Round 2 Winners Bracket - Round Overview
Set #1 TyRanT B (TheViper, Jordan_23) Vs SY B (_Yo, Shai__)
The set took off at a great pace, TheViper getting Huns and Jordan_23 being given Koreans while Yo__ got Franks and Shai__ landed on Turks. TheViper lost his scout early Dark Age to Yo__’s towncenter and he was then hit by a drush from Yo__ forcing his lumberjacks back to a safer location. While this was happening Jordan_23’s drush had reached Shai__ where he managed to push Shai__ off his berries but some quick walling from Shai__ assured no real damage was done. Both drush’s were killed off relatively quickly in feudal with Shai__ deciding to put up a few defensive towers and TheViper getting some early picks on some of Yo’s villagers. When hitting castle neither team was easily ahead. This is when Shai__ makes the decision to push into Jordan_23’s base with knights and over extends to lose more than half of his army against Jordan_23’s crossbows. Yo_ tried for some knight raiding in TheViper's base however it wasn’t enough to do anything game changing. TheViper then decided to go lean on Shai__ with his cavalry archers where he is able to kill off a handful of knights without many losses but is pulled back to base when Yo__ hits him with some siege and knights. Jordan_23 then manages to hit the Imperial Age with TheViper following soon after. Jordan_23 was then able to push back the front of Shai__’s with an Arbalest and Halberdier combination with some bombard towers to secure GG.
Game 2 forced both teams to exchange civs, TheViper taking Franks, Jordan_23 on Turks, Yo__ on Koreans and Shai__ with Huns. The game took off pretty standard, until Yo__ decided to drop towers on both Jordan_23 and Viper at the same time while Shai walled himself in. TheViper managed to keep the towers away from his towncenter using some scouts but Jordan_23 was forced to put up a defensive tower as his scouts were busy trying get some harass at Yo__’s base, but some quick reaction time from Yo__ stopped any plans Jordan_23 had. Shai__ then made his first appearance of the game running a large amount of scouts into TheVipers base to get some good eco harass before being forced away. Shai__ then hit castle and made a dash for TheVipers wood killing of a good amount of villagers. In defence Viper tried to get out some knights but the cavalry archer ball was already rolling for Shai. TheViper and Jordan_23 were taking substantial losses from the cavalry archer raiding of Shai when Yo__ managed to hit imperial, quickly followed by Shai. With the technology bonus in favour of SY Jordan_23 and TheViper couldn’t do much but defend until the push from Shai was to strong and Jordan_23 was forced to resign and the game was taken by SY.
With a draw game 3 needed to be played. Jordan_23 and Shai__ take Huns with TheViper and Yo__ playing mongols. Shai__ lost his scout towards the end of the Dark Age making his scout push a lot less effective but still managed to delay Jordan_23’s wall off. The standoff between Yo__ and TheVipers scouts seemed to be boring Yo__ and he sent his scouts to go help Shai__ and they were able to kill off Jordan_23’s army. Everyone except Shai__ then managed to hit Castle Age and Jordan_23 was able to push back Shai__’s army with cavalry Archers. TheViper then defended Yo__’s crossbow push and Jordan_23 managed to break Shai__’s army and get into the economy leaving SY with nothing to do but resign.
TyRanT B managed taking this intense series 2-1 securing there place in the Round 3 Winners
Set #2 Bracket. SY A (_Mars, Moments) Vs Power of Japan B (Deepsea, TokiwaMiao)
Game 1 was played with Tim getting Byzantines and his partner Moments getting given Spanish the opposing team Deepsea landing on Turks and his ally TokiwaMiao got Vikings. The game played fairly standard with TokiwaMiao drushing _Mars but some clever walling and a two range start was enough to get rid of the pesky drush. _Mars then managed to get some harass over in Deepsea’s base forcing the deletion of his Mill to take out _Mars ranged units. In this time TokiwaMiao was able to hit Castle Age and send some crossbows to get some harass on _Mars meaning this entire time Moments was hardly touched allowing him to flood knights into TokiwaMiao’s base and from there was joined by _Mars to kill off both Deepsea and TokiwaMiao’s army leaving them defenceless and throwing in the towel.
Game 2, a mammoth 01:18:38 was again played with swapped civs. _Mars on Turks and his ally Moments with Vikings, against Deepsea playing with Byzantines and TokiwaMiao as Spanish. The Dark Age went fairly normal with nothing special happening and _Mars opting for a wall off with buildings and palisade. In Feudal Moments decided to go two range first and threw some harass TokiwaMiao’s way while time decided to just hold the fort. Deepsea had fully walled himself in at this point however with some smart play from _Mars he found his economy is trouble and was forced to fight with his villagers to push back _Mars’s military, he was then able to hit castle. His ally TokiwaMiao who had hit Castle Age during the excitement already had a castle up and was starting to produce conquistadors. Deepsea then tries to get _Mars but the wall does its job and Moments appears to fight off the attacking force of Deepsea. The boom war begins and using the leftover resources to attempt some damage on the opponents economy, then _Mars manages to hit Imperial Age. From here the game starts going down for Power of Japan B and _Mars starts mass Hassar raiding plus walling off his quarter of the map. Moments is then forced to hold off the paladin and conquistador push from TokiwaMiao until _Mars arrives with hand cannons to push it back. _Mars then make the transition into heavy camels and from there SY A was able to take the match after some truly massive battles.
SY A will advance to round 3 of the winner’s bracket after taking the set 2-0.
Set #3 VNS B (bacgioifro, Yellow) Vs Niggas With Attitude (No_Re_i_Go_Eat, LeKy)
Game 1, bacgioifro was given Huns while his ally Yellow would get Mayans, the opposition No_Re_i_Go_Eat rolled Koreans and LeKy got Celts. The game started off with a drush from LeKy towards Yellow. Yellow was able to defend this with his own militia using the hill advantage and was able to go pester LeKy back. During Feudal Age every player in the game decided it would be best to wall themselves in. Yellow fast castled off the back of his drush and sent crossbows to harass LeKy to find a double layer of palisade in his way. Bacgioifro manages to cleverly wall in LeKy’s army and kill it off taking minimal losses just as No_Re_i_Go_Eat’s army gets to him, but bacgioifro is able to push back. Bacgioifro transitions into cavalry archers but with everyone walled in he is unable to do any damage. Luckily Yellow went for an early Imperial Age and was able to send eagles into the economy of the opposing team and follow it up with trebuchets putting No_Re_i_Go_Eat and LeKy into a sport where they would be unable to recover forcing a resign.
Game 2, bacgioifro opting for Celts and Yellow going Koreans against No_Re_i_Go_Eat as the Mayans with his partner LeKy playing as Huns. The game takes off with bacgioifro drushing LeKy and No_Re_i_Go_Eat drushing Yellow. Luckily for LeKy he had already mostly walled himself in and had some militia prepared to deal with the incoming attack. Behind the drush No_Re_i_Go_Eat had mostly walled himself in and had started the archer spam against Yellow who then hits Castle Age. The game slows down quite a bit as bacgioifro booms behind his walls and Yellows gets a castle up to create some war wagons. Then Yellow starts slinging bacgioifro who goes up to the Imperial Age. The game then turns into an elite eagle warrior Vs elite woad raider grudge match in which LeKy immediately transitions into knights and manages to kill off most of bacgioifro’s army. The raiding is everywhere, the battles are massive but the siege ram halberdier push from VNS B is making its way closer and closer to LeKy’s base, then the game drops and the win is award to VNS B.
VNS B will be advancing to the Round 3 Winners bracket after a 2-0 win against Niggas With Attitude.
Set #4 TyRanT Z (DreaIVIS, Daut) Vs 2k4 MY ASS (St4rk, _Just_GoKu_)
Game 1, DreaIVIs as Teutons with his partner Daut playing as Celts against _Just_GoKu_ got Turks while his partner St4rk was given Koreans. The game started with a drush war between Daut and St4rk in which Daut came out ontop of after reinforcing with more militia. _Just_GoKu_ managed to wall himself in quite early so DreaIVIS wasn’t able to get any harass with his archery range units. St4rk had also walled himself in and was able to defend himself quite easily. DreaIVIS eventually managed to get into _Just_GoKu_’s base but was greeted by eager waiting skirmishers. DreaIVIs then hit castle and went into a knight transition where himself and Daut were able to gang up on _Just_GoKu_ and pretty much knock him out of the game. St4rk managed to get up into Imperial but it was a was a 2v1 game by this stage and the game went to TyRant Z.
Game 2, DreaIVIS took Koreans while Daut grabbed Turks, St4rk opted for Celts leaving _Just_GoKu_ with Teutons. DreaIVIS opened with a drush against _Just_GoKu_ but _Just_GoKu_ was able to fend it off with his villagers. St4rk also went drush against Daut and caught a few lumberjacks off guard. Right now is when DreaIVIS builds one of the most bogus walls of all time, but it managed to keep the archers out and follows it up with hitting Castle Age. While this is going on St4rk is putting pressure on Daut hard with archers and manages to get into the economy where he manages to pick off a few villagers. _Just_GoKu_ has been given time to start his knight spam and is pushing DreaIVIs back while St4rk also makes his way towards DreaIVIS. DreaIVIs attempts to get up a castle to secure his base but the knights from _Just_GoKu_ arrive just in time to make sure that doesn’t happen and TyRanT Z throws in the towel making it 1-1.
Game 3, Huns for DreaIVIS and _Just_GoKu_ with their partners both playing as Mongols. The game goes through Dark Age with nothing exciting happening. _Just_GoKu_ walls off some of his economy and everyone hits Feudal Age. DreaIVIS goes straight into double archery plus stone wall and Daut goes for a scout opening. Daut manages to take out St4rk’s early archery push with his scouts and DreaIVIS continues to wall off his and Dauts half of the map. St4rk and _Just_GoKu_ manage a push into Dauts base where they are able to take out most of the army of their opponents. The cavalry archer spam for DreaIVIS begins and he’s able to get into the base of _Just_GoKu_ and force a garrison while Daut has transitioned into knights. Everyone has their economies locked down and it’s armies going at it for map control. DreaIVIS and _Just_GoKu_ have a massive cavalry archer fight and DreaIVIS comes out on top. St4rk is the first to hit Imperial Age and starts pressuring with Mangudai . Daut is able to push St4rk back with a combination of Mangudai and Trebuchets while DreaIVIS starts laying down forward siege workshops on Just_GoKu_. Daut manages to win the trebuchet war with St4rk while DreaIVIS is able to fight his way into Just_GoKu_’s base with Hussars and siege rams. From here there is no way out for 2k4 MY ASS and they give the GG.
TyRanT Z will be advancing to the Round 3 Winners Bracket after a 2-1 win against 2k4 MY ASS.
Will try and make it look pritty tomorrow + editing blah blah blah...
Set #1 TyRanT B (TheViper, Jordan_23) Vs SY B (_Yo, Shai__)
The set took off at a great pace, TheViper getting Huns and Jordan_23 being given Koreans while Yo__ got Franks and Shai__ landed on Turks. TheViper lost his scout early Dark Age to Yo__’s towncenter and he was then hit by a drush from Yo__ forcing his lumberjacks back to a safer location. While this was happening Jordan_23’s drush had reached Shai__ where he managed to push Shai__ off his berries but some quick walling from Shai__ assured no real damage was done. Both drush’s were killed off relatively quickly in feudal with Shai__ deciding to put up a few defensive towers and TheViper getting some early picks on some of Yo’s villagers. When hitting castle neither team was easily ahead. This is when Shai__ makes the decision to push into Jordan_23’s base with knights and over extends to lose more than half of his army against Jordan_23’s crossbows. Yo_ tried for some knight raiding in TheViper's base however it wasn’t enough to do anything game changing. TheViper then decided to go lean on Shai__ with his cavalry archers where he is able to kill off a handful of knights without many losses but is pulled back to base when Yo__ hits him with some siege and knights. Jordan_23 then manages to hit the Imperial Age with TheViper following soon after. Jordan_23 was then able to push back the front of Shai__’s with an Arbalest and Halberdier combination with some bombard towers to secure GG.
Game 2 forced both teams to exchange civs, TheViper taking Franks, Jordan_23 on Turks, Yo__ on Koreans and Shai__ with Huns. The game took off pretty standard, until Yo__ decided to drop towers on both Jordan_23 and Viper at the same time while Shai walled himself in. TheViper managed to keep the towers away from his towncenter using some scouts but Jordan_23 was forced to put up a defensive tower as his scouts were busy trying get some harass at Yo__’s base, but some quick reaction time from Yo__ stopped any plans Jordan_23 had. Shai__ then made his first appearance of the game running a large amount of scouts into TheVipers base to get some good eco harass before being forced away. Shai__ then hit castle and made a dash for TheVipers wood killing of a good amount of villagers. In defence Viper tried to get out some knights but the cavalry archer ball was already rolling for Shai. TheViper and Jordan_23 were taking substantial losses from the cavalry archer raiding of Shai when Yo__ managed to hit imperial, quickly followed by Shai. With the technology bonus in favour of SY Jordan_23 and TheViper couldn’t do much but defend until the push from Shai was to strong and Jordan_23 was forced to resign and the game was taken by SY.
With a draw game 3 needed to be played. Jordan_23 and Shai__ take Huns with TheViper and Yo__ playing mongols. Shai__ lost his scout towards the end of the Dark Age making his scout push a lot less effective but still managed to delay Jordan_23’s wall off. The standoff between Yo__ and TheVipers scouts seemed to be boring Yo__ and he sent his scouts to go help Shai__ and they were able to kill off Jordan_23’s army. Everyone except Shai__ then managed to hit Castle Age and Jordan_23 was able to push back Shai__’s army with cavalry Archers. TheViper then defended Yo__’s crossbow push and Jordan_23 managed to break Shai__’s army and get into the economy leaving SY with nothing to do but resign.
TyRanT B managed taking this intense series 2-1 securing there place in the Round 3 Winners
Set #2 Bracket. SY A (_Mars, Moments) Vs Power of Japan B (Deepsea, TokiwaMiao)
Game 1 was played with Tim getting Byzantines and his partner Moments getting given Spanish the opposing team Deepsea landing on Turks and his ally TokiwaMiao got Vikings. The game played fairly standard with TokiwaMiao drushing _Mars but some clever walling and a two range start was enough to get rid of the pesky drush. _Mars then managed to get some harass over in Deepsea’s base forcing the deletion of his Mill to take out _Mars ranged units. In this time TokiwaMiao was able to hit Castle Age and send some crossbows to get some harass on _Mars meaning this entire time Moments was hardly touched allowing him to flood knights into TokiwaMiao’s base and from there was joined by _Mars to kill off both Deepsea and TokiwaMiao’s army leaving them defenceless and throwing in the towel.
Game 2, a mammoth 01:18:38 was again played with swapped civs. _Mars on Turks and his ally Moments with Vikings, against Deepsea playing with Byzantines and TokiwaMiao as Spanish. The Dark Age went fairly normal with nothing special happening and _Mars opting for a wall off with buildings and palisade. In Feudal Moments decided to go two range first and threw some harass TokiwaMiao’s way while time decided to just hold the fort. Deepsea had fully walled himself in at this point however with some smart play from _Mars he found his economy is trouble and was forced to fight with his villagers to push back _Mars’s military, he was then able to hit castle. His ally TokiwaMiao who had hit Castle Age during the excitement already had a castle up and was starting to produce conquistadors. Deepsea then tries to get _Mars but the wall does its job and Moments appears to fight off the attacking force of Deepsea. The boom war begins and using the leftover resources to attempt some damage on the opponents economy, then _Mars manages to hit Imperial Age. From here the game starts going down for Power of Japan B and _Mars starts mass Hassar raiding plus walling off his quarter of the map. Moments is then forced to hold off the paladin and conquistador push from TokiwaMiao until _Mars arrives with hand cannons to push it back. _Mars then make the transition into heavy camels and from there SY A was able to take the match after some truly massive battles.
SY A will advance to round 3 of the winner’s bracket after taking the set 2-0.
Set #3 VNS B (bacgioifro, Yellow) Vs Niggas With Attitude (No_Re_i_Go_Eat, LeKy)
Game 1, bacgioifro was given Huns while his ally Yellow would get Mayans, the opposition No_Re_i_Go_Eat rolled Koreans and LeKy got Celts. The game started off with a drush from LeKy towards Yellow. Yellow was able to defend this with his own militia using the hill advantage and was able to go pester LeKy back. During Feudal Age every player in the game decided it would be best to wall themselves in. Yellow fast castled off the back of his drush and sent crossbows to harass LeKy to find a double layer of palisade in his way. Bacgioifro manages to cleverly wall in LeKy’s army and kill it off taking minimal losses just as No_Re_i_Go_Eat’s army gets to him, but bacgioifro is able to push back. Bacgioifro transitions into cavalry archers but with everyone walled in he is unable to do any damage. Luckily Yellow went for an early Imperial Age and was able to send eagles into the economy of the opposing team and follow it up with trebuchets putting No_Re_i_Go_Eat and LeKy into a sport where they would be unable to recover forcing a resign.
Game 2, bacgioifro opting for Celts and Yellow going Koreans against No_Re_i_Go_Eat as the Mayans with his partner LeKy playing as Huns. The game takes off with bacgioifro drushing LeKy and No_Re_i_Go_Eat drushing Yellow. Luckily for LeKy he had already mostly walled himself in and had some militia prepared to deal with the incoming attack. Behind the drush No_Re_i_Go_Eat had mostly walled himself in and had started the archer spam against Yellow who then hits Castle Age. The game slows down quite a bit as bacgioifro booms behind his walls and Yellows gets a castle up to create some war wagons. Then Yellow starts slinging bacgioifro who goes up to the Imperial Age. The game then turns into an elite eagle warrior Vs elite woad raider grudge match in which LeKy immediately transitions into knights and manages to kill off most of bacgioifro’s army. The raiding is everywhere, the battles are massive but the siege ram halberdier push from VNS B is making its way closer and closer to LeKy’s base, then the game drops and the win is award to VNS B.
VNS B will be advancing to the Round 3 Winners bracket after a 2-0 win against Niggas With Attitude.
Set #4 TyRanT Z (DreaIVIS, Daut) Vs 2k4 MY ASS (St4rk, _Just_GoKu_)
Game 1, DreaIVIs as Teutons with his partner Daut playing as Celts against _Just_GoKu_ got Turks while his partner St4rk was given Koreans. The game started with a drush war between Daut and St4rk in which Daut came out ontop of after reinforcing with more militia. _Just_GoKu_ managed to wall himself in quite early so DreaIVIS wasn’t able to get any harass with his archery range units. St4rk had also walled himself in and was able to defend himself quite easily. DreaIVIS eventually managed to get into _Just_GoKu_’s base but was greeted by eager waiting skirmishers. DreaIVIs then hit castle and went into a knight transition where himself and Daut were able to gang up on _Just_GoKu_ and pretty much knock him out of the game. St4rk managed to get up into Imperial but it was a was a 2v1 game by this stage and the game went to TyRant Z.
Game 2, DreaIVIS took Koreans while Daut grabbed Turks, St4rk opted for Celts leaving _Just_GoKu_ with Teutons. DreaIVIS opened with a drush against _Just_GoKu_ but _Just_GoKu_ was able to fend it off with his villagers. St4rk also went drush against Daut and caught a few lumberjacks off guard. Right now is when DreaIVIS builds one of the most bogus walls of all time, but it managed to keep the archers out and follows it up with hitting Castle Age. While this is going on St4rk is putting pressure on Daut hard with archers and manages to get into the economy where he manages to pick off a few villagers. _Just_GoKu_ has been given time to start his knight spam and is pushing DreaIVIs back while St4rk also makes his way towards DreaIVIS. DreaIVIs attempts to get up a castle to secure his base but the knights from _Just_GoKu_ arrive just in time to make sure that doesn’t happen and TyRanT Z throws in the towel making it 1-1.
Game 3, Huns for DreaIVIS and _Just_GoKu_ with their partners both playing as Mongols. The game goes through Dark Age with nothing exciting happening. _Just_GoKu_ walls off some of his economy and everyone hits Feudal Age. DreaIVIS goes straight into double archery plus stone wall and Daut goes for a scout opening. Daut manages to take out St4rk’s early archery push with his scouts and DreaIVIS continues to wall off his and Dauts half of the map. St4rk and _Just_GoKu_ manage a push into Dauts base where they are able to take out most of the army of their opponents. The cavalry archer spam for DreaIVIS begins and he’s able to get into the base of _Just_GoKu_ and force a garrison while Daut has transitioned into knights. Everyone has their economies locked down and it’s armies going at it for map control. DreaIVIS and _Just_GoKu_ have a massive cavalry archer fight and DreaIVIS comes out on top. St4rk is the first to hit Imperial Age and starts pressuring with Mangudai . Daut is able to push St4rk back with a combination of Mangudai and Trebuchets while DreaIVIS starts laying down forward siege workshops on Just_GoKu_. Daut manages to win the trebuchet war with St4rk while DreaIVIS is able to fight his way into Just_GoKu_’s base with Hussars and siege rams. From here there is no way out for 2k4 MY ASS and they give the GG.
TyRanT Z will be advancing to the Round 3 Winners Bracket after a 2-1 win against 2k4 MY ASS.
Will try and make it look pritty tomorrow + editing blah blah blah...