, but not good enough for the top of the world, similar in AoE 2, with many good players, but no top expert.
My gaming setup:
How old are you and since when do you play Age of Empires 2, have you played Age of Empires 1/3? What are your expectations and wishes for AoE 4? If you could change one thing about AoE 2, what would it be?
I play AoE 2 since I was 12 years old, now I’m 22 years old, 03/24 was my birthday.
I didn’t play AoE 1 or 3.
I wish AoE 4’s playability will be like AoE 2, ofc with more units civilizations and Ages.
I think it would be good to buff some civs who are not used often in AoE2 tournaments, maybe a bonus when you have 4 Asian civs (Mong/Ch/Jap/Kor) for example.
More civilisations? Even I, who designed lots of new civs (just hand-written details) when I was 13-14, think that there are really many now and the balance becomes too hard. But depending on what will be added, there might be options, like if there are more ages or differences in things like attack, armour, resources, buildings, etc.
That answer of more civilizations was my expectation for AoE 4 :P. I mean an extra team bonus, when you have 3 or 4 similar civilizations like [Maya, Azt, Inc] - [Brit, Spa, Frank].
Why did you choose the names “Uzi/Uzzi”, “Kyabe”, “7swords”, “Divine_Killer” etc. and what do they mean?
The game has been improved in all the aspects, the new expansions were a great success, the new civilizations and units are so fun, developers did this really well, I hope more civs arrive to expand the AoE 2 world.
How would you describe your playstyle and how much has it changed during the last years?
I started playing 1v1 only Huns war, my style was very aggressive; full army and no walls, I think I have decent micro and I won a lot of games using my army very well. I became 2k for the first time playing with this style.
After the “Team Random” time arrived, I started to lose most of my games, because my style didn’t work with all civilizations.
So I had to learn more strategies like sc, m@a, Drush and the variations, to choose the right one depending on the situation and civilization.
I know a lot of build orders, but I still have problems at the time of making decisions.
I think my weak points are Post Imperial and Fwd situations, I really need a lot of more experience on that. Also, I don’t know how to play water maps very well because it isn’t common to see these maps in daily games.
I like to have the early pressure on my opponent, that’s why I do Drush very often, with that strategy I gain a bit time to think about my next step in the game.
Do you stream? If yes, what is your stream link and how often do you stream?
Yes, I tried to stream sometimes. This is my stream link : https://www.twitch.tv/7swords_
But because of the university homeworks, sometimes I have to render some simulations (It takes long time) and the game + stream goes laggy. If I don’t stream I can play normally while I’m waiting, but when I have vacation I’ll try to stream again.
Now some personal details:
Which city do you come from/live in? What do you like/dislike about it and where would you like to move to?
I live in the State of Mexico, next to the capital, Mexico City.
The place where I live is middle class, I like I have most necessary services near my house, market, transport, schools, gym.
And the weather, we have mild weather most of the year, this is so nice.
The bad things are that there is no good place to practice football, which is my favorite hobby, and crime, all days I read in the news about shootings and robberies, which is really sad.
I have never really thought seriously about where I would move but the weather will be a decisive factor, I prefer mild or cold weather, I really hate hot weather.
I like the big cities, Canada has many cool cities, would be a good option, but it’s hard to think about a place outside of Mexico, because the food, it’s really amazing.
As I showed in the introduction, I am very interested in Mexico, I learned Spanish and some Nahuatl, a lot about Aztec history and mythology, the food is world-famous, but on the news you hear not only about archaeological discoveries and beautiful and diverse nature, but mostly about huge problems, like disappearing students, drug wars and one of the highest crime and murder rate in the world. So I am very hesitant about whether I should go there one day or not.
What would you like to tell about Mexico and do you have any recommendations?
It's too hard for me to describe all about Mexico, because even I don’t know all about this beautiful country, so I just will talk a little bit.
The people in Mexico are very kind and cheerful.
Mexico has a lot of variety of food, but the most representative are “tacos”, which is basically meat on a tortilla, adding hot sauce and vegetables to improve the flavor, sounds simple but this is really delicious.
The cultural diversity is very high, full of customs and traditions.
One of the most important traditions is “ Dia de Muertos“. This topic is very very extensive, but the most important about this days is the offering for the souls, that is a colorful altar who has flowers, bread, candles, candy skulls, water and photos of the deceased members. This day is so beautiful, because all Mexican families meet to remember good moments. The date of these days are November 1 and 2.
I read about it already - in Mexico and some other Central American countries, there are holidays which are a mix of Christian and pre-Columbian traditions.
Dia de Muertos is originally from the Aztec culture, but yes, Mexican people are very religious.
About of 80% belong to Catholic Religion, I really don’t know too much about them, so I can't talk too much about this.
There are a lot of touristic interesting places from Cultural cities to full party places.
We have cultural places who are considered heritage of humanity, I don’t know all of them yet but I can recommend some.
1.- Mexico City - There are a lot of interesting museums, among the most outstanding ones you can mention “Templo Mayor” , “Catedral Metropolitana” and “Bellas Artes”. Those are places very very beautiful who you have to visit if you come here. Of course you can find many more beautiful places here.
2.- Guanajuato - This city is one of my favorites, simply because of its architecture, it is so gratifying to walk around.
And if you want to have fun, then visit the different beaches of Mexico. The most popular are:
Cancun, Quintana Roo
Playa del Carmen,Quintana Roo
Cabo San Lucas, Baja California.
And about the crime, most of the murders are fights of the mafias, they are killing each other, but if you are away from those situations you don’t have to be afraid, touristics places have very good security.
Definitely, if you have the possibility to come here to explore this beautiful country you will not regret.
Now to your favourite things:
a) What is your favourite food and drink?
Tacos definitely, and coconut water.
Which foods from your home country/region and family background would you recommend?
Besides the tacos, pozole and mole are typical delicious food too.
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What can you cook well yourself and how often do you do it?
I don’t cook very well and I only do my own breakfast. That is usually fried/boiled eggs with some rice.
What would you put on top of a pizza?
Meat, bacon, ham and pepperoni with some coriander.
I use coriander frequently, but mostly in soups. I have never tried on pizza, I have to try that. Just the leaves or stem too?
Just the leaves, coriander goes good with most of the meats, is essential ingredient on the tacos, together with onion, but I don’t like this one too much.
b) What is your favourite colour? (Does not need to be one of the 8 AoE II colours)
Blue.
c) What is your favourite animal? Why?
Dogs are my favorite animal especially the small ones, like Pomerania, Shih Tzu or Pug. They are so funny.
d) What/where is your favourite place on Earth?
I like advanced cities too much, New York, Tokyo, Seoul are nice places.
e) What is your favourite song at the moment, of all time (can be top 5)?
At the moment : Sunflower - Post Malone
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Of all time:
1.- Everglow Single Version - Coldplay
2.- Middle - DJ Snake
3.- Counting Stars - One Republic
4.- Leave a Light On - Tom Walker
5.- Great Spirit - Vini Vici
I’m really not sure if this is my top 5, because I listen a lot of music, I just wrote the first songs which came to my mind, but all are very good.
You seem to listen to mostly international music. What about Mexican music, who would you promote/recommend?
Yes, I listen a bit more international music, my favorite Mexican band is “Los Claxons”.
And my favorite song is “Personajes”, It’s very fun to sing.
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Another good song from this band is “Día de muertos”, it is about the history of the people who live in Mexico City on this traditional day.
Pedro Infante is probably the most representative Mexican singer, and all the Mexicans know his song “Cielito Lindo”. We sing that on any kind of situation, concerts, football matches…
f) What is your favourite movie at the moment, of all time (can be top 5)? Who is your favourite actor?
1.- Tarzan. The cartoon movie, from Disney. This is the movie of my childhood and I keep watching it with my nephews occasionally.
2.- Fast and furious series - Fifth movie is my favorite
3.- Hachi: A dog’s Tale
4.- Inception
5.- Forrest Gump
My favorite actor is Tom Hanks.
g) Do you have a favourite sports team? (football, basketball etc.)
I like football a lot, my local team is Cruz Azul and I’m a big fan of Real Madrid too.
h) What are your favourite traits on a woman?
I like slim women, with height around 1.60 m and pretty face.
She has to be fun and relaxed, that’s all.
What time do you usually go to sleep? What do you like doing before sleeping?
Usually I go to sleep at 23:30, before I sleep I take a shower, then I prepare my backpack and what I will wear the next day.
Which countries have you visited?
I have not traveled outside of Mexico yet, but maybe this year I’ll go to the USA to visit my family.
And where would you like to go to? Why?
I would like to visit apart from modern cities other big cities like Paris, Rome, London, because they are beautiful places.
What are your hobbies beside AoE?
Currently most of my time is spent at the university. I’m studying Electronic Engineering, I play football in the tournament at school, I know how to play the guitar not very well, but sometimes I do just for fun. When I’m tired I like to watch series and movies.
Occasionally, I go out with my friends to the cinema or just for a walk in any park.
Which languages do you speak/understand and which would you like to learn?
I speak only Spanish well, I understand English, but my speaking is so bad, I’m learning.
I would like to learn French or Mandarin Chinese.
Good choices. I think it depends on where you want to go. You said that you would like to go to Canada, then French is good. But overall Chinese might become really useful as an electronic engineer.
The truth is that I don’t know yet what to do when I finish my career, depends of the opportunities, hope I get the chance to do something great.
Who would you like to meet once, who you have not met? One AoE player and one other person.
Of course I would like to meet all elite players of AoE not only one, It would be very interesting.
And I just want a picture with Emma Watson, hehe.
Do you have an AoE idol?
Not really, I’m not big fan of any player, but I respect a lot the experts players of the game.
What is your favourite civilisation, map and unit?
Huns, Arabia, Paladin.
What is your favourite in-game sound?
In Spanish 22, English 12.
If Arabia did not exist, which map do you think everyone would be playing like people play Arabia (and not Serengeti etc., which are just very similar to Arabia)?
Land Nomad, Scandinavia, Ghost Lake or Salt Marsh.
The original Salt Marsh or one of the new versions? The old one looks good in my opinion and for casual games it’s good, but I have never heard an expert player saying Salt Marsh is a good competitive map.
New versions, the old map sometimes is very unfair because of the random fish on the map, that’s why it isn’t a competitive map, similar standard maps have this problem like Migration, when sometimes you have starting sheep near the TC and sometimes very far away, luck is a big factor and very very unfair.
And the new Scandinavia is interesting, it is hard to take map control of the map, in 1v1 most of the times the game will be on land until mid-late game when you need map control to have big advantage, but in TG there are many possibilities. Water is very important since early game and that’s why it should be so fun to play it.
Who is your favourite and least favourite 1v1 opponent?
I have not had the opportunity to play too much vs. top players, most are smurfs, but I like to play a lot with Tatakae, even if he wins 80% of the games, I enjoy practicing with him a lot.
And I hate to play vs. fwd players, I remember _CCS_Acuo smashed me too easily when I played vs. him.
Who is your favourite team mate?
a) For just playing
Currently Tatakae. Before Zizou - Venezuelan player, All Boys - Argentinean player and SigfrieD - Mexican player.
b) Also outside of the game
Tatakae.
c) Would you live in a a) 1-bedroom, b) 2-bedroom) apartment with him for a) 1 month, b) 1 year?
I think yes, that would be such a room of the time of Dragon Ball. Train all day to get a rating of at least 2200. 2-bedroom for 1 month.
In the new expansions, what is your favourite new civilisation and unit?
I like Ethiopians and Arambai.
Make a list of the current Mexican top 1v1 players.
Tatakae
Bluku
Uzzi
Lobo
Keno
Tatakae currently is the best Mexican player, only one who achieved a 2k3 rating. Cerberus and Abe are listed as “legendary” Mexican AoE players, but they have retired a long time ago. How popular is AoE 2 in Mexico and why are there not more players reaching 2k2, 2k3 etc.?
In Mexico it is a popular game, but not for young players, most of them are people with a job and responsibilities, so they don't have the time to practice a lot, Mexican players just play for fun and not to be top players.
Last year I went to a LAN event with around of 25 players in Mexico City, only 5-6 players were above of 18+ rating and the rest were 14+ or 15+.
In my opinion, AoE is one of the most difficult games that I have ever played, it is not easy to get more than 2k of ELO, time and effort must be invested.
Mexico is a big country, but there is no consistent Mexican team reaching high levels, like there is a Brazilian or Finnish one or was a Czech or Argentinian top team for a long time. What are the biggest challenges you encounter?
Well, the young players don’t know the game, I know in Mexico there are many people but maybe they are not interested in the game, currently many online games are very popular over AoE, maybe only Tatakae and I are interested in improving our skills, maybe Bluku too, I don't know if any other Mexican is trying to be expert.
And second, the Mexican community in this game is so envious, it seems that when someone is improving or doing great stuff, the community just gives hate to him instead of congratulating him for his achievement or giving him tips to be better, we don’t help each other, that’s the truth.
Who would be the Mexican A team if there was a Nations Cup this year? Which map (except Arabia, Nomad and Islands) would you add to the map pool?
As I said, I don’t know if we are enough players to make a competitive team to participate in a big tournament, for now we are only 3 active mexican players: Tatakae, Bluku and me.
I also have noticed something. Probably you are too young to know much about it, but in WCL7, there were many many Mexican players: https://www.aoezone.net/threads/wcl-7-sign-ups.60837/ .
Probably many of them are not active anymore, but I guess 8 years ago, AoE 2 was more popular in Mexico.
Probably the same "pro players" who always return to play when some tournament appears, there are a lot of Mexican players, but few good, most of the mid level are on these teams: https://clanmex.voobly.com/, https://clanlat.voobly.com/, https://dam.voobly.com/, https://klu.voobly.com/ and much more play only in the New Player Lobby, so I don't know where they are, I saw on Facebook, most of the community are less than 15+, but they are having fun just watching streams, playing on Steam or living in the NPL.
I like Bedouins, it’s very fun to play it, Decentring is very interesting too, Rift Island and Chaos Pit, I want to see these maps on future tournaments.
Which 4 players would you like to see forming a team? (can include inactive players)
Well, when started to play, Legion Clan was one of the best teams in the game, Chris, DauT, Ruso and Alive forming a team would be good.
You lost 1:3 to PROject_Belgium in Round 1 of the Aspiring Experts tournament. I would say that it was expected, as he most of the time was rated around 200 points higher than you.
How was the experience? Who do you think will win the tournament?
Well, it was fun, really, I did big mistakes, probably because I was so nervous, I knew that I lost the Continental game because I don’t have enough experience on water maps, but I still have chances on the others maps, next Bedouins, I played this map well, going all in in Feudal and it worked.
At this point, 1-1 I felt good, because I practiced the remaining maps more, on the next map, Houseboat, I had a strategy with Japanese, fast up and rush, the time that I expected was 11:30 Feudal, more or less, but surprise!! I did all bad, because I was nervous I forgot the build order and some important stuff, my Feudal time was 12:20, one minute more, that meant Titanic for me and gg, I threw the game so badly.
The Double Arabia I lost because of experience too, both of my tcs were open and when I knew that it was too late to ask for re, so the best option for me was all in full army, I did well during the first minutes, but my big mistake was trying to mix the knights with CA, I lost because of this bad decision, why I did that? When I saw the rec, I was in a better position in one moment of the match, if I were going pike or only knights instead of the CA, I could have won the game.
I could do much more, but the experience in taking decisions was the difference I think, anyways I feel good to have participated in this tournament, my best wishes for Matt, hope he keeps improving
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I think Lojza is the most experiment player, so he has big chances to win the tournament, but If my friend Tatakae wins, I’ll be proud of him.
In which tournaments would you like to participate? (maps, seeding method, player limitations, team size etc.)
Maybe a Latin 1v1 tournament would be good, few Latin players have chance to participate in international top tournaments, then if the limitation is to Latin or Hispanic players, maybe more unknown players appear, and I have big chance to win, LOL.
A league like football would be good, maybe group phase into play-offs, or just the player with most points wins the tournament.
Maps are a very important point, ECL maps are the latest so I choose these for the tournament, no maps that are not played anymore.
Draft included of course, to balance the game and to see more than one civ in the games.
You do consider Brazilian and Argentinian players as Latin Americans, right?
Then you already have: dogao, F1Re, RiuT, St4rk, GoKu, Miguel, FeAge, BruH, Alive; Nicov, Twigg, Bl4ck, possibly Fedex, PaTiN or Aramis. All of those are active and 11 of them I would see above you.
No, I wasn’t considering Brazilian players, Argentinian yes, I was talking only about the people who speak Spanish, to be more specific, currently the Brazilian community could be the same or bigger than all other Latin American players, they could do his own tournament with only Brazilian players without problems.
But an idea in the direction of this would be to have it like a Latin American Champions League, and a national qualification for each country and then guarantee a number (2-4) of players per country to the group stage. That way every country would be represented.
Yes, something like that should be interesting, hope this could be possible in the near future.
Which 8 players would you invite for Nili’s Apartment Cup 3?
I want to see the top 8 players on the ladder. So inactive players have to play more games to get points.
I would like to see:
Yo
Vivi
TheViper
Liereyy
Nicov
TheMax
TaToH
RiuT
I like the line-up. Yo, vivi and TheMax were invited already, but could not come. I still think a qualifier is a better idea, because there you can’t choose your opponents and maps. I very much would like to include Tim and if dogao stays to be at top level, he is a good candidate too.
Yes, but I think the players who are Rank 1-8 on Voobly deserve some award.
One nice idea should be if the organizer said something like this:
The participants will be the players who are top 8 on Voobly on this date: 15-October-2019.
But sharing this only with the staff to be fair, to evade possible preferences just to recognize the activity of the players.
When you visit AoEZone and Voobly, is there something you like especially or would like to have improved?
Yup! Top daily recorded games like on AoCZone at the Home page.
What is a) the funniest, b) the saddest and c) the strangest moment in your life you experienced because of AoE?
Once I finish my studies, maybe I can contribute to some project associated with renewable energy and conserving natural resources, an option available to me.
If you were not in a relationship, and could date anyone, who would it be?
Emma Watson or Emma Roberts also Emma Stone? I don't know, Emmas are beautiful.
Choose without having any background information or what it should be about:
Chris or DauT? Chris
Tim or TheViper? TheViper
MbL or Liereyy? Liereyy
FeAge or Lavie_Head? Lavie <3
Memb or River? Memb
Hunter or Lumberjack? Hunter
Knight or Cavalry Archer? Knight
1v1 or 4v4? 4v4
Feudal Age or Imperial Age? Feudal
Arena or Nomad? Nomad
Do you want to add one more comment or question for me or someone else?
I just want to say thanks to you for considering me in this project, I was honest answering this and while I was doing this I remembered some good experiences, I enjoyed this a lot.
Thanks to Age of Empires I’ve got good moments, also I met good friends who support me every day, especial thanks to my most recent friends, “Dinamita” I love you all <3.
And to the Mexican community, I hope some good players emerge, to make a good team for future tournaments, stand aside the bad vibes and keep playing to improve fast. Hope I can help someone that is really interested to become an expert player.
I’ll think about how to share my experience of improving in the game and giving tips to the Hispanic community, soon as I can I’ll stream constantly.
Thanks for reading. Gracias por leer.
My gaming setup:
How old are you and since when do you play Age of Empires 2, have you played Age of Empires 1/3? What are your expectations and wishes for AoE 4? If you could change one thing about AoE 2, what would it be?
I play AoE 2 since I was 12 years old, now I’m 22 years old, 03/24 was my birthday.
I didn’t play AoE 1 or 3.
I wish AoE 4’s playability will be like AoE 2, ofc with more units civilizations and Ages.
I think it would be good to buff some civs who are not used often in AoE2 tournaments, maybe a bonus when you have 4 Asian civs (Mong/Ch/Jap/Kor) for example.
More civilisations? Even I, who designed lots of new civs (just hand-written details) when I was 13-14, think that there are really many now and the balance becomes too hard. But depending on what will be added, there might be options, like if there are more ages or differences in things like attack, armour, resources, buildings, etc.
That answer of more civilizations was my expectation for AoE 4 :P. I mean an extra team bonus, when you have 3 or 4 similar civilizations like [Maya, Azt, Inc] - [Brit, Spa, Frank].
Why did you choose the names “Uzi/Uzzi”, “Kyabe”, “7swords”, “Divine_Killer” etc. and what do they mean?
- Uzi and Uzzi are derived of my name which is Uzziel.
- Kyabe is a character from Dragon Ball Super, I like that anime.
- 7Swords is inspired by Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, characters of Naruto, another Anime.
- Divine Killer, Divine was a team of shooting game on PS4, killer just sounds good with the tag, nothing special, hehe.
The game has been improved in all the aspects, the new expansions were a great success, the new civilizations and units are so fun, developers did this really well, I hope more civs arrive to expand the AoE 2 world.
How would you describe your playstyle and how much has it changed during the last years?
I started playing 1v1 only Huns war, my style was very aggressive; full army and no walls, I think I have decent micro and I won a lot of games using my army very well. I became 2k for the first time playing with this style.
After the “Team Random” time arrived, I started to lose most of my games, because my style didn’t work with all civilizations.
So I had to learn more strategies like sc, m@a, Drush and the variations, to choose the right one depending on the situation and civilization.
I know a lot of build orders, but I still have problems at the time of making decisions.
I think my weak points are Post Imperial and Fwd situations, I really need a lot of more experience on that. Also, I don’t know how to play water maps very well because it isn’t common to see these maps in daily games.
I like to have the early pressure on my opponent, that’s why I do Drush very often, with that strategy I gain a bit time to think about my next step in the game.
Do you stream? If yes, what is your stream link and how often do you stream?
Yes, I tried to stream sometimes. This is my stream link : https://www.twitch.tv/7swords_
But because of the university homeworks, sometimes I have to render some simulations (It takes long time) and the game + stream goes laggy. If I don’t stream I can play normally while I’m waiting, but when I have vacation I’ll try to stream again.
Now some personal details:
Which city do you come from/live in? What do you like/dislike about it and where would you like to move to?
I live in the State of Mexico, next to the capital, Mexico City.
The place where I live is middle class, I like I have most necessary services near my house, market, transport, schools, gym.
And the weather, we have mild weather most of the year, this is so nice.
The bad things are that there is no good place to practice football, which is my favorite hobby, and crime, all days I read in the news about shootings and robberies, which is really sad.
I have never really thought seriously about where I would move but the weather will be a decisive factor, I prefer mild or cold weather, I really hate hot weather.
I like the big cities, Canada has many cool cities, would be a good option, but it’s hard to think about a place outside of Mexico, because the food, it’s really amazing.
As I showed in the introduction, I am very interested in Mexico, I learned Spanish and some Nahuatl, a lot about Aztec history and mythology, the food is world-famous, but on the news you hear not only about archaeological discoveries and beautiful and diverse nature, but mostly about huge problems, like disappearing students, drug wars and one of the highest crime and murder rate in the world. So I am very hesitant about whether I should go there one day or not.
What would you like to tell about Mexico and do you have any recommendations?
It's too hard for me to describe all about Mexico, because even I don’t know all about this beautiful country, so I just will talk a little bit.
The people in Mexico are very kind and cheerful.
Mexico has a lot of variety of food, but the most representative are “tacos”, which is basically meat on a tortilla, adding hot sauce and vegetables to improve the flavor, sounds simple but this is really delicious.
The cultural diversity is very high, full of customs and traditions.
One of the most important traditions is “ Dia de Muertos“. This topic is very very extensive, but the most important about this days is the offering for the souls, that is a colorful altar who has flowers, bread, candles, candy skulls, water and photos of the deceased members. This day is so beautiful, because all Mexican families meet to remember good moments. The date of these days are November 1 and 2.
I read about it already - in Mexico and some other Central American countries, there are holidays which are a mix of Christian and pre-Columbian traditions.
Dia de Muertos is originally from the Aztec culture, but yes, Mexican people are very religious.
About of 80% belong to Catholic Religion, I really don’t know too much about them, so I can't talk too much about this.
There are a lot of touristic interesting places from Cultural cities to full party places.
We have cultural places who are considered heritage of humanity, I don’t know all of them yet but I can recommend some.
1.- Mexico City - There are a lot of interesting museums, among the most outstanding ones you can mention “Templo Mayor” , “Catedral Metropolitana” and “Bellas Artes”. Those are places very very beautiful who you have to visit if you come here. Of course you can find many more beautiful places here.
2.- Guanajuato - This city is one of my favorites, simply because of its architecture, it is so gratifying to walk around.
And if you want to have fun, then visit the different beaches of Mexico. The most popular are:
Cancun, Quintana Roo
Playa del Carmen,Quintana Roo
Cabo San Lucas, Baja California.
And about the crime, most of the murders are fights of the mafias, they are killing each other, but if you are away from those situations you don’t have to be afraid, touristics places have very good security.
Definitely, if you have the possibility to come here to explore this beautiful country you will not regret.
Now to your favourite things:
a) What is your favourite food and drink?
Tacos definitely, and coconut water.
Which foods from your home country/region and family background would you recommend?
Besides the tacos, pozole and mole are typical delicious food too.
Pozole - Wikipedia
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Mole sauce - Wikipedia
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What can you cook well yourself and how often do you do it?
I don’t cook very well and I only do my own breakfast. That is usually fried/boiled eggs with some rice.
What would you put on top of a pizza?
Meat, bacon, ham and pepperoni with some coriander.
I use coriander frequently, but mostly in soups. I have never tried on pizza, I have to try that. Just the leaves or stem too?
Just the leaves, coriander goes good with most of the meats, is essential ingredient on the tacos, together with onion, but I don’t like this one too much.
b) What is your favourite colour? (Does not need to be one of the 8 AoE II colours)
Blue.
c) What is your favourite animal? Why?
Dogs are my favorite animal especially the small ones, like Pomerania, Shih Tzu or Pug. They are so funny.
d) What/where is your favourite place on Earth?
I like advanced cities too much, New York, Tokyo, Seoul are nice places.
e) What is your favourite song at the moment, of all time (can be top 5)?
At the moment : Sunflower - Post Malone
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Of all time:
1.- Everglow Single Version - Coldplay
2.- Middle - DJ Snake
3.- Counting Stars - One Republic
4.- Leave a Light On - Tom Walker
5.- Great Spirit - Vini Vici
I’m really not sure if this is my top 5, because I listen a lot of music, I just wrote the first songs which came to my mind, but all are very good.
You seem to listen to mostly international music. What about Mexican music, who would you promote/recommend?
Yes, I listen a bit more international music, my favorite Mexican band is “Los Claxons”.
And my favorite song is “Personajes”, It’s very fun to sing.
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Pedro Infante is probably the most representative Mexican singer, and all the Mexicans know his song “Cielito Lindo”. We sing that on any kind of situation, concerts, football matches…
f) What is your favourite movie at the moment, of all time (can be top 5)? Who is your favourite actor?
1.- Tarzan. The cartoon movie, from Disney. This is the movie of my childhood and I keep watching it with my nephews occasionally.
2.- Fast and furious series - Fifth movie is my favorite
3.- Hachi: A dog’s Tale
4.- Inception
5.- Forrest Gump
My favorite actor is Tom Hanks.
g) Do you have a favourite sports team? (football, basketball etc.)
I like football a lot, my local team is Cruz Azul and I’m a big fan of Real Madrid too.
h) What are your favourite traits on a woman?
I like slim women, with height around 1.60 m and pretty face.
She has to be fun and relaxed, that’s all.
What time do you usually go to sleep? What do you like doing before sleeping?
Usually I go to sleep at 23:30, before I sleep I take a shower, then I prepare my backpack and what I will wear the next day.
Which countries have you visited?
I have not traveled outside of Mexico yet, but maybe this year I’ll go to the USA to visit my family.
And where would you like to go to? Why?
I would like to visit apart from modern cities other big cities like Paris, Rome, London, because they are beautiful places.
What are your hobbies beside AoE?
Currently most of my time is spent at the university. I’m studying Electronic Engineering, I play football in the tournament at school, I know how to play the guitar not very well, but sometimes I do just for fun. When I’m tired I like to watch series and movies.
Occasionally, I go out with my friends to the cinema or just for a walk in any park.
Which languages do you speak/understand and which would you like to learn?
I speak only Spanish well, I understand English, but my speaking is so bad, I’m learning.
I would like to learn French or Mandarin Chinese.
Good choices. I think it depends on where you want to go. You said that you would like to go to Canada, then French is good. But overall Chinese might become really useful as an electronic engineer.
The truth is that I don’t know yet what to do when I finish my career, depends of the opportunities, hope I get the chance to do something great.
Who would you like to meet once, who you have not met? One AoE player and one other person.
Of course I would like to meet all elite players of AoE not only one, It would be very interesting.
And I just want a picture with Emma Watson, hehe.
Do you have an AoE idol?
Not really, I’m not big fan of any player, but I respect a lot the experts players of the game.
What is your favourite civilisation, map and unit?
Huns, Arabia, Paladin.
What is your favourite in-game sound?
In Spanish 22, English 12.
If Arabia did not exist, which map do you think everyone would be playing like people play Arabia (and not Serengeti etc., which are just very similar to Arabia)?
Land Nomad, Scandinavia, Ghost Lake or Salt Marsh.
The original Salt Marsh or one of the new versions? The old one looks good in my opinion and for casual games it’s good, but I have never heard an expert player saying Salt Marsh is a good competitive map.
New versions, the old map sometimes is very unfair because of the random fish on the map, that’s why it isn’t a competitive map, similar standard maps have this problem like Migration, when sometimes you have starting sheep near the TC and sometimes very far away, luck is a big factor and very very unfair.
And the new Scandinavia is interesting, it is hard to take map control of the map, in 1v1 most of the times the game will be on land until mid-late game when you need map control to have big advantage, but in TG there are many possibilities. Water is very important since early game and that’s why it should be so fun to play it.
Who is your favourite and least favourite 1v1 opponent?
I have not had the opportunity to play too much vs. top players, most are smurfs, but I like to play a lot with Tatakae, even if he wins 80% of the games, I enjoy practicing with him a lot.
And I hate to play vs. fwd players, I remember _CCS_Acuo smashed me too easily when I played vs. him.
Who is your favourite team mate?
a) For just playing
Currently Tatakae. Before Zizou - Venezuelan player, All Boys - Argentinean player and SigfrieD - Mexican player.
b) Also outside of the game
Tatakae.
c) Would you live in a a) 1-bedroom, b) 2-bedroom) apartment with him for a) 1 month, b) 1 year?
I think yes, that would be such a room of the time of Dragon Ball. Train all day to get a rating of at least 2200. 2-bedroom for 1 month.
In the new expansions, what is your favourite new civilisation and unit?
I like Ethiopians and Arambai.
Make a list of the current Mexican top 1v1 players.
Tatakae
Bluku
Uzzi
Lobo
Keno
Tatakae currently is the best Mexican player, only one who achieved a 2k3 rating. Cerberus and Abe are listed as “legendary” Mexican AoE players, but they have retired a long time ago. How popular is AoE 2 in Mexico and why are there not more players reaching 2k2, 2k3 etc.?
In Mexico it is a popular game, but not for young players, most of them are people with a job and responsibilities, so they don't have the time to practice a lot, Mexican players just play for fun and not to be top players.
Last year I went to a LAN event with around of 25 players in Mexico City, only 5-6 players were above of 18+ rating and the rest were 14+ or 15+.
In my opinion, AoE is one of the most difficult games that I have ever played, it is not easy to get more than 2k of ELO, time and effort must be invested.
Mexico is a big country, but there is no consistent Mexican team reaching high levels, like there is a Brazilian or Finnish one or was a Czech or Argentinian top team for a long time. What are the biggest challenges you encounter?
Well, the young players don’t know the game, I know in Mexico there are many people but maybe they are not interested in the game, currently many online games are very popular over AoE, maybe only Tatakae and I are interested in improving our skills, maybe Bluku too, I don't know if any other Mexican is trying to be expert.
And second, the Mexican community in this game is so envious, it seems that when someone is improving or doing great stuff, the community just gives hate to him instead of congratulating him for his achievement or giving him tips to be better, we don’t help each other, that’s the truth.
Who would be the Mexican A team if there was a Nations Cup this year? Which map (except Arabia, Nomad and Islands) would you add to the map pool?
As I said, I don’t know if we are enough players to make a competitive team to participate in a big tournament, for now we are only 3 active mexican players: Tatakae, Bluku and me.
I also have noticed something. Probably you are too young to know much about it, but in WCL7, there were many many Mexican players: https://www.aoezone.net/threads/wcl-7-sign-ups.60837/ .
Probably many of them are not active anymore, but I guess 8 years ago, AoE 2 was more popular in Mexico.
Probably the same "pro players" who always return to play when some tournament appears, there are a lot of Mexican players, but few good, most of the mid level are on these teams: https://clanmex.voobly.com/, https://clanlat.voobly.com/, https://dam.voobly.com/, https://klu.voobly.com/ and much more play only in the New Player Lobby, so I don't know where they are, I saw on Facebook, most of the community are less than 15+, but they are having fun just watching streams, playing on Steam or living in the NPL.
I like Bedouins, it’s very fun to play it, Decentring is very interesting too, Rift Island and Chaos Pit, I want to see these maps on future tournaments.
Which 4 players would you like to see forming a team? (can include inactive players)
Well, when started to play, Legion Clan was one of the best teams in the game, Chris, DauT, Ruso and Alive forming a team would be good.
You lost 1:3 to PROject_Belgium in Round 1 of the Aspiring Experts tournament. I would say that it was expected, as he most of the time was rated around 200 points higher than you.
How was the experience? Who do you think will win the tournament?
Well, it was fun, really, I did big mistakes, probably because I was so nervous, I knew that I lost the Continental game because I don’t have enough experience on water maps, but I still have chances on the others maps, next Bedouins, I played this map well, going all in in Feudal and it worked.
At this point, 1-1 I felt good, because I practiced the remaining maps more, on the next map, Houseboat, I had a strategy with Japanese, fast up and rush, the time that I expected was 11:30 Feudal, more or less, but surprise!! I did all bad, because I was nervous I forgot the build order and some important stuff, my Feudal time was 12:20, one minute more, that meant Titanic for me and gg, I threw the game so badly.
The Double Arabia I lost because of experience too, both of my tcs were open and when I knew that it was too late to ask for re, so the best option for me was all in full army, I did well during the first minutes, but my big mistake was trying to mix the knights with CA, I lost because of this bad decision, why I did that? When I saw the rec, I was in a better position in one moment of the match, if I were going pike or only knights instead of the CA, I could have won the game.
I could do much more, but the experience in taking decisions was the difference I think, anyways I feel good to have participated in this tournament, my best wishes for Matt, hope he keeps improving
.I think Lojza is the most experiment player, so he has big chances to win the tournament, but If my friend Tatakae wins, I’ll be proud of him.
In which tournaments would you like to participate? (maps, seeding method, player limitations, team size etc.)
Maybe a Latin 1v1 tournament would be good, few Latin players have chance to participate in international top tournaments, then if the limitation is to Latin or Hispanic players, maybe more unknown players appear, and I have big chance to win, LOL.
A league like football would be good, maybe group phase into play-offs, or just the player with most points wins the tournament.
Maps are a very important point, ECL maps are the latest so I choose these for the tournament, no maps that are not played anymore.
Draft included of course, to balance the game and to see more than one civ in the games.
You do consider Brazilian and Argentinian players as Latin Americans, right?
Then you already have: dogao, F1Re, RiuT, St4rk, GoKu, Miguel, FeAge, BruH, Alive; Nicov, Twigg, Bl4ck, possibly Fedex, PaTiN or Aramis. All of those are active and 11 of them I would see above you.
No, I wasn’t considering Brazilian players, Argentinian yes, I was talking only about the people who speak Spanish, to be more specific, currently the Brazilian community could be the same or bigger than all other Latin American players, they could do his own tournament with only Brazilian players without problems.
But an idea in the direction of this would be to have it like a Latin American Champions League, and a national qualification for each country and then guarantee a number (2-4) of players per country to the group stage. That way every country would be represented.
Yes, something like that should be interesting, hope this could be possible in the near future.
Which 8 players would you invite for Nili’s Apartment Cup 3?
I want to see the top 8 players on the ladder. So inactive players have to play more games to get points.
I would like to see:
Yo
Vivi
TheViper
Liereyy
Nicov
TheMax
TaToH
RiuT
I like the line-up. Yo, vivi and TheMax were invited already, but could not come. I still think a qualifier is a better idea, because there you can’t choose your opponents and maps. I very much would like to include Tim and if dogao stays to be at top level, he is a good candidate too.
Yes, but I think the players who are Rank 1-8 on Voobly deserve some award.
One nice idea should be if the organizer said something like this:
The participants will be the players who are top 8 on Voobly on this date: 15-October-2019.
But sharing this only with the staff to be fair, to evade possible preferences just to recognize the activity of the players.
When you visit AoEZone and Voobly, is there something you like especially or would like to have improved?
Yup! Top daily recorded games like on AoCZone at the Home page.
What is a) the funniest, b) the saddest and c) the strangest moment in your life you experienced because of AoE?
- The funniest was when I got 2k for the first time, I was so happy, I shouted like when a football team scores in the 93rd minute in the final of the Champions League, that moment was at night. I remember all my family woke up scared and running to my room because of me, it was a really fun moment
- Saddest things: I don’t remember, maybe losing tournaments, but that doesn't affect me too much.
- Strange… Well, sometimes I dream of playing AoC, and when I chat with my friends, occasionally I write 11, 1, 2, instead of the words, well this is more fun than strange, lol.
Once I finish my studies, maybe I can contribute to some project associated with renewable energy and conserving natural resources, an option available to me.
If you were not in a relationship, and could date anyone, who would it be?
Emma Watson or Emma Roberts also Emma Stone? I don't know, Emmas are beautiful.
Choose without having any background information or what it should be about:
Chris or DauT? Chris
Tim or TheViper? TheViper
MbL or Liereyy? Liereyy
FeAge or Lavie_Head? Lavie <3
Memb or River? Memb
Hunter or Lumberjack? Hunter
Knight or Cavalry Archer? Knight
1v1 or 4v4? 4v4
Feudal Age or Imperial Age? Feudal
Arena or Nomad? Nomad
Do you want to add one more comment or question for me or someone else?
I just want to say thanks to you for considering me in this project, I was honest answering this and while I was doing this I remembered some good experiences, I enjoyed this a lot.
Thanks to Age of Empires I’ve got good moments, also I met good friends who support me every day, especial thanks to my most recent friends, “Dinamita” I love you all <3.
And to the Mexican community, I hope some good players emerge, to make a good team for future tournaments, stand aside the bad vibes and keep playing to improve fast. Hope I can help someone that is really interested to become an expert player.
I’ll think about how to share my experience of improving in the game and giving tips to the Hispanic community, soon as I can I’ll stream constantly.
Thanks for reading. Gracias por leer.
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