Age of Empires 2: Tournament

[Nate]

The era of professional aoe2 matches has dawned! This beloved and classic game can go pro with your help! Do you think your'e good at the game? Contact me by commenting on this discussion your curiousity and we can enter your steam name into a tournament bracket the first of its kind. (Sort of like a march madness, only for aoe2) 64 players is the cutoff, so sign up quick!

[SlimeyPirate]

No one should do this this is a bad idea

[SlimeyPirate]

It should be cross-platform

[The Very Hungry Caterpillar]

Most people would rather play the old one on voobly due to it performing better than hd. Viper for instance still plays the old one. You would probably have a better turnout on non hd sadly. (I love hd and hope it gets fixed so more players move from the old one.)

Also how does the bracket work? Is it 1v1 or team games?

Edit: I would love for competitive aoe2 to be a bigger thing. The competetive scene would only benefit from notty managing a competition. Its just making an event would be difficult due to the aoe2 community being divided between hd and the original aoc.

As for myself I am not an extremely skilled player and don't have a lot of spare time due to work and school.

[Pantera]

tournaments on the HD version cant work.

[IamJeo]

Tournament(s) will be quite impossible on HD until it functions as well as the original that is used on Voobly.

Also, Im not entirely sure, but I'd say this would not be the first time HD is used in aoe2 tournament; there are noob tournaments on Voobly that likely have players who have transferred there from Steam, with the patch.

[Til Bardaga!]

If you are looking for professional players I would recommend posting an announcement on aoczone.net. There were dozens of tournaments past years and competitive aoe2 is alive on the original game. There are few professional players playing on aoe2 HD, for very good reasons.

The latency, pathfinding, performance issues, desyncs, cashes, bugs, poorly made specating feature, and the fact that you can't even restore a game makes aoe2 HD terrible for competitive tournaments.

By the way, how did you manage to post a thread in the 'News and announcements' forum?

[robo_boro]

The First Ever HD Tornament??

I think you've missed the past ~10 tournaments that have been on HD, or the hundreds on voobly...

[IamJeo]

Well, hey, lets be glad that there apparently is a new player of AoE2 enthusiastic enough to come up with this on his own, and forgive the lack of googling.

I for one never heard of Voobly until I watched some twitch aoc streamers (ZeroEmpires at first), having only purchased HD and never owning the original.

This site here has all info on AoE2 tournaments one ever will need (this is the HD tournaments page as an example): http://aoczone.net/viewforum.php?f=692

[CleanWater]

Is AoEII (2013) still having tournaments? Preferably ones with cash prizes.

[Til Bardaga!]

no

[ZePikeno]

looking for a tournament!

[Til Bardaga!]

then you should probably host one on aoe2 DE. aoe2 HD is pretty much dead