The AOElympics now Sponsored by PinzTec. 1 More Week to Sign Up [$7000 Prize Pool].

One week before the sign-up of the 1v1 and 2v2 phase ends - with more than 160 players registered already,

we have a big announcement for the 2020 AOElympics.

Memb and I succeeded in convincing the founder of PinzTec to sponsor this event, which now rises the prize pool to $7000!​

Watch an extended trailer here:

Open streaming remains, but in addition Memb will cover as much as he can on his channel as tournament associate.

Let's reward our new generous sponsor with an amazing event, strengthening his desire to invest in many more AoE 2 tournaments.


If you did not read all of the rules and settings yet, here is what you have to know right now:

• Sign up 1v1/2v2: Until June 09 20:00 GMT; Brackets with less than 7 players cancelled.
• Redistribution day 1, until June 10 20:00 GMT: Players affected by the cancellation of brackets may sign up to any other bracket now. Brackets having less than 8 players are cancelled now.
• Redistribution day 2, until June 11 20:00 GMT: Players who were affected by the 2nd cancellation may redistribute to any bracket with less than 16 signed up players.
• June 12 20:00 GMT: Ratings are saved for seeding.
• June 15: First round of 1v1 brackets begins.
• Once all 1v1 and 2v2 brackets are made, the 4v4 brackets and their dates will be remade. All maps will still be the same, but dates may change. We want to give some space for other great tournaments starting soon in August and after. So the overlap should not be more than 2-3 weeks.

Register here.
Look here for already registered teams and players and who is the team admin to contact if you want to be added to an already registered team.
See who plays in which bracket here. Just click on the map name to go to the sign-up topic.
Join Discord for quick discussion and questions.

For anyone who did not read the original announcement, you have to follow these 2 steps:
1. Your national team has to be registered. If you want to be added to an already registered team, please contact the team admin. All team admins can be found here.
2. Communicate with your team members and sign up for the maps of your choice (up to 4 1v1, 3 2v2 and 4 4v4; one player per nation).

 

I did not see that coming

 

Awesome! Looking forward to it!

 

Hopefully more countries sign up now after this!

I am sorry if this suggestion is too late now but I think if there was FORM style sign up where you could check the map your team wanted to participate (and if needed the check mark would ask for the player that would play in that) instead of having to go through so much forums it would have been much easier. I understand it might take a lot of effort for that but might have made it more user-friendly.

EDIT:
Or even just a simple spreadsheet with different sheet per country where they fill out the sheet for 1v1, 2v2, 4v4s like this:

 

@Poxo this changes everything, I guess tatoh and laan could be interested if there is this awesome prizepool, maybe we should reconsider the teams? Anyway fantastic news, thank you huehuecoyotl and the rest of the mods, big thanks to PinzTech for the support and also to memb for bringing hype to this tournament (memb, you can also contact poxo if you want some of your rage forest with cambre and laan)

 

@Huehuecoyotl22 and @MembTV, congratz on having this sponsor for the tournament! @Huehuecoyotl22, I hope you and the admin team have a great job doing this and we as a community have a great tournament!

 

Congrats!

 

Hopefully more countries sign up now after this!

I am sorry if this suggestion is too late now but I think if there was FORM style sign up where you could check the map your team wanted to participate (and if needed the check mark would ask for the player that would play in that) instead of having to go through so much forums it would have been much easier. I understand it might take a lot of effort for that but might have made it more user-friendly.

EDIT:
Or even just a simple spreadsheet with different sheet per country where they fill out the sheet for 1v1, 2v2, 4v4s like this:

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I could make one like that to download and fill in, but it making an accessible online one, where 100s of people can edit, might rather slow it down. If it's just for team admins, then everyone would have to message me. Also, then still someone has to add it to the sign-up topics which should be public.

I could make another overview topic just with the bracket names where you just click to the bracket sign-up.

 

I could make another overview topic just with the bracket names where you just click to the bracket sign-up.

Added that: https://www.aoezone.net/threads/sign-up-overview-by-bracket.165678/
I hope that helps.

 

Complicated stuff

 

Complicated stuff

Can you write what is complicated to you, so I can help you and possibly other people with understanding it?

 

I believe that the problem is coordination and communication between players in one country. Especcially big ones. Like who must be country admin? How to decide who play each brackets?

 

I believe that the problem is coordination and communication between players in one country. Especcially big ones. Like who must be country admin? How to decide who play each brackets?

There is indeed something true about that, but in the end, someone has to start. In every TG event, someone has to take the responsibility for the sign-up (and scheduling).

I already wrote in the registration topic some time ago that you can sign up and add players later. Players coming later, obviously should contact the person who signed up the already signed-up players.

I endorse any small group of players from a country with potentially many sign-ups to just register to get it started.

Who plays which map? That is something to decide within the team, last resort would be to just sign up, if nobody has signed up to that bracket already, but should be open to being contacted if someone else also would like to play it. In the end, you play for each other to reach the best placement, so you should learn to deal which each other.

 

Nice to see about the sponsorship.

 

maybe you should extend the time limit for the registration. I'm sure some more people want to play in it but didnt hear of it since lots of stuff was happening in the community. also with the addition to the prizepool probably more experts want to play. just my thoughts :-) looking fwd to play in this!

 

maybe you should extend the time limit for the registration. I'm sure some more people want to play in it but didnt hear of it since lots of stuff was happening in the community. also with the addition to the prizepool probably more experts want to play. just my thoughts :-) looking fwd to play in this!

One problem is that there already are 2 other tournaments aimed to start in August. The more pushed back, the more overlap. Memb said he will promote it too this weekend and then there are still 2 days to register on Monday/Tuesday. Not a lot, but in the past especially the last 2 days were sign-up heavy for every tournament.