Red Bull Wololo: Legacy - Official Announcement

Announcement​

Are you ready for the most outstanding and prodigious event in the history of Age of Empires? We have teased you enough and are now ready to reveal what we have been brewing behind the scenes. Red Bull Wololo started back in early 2020 and pioneered the use of Empire Wars in major tournaments. The fast-paced, action-packed game mode quickly took off, and we had so many incredible moments spanning through the initial Red Bull Wololo all the way to Red Bull Wololo V in late 2021. As time went on, the events only got bigger and better, and here we are, in 2022, and we are about to blow you away.
To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Age of Empires, we are announcing not one, not two, but three tournaments. You will get to experience the original game that started the entire franchise back in 1997 - the original Age of Empires. You will also get to experience the arguably most influential game in the franchise's history, Age of Empires II - originally released back in 1999. Finally, the newest edition in the franchise, the incredible Age of Empires IV.

Once again, we will go back to Castle Heidelberg in Germany for the offline event spanning from the 21st to the 30th of October. During these days, you will experience the main event of both Age of Empires II and IV as well as the finals of all three events during the last two days - the 29th and 30th of October.

But what exactly is at stake here? Well, we have a total prize of a whopping $550,000.00 distributed among the three games, as shown below.

• Age of Empires I: $50,000.00
• Age of Empires II: $200,000.00
• Age of Empires IV: $300,000.00

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Invitations & Qualification​

Age of Empires II​

For Age of Empires II, you will see the return of all the previous conquerors. Mr_Yo, the champion of the original Red Bull Wololo. Liereyy, the only champion with two victories under his belt, Red Bull Wololo II and IV. DauT, the champion of Red Bull Wololo III. And finally, TheViper, the champion of Red Bull Wololo V. These players have proven themselves to be fierce warriors and have earned a direct invitation to the main event.

Other players must prove themselves worthy in different events leading up to the main event, as well as the two open qualifiers taking place from the 20th to the 21st of August and the 27th to the 28th of August.
You can already sign up for the open qualifiers here and here.

Age of Empires IV​

For Age of Empires IV, we're looking back to N4C to find our champions, and with that, Beastyqt, the winner of N4C, and Leenock, the runner-up, will already be waiting to meet everyone else that qualifies in Castle Heidelberg.

Other players must prove themselves worthy in tournaments leading up to the main event, as well as an extensive qualification event, Road to Red Bull held by EGC.
Registration and more information regarding this can be found here.

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I sincerely hope we can make this one of the greatest events ever. I'm aware of the commotion there has been following the release of Age of Empires IV, but remember that we are celebrating the franchise as a whole and the incredible history our beloved games have. We can't wait to share even more details with you soon.

For streamers, broadcasters, content creators and so on - I'm not able to share much information regarding streaming policies as of right now. I'll be sure to provide more information as soon as it becomes available. Feel free to reach out to me on Discord, and I'll take note of your interest for later. I know some people have already reached out regarding this, but please do so again now that the event has been properly announced. You can reach me at Chrazini#5687, thank you.

For additional information, go to redbull.com/wololo.

 

the seeding is so strange. dogao and valas are higer than Daniel who has qualified in qualifier #1 beating Sitaux 3-2. And Group B is much harder than Group A.

i kinda thought the same, the groups may be out of wack bc the two replacements went to the same group. id personally think it would benefit from a reseeding, but perhaps theres more aspects involved to a late shake-up than meets our eye. or maybe its more even than im thinking.

 

i kinda thought the same, the groups may be out of wack bc the two replacements went to the same group. id personally think it would benefit from a reseeding, but perhaps theres more aspects involved to a late shake-up than meets our eye. or maybe its more even than im thinking.

It WAS reseeded with the two substitutes being considered as regular qualifiers and seeded based on their ATP ranking.

The difference in group strength imo is mainly due to (1) Hera being seeded lower than his actual skill and (2) ACCM being seeded quite low looking at his insanely good shape. Unfortunately both these cases are in group B.

 

It WAS reseeded with the two substitutes being considered as regular qualifiers and seeded based on their ATP ranking.

The difference in group strength imo is mainly due to (1) Hera being seeded lower than his actual skill and (2) ACCM being seeded quite low looking at his insanely good shape. Unfortunately both these cases are in group B.

ah, thanks for the correction. i missed it obviously 11

 

Nili posted Ellie as a host for making his dirty stuff with seeds as always
and what is the "B" casters?

 

Nili posted Ellie as a host for making his dirty stuff with seeds as always
and what is the "B" casters?

I don't really understand this post but I smell drama cooking so I will answer.

According to Liquipedia, there is only one host, who is Riley.

And there are two streams casting one group at a time, main and B, and I believe B casters are gonna work only on secondary channel.

 

And there are two streams casting one group at a time, main and B, and I believe B casters are gonna work only on secondary channel.

And that secondary channel is Nili's, which is what causes some confusion probably.

 

And that secondary channel is Nili's, which is what causes some confusion probably.

Red Bull wanted secondary channel as a back up. Initially it was planned to be Dave's channel but Dave wasn't comfortable with potentially people other than himself streaming on his own channel so he declined. I suppose Nili was contacted and agreed?

 

I might be ootl, but isn't Nili exclusively focused on AoE IV?

 

I might be ootl, but isn't Nili exclusively focused on AoE IV?

No, he came back to AoE2 a long while ago. As evidenced by him playing the RBW qualifiers for AoE2 but not for AoE4.

 

And that secondary channel is Nili's, which is what causes some confusion probably.

Red Bull wanted secondary channel as a back up. Initially it was planned to be Dave's channel but Dave wasn't comfortable with potentially people other than himself streaming on his own channel so he declined. I suppose Nili was contacted and agreed?

I didn't know these details, thank you guys. Now I understand why Naomi wrote it, a little bit better.

 

I might be ootl, but isn't Nili exclusively focused on AoE IV?

Apart from like 10 streams in september he did not stream aoe4 since May and those ~10 streams were mainly to prepare for the aoe4-casting at RBW (he will cast both aoe2 and aoe4).
Not sure how it will look like after RBW, like aoe4 receives a big update/DLC so prolly there will be more aoe4 streams in the future.
But looking back at his BO101 against el_matador he prolly focuses on aoe2 and the tournaments to come.

 

Apart from like 10 streams in september he did not stream aoe4 since May and those ~10 streams were mainly to prepare for the aoe4-casting at RBW (he will cast both aoe2 and aoe4).
Not sure how it will look like after RBW, like aoe4 receives a big update/DLC so prolly there will be more aoe4 streams in the future.
But looking back at his BO101 against el_matador he prolly focuses on aoe2 and the tournaments to come.

Well curious how it aoe4 scene will look overall after RBW...

 

Well curious how it aoe4 scene will look overall after RBW...

Huge chance for aoe4 to make a comeback, but also could be one of the last chances I guess.
But who knows, maybe AoE1 DE is the big thing after rbw Legacy.
I mean the final is happening between aoe2 semifinal and final so prolly a lot of ppl watching.

But nothing of that matters to me if AoM DE get's announced, still having hope!

 

Hope there will actually be AOMDE, so I can sell my unopened AOM collectors edition on ebay.

 

I don't really understand this post but I smell drama cooking so I will answer.

I couldn't think of a better sentence to sum up aoezone Kappa

 

Well curious how it aoe4 scene will look overall after RBW...

There is a 40k tournament on the way already; check liquipedia

 

There is a 40k tournament on the way already; check liquipedia

It's a TG tourney, so much closer in prizepool to recent AoE2 tourneys than AoE4 tourneys.
The issue that AoE4 faces is that there are very few tournament organizers for AoE4. It's basically just EGCTV at this point

 

I guess we just completely stopped using the calendar here...
I know the games start at 12GMT, but isn't there some kind of opening ceremony or something a bit earlier?

 

I guess we just completely stopped using the calendar here...
I know the games start at 12GMT, but isn't there some kind of opening ceremony or something a bit earlier?

Could be, I guess we just have to tune in at 11:30 GMT, because that is the time when all the Youtube channels are scheduled to broadcast.

 

I guess we just completely stopped using the calendar here...
I know the games start at 12GMT, but isn't there some kind of opening ceremony or something a bit earlier?

rb has a schedule in their twitch channel, starting in 40mins

 

Love how they slapped substitute player names and countries over replaced players' banners.

 

Love how they slapped substitute player names and countries over replaced players' banners.

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Yes, it's creative, but I would have liked if they at least could have their own animals. I don't think Kingstone would have chosen a capybara. At least the fox/wolf is close to a dog.

 

Props to Danny boy and Kingstone to give two of the favourites a run for their money!

 

[Fanboi] Does anyone feel like the snek is kinda trolling in the second game?

 

It's weird how its all Blue vs Yellow now, Red looked so much nicer