Strategy of the Year 2019 - Won by WickedCossack

[Cometk]

AoE3 Strategy of the Year 2019

>> Vote here! << With the end of the year in sight, it's good to review just what has happened in AoE3 history. The purpose of this thread is to highlight and commemorate some of the brilliant and precise strategies we saw throughout the year and to celebrate some of the supreme strategists who used their ingenuity to craft excellent games for us. Vote for your favorite strategy of the year in the poll above! Voting will be open for 48 hours.

The original nominations thread can be found here.
Contenders Player: diarouga
Strategy: The Ultimate Defense Aztec Water Boom Turtle with Town Dance
Context: diarouga (Aztec) vs snowww (Britain) on Hudson Bay — The New Year's Classic Round of 8
Watch: https://youtu.be/Uo01TtDqMRs?t=1329

Player: SomppuKunkku
Strategy: Iroquois Fast Industrial Trade Monopoly with Town Dance
Context: SomppuKunkku (Iroquois) vs kynesie (Portugal) on Hudson Bay — The New Year's Classic Round of 8
Watch: https://youtu.be/oihbrSV-BX8?t=3722

Player: tabben
Strategy: The Ultimate Greed Spanish Revolution with Spanish Gold
Context: tabben (Spain) vs diarouga (China) on New England — The New World Championship LAN Semi-Finals
Watch: https://youtu.be/OMLv9y3afd0?t=8699

Player: WickedCossack
Strategy: Indian Age 1 Double Dock Water Boom with Advanced Wonders into Elephant Spam
Context: WickedCossack (India) vs Mitoe (China) on Baja California — The New World Championship Qualifying Series
Watch: https://youtu.be/HX7EQCdpAHM?t=1243

Player: Aizamk
Strategy: Russian Church Fast Industrial with Kalmucks, Bashkir Ponies, Spies and Heavy Cannon Spam
Context: Aizamk (Russia) vs Tit (Spain) on Pampas Sierras — The New World Championship Qualifiers Round of 32
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5R7ngxoylU

[zoom]

Great idea and job!

Oh, boy... this is too hard to pick!

[fightinfrenchman]

Great idea and job!

Oh, boy... this is too hard to pick!

Pick revolt

[flontier]

Wow, where is "The Ultimate Botto Fast Fortress Push Of The Death into Greed Towns Center Boom with Bloody Janissary Dance" ???
Veri Sad hasnt been nominated.

[giveuanxiety]

you should include the recs here.

[edeholland]

you should include the recs here.

There ya go: viewtopic.php?f=716&t=17596

[KoenigRother]

should we vote for a player of the year aswell? (jäger d'or or so)

[Le Hussard sur le toit]

There should be a beauty prize in every tournament (like in chess). Take out 20 bucks from the main prize pool and give it to the most beautiful game of the tournament.

[Challenger_Marco]

IIRC aizamk doing church laming with presits vs otto (idk his opponent name) hawk_girl or someone.....can be addded to strategy of the year...if someone can find it ..it would be nice

[Challenger_Marco]

Next is hazza doing sohei rush vs me in NWC qualifiers and also he did russian presit laming as well

[Challenger_Marco]

Anyways i vote Aizamk ,he has invented or made many strategies to work ,he is the best at doing it

[deleted_user]

Given circumstances the only winner is Tabben vs Diarouga on New England.

Playoffs heighten everything. And it's not like Tabben had a week to prepare at his house in unrated games.

I know he had done it vs Lukas in a GUA tourney but to pull it off in such an environment to near universal surprise and vs an unbeatable rouga was nothing short of amazing.

Aiz is unqualified because his opponent was Tit. The rest are meh.

[[Armag] diarouga]

Aiz is unqualified because his opponent was Tit.

Who knows ?

[Mosx]

For me wickedcossack vs mitoe game it's fun I vote WC as the winner here

[Cometk]

last call for voters! technically it's been 48 but i'll leave the polls open for a few more hours!

[fightinfrenchman]

last call for voters! technically it's been 48 but i'll leave the polls open for a few more hours!

Crooked move imo

[Cometk]

Alright, the polls are officially closed and the results have been tallied up...

2019's Best Strategy award goes to...





@WickedCossack!
It actually came down to the tiebreaker stats. Wicked's India Advanced Wonder madness was tied with tabben's high profile Spanish Revo strat, both yielding 29.3% of the pool (that's 17 votes each, out of 58 total). It came down to the favorite's scoring. tabben's Revo averaged out at 5.36 out of 7, which put him only just so slightly behind a 5.38 out of 7 average for Wicked's double dock elephant doomstack.

WickedCossack pulled off an insane win over Mitoe during the New World Championship qualifying series with his immaculate India water boom build that utilized Industrial Age elephant spam to overcome the Chinese threat on Baja California. Congratulations to our winner, and well played!

You can view the overall stats of the vote here.

[WickedCossack]

First time I ever won anything in aoe3! Thanks for everyone who voted.

Mildly boring fact for anyone who's interested - I practised the strategy in question twice in the week before I played Mitoe, once against diarouga, and once against tabben, both who also happen to be nominated (coincidence I think not?) Maybe if they knew of this super ultimate presitgous award in advance they might not of volunteered to be guinea pigs

Also huge thanks to @Mitoe for unknowingly setting me up for this, I had a lot of fun playing this match.

[Zutazuta]

Nice work mate

[BrookG]

Tight race, until very late the Somppu Trade Monopoly was a winning candidate, however the two finalist overcame by a minimal margin. Yet there is room for only one victor and that was neither Swe nor Tabben. Nicely done, Wicked! Good games everyone and stay creative!

[fightinfrenchman]

I'm very upset about this still. How did the Tabben revolt not win?? This was literally one of the greatest moments of my life.

[Challenger_Marco]

I'm very upset about this still. How did the Tabben revolt not win?? This was literally one of the greatest moments of my life.

Well you went to lan so its diff feeling for us...

[Mr_Bramboy]

Always happy to see China get destroyed. Good job WC!

[Mitoe]

Also huge thanks to @Mitoe for unknowingly setting me up for this, I had a lot of fun playing this match.

Well if I have to lose I might as well lose with style.