USA Cup 2021

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it is with great pleasure that I announce the biggest national tournament in AOE, the USA Cup!
Sponsored by CSAMCCAUSLAND and T90Official, with a prizepool of $6200 we have put together a tournament that will test the players metal and determine once and for all who our true Champion is!

The top 8 players from across the land have been invited, while a further 8 will qualify to battle it out in a knock out tournament.

Dates​

Qualifiers from 04/17/21 to 04/23/21
Main event from 04/24/21 to 05/02/21

Format​

Qualifiers Bo1
Round of 16 Bo3
Quarter Finals Bo5
Semi Finals Bo5
Final Bo7

Seeding​

Players will be seeded based on current RM elo as at 17:00 PST (20:00 EST) on April 10th.
The top 8 entrants will automatically qualify for the main event, while top 16 remaining players will play qualifiers.

Maps & Civs​

The Qualifiers will be played as hidden civ on UC_Arabia
The main event will include a civ draft; draft links will be posted in the discord.
Game 1 of each set for the main event will be played on UC_Arabia, players will be allowed to pick home maps from the map pool for the remaining games. No map bans will be allowed

The Map pool is as follows:
UC_Arabia (May not be chosen as a home map)
UC_Alpine
UC_Arena
UC_Atacama
UC_Continental
UC_Hideout
UC_Monocle
UC_Nomad
UC_Rocky Forest

All maps made by Chrazini
You can download the map pool here or by searching for USA Cup on the mod workshop.

Settings​

Round of 16: (Bo3)
Game 1: UC_Arabia
Game 2: Loser of game 1 Home Map
Game 3: Loser of Game 2 Home Map

The higher seed player will be player A

Players will conduct a map draft in the order of A,B.
Player A will host the civ draft.

Round of 8 & Round of 4
Game 1: UC_Arabia
Game 2: Loser of Game 1 Home Map
Game 3: Loser of Game 2 Home Map
Game 4: Loser of Game 3 Home Map
Game 5: Loser of Game 4 Home Map

The higher seed player will be player A

Players will conduct a map draft in the order of A,B,B,A.
Players may choose to play their home maps in any order.
Player A will host the civ draft


Finals
Game 1: UC_Arabia
Game 2: Loser of Game 1 Home Map
Game 3: Loser of Game 2 Home Map
Game 4: Loser of Game 3 Home Map
Game 5: Loser of Game 4 Home Map
Game 6: Loser of Game 5 Home Map
Game 7: Loser of Game 6 Home Map


The higher seed player will be player A

Players will conduct a map draft in the order of A,B,B,A,A,B.
Players may choose to play their home maps in any order.
Player A will host the civ draft.

The game settings must be the following.

Game : Random Match
Map Style : Custom
Location : Determined by stage
Size : Tiny (2 player)
Difficulty : Standard
Population : 200
Game Speed : Normal
Reveal Map : Standard
Starting Age : Standard
Victory Condition : Conquest
Team Together : [X] Yes
All Techs : [ ] No
Allow Cheats : [ ] No
Lock Teams : [X] Yes
Lock Speed : [X] Yes
Record Game : [X] Yes
Multi Building Queue : [MQ]

Hidden civilization must be picked when hosting the lobby.

Rules​

Restarts
No restarts will be allowed except in the unlikely event that a map is bugged.

Bugged Map Restarts
A player can request bugged map restarts during the first 6 minutes (game time). A restart requested due to a bugged map does not count as one of the restarts awarded before a series.
A bugged map is defined as the following for standard resource starts:
Gold: Less than 5 tiles of the main gold cluster are at least accessible on one side, extra gold are excluded.
Stone: Less than 4 tiles of a stone cluster are at least accessible on one side, extra stones are excluded.
Berries: Less than 4 tiles of a berry cluster are at least accessible on one side.
Animals: Spawned with less than 3 deer or less than 8 sheep or less than 2 boars or, one or more of the animals being trapped.

Laming
Players may steal enemy boars with their scout and are allowed to do anything else that is permitted within the game, including stealing boar with villagers, walling in resources, or blocking/killing villagers in the dark age.

Straggler Trees & Fish Deleting
Players are not allowed to delete the straggler trees which spawn within 10 tiles of an opposing player’s Town Center. This rule does not apply if the straggler tree which is being deleted forms part of a wall for the defending player. On maps where main forests are exclusively straggler trees, it is strictly forbidden to delete straggler trees from opponents (using the "palisade trick") unless they are being used as part of a mid-section of the wall.
Players may not remove fish that spawn on any sort of terrain by placing buildings on top of them.

Cheating
Cheating is not allowed under any circumstances. Players using any kind of cheat will be disqualified from the tournament and banned from future events.

Streaming​

This event is open casting; streamers who wish to cast games should join the discord and visit the #USA-Cup-Casting-Information channel for lobby codes, drafts and other information.
Players may choose to stream their own POV's, however must apply a 2 minute stream delay.

Prizepool​

The Prizepool is $6200 and is sponsored by CSAMCCAUSLAND & T90Official
The split is as follows:

1st: A Planet Ocean 600M- Co-Axial Master Chronometer 39.5 MM 215.30.40.20.03.001 Co‑Axial Master Chronometer 39.5 mm
2nd: $600
3rd/4th: $300 each
The remaining positions will not be allocated any prize money.

Sign-up​

To sign up please join the discord and visit the #usa-cup channel. Sign ups close on Friday 16th at 17:00 PST (20:00 EST)

Credits
Banner design by CtrlAltDelete
Sponsorship by CsaMcCausland twitch.tv/mccausland & T90Official twitch.tv/t90official
Tournament host & admin Adamaoe twitch.tv/adam_aoe
Tournament admin SeanOnAoE twitch.tv/seanonaoe

 

Highest RM 1v1 on April 10th??? Why so soon?

 

we have put together a tournament that will test the players metal and determine once and for all who our true Champion is!

Will Metal play, though? Kappa

 

That would be a "Rusty Metal "

 

the world series of aoe

 

5200 in honor of our 52 states (gotta add PR and DC).

 

US nationals or people that live in the US?

Also closed casting

 

US nationals or people that live in the US?

US residents are welcome to sign up too

 

Shamelessly stolen comment but I share the sentiment:
"A USA tourney...with no USA casters 11"

Mccausland is seriously way too generous though

 

hell ye brotha

 

As MetalRTS' representative I can officially state that he won't be competing in this tournament. My client is still on an indefinitive break.

 

why is the prize a watch?

I guess some playres might be more interested in getting the 2nd place than 1st 11

 

Didn't @Nili_AoE once tell a story about how in the very beginning of the game, he participated in a team tournament in which there were supposed to be Rolex as prize and it was all a scam? X)

 

Why closed casting tho...

 

Why closed casting tho...

why open strim

 

Who are the invited players?

 

why is the prize a watch?

I guess some playres might be more interested in getting the 2nd place than 1st 11

If you just want the money, then resell the watch for a few thousand.....

 

why is the prize a watch?

I guess some playres might be more interested in getting the 2nd place than 1st 11

I think I’d prefer a 5k dollar watch over 200 dollars cash...

 

If you just want the money, then resell the watch for a few thousand.....

Sure, however 200$ are 200$

A watch you receive 1 or 2 months later, who knows how much is worth, maybe it's 5000$ or maybe it's stolen or it's worthless.

Having 5200 $ shown on the banner is straight false imo.

 

Who are the invited players?

Stated in main post:
Players will be seeded based on current RM elo as at 17:00 PST (20:00 EST) on April 10th.
The top 8 entrants will automatically qualify for the main event, while top 16 remaining players will play qualifiers.

I assume the top 8 from sign-ups get an auto invite.

 

I love the mappool! gonna definitely watch some of the series

 

I hope Daniel has a watch guy who can help him get good resale value for that thing.

 

who are the favourites?
t90? daniel?
oh wait..spring!

 

just give daniel the money 11

 

Easy for spring