Red Bull Wololo IV

Get ready for Red Bull Wololo IV, the epic 1v1 Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition competition that pits the best of the best against each other in a custom version of Empire Wars. Skipping the first stages of a traditional match to begin in the Feudal Age, Red Bull Wololo IV dives straight into the action to offer thrilling spectacle and incredible competitive strategy.

The global tournament is played across two parts, beginning with open qualifiers that allow anyone to win a place at the Main Event, where they’ll face the top players from Red Bull Wololo III: Gan ‘Mr_Yo’ Yangfan, Ørjan ‘TheViper’ Larsen, Hamzah ‘Hera’ El-Baher, Kai ‘Liereyy’ Kallinger, Darko ‘DauT’ Dautovic, Hoang ‘ACCM’ Huy, Dmitriy ‘Vinchester’ Smirnov and Ville ‘Villese’ Jämsä.

• Qualifiers
  • Qualifier 1: Saturday, May 29 - Sunday, May 30
  • Qualifier 2: Saturday, June 5 - Sunday, June 6
• Main Event
  • Finals Group Stage: Saturday, June 19 - Sunday, June 20
  • Finals Group Stage: Friday, June 25
  • Playoffs: Saturday, June 26
  • Final: Sunday, June 27

Players in the qualifiers will be able to earn prizes based on their results, and if they make it to the main event they can earn a share of the $30,000 prize pool!

-Top 4: Qualify for the main event & Logitech Prize
-Top 32: Wololo T-shirt
-Top 64: Wololo cap

 

Will somebody please send Spring a sweater or something? It's cold out there.

Redbull Wololo 4 featuring a beach towel as prize, to arrive just in time for Christmas

 

LETS GOOO!!!!!

 

Exciting

 

Where can you see the maps? Ingame?

 

They finally got Memb involved in this!

Yeah, finally, memb had never something to do with RBW. Kappa

 

Where can you see the maps? Ingame?

Red Bull Wololo IV map pack is already available in the mod center in-game. Just search for "Red Bull".

 

Let's gooo! Redbull is always so competitive and entertaining to watch!

 

Northern Isles is

 

What about the prize pool?

 

Nobody plays that game mode outside of RBW. There is no meta whatsoever. When was the last time any patch touched Empire Wars?
I mean even on the 3rd iteration Daut could just pick a different civ, not even doing a special strat and everyone was surprised.

And that's the best thing. It keeps the tournament fresh and surprising. We have tons of tournaments with game modes and maps that have well established meta.

 

What about the prize pool?

Prize pool is in announcement as always but if you are asking for distribution then it is:

Main Event
1st = $8,000
2nd = $5,000
3rd/4th = $3,000
5th-8th = $1,250
9th-12th = $850
13th-16th = $650

 

Having created the maps, I was never made aware of any themes. The fact that the previous events were themed is equally surprising to me 11

This time, the maps have been themed, however, and I hope it reflects the proper Viking feel it's supposed to

Are you wanting feedback on spawn bugs and such - I think you did last time out if I remember right?

'cause I had a spawn with no mining camp on Marketplace

Otherwise, it looks like there are some really interesting ideas in this map pool, looking forward to seeing how it plays out!

 

Are you wanting feedback on spawn bugs and such - I think you did last time out if I remember right?

'cause I had a spawn with no mining camp on Marketplace

Otherwise, it looks like there are some really interesting ideas in this map pool, looking forward to seeing how it plays out!

Of course, any sort of feedback is absolutely more than welcome. Especially game-breaking things like missing mining camps. Please reach out to me on Discord at Chrazini#5687 if you want to provide me with a recorded game

 

 

You guys dont even send your prizes from the last one and already a new one? lmao

You are not alone. I know some players who have gotten their prizes, and other players like @cong4ever who still haven't received his prize yet either. #JusticeForCong

 

Ah, EmpireWars.

Proving that you can throw $ at literally anything aoe2 and people will make it happen.

I think the seriousness comment was not meant at the level of competition, which will be great (that's what happens when you have the best players of the game competing in the same game mode, regardless of the game mode,) but that it's a gimmick mode that no one plays outside of the RBW tournaments. IE: You can throw 30k at a Goldeneye slappers only tournament, but people are probably going to want too see other things and that's fine. To each their own.

Great to get the community involved and give the plebs a few games before the usual suspects take over, usually good production, meh game mode (scripting issues, balance issues, et al). Either way still turns out to be entertaining for most because it's top level players making the most of it.

Would love for Custom Scenario's to make a return, but given they are broken by every DE patch it seems infeasible -- so outside of Deathmatch we're left with this as the only thing to throw cash at outside of the rotating arabia/hybrid tournaments for major prize pools.

Glad to see Memb involved, hopefully they remove the dreaded observer.

 

Ah, EmpireWars.

Proving that you can throw $ at literally anything aoe2 and people will make it happen.

I think the seriousness comment was not meant at the level of competition, which will be great (that's what happens when you have the best players of the game competing in the same game mode, regardless of the game mode,) but that it's a gimmick mode that no one plays outside of the RBW tournaments. IE: You can throw 30k at a Goldeneye slappers only tournament, but people are probably going to want too see other things and that's fine. To each their own.

Great to get the community involved and give the plebs a few games before the usual suspects take over, usually good production, meh game mode (scripting issues, balance issues, et al). Either way still turns out to be entertaining for most because it's top level players making the most of it.

Would love for Custom Scenario's to make a return, but given they are broken by every DE patch it seems infeasible -- so outside of Deathmatch we're left with this as the only thing to throw cash at outside of the rotating arabia/hybrid tournaments for major prize pools.

Sorry man, I feel the Inca nerf.

 

RBW4 is exciting news! Love the format.

But just please please don't have the Observer thing. Let the casters handle the camera.

 

How many times does it need to be said that no one plays EW outside of tournaments because there is no standard ranked queue for it?

 

How many times does it need to be said that no one plays EW outside of tournaments because there is no standard ranked queue for it?

Is it possible that 25 years of inertia and a limited player base to split from (the one people are perennially are complaining about long que times with,) likely has more to do with it?

 

Such good news.!!!!!! Aoesport forever

 

Is it possible that 25 years of inertia and a limited player base to split from (the one people are perennially are complaining about long que times with,) likely has more to do with it?

That probably has more to do with why the devs haven't spent the 10 minutes it would take to implement said queue. I am not sure that is great logic considering how many players have expressed interest in playing EW and how EW is a complement to RM rather than a competitor.

 

Hello @robo Any idea if civs will get their dark age bonuses back this edition ?

 

That probably has more to do with why the devs haven't spent the 10 minutes it would take to implement said queue. I am not sure that is great logic considering how many players have expressed interest in playing EW and how EW is a complement to RM rather than a competitor.

In the same way that Deathmatch is a complement to RM.

 

RBW4 is exciting news! Love the format.

But just please please don't have the Observer thing. Let the casters handle the camera.

I hope they keep the observer. Especially in the last days the camera work in many aspects already was better than what the casters usually do, and given how much room for improvement there still was with a bit more practice it should be really good.