King of the Desert IV - Official Announcement

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Official Announcement​

King of the Desert is one of the most prestigious tournaments in Age of Empires II, and it is back with its fourth iteration. King of the Desert IV is a tournament played solely on the map Arabia and will span across four weeks - starting Thursday the 18th of November and ending with the grand final on Sunday the 12th of December.

King of the Desert IV invites sixteen of the best players in the world back to the event while simultaneously allowing another sixteen players to qualify in the qualification stage, taking place on the 30th and 31st of October - allowing up to 512 players a chance to win a spot in the main event.

The main event will start off with a single-elimination bracket before branching out into a group stage that has drawn inspiration from both the swiss system and the GSL system used in previous iterations. The final stage of the event will once again be played as single-elimination until the new King of the Desert has been crowned.

Additionally, we are incredibly thrilled to announce that we will be working closely with The Very Essence - the same people that were behind a lot of the production of Red Bull Wololo.
They will help us ensure that the production value and level of entertainment is as good as it can possibly get for everyone watching!

Prize Pool​

With the help of our brilliant sponsors Microsoft, PinzTec and MsHuggah, King of the Desert IV will feature a grand prize pool of $75.000,00, with a chance to increase it even further.

For every 5000 subscribers on the MembTV Twitch channel, $2,500.00 will be added to the prize pool.
For every 50.000 subscribers on the MembTV YouTube channel, another $2,500.00 will be added to the prize pool.

Invited Players​

King of the Desert IV will feature sixteen of the best players in the world, decided by previous tournament performances. These players are guaranteed a spot in the main event where they will meet the sixteen qualified players.

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You will find all further information in the official handbook here.
All games will be cast by MembTV on https://www.twitch.tv/membtv - and the tournament offers entirely open streaming. If you're interested in streaming this event, make sure to check the page regarding content creation in the handbook.

Sign up today for the event - we hope you are as excited as we are to finally start the fourth instalment of King of the Desert.

 

Let's go, we love this game!

 

In my opinion the 1v1 tournament with the best and most competetive map selection - cant await all the seriess.

 

Oh so it's an AoE4 tournament after all!

I got at least some of you, admit it

 

Good to see that Mapu will be the observer in this tournament.

 

Praise be to Aoe2 tournaments! Will never play Aoe4! Long live Aoe2! Death to the sellouts!

 

Long lives King of the desert <3 <3

 

Can't Wait

 

Oh so it's an AoE4 tournament after all!

I got at least some of you, admit it

Not funny.....

 

There's a small typo in this announcement:

one of the most prestigious tournaments

Please remove "one of".

 

Let's goooooooo! With Holy Cup and King of the Desert IV, 2021 is on course to get past $600k in prize money. Overshadowing 2020 and 2019 combined by quite a big gap. This also represents over 25% of AoE2's entire history's prize money, which according to esportsearnings sits at around $2.1m at this point.

Go Go Go!

 

Let's goooooooo! With Holy Cup and King of the Desert IV, 2021 is on course to get past $600k in prize money. Overshadowing 2020 and 2019 combined by quite a big gap. This also represents over 25% of AoE2's entire history's prize money, which according to esportsearnings sits at around $2.1m at this point.

Go Go Go!

I noticed that the 2021 S-Tier prizepool is roughly $420k and A-Tier is not far off $69k, nice.

On a serious note, that is impressive growth and overall numbers! Top 50 overall and top 20 for 2021!

 

The most important tournament in the whole AoE2 scene.
This is what decides who the real KING is.

Good luck @MembTV

Vamos amigos!!!!

 

Thank you for this event, and a bonus point for announcing the qualifier 3 weeks in advance. Really appreciate it.

 

Good to see that Mapu will be the observer in this tournament.

i dont know if its the best, i like how memb cast without the observer. but we will see

 

Massive Prizepool!!

 

Great job Memb, the tournament looks cool.. btw who/what is MsHuggah?

 

Great job Memb, the tournament looks cool.. btw who/what is MsHuggah?

It’s me homey. I’m an old over the hill former AOE2 DE low ELO rage player that has transitioned into the infinitely better life of professional stream watcher and community supporter.

 

It’s me homey. I’m an old over the hill former AOE2 DE low ELO rage player that has transitioned into the infinitely better life of professional stream watcher and community supporter.

Nice to meet you sir, thanks for the incredible support..

 

one of the best 1v1 tournament series in the history

 

Those sub numbers (to add to prize-pool) are a tad optimistic! Nice to have a tournament to look forward to.

 

Another 1v1 tournament ... but I hope it's great. we love this game. Thanks Memb. GL!

 

After 20+ years with this game for whatever reason i've felt my interest in AOE2 waning in 2021 and several tournaments have passed me by recently (I only just finished watching the absolutely amazing Red Bull event in Heidelberg on VODs) But I will definitely not miss a KOTD, in my opinion it's THE AOE2 Major, the gold standard of RM tournaments.

 

So hyped! Go @MembTV, the real 4 I am waiting for

 

On liquipedia the seeding doesn't seem right?

-Liereyy's points add up to 240, not 220
-TheViper adds up to 170, not 150
-Daut has 150, not 130
-MBL has 120, more than Jordan's 110??

Is there a multiplication factor for Empire wars tournaments I'm not seeing?