When I was doing my podcast, one of the biggest pains was tracking down tournament registration opportunities and deadlines. With the new management here, I thought of asking if maybe they could collate the information. Then I thought, why not just do it myself? I could even give myself some AWS...
I reddit post I can't find by a user whose name I don't remember suggested that the meta is knowable primarily by looking at games of people around 1600. The argument was that at that elo, everyone has the ability to execute well (TC producing, spending resources, control army), but that game...
Specifically, from this Simpsons clip:
Not all the time, but sometimes when he is commenting on nothing much going on.
Does anyone else hear have the same reaction? (Not about the game being boring, just the tone and pattern of the voice.)
Is it just me, or have AoE II tournaments just exploded recently?
This past week alone, we have results for Ayre Masters Series II: Arabia, Rage Forest 3, Copa Wallace, and Torneo Nacional Español, with only the third-place showdown left for HunLeague. Not to mention the Resurgence qualifiers...
I was listening to the Business of Esports podcast interview with Steve Arhancet, and in the "get to know you" segment he said that is favorite current game is Age of Empires IV.
Now I am not suggesting that his personal opinion of the game is important in itself. It is more whether his opinion...
Is there a canonical place for the pronunciation of players' names? Villese and BacT are only the recent ones I find myself pronouncing incorrectly, or at least that I am very unsure of.
In a recent discussion of ranking systems as used to seed tournaments, I realized I thought that the best way to evaluate a ranking system is through its predictive power. I therefore decided to test a set of ranking systems to see which one was best at predicting tournament outcomes.
The...
After the Hera announcement, I got curious about the state of the ranked ladder, so I ran some numbers and made some graphs.
I used both aoe-elo and robo-atp algorithms to determine who the top 10/20 were for each month, then I counted the number of 1v1 matches between two players in the...
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