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.

 

If you hover over the word seeding the mouseover will tell you that the lowest score is excluded, so only the best 5 out of 6 results count.

 

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

LOL.. how does liking a game make people a sellouts? We pay for the game! The game doesn't pay us!

 

Excited for the open games! KoTD and Hidden Cup are the two tournaments that I look forward to watching and KoTD is the most competitive one of them all !
And I do prefer standard mode to empire wars (otherwise Redbull tournaments have also been great!)

This is going to epic! #aoe2

 

Have to say Production quality is pretty awesome, great start Memb and Team.

 

Have to say Production quality is pretty awesome, great start Memb and Team.

Next week gonna be better with Mapu as an observer as well as the team who worked on RBW production

 

The videos and interviews so far have been great, always great to see the production quality improve with every tournament. The variety in civs is also nice to see, really excited for the next few rounds!

 

Exactly. Also (even if it means players getting slapped), I'm glad all the favourites seem to have prepared for the tournament.

The quality and the level of play is only going up!

 

The quality and the level of play is only going up!

In the short term at least playing AoE4 is not necessarily a bad thing for performance in AoE2.

 

In the short term at least playing AoE4 is not necessarily a bad thing for performance in AoE2.

I agree!

 

It`s so great that we get interviews from e.g. BadBoy or Dark, something that we have never seen before. Great production quality as expected!

 

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