Red Bull Wololo 3 Main Event

Our 8 returning champions, Mr_Yo, TheViper, Hera, Liereyy, TaToH, TheMax, Nicov and Capoch are joined by the qualifiers ACCM, Daniel, DauT, Vinchester, BacT, MbL, Villese, Vivi.

Bracket & Information

Spoiler: Groups

The Quarterfinals will have a group Winner facing a random different group Runner-up.

Saturday 16th 13:00 GMT - Opening Matches, 8 Bo3s
Sunday 17th 13:00 GMT - Winner & Elimination Matches, 8 Bo3s

Friday 22nd 15:00 GMT - Decider Matches, 4 Bo5s
Saturday 23rd 15:00 GMT - Quarterfinals, 4 Bo5s
Sunday 24th 15:00 GMT - Semifinals & Final, 2 Bo5s & 1 Bo7.

Both semifinals will be played at the same time, and the 2nd will be cast as recorded games.

You can check out the live streams of the event in various languages here:​

English - RedBull Twitch | RedBull YouTube
Spanish - MembTV Twitch | Nacho AoE YouTube | Mario Ovalle YouTube
Portuguese - dogao Twitch | Obathegreatt Twitch
French - OGN Empires Twitch | TheSniper AoE Twitch
Russian - Mr_GriN Twitch | Wanderbraun Twitch
Turkish - TurkEycof_AoE Twitch | kasvaoe Twitch
Czech - ProfessionalPenguin Twitch
Italian - AoEItalia Twitch | AgeofEmpiresItalia Twitch
German - FlyLikeDjango Twitch | DemEyesRed Twitch
Mandarin - Lyx Douyu | Paladin Douyu
Cantonese - Marcusplacehk YouTube

 

Japanese, Vietnamese and Thai .... Arabic, Indonesian and Hindi

 

Japanese, Vietnamese and Thai .... Arabic, Indonesian and Hindi

?

 

@robo
YT links to Marcusplacehk, NachoAoE and MarioOvalle seem to be broken
RedBull's is fine for some reason

 

@robo
YT links to Marcusplacehk, NachoAoE and MarioOvalle seem to be broken
RedBull's is fine for some reason

thanks, fixed

 

habibi casting, I'm sold

 

damn who convinced memb to cast in spanish

 

We are glad as spanish speakers

 

damn who convinced memb to cast in spanish

That would be me.

 

Is there a good reason why we don't see the POV of one of the casters? Makes for some very awkward moments where the casters talk about something while the screen shows a building or something on the other side of the map.

Other than that nice casting and event so far

 

This game mode (empires wars) should be ranked in the game to let more people play it. Imo its the best way to make aoe2de become a bigger esport. It is really enterteining to watch!

 

Nice event other than t90’s biased casting. It still shocks me how much he undermines viper and daut when he streams their match.

 

This game mode (empires wars) should be ranked in the game to let more people play it. Imo its the best way to make aoe2de become a bigger esport. It is really enterteining to watch!

Completely agree, it would be amazing if you could queue for Empires Wars 1v1 2v2 3v3 4v4 while you're queuing for RM/DM 1v1 2v2 3v3 4v4 as well. The quick play Empire Wars queue is just dead, sadly.

 

The devs don't have time to make an Empire Wars ranked queue because they are too busy working on the 36th and 37th civs everyone asked for.

 

Is there an explanation on what the stats shown by capture age mean? I cant make any sense of the numbers in the bottom right. And i feel like if i cant then the casual viewer wont know either.

 

Is there an explanation on what the stats shown by capture age mean? I cant make any sense of the numbers in the bottom right. And i feel like if i cant then the casual viewer wont know either.

there is a video by Nili on YouTube where he explains all the features of the overlay

 

What I don't understand is why the group stage "decider" is played on a different weekend than all the preceding matches. It seems so untidy.

 

there is a video by Nili on YouTube where he explains all the features of the overlay

link?

 

https://youtu.be/tWE2l3RP44I

 

So proud of the winner, won't spoil who it is for those who haven't seen.
He was in beast mode.

 

So proud of the winner, won't spoil who it is for those who haven't seen.

Spoiler

He

was in beast mode.

 

Personally I was disappointed of the stream image quality of the grand final in the official RedBull channels (I also opened the youtube channel and was the same). The image was:
-soft (lack of details) ... probably a low bitrate.
-lack of contrast
-redish tint

I first believed that redish tint and lack of contrast have to do something with the game mode or the maps. But then I open the (Memb+Nicov) stream ... then MAGIC: impeccable details, good contrast and proper colors.

So I had to stay with two twitch streams open in my browser: one of the RedBull and of one of Memb. Watched the Memb stream muted (as I do not understand spanish), and listen to the sound from the Redbull stream.
This was a pain in the a*s, as streams had something like a 10-15 seconds difference in delay and Memb somethings looked at something else that T90 and Dave where talking.

Sorry for bringing some criticism here. But the truth must be said.

 

Fantastic tournament, thank you to everyone involved.

I really enjoyed the hosting job done by @LilTrouble__. Nice to be introduced to new talent and promote diversity in the game.

A particular highlight was the absolutely incredible observation by Mapu (I didn't even know this was a thing until I read it on Liquipedia). I was critical of the use of third-person camera control in the past, particularly in ECL, but in the hands of a real professional it was truley exceptional.

I think there is still some room for improvements and refinement in some areas. The interviewing is atrocious, across the board. I'd say liltrouble probably did the best job in this area, but as with the observer it would be worth getting someone in who really knows what they are doing to improve the quility of pre- and post-game interviews.

Thanks again and I hope there's much more to come.

 

Fantastic tournament, thank you to everyone involved.

I really enjoyed the hosting job done by @LilTrouble__. Nice to be introduced to new talent and promote diversity in the game.

A particular highlight was the absolutely incredible observation by Mapu (I didn't even know this was a thing until I read it on Liquipedia). I was critical of the use of third-person camera control in the past, particularly in ECL, but in the hands of a real professional it was truley exceptional.

I think there is still some room for improvements and refinement in some areas. The interviewing is atrocious, across the board. I'd say liltrouble probably did the best job in this area, but as with the observer it would be worth getting someone in who really knows what they are doing to improve the quility of pre- and post-game interviews.

Thanks again and I hope there's much more to come.

Appreciate the positivity here, thanks! I take full blame for any disappointment regarding the interviews. When I was doing them - it was my first time ever interviewing people, and I know I could've done a much better job. I was nervous that I wouldn't be asking good questions, and honestly it's hard to do the best job I wanted to at 3am onwards haha. When the casters were doing it - they straight up shouldn't have been, that's not their job, but they were covering for me when I was sick. It would've been extremely hard for them to cast long sets and then immediately have to switch over to 'interview mode' without having had the time to prepare questions in advance like I did. So I'm super grateful for them doing that with little-to-no notice.

 

I think you did a good job at the interviews @LilTrouble__