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Age of Empires II: Duel of the Century

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MaSmOrRa
Profile Joined September 2013
22 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-01 23:40:38
January 01 2014 14:05 GMT
#1
Hey guys!

As I've told you before, the AoC community has been increasing like never before. New tournaments are coming every week, the number of new players on Voobly (the main client) was never so high and the streams for big matches usually reach a couple of thousands of viewers.

This weekend, we will have one of the best matches in AoC history.

It will be a Best of 21 between the 2 undisputed best players at the moment:

TheViper and JorDan_23

The winner will take home 1000$.
The games will start on 3rd of January 16 GMT and will continue on 4th and 5th.
All these games will be streamed live on Voobly's Official Twitch channel:
www.twitch.tv/vooblyofficial

We strongly believe this will be one of the best matches to ever happen in the AoC world, so if you have played this game before or you're just a fan of RTS, be sure to tune in as I am 100% you will not regret it!

For more information about this event, please visit http://www.aoczone.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=97703
TaShadan
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany1976 Posts
January 01 2014 14:48 GMT
#2
Cool. I try to watch it.
Total Annihilation Zero
Emperor_Earth
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States824 Posts
January 01 2014 14:56 GMT
#3
AoC is still my favorite game of all time... If this is the case, expect a highly unproductive me.
@Emperor_Earth ------- "Amat Victoria Curam."
Lucumo
Profile Joined January 2010
6850 Posts
January 01 2014 15:29 GMT
#4
Any non-twitch stream available?
FaCE_1
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Canada6173 Posts
January 01 2014 15:45 GMT
#5
really nice. Will try to watch most game possible
n_n
MaSmOrRa
Profile Joined September 2013
22 Posts
January 01 2014 17:27 GMT
#6
Lucumo:

I'm affraid there will be no "non-twitch" stream available.
However, the streams will be uploaded to Voobly's Youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/VooblyOfficial).
HandA711
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
202 Posts
January 01 2014 17:51 GMT
#7
will the community switch to The Forgotten in the future?
hakuna matata
MaSmOrRa
Profile Joined September 2013
22 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-01 18:07:50
January 01 2014 18:05 GMT
#8
HandA711:

Unfortunately, the Steam version has lots of bugs and lags much much more than the original version that can be played on Voobly.

The original version playable on Voobly is still being optimized on a regular basis and thanks to the fantastic UserPatch team, we can now offer a "Spectator Mode" on Voobly, something which the community had been hoping for since AoC's release.
This awesome new feature has allowed us to increase the quality of our streams.

So to answer your question: I'm pretty sure the competitive community will still stay for a long time on Voobly. The Steam version, if the Devs finally start doing their work right, surely has the potential to attract lot's of new "casual" players. But the big money tournaments (there is one with 50.000$ cash prize coming on March) will surely be played on Voobly.
TaShadan
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany1976 Posts
January 02 2014 08:27 GMT
#9
On January 02 2014 03:05 MaSmOrRa wrote:
HandA711:

Unfortunately, the Steam version has lots of bugs and lags much much more than the original version that can be played on Voobly.

The original version playable on Voobly is still being optimized on a regular basis and thanks to the fantastic UserPatch team, we can now offer a "Spectator Mode" on Voobly, something which the community had been hoping for since AoC's release.
This awesome new feature has allowed us to increase the quality of our streams.

So to answer your question: I'm pretty sure the competitive community will still stay for a long time on Voobly. The Steam version, if the Devs finally start doing their work right, surely has the potential to attract lot's of new "casual" players. But the big money tournaments (there is one with 50.000$ cash prize coming on March) will surely be played on Voobly.


The forgotten is also a mod for the original AoC.
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MaSmOrRa
Profile Joined September 2013
22 Posts
January 02 2014 09:03 GMT
#10
TaShadan:

The mod for the original AoC is called "Forgotten Empires", the expansion for the HD Steam version is called "The Forgotten".
Since HandA711 said "The Forgotten", I assumed he was talking about Steam's HD expansion.

TaShadan
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany1976 Posts
January 02 2014 09:19 GMT
#11
On January 02 2014 18:03 MaSmOrRa wrote:
TaShadan:

The mod for the original AoC is called "Forgotten Empires", the expansion for the HD Steam version is called "The Forgotten".
Since HandA711 said "The Forgotten", I assumed he was talking about Steam's HD expansion.



True, i mixed the names up.
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Broetchenholer
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany1944 Posts
January 02 2014 10:56 GMT
#12
Just get Arch_Koven to play both of them simultaneously, moar epic. How big is the cummunity nowadays? If it is anywwhere near what AoC had back then, this might be fun. If it is Empire Earth level of competition, then i won't bother to look into this. I had my fair share of elitist communities consisting of 2000 active players and the very best of them still was terrible :D Not to say these two are, but calling it Duel of the Century when might be a bit over the top when back then the community was soooo much more competitive.

And here i am sounding like the elitist jerk, sry. How big is the community?
TaShadan
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany1976 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-02 11:05:48
January 02 2014 11:05 GMT
#13
On January 02 2014 19:56 Broetchenholer wrote:
Just get Arch_Koven to play both of them simultaneously, moar epic. How big is the cummunity nowadays? If it is anywwhere near what AoC had back then, this might be fun. If it is Empire Earth level of competition, then i won't bother to look into this. I had my fair share of elitist communities consisting of 2000 active players and the very best of them still was terrible :D Not to say these two are, but calling it Duel of the Century when might be a bit over the top when back then the community was soooo much more competitive.

And here i am sounding like the elitist jerk, sry. How big is the community?


I dont know about voobly but there are lots of games hosted on gameranger.
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MaSmOrRa
Profile Joined September 2013
22 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-02 16:49:58
January 02 2014 16:46 GMT
#14
Broetchenholer:

AoC is played at the moment mainly on 3 platforms: Voobly, GameRanger and Steam. So it is rather hard to say how big the community really is.
What I can tell you is that on Voobly alone, we have easily over 2000 active players. I believe the numbers are similar on GameRanger.
The numbers on Steam are rather difficult to interpret because they count both single players and multi-players together, but also there it's not rare to see 6000 people "in-game".

The general skill level of AoC has dramatically increased. A player who had a rating of 1800 on the old Zone days, would probably not have more than 1600/1650 rate on Voobly.

Both TheViper and Jordan are on a level of their own, which is clearly higher than the rest of the community.
If you haven't followed AoC's development in the last few years, I'm pretty sure you will be amazed at the level that these guys have reached on this game!

Broetchenholer
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany1944 Posts
January 02 2014 17:47 GMT
#15
Maybe, i just watched an old game of Bender vs Grunt from 2003 out of nostalgia and i remember having seen it back then in absolute awe I followed the scene with the religous fervour only a teenager could Fun times. Too bad even in AoM the same gods played vs us intermediates and where absolutely beatable in every way. And then players like pg_fire went to the dark side (WCIII) and where intermediates there :D Maybe the skilllevel increased, it would be absolutely atypical for every sport that looses the competition, but i can't compare it anyway, i have to take your word.
xccam
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Great Britain1150 Posts
January 03 2014 14:13 GMT
#16
To any wondering how good the players are/how fun the games can be to watch id recommend Viper vs Jordan (the 2 playing in this match) from very recently, the Clash of Titans round robin, their best of 5 was entertaining

Match 1


MotherOfRunes
Profile Joined December 2010
Germany2862 Posts
January 07 2014 10:17 GMT
#17
Was watching some of the matches between jordan and viper (yay jordan!) and they were really nice. but since you were talking here about viper and jordan being on a level of their own i was wondering what happened to daut? did he retire?
"Your Razor sucks!" -Kuroky's Dad
MaSmOrRa
Profile Joined September 2013
22 Posts
January 07 2014 13:25 GMT
#18
MotherofRunes

DauT still plays at a very high level. On the last big tournament, he finished 3rd just after Viper and Jordan.
However, in the final League Stage, both Viper and Jordan beat him 5-0...
MotherOfRunes
Profile Joined December 2010
Germany2862 Posts
January 07 2014 16:01 GMT
#19
uhh i see so the younger generation finally surpassed the older for good now :D
"Your Razor sucks!" -Kuroky's Dad
Fighter
Profile Joined August 2010
Korea (South)1531 Posts
January 08 2014 11:03 GMT
#20
I remember looking into the AoE2 scene YEARS ago... I loved playing the game when I was a kid, but I never could get into watching it professionally.

I am curious though. Even years ago, I remember that everyone used the Huns. And when I looked up Jordan and Viper... same thing. Both play Huns! Is there a metagame on using different civs? Or is it pretty much just assumed that everyone who wants to compete rolls Huns? And WHY exactly? I am really curious to actually know a bit about the AoE2 meta.
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