Announcing ESOC 2v2 Invitational & 2-year Anniversary

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Hey guys!

While the New Year's Invitational has advanced onto the RO8, we at ESOC are already preparing for the rest of the year. The finals of the New Year's Invitational will be played on February 11th, and as some as you might have already noticed ESOC will be turning 2 years old on February 11th! This date will be marked by a ton of fancy stuff, namely..

  • New Year's Invitational Finals
  • ESOC 2v2 Invitational
  • ESOC Spring Championships 2017 Signups
  • Badges for donators, casters, and tournament winners

A full schedule for February 11th will be released shortly!

ESOC 2v2 Invitational

We have invited 16 top level team players to play in the ESOC 2v2 Invitational. Players will play a BO3 in the first round and a BO5 in the last two rounds. The civilization rules will be the same as in our seasonal 1v1 tournaments: free pick on first map, alternating picks after that. The players will fight for the prize pool of $200. The team in first place will take $150 while the team in second place will take the rest. We hope for a fun event for both players and spectators! A news post with more details about this event will be released shortly.

ESOC Spring Championships 2017

The ESOC Media Team has worked on reforming our tournaments in the past few months. Throughout all of the Christmas holidays and Jerom's midlife crisis,
we realized that forcing players to play on all maps might not be the style that we should be going for, especially since new maps keep getting released.
After considering a lot of options, we have decided to work with a (map) veto system during the next tournament. Additionally, the map pool for each round will be released along with the signups to allow players to study their upcoming map pool in advance.

The group stages that we all know and love hate will also be changed slightly. To combat the problem where a group could turn into a three-way tie if a player failed to play all of their matches, we will be toying with the size of groups, seeding, and other things. Another complaint from high leveled players was that they felt like they couldn't play enough games after their preseed before getting knocked out in the later stages, so we will also look into pre seeding more carefully.

The semi finals of the New Year's Invitational will be played next week(end). I hope to see you all there! Thanks to Tilanus for making this amazing bracket for the 2v2 invitational.
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Will the new EP be released after the 2v2 Tourney/before the spring tourney?
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Amazing stuff. I have but one question: where is the aiz/Stanely team?

Oh and I can't wait to tune in to my first aoe3 live event. <3
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as with the other invitational, we did our best with inviting players and teams. Even though he isn't here, thanks to @diarouga for helping get players.
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Thats a lot of events, I hope all the good players take part in the events! @sir_musket im looking at you
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its obviously not a top level tourney since I was invited. High level perhaps, but not top.
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I really rate the veto system for maps I wonder who implemented that system first and has had no map complaints so far.

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Excitement! Loud noises! =D


I'm extremely interested to know what form of veto system you guys will be using! Sometime last year I remember a thread where we went over some of the possible methods for vetos/banning, and I'm excited to see how it turns out! Maps are such a cool and important part of the game that these events will only get better as the rulesets around them improve! I can't wait to see what the rest of 2017 has in store.
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ESOC Team for president ! :flowers: :flowers: :flowers: :flowers:
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good luck @Permanschlager :flowers: :flowers:
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haha brackets silently changed ^^
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it's all comspiracy!
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Wow that's a realy promsing lineup for the 2v2 invitational. Looking forward to it!
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Do we know the map pool for 2v2 tourney already ? @Mr_Bramboy
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Blackstar_OP and Veni for the win ! At least GUA cant dodge blackstar this game like last night on stream :)
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Wow, this looks to be so amazing. Looking forward to the New Years Invitational Finals AND the 2v2 Invitationals AND the Spring Championships.
Btw, which nationality is Blackstar? Flag looks like Romania.
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sebnan12 wrote:haha brackets silently changed ^^
What changed, exactly?
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zoom wrote:
sebnan12 wrote:haha brackets silently changed ^^
What changed, exactly?

first it was veni bsop and erik prince on same side of bracket which got changed :)
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I'm sure that's just a mistake and not something that was completely overlooked.
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any civ restrictions? :hmm:
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they made a mistake with the original bracket posted, it has been corrected
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zoom wrote:I'm sure that's just a mistake and not something that was completely overlooked.
Actually, I hope it was neither and merely a design to prank some kids. Imagine the ragu at first sight of the bracket!
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Akechi_Mitsuhide wrote:Wow, this looks to be so amazing. Looking forward to the New Years Invitational Finals AND the 2v2 Invitationals AND the Spring Championships.
Btw, which nationality is Blackstar? Flag looks like Romania.
It does, doesn't it?

Looking forward to what looks to be enjoyable!

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