Two Pools Tournament 2 Announcement

After the success and the many memorable moments that the first event gave us in 2019, I am extremely happy to introduce the second edition of Two Pools Tournament - this time with the sponsorship of Microsoft! In this 2v2 format, each team will play every game with a civilization selected by them, and one selected by the opponent for them! This way, players are able to influence the civilizations of the opposing team directly!

The event in its entirety will be covered live on the Lidakor Twitch and Youtube channels.

The main event will feature eight invited teams:

• TheViper and TaToH
• Liereyy and Hera
• MbL and Nicov
• Mr. Yo and Lyx
• DauT and Slam
• TheMax and Villese
• Miguel and Dogao
• ACCM and SayMyName

While eight other teams will be able to qualify from a bracket of 24 teams.
The 16 teams of the main event will play through a GSL-Style group stage, followed by an eight-team single elimination bracket to decide who will be the champion!

Timeline

March 25-28: Qualifying stage

Main event:

April 3-4: Group Stage Round 1
April 10-11: Group Stage Round 2
April 17: Group Deciders
April 18: Quarterfinals
April 24: Semifinals - Live games
April 25: Grand finals - Live games

Prizepool

The tournament will feature a minimum of $10,000 prizepool. In addition to this, Lidakor will be adding $1,00 for every Twitch Subscriber, and $1,00 for every 75 Youtube subscribers at the conclusion of the event.

1st place: $3250 - (32.5%)
2nd place: $1625 - (16.5%)
3rd & 4th place: $800 - (8%)
5th - 8th place: $500 - (5%)
9th - 12th place: $200 - (2%)
13th - 16th place: $150 - (1.5%)

Currently unassigned: $125 (1.25%)

If you would be interested in adding to the prizepool or contributing to the administration costs, please reach out to Lidakor on discord or on AoEZone.

Maps

The map pack will feature a variety of maps known from various tournaments, and will also mark the return of two legendary maps from the first edition of the tournament: Cape of Storms and Forest Pond!

The following maps are going to be played during the event:

• Arabia
• Cape of Storms
• Coast to Mountain
• Eruption
• Forest Pond
• Hideout
• Kawasan
• Not Socotra
• Rockslide
• Regicide Fortress (no towers)
• Team Acropolis
• Team Islands

The maps are available to download at: https://www.ageofempires.com/mods/details/21294/
An overview of maps can be found here: Soon (TM)

Special thanks goes to Chrazini for creating and maintaining the map pack.

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Because of scheduling and the length of the civilization draft, games will be casted as recorded games. This, unfortunately also prevents the streaming of player POVs.

The event will be fully open casting. Please refer to the streaming rules here

Questions regarding the event will be answered here
Any feedback is welcome here

Sign-ups are open until the designated time in the sign-ups topic

Viewers are welcome to propose pre-tournament interview questions in the designated channel of Lidakor's discord server.

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Lidakor on YouTube: https://youtube.com/lidakor
Lidakor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LidaStream
Discord: https://discord.gg/ywnjF278Qr

 

Poggies

 

Grab your beach towels and grab your mojitos everyone! We're going to the pool!

 

No 2 Lakes? Kappa

 

Congrats on your first S-Tier tournament! Two Pools Tournament 1 was great, hopefully this one will be too

 

Congratulations!
Thanks to Microsoft too, that they support another tournament by a different organiser.

 

A shame I cant propose a cascading qualifer bracket for this one ! I am upset Kappa. Lets go

I had tears in my eyes, once the trailer rolled. I was one that bothered Lida often to work on Two Pools Two. Sorry, not sorry It is fantastic, it has been made possible now !

 

A shame I cant propose a cascading qualifer bracket for this one ! I am upset Kappa. Lets go

SIKE! :D

 

what a big announcement! Hype. We love this game!

 

Great stuff, glad to see another S-Tier tournament!

 

Amazing! I love the concept of the tournament and I'm super happy you got sponsored by Microsoft. Congratulations man, you really deserve it!

 

A tournament where we see bad civs in action? Count me in! ( as a biewer ) Kappa

 

Congrats on your first S-Tier tournament! Two Pools Tournament 1 was great, hopefully this one will be too

What’s the criteria for S-tier tournament?
Just prize pool size?
Not disagreeing just genuinely curious

 

Awesome tournament! congrats!

 

What’s the criteria for S-tier tournament?
Just prize pool size?
Not disagreeing just genuinely curious

Mostly prizepool, but there are a few other considerations like when it happens (tournament in 2013 has lower requirement than 2021) and the settings of the tournament (Battle Royale not as important as a normal RM).

That's why for example KotD1 is considered S-Tier despite having a lower than $5.000 prizepool (which is the guideline) and the Battle Royale isn't despite it having a $10.000 prizepool.

 

A chance for all the new kids to see why Raiden Ra is considered the deadliest duo of all time

 

Is the finals recorded as well? Final being live would be nice. And just one live drafting wont be that bad. Especially if draft time and match start time are properly advertised.

 

Proud of you buddy! Event looks sick; should be a blast to cast

 

Is the finals recorded as well? Final being live would be nice. And just one live drafting wont be that bad. Especially if draft time and match start time are properly advertised.

it literally says that the semis and finals are live

 

LidaKor is on fire!

 

Microsoft sponsoring casters outside the big 3 is great news.
Although Nili quit casting, does this mean Lidakor took his place? ^^

 

Hyyyype!

 

The main event will feature eight invited teams:

• TheViper and TaToH
• Liereyy and Hera
• MbL, Nicov and Hearttt
• Mr. Yo and Lyx
• DauT and Slam
• TheMax and Villese
• Miguel and Dogao
• ACCM and SayMyName

Feels Jordan man. Seriously though, can the invited teams add a third player?

 

Great to see the best tournament settings return!

 

it literally says that the semis and finals are live

Oops somehow i missed that. Sorry.