AoEO Rookie Rebellion - A Tournament for Players with Minimal Tournament Experience!

TOURNAMENT POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, OFFICIAL (RE)START TO BE ANNOUNCED.


Age of Empires Online Rookie Rebellion Tournament
Thanks to Project Celeste


Challonge link

AoEO PvP Discord (Admin, caster & other player contact here!)


This tournament is designed for up-and-coming PvP players. I have decided to Exclude the following players from the tournament:

ZertoN, Eery, Carnage, StriKeR, TheMista, Greeky, Eshwar, Ares, EKA, Ardeshir, Spartan, Hades, Dimi, Koolcat, Pharos, Eaglry, Starofknight, Zawnius, Gamevideo, Warlock, Geese, PF2K, Grungy, RekiemOne, Samajestay, FFNEZ, Stock, Kriswift, Verhuver, TheAce9, Donar, Nemesiis, RecoN, Borg, Vindicator, Flutters, Tempires, Madlib, PoppinJimbo


If your name isn't on the list, you're welcome to sign up!


Date & Format:

The signups will close Friday, 1st September 2023 at 11:00 UTC, or once 16 players have signed up


It is Double Elimination


The tournament will be played out at a pace of 1 series per week for each player other than the week of Loser's Round 4 and the Loser's Semifinal. You are welcome to play out games ahead-of-schedule if agreed to by opponent.


(assuming 16 signups)

Week 1: 1/9/23-10/9/23 - Round 1 (Ro16)

Week 2: 11/9/23-17/9/23 - Round 2 (Ro8) and Loser's Round 1 (13-16th eliminated)

Week 3: 18/9/23-24/9/23 - Round 3 (Ro4 - Semifinals) and Loser's Round 2 (9th-12th eliminated)

Week 4: 25/9/23-1/10/23 - Round 4 (Winner's Final) and Loser's Round 3 (7th-8th eliminated)

Week 5: 2/10/23-8/10/23 - Loser's Round 4 (5th-6th eliminated) and Loser's Semifinal (4th Eliminated)

Week 6: 9/10/23-15/10/23 - Loser's Final (3rd Eliminated)

Week 7: 16/10/23-22/10/23 - Grand Final

Schedule dependant on reaching 13 or more sign ups. In the event of less, there will be less rounds to play out and a shorter tournament schedule.

Main broadcasting stream - Project Celeste on twitch

Other likely streamers:

Ardeshir

Starofknight

Spartan


Other casters are welcome to co-cast on the Project Celeste stream alongside us, or help cover games that aren't being casted on the Project Celeste stream, on their own channels (please avoid using Project Celeste and AOEO assets aside from scoring text in stream overlays if doing so). Players also welcome to PoV stream with an advised 30-90 second delay.


Loser's Semifinal, Loser's Final and Grand Final are Best of 5. All other series are Best of 3.


Prize Pool:


1st - 800,000 coin + 5000 Empire Points + 1 Halloween Event Legendary of player's choosing

2nd - 500,000 coin + 3500 Empire Points

3rd - 300,000 coin + 2000 Empire Points

4th - 250,000 coin + 1500 Empire Points

5th-6th - 200,000 coin + 1250 Empire Points

7th-8th - 175,000 coin + 1000 Empire points

9th-12th - 125,000 coin + 750 Empire Points

13th-16th - 75,000 coin + 500 Empire Points

100% of donations to Project Celeste during tournament streams will go towards future tournament prize pools!


Map Pool

- Equal Footing

- Ghost Lake

- Oasis

- Treasure Island

- Savannah

- Swamp Pass

- Bandit Canyon

- Connected Rivers

- Grasslands

- Hill Fort

- Four Lakes

- Bandit Hideout

- Acropolis

- Teutoburg Forest

- Spiral Valley

- Camp Lagoon

- Overpass



The first map in all series is Equal Footing. Subsequent maps will be chosen by the previous game's losing player from the above map pool.


Each Player can veto (ban) 1 map from the map pool per series. Players must decide on their map vetos before the loser of game 1 has chosen their map for game 2.


Each map can only be played once per series.


Civs:

Each player can play a civ as many times as they want until they take a win off their opponent. After that, they may not pick that civilization again until the next series.


Restarts:

- Casters can restart the game within 2 minutes as many times as they want if they discover map imbalances. Players can pause the game (F10) if they found a map imbalance within the first 2 min. Casters will then decide if a restart is needed. - Players can ask for a restart without any needed reason only once per series, within the first 2 min. Please pause the game and message the caster if you would like to restart.

- Players may pause no more than 3 times a series, aside from the pause-to-restart.

- Players needing to reschedule in rounds before week 4 will be disqualified.

- Some leniency will be given to the players during the week of the Loser's Round 4 and Loser's Semifinal due to the doubling up of games for that week

- Please take no more than 10 minutes between games in a series as a player to be ready, casters have 15. Repeat offenders risk disqualifications, even smokers! - In case of a game crash or an unexpected disconnection happens, the casters and admins will decide if the game is convincingly in favour of any player and will give the map win if necessary. - In case the streamer disconnects/crashes midgame, players can continue playing their game. After the game ends, a screenshot is needed to confirm the outcome.

 

I'm honoured you're playing again!

 

Apologies for the confusion. This has been postponed until the conclusion of the Clash of Titans 2 Tournament