Autumn Events Conclude, Team Changes, and More

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Conclusion of Second Chance Tournament and Future Events

And with a thrilling 4-1 victory over BritishMusketeer, Duolckrad claims the self-annointed title, ā€œfirst among trashcans,ā€ showcasing an impressive amount of skill in both AoE and the art of duck-related wordplay, bringing our Autumn festivities to an eventful close. But what events they were! The Autumn Tournament, giving birth to new casters and up-and-coming players alike, saw a record high number of casted games this year and even reached a peak viewership we havenā€™t seen since the legendary, unprecedented ESOC grand finals between H2O and BlackStar_OP almost two years ago!

As we move forward, the team here at ESOC looks to continue to provide and improve upon the same great, competitive content weā€™ve all come to expect, all the while entertaining ideas to help keep the community fresh. This means more events are coming! And although we do not have any definitive dates at this time, expect to, in the near future, receive another update on our future plans.

Team Changes

A lot has happened since weā€™ve last touched base a week ago. Various internal teams are letting old faces go, welcoming in new ones, and in same cases, re-welcoming back the familiar. With that said, please extend a warm welcome to edeholland now back on the admin panel and wish WickedCossack the best following his decision to take a step down. Rumor has it he will be using his casting prowess to commentate the Tour de France next year, watch out! Extend another belated welcome to pecelot who will be using his time and talents in a newfound moderator position, hopefully still finding the time to create Goodspeed-tier comp stomp guides. Gichtenlord, bringing with him some saucy treaty background, will join Durokan and Rikikipu on the maps team ever hard at work providing fun and interesting new content for both personal and competitive use. Sometime next week look to see a new map pack appear, featuring some of the maps found in the latter rounds of Second Chance like Jebul Mesa, Herald Island, and Thar Desert.

Over in the forever underappreciated sector of ESOC, the dev team, Buckethead decides to take some time off and step down. We send him our best regards. Buckethead was a tremendous asset to the community and a driving force behind site development. Without him, ESOC wouldnā€™t be where it is today and for that, we thank him. In the media team, Iā€™ve taken up the difficult task of filling the large lĢ¶iĢ¶vĢ¶eĢ¶rĢ¶ shoes left behind by Jerom, successfully breaking up the Dutch monopoly that has stood for so long. In addition, to help mitigate the ever prevalent need to find casters to commentate matches, weā€™ve brought on a number of new faces for just that. Please say hello to casters Dror, site, and forgrin. Interested in casting? Send a sample recording to the media team; applications are always open! Lastly, GĢ¶oĢ¶oĢ¶dĢ¶sĢ¶pĢ¶eĢ¶eĢ¶dĢ¶ the leaders behind the EP, in an effort to continually bring in fresh perspectives and play testers, extend a hearty welcome to newcomers breeze, mongo10, Kaiserklein, Incog, and SirCallen.

Behind the Scenes

On the topic of EP, be confident play tests are already in progress; the team is taking your opinions into careful consideration in the discussion of balance design. In addition, means to help combat compatibility issues are being eagerly explored as well. And as you may have noticed, we have a new, sleek looking home page! The site has undergone a slight overhaul, cleaning up the sidebar and adding in ESOCā€™s social media links located overhead in a rather aesthetically pleasing fashion. Huge thanks to the devs; it looks great!

Community Content

ESOC prides itself on the sustainable model we use (ty donors) to provide the community with high quality, exciting tournaments featuring tangible stakes. Be that as it may, we are unable to produce year-round content but still believe thereā€™s no such thing as too much AoE! It is in this void that you, the community, can flourish.

JakeyBoy is hosting his own Diplomunion 1v1 supremacy tournament coming up soon! Interested in playing or casting? For more information, follow this post here: https://eso-community.net/viewtopic.php?t=8803 or the Diplomunion website here: https://www.diplomunion.com/index.php?threads/age-of-empires-3-newbie-tournament.23183/

Our very own MCJim is starting a new series on his personal YouTube channel titled, ā€œAoE3 Casts.ā€ In this, (official ESOC) casters can commentate various live 1v1 gameplays from a wide array of skill levels and have the opportunity to have the videos published to YouTube under an established, popular AoE3 user. Interested in participating as a player? Find a good mate and send a PM to Jim! You can find Jim's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Jimleem1

And lastly, we want to thank everyone that keeps the twitch TAD streamer list in the left hand sidebar always lit up. Over the past couple of years, Age of Empires has undergone somewhat of a revolution in terms of streaming personal game play and it couldnā€™t be better. Keep up all the effort, streamers! We love to see the community succeed.
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Looking forward to seeing what the future holds! The past year from esoc has been fantastic I have to say! Thanks to all the guys behind the scenes from a lowly nub like me :D
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collen has pretty gud writing skills. Mmight even surpass his aoe skills, if that is even possible :flowers:
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Wow sircallen on EP team and he can't even play on EP!?!?!?! #eplogic
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lordraphael wrote:collen has pretty gud writing skills. Mmight even surpass his aoe skills, if that is even possible :flowers:


I mean it doesn't take much to surpass muh aoe skills, let's be honest.
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lordraphael wrote:collen has pretty gud writing skills. Mmight even surpass his aoe skills, if that is even possible :flowers:


I mean it doesn't take much to surpass muh aoe skills, let's be honest.

Pfff some humility is good but you're overdoing it
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Quite excited to among the ESOC casters. I've had a lot of fun casting with @forgrin the past couple nights on my channel!
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Callen vs jerom drinking aoe 1v1 pls. Last time around drunk jerom vs sober callen ended up in 1-2.

Place your bets now!
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lordraphael wrote:collen has pretty gud writing skills. Mmight even surpass his aoe skills, if that is even possible :flowers:


I mean it doesn't take much to surpass muh aoe skills, let's be honest.

Pfff some humility is good but you're overdoing it


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Breeze kaiser and callen on the team? I resign
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Hazza54321 wrote:Breeze kaiser and callen on the team? I resign

No rude.. not having time to make an artical about "how to not be rude"
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not having time to make an artical about "how to not be rude"


not even enough time to copy paste? you must be busy
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deleted_user wrote:Iā€™ve taken up the difficult task of filling the large lĢ¶iĢ¶vĢ¶eĢ¶rĢ¶ shoes

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Nice post SirCallen ;)
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This is quite the handful...

Many thanks indeed to event and site staff alike, as well as everyone else contributing to the community in any way, big or small. Special mentions are extended to: Buckethead (who has been instrumental to ESOC for some time) and musketeer925, also known as Seitz (who has been instrumental to humanity since well B.G); the new casting crew comprising Dror, forgrin and site; Kitchenlord; the respective avatars of lemmings121, pecelot, seitz (fittingly awarding both his succeeding likeness and himself a double-mention) and site; the Mighty D; and of course ā€“ Garja. Special omissions are extended to: Diarouga, Goodspeed and sircallen, the latter of whose English is good for an American.

I think great work is being done, and moving forward, would like for ESOC to prioritize additional regular events. I would also like for the EP to feature additional maps, in the near future.
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Thats my name there omg.

There has been quite a boost in community events and players. I am quite happy that Age Of Empires 3 seems to be going through a resurgence. Interjection and the Twitch streams seem to be doing better by the day. I am very happy that my favorite game is being played more :)

ESOC is the main driver of this and I am especially proud to be part of it. Please continue the great work, and thank you :)
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