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.

 

I think B-stream will not be needed today :D

 

I'm glad Memb got to cast that. You can hear the respect and affection he has for Tatoh and it's infectious. What a game. Hope the final is 4-3 to someone (Tatoh)!

 

I'm glad Memb got to cast that. You can hear the respect and affection he has for Tatoh and it's infectious. What a game. Hope the final is 4-3 to someone (Tatoh)!

Yeah, I hope it won't be games as first set. Northern islands and the bull tatoh vs hera were really nice games

 

TOTOOOHHHHH

GIGACHAD

 

hera

 

Is aoe1 played on fast speed? Seems a bit fast IMO

 

AoE1 has the reputation of being a game that's over in the first five minutes because you can't garrison vils and defensive structures suck, so whoever does more damage with their clubman rush just wins.

 

AoE1 has the reputation of being a game that's over in the first five minutes because you can't garrison vils and defensive structures suck, so whoever does more damage with their clubman rush just wins.

Yeah, sad. I played the game after almost 20 years, and I couldn't garrison the vills 11. Totally forgot that was a thing.

I would've loved to see some imp and late game battles in the finals. But apparently impossible!
Need arena I guess

 

Silly question I guess, but why is 1453 banned on Twitch RedBull?

 

Silly question I guess, but why is 1453 banned on Twitch RedBull?

Only reason that I can think of Red Bull and Byzantine ties lol, may be Turks spammed it at some point so they get rid of it.

 

Mods being clowns and stopping chat from having fun 11

Nothing new

 

Mods being clowns and stopping chat from having fun 11

Nothing new

They were deleting everything even remotely related to aoe2 having more viewers than aoe4, even when done in a joking manner, so silly lol.

What a win for Tatoh though. Finally, well deserved.

 

Where was other GL members at final, I couldn't see them during celebration?

And they should give up doing interviews in front of losers, it is bad to see other person sitting behind with sad posture.

 

Watched from Memb's channel, atmosphere there was more cozy. Don't get too harsh on big stream mods, 30k viewer chat can snowball really easily so precaution can seem overreactive sometimes.
Tatoh finally getting a well deserved championship and the biggest prize yet in a tournament that could have been better overall as far as the games we watched are concerned. Today get Tatoh in top 3 with Viper and Lierey imo, with an asterisk next to vinch's name. Hope to see him consistently achieving high, he always gives fun games and wonderful strats and he seems a great guy ofc.

 

Tatoh finally!!
No more choke!!

Well deserved, congrats.

Was rooting for Tatoh from semis and in finals.
Still feel bad for Lierrey tho

 

Where was other GL members at final, I couldn't see them during celebration?

GL was hosting a viewing party at a local bar, my guess is the other players were all there!

 

Where was other GL members at final, I couldn't see them during celebration?

They were already at the watch party. Not following the Lord's insta or wat

 

Congrats to Tatoh!! Great day to watch aoe2 and really nice final set.
Also very nice that he won considering his road certainly wasn't easy, facing Liereyy (twice), Hera, Jordan, ACCM.

 

They were already at the watch party. Not following the Lord's insta or wat

My bad, especially not following Lord's insta inexcusible. I agree all possible sentences and pleaing guilty here.

 

This is rly huge, Tatoh finaly with a 1vs1 S-Tier Tournament win and then it's the biggest one on top of that.
Also RBW-Series now with 6 Tournaments and 5 different winners overall and Jordan being so close of winning against Tatoh in Ro8 leading 2-0, this Tournament series rly has a lot of open competition.

With those viewer numbers I guess next RBW is also basically confirmed and next weekend qualifier happening for next S-Tier-Tournament... great times for aoe2.

 

With those viewer numbers I guess next RBW is also basically confirmed and next weekend qualifier happening for next S-Tier-Tournament... great times for aoe2.

Was it higher than last years?

 

Was it higher than last years?

According to twitch tracker it was less than last sunday for Redbull, but in total (all channels) a little bit higher.
47 K peak today for all channels, last sunday was 44K. I can't see exact number for last year, but in graphic there is a 58Kish peak for last year.
For Redbull channel last year was 39K, sunday 36k, today 31K.

On the other hand we had a peak 70K+ for HC4, so I wouldn't say it was so encouraging, viewer-wise scene won't be strong while T90 and Viper away.

 

Was it higher than last years?

I think we had 48k peak on the AoE2 twitch category and than around 26k combined on youtube at the same time. So peak was a bit less than last years 77k but I'd say these are still very solid numbers.
Edit:

Thats from the spectator dashboard.

 

I think we had 48k peak on the AoE2 twitch category and than around 26k combined on youtube at the same time. So peak was a bit less than last years 77k but I'd say these are still very solid numbers.

We never had 77K peak in Twitch, max is HC4, 73K.
Edit after edit of @longinator : I think he meant all streams including youtube.

 

We never had 77K peak in Twitch, max is HC4, 73K.

I know, the 77k is combined across all platforms