Profile of A_E

NDA withstanding, all I'll say is that I'm psyched for this game, very psyched. So much so that I don't give a fuck what the majority of naysayers such as Inverse harp on about in this thread, and haven't read 90% of it. CoH1 had no depth to its meta game at a similar stage in its life cycle but it slowly revealed itself much in the same way CoH2 is now, and it's stupid to me that a vocal minority are being absolutists incapable of giving it the time it needs to mature.

Relic are a small but dedicated dev team, you should give more time to a company that nearly got liquidated last year. They're doing wonders with patching CoH2, turning it from a sloppy mess into a blossoming competitive RTS. As incredibly varied and entertaining play in the recent Reddit 1v1 tournament has shown. The meta game is constantly changing even within the current patch, and there's a hell of a lot of change coming, as leaked patch notes have shown.

A fun game is slowly becoming a great game, and a worthy sequel. The great thing is the vocal portion of the CoH1 community that haven't given CoH2 enough of a chance are going to be rusty, and their premature opinions on its failure in its first year of release, will become a lot less relevant when they're revealed to be thoroughly mediocre CoH2 players. Then hopefully they'll spend less time whining about its short-comings, and more time playing.

I miss Moscow outskirts, I'd love to see some 2v2 action, maybe wait for the next patch and see what it does to the community enthusiasm first?

"even more money" is relative. Basically what I'm saying is that we can not afford to do another Season at what we were paid. It was far too many hours of work for far too little money.

It's a hobby, gaming is a hobby, being part of a gaming community is a hobby. I've put hundreds of hours into organising tourneys etc. in a million years, I wouldn't want to be paid for something I do in my spare time for enjoyment.

I've had a private benefactor tell me I can keep a share of the prize fund and have turned it down, not bragging, but in my opinion it's immoral to expect payment for something of this nature.

If players need money to motivate them to play, fuck them, let other players that want to play for the sake of competition play instead. If commentators want money to motivate them to commentate, fuck them, let other commentators that have genuine interest commentate instead.

Your 9-5 is your money, this is your free time. If you let your hobby become your job, you're doing it wrong. I have no problem with you ami on a personal level, but your expectations of payment, and arguments here are severely misaligned with the size of this community and the spirit of it.

Thanks AMI!

I'll use this thread to post shoutcasts from this tournament as it progresses.

Brackets for tourney

There will be a livecast starting on Saturday 8th of February at 8pm GMT featuring additional commentators and the best games from that week of tourney play.

To start us off there's this decider of a best of three from the qualifiers

Matrick vs. Magic_Marl.



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Want more?

Here's a best of three in its entirety,

Qualifiers iTzDusty vs. MrYippeeKiYay Part 1



Qualifiers iTzDusty vs. MrYippeeKiYay Part 2