We are constantly squabbling about the balance and historical authenticity of the game. However, most of us never met in a battlefield of AoE III.
I know that there are several top players that visit en passant the foruns, but most of the main contributors do not fit into that category. @AussieDrongoBBQ left a chalenge last week or so, and i think that it would be good for the community of this forum - even to deescalate some of the tension - to make a little tournament among ourselves.
Most of you will perhaps say that are not into competitive play, but in an eventual tournament we can make upper and lower brackets and even have some random āfun gamesā (random ressources or random civs etc. you name it).
My first intention with this post is to know if there is an interest to organize/create such an event. If so weāll think of the format and rules
Yes i would be interested in participating in an official forum tournament
No i only play for fun, let me theorize a little bit more
I am very interested in a event like this. I canāt promise that I would play because Iām not playing regularly, but Iām definitively would love to see this event.
Aussie Drongo challenged a celebrated member of this forum to an AOE3 ābest of 9ā āshowdownā to redress a perceived slight against him.
Since then, unfortunately, Iāve noticed a slight increase in negative generalizations being made against the official forums by the reddit and discord crowd and vice versa.
Hmm, who was this player? Very interesting but yeah I can kinda see why you didnāt accept, people would have just gotten more toxic, kinda sad that people can turn a lighthearted meme tourney into a reason to be toxic toward each other, Iām sure you and drongo has no intention of causing people to hate on this fourm
This is a god idea tbh, but it would be very hard to set up, and with such a large number of people that can participate, it would have to be a best of 3 tourney, except for the finals, those can be best of 9, but realistically it would be incredibly hard to find times where the participants can play because time zones and schedules, plus organizing a tourney with so many people is a difficult job, if it could be done, however, it would be an amazing idea.
I donāt want to get into semantics, as thatās something youāll undoubtedly best me on, but when youāre making things up and using them to push your agenda, I wouldnāt call that slight against me āperceivedā.
In terms of rules for a tourney like this, I think there are 3 options most tournaments use in terms of civ picks, the first, and also the most common, is once a player WINS with a civ, they cannot pick it again. Another format thatās popular is once a player PLAYS a civ, they cannot pick it again. I personally like this for best of 3 tournaments, because it means players have to pick a different civ every game and promotes diverse civ picks. The last format we see frequently is once a player PLAYS a civ TWICE they cannot play it again, this is probably the best for best of nine tournaments because it is forgiving if a player loses with a civ they know very well because they happen to have gotten a bad matchup, but for shorter best of 3, itās not that great because a player only has to play 2 civs the whole time. In terms of knowledge of your opponents civ, there are two common formats, the first is blind civ, no player knows what civ the opponent will play, only the map, the second is the forgiving one, the first game is blind civs, and then from there onward the player to lost the previous game gets a slight advantage because they get to know what the opponents civ will be before picking their own civ, typically this rule is combined with the rule of whoever lost the last game picks the next map. Also, I made this little poll, but I donāt really expect what comes out of my poll to be what the rules are in the tourney
I like play the game (mp once or twice a week, medium player), I like theorize, I like that the game tries to be more historical accurate, and I love Aussie Drongo.
