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.

 

any clue if Memb will be in Heidelberg? I need to know if I'm going to Germany in October

 

any clue if Memb will be in Heidelberg? I need to know if I'm going to Germany in October

He doesn't stink you know, you can still go if he's there...

 

He doesn't stink you know, you can still go if he's there...

obviously misunderstood, what I meant to say was if he is not there, I'm not going

 

Any news on the tickets to the event? Flight tickets and hotel accommodations have be booked ahead of time.

 

Any news on the tickets to the event? Flight tickets and hotel accommodations have be booked ahead of time.

Unfortunately, I have no news to share at the moment. I'll make sure to announce it once I can.

 

Official casters are announced:
RLYKNGHT, KillerPigeon, Aussie_Drongo, Memb, T90, Dave and Nili as well as Mario Ovalle and Nacho_AoE as Spanish casters.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1557758872554819585

Does anyone know what the plan is regarding the split between AoE2 and AoE4?
I'm guessing Pigeon and Drongo will only do AoE4 while Memb and T90 will only do AoE2 and then Nili and Dave do both?

 

Shame there was no room for Ornlu to go as a caster. Hoped after RMS2 was included as a qualifier he might get to go

 

The patriarchy strikes again

 

and then Nili and Dave do both?

Someone said that Dave spoke about how he would only do AoE2 as he doesn't know AoE4 well enough to cast well for that community.

 

The patriarchy strikes again

as if there were any alternatives... for aoe2 at least.

 

Someone said that Dave spoke about how he would only do AoE2 as he doesn't know AoE4 well enough to cast well for that community.

Who said that?

 

Who said that?

Dave

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1558924689?t=00h19m00s

 

No lidakor makes me sad.

 

Official casters are announced:
RLYKNGHT, KillerPigeon, Aussie_Drongo, Memb, T90, Dave and Nili as well as Mario Ovalle and Nacho_AoE as Spanish casters.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1557758872554819585

Does anyone know what the plan is regarding the split between AoE2 and AoE4?
I'm guessing Pigeon and Drongo will only do AoE4 while Memb and T90 will only do AoE2 and then Nili and Dave do both?

According to Liquipedia AussieDrongo and KillerPidgeon are the only two casting AoE4 (with RLYKNGHT as host).

 

The patriarchy strikes again

Who would you pick instead?

 

as if there were any alternatives... for aoe2 at least.

Who would you pick instead?

LilTrouble would be the obvious alternative since she hosted Redbull before, but I don't see Redbull removing any of the others. I would be surprised if Redbull even considered not having RLYKNGHT as host, especially since he seems to be hosting both games. Maybe they could have had her as co-host with RLYKNGHT for AoE2.

I can't think of any other casters with enough experience co-casting big events (for Redbull to consider them), so no other alternatives as far as I can see unless Dave wants to invite Amouranth or Memb wants to invite Scarlet.

 

Also no female players are directly invited to the tournament.

I am shocked by the lack of diversity, we are living in 2022 and not medieval times

 

LilTrouble would be the obvious alternative since she hosted Redbull before, but I don't see Redbull removing any of the others. I would be surprised if Redbull even considered not having RLYKNGHT as host, especially since he seems to be hosting both games. Maybe they could have had her as co-host with RLYKNGHT for AoE2.

I can't think of any other casters with enough experience co-casting big events (for Redbull to consider them), so no other alternatives as far as I can see unless Dave wants to invite Amouranth or Memb wants to invite Scarlet.

I did hear somewhere LilTrouble did not really want anything to do with Red Bull anymore, after she was asked to cohost RBW5, and was replaced by Brittani on the last second.

So perhaps that would be a reason for that to happen. It's just something I've heard blowing somewhere, so I don't know for sure whether or not it's correct. But apparantly she made a post about it on her discord, so someone who's active there may or may not prove this.

 

did you even ask them about their gender or are you just guessing

 

I did hear somewhere LilTrouble did not really want anything to do with Red Bull anymore, after she was asked to cohost RBW5, and was replaced by Brittani on the last second.

I thought Britanni was a last minute replacement for Masmora already?

 

I thought Britanni was a last minute replacement for Masmora already?

don't know where you got that from but they were both supposed to be there. Unfortunately Masmorra had to leave early and Brittani arrived late...

 

I did hear somewhere LilTrouble did not really want anything to do with Red Bull anymore, after she was asked to cohost RBW5, and was replaced by Brittani on the last second.

So perhaps that would be a reason for that to happen. It's just something I've heard blowing somewhere, so I don't know for sure whether or not it's correct. But apparantly she made a post about it on her discord, so someone who's active there may or may not prove this.

Brittani did a nice job to be fair, wouldn’t mind seeing that one involved again

 

I did hear somewhere LilTrouble did not really want anything to do with Red Bull anymore, after she was asked to cohost RBW5, and was replaced by Brittani on the last second.

So perhaps that would be a reason for that to happen. It's just something I've heard blowing somewhere, so I don't know for sure whether or not it's correct. But apparantly she made a post about it on her discord, so someone who's active there may or may not prove this.

hmm, ok. had not heard anything about that. Found some posts on the old twitter about it though. While it does not explain what happened exactly, its very clear LilTrouble wasn't happy about it. So, you might be right that she is not interested. If I knew that I wouldn't have brought it up in the first place, I hesitate to link to it because its just old drama at this point. Anyone can find it themselves using a google search.

 

Would've been cool if they hosted a Queen's Clash EW edition instead of some cheesy AoE1 event that nobody outside of Vietnam cares about.

 

I dont give a damn for AoE4 but it's sad that Lida is once more sidelined in an event where he could fit in both games and he done a lot for both games.
PS memb confirmed, Lober boys assemble