@@GLAgeOfEmpires you should ask viper and hera to promote it in their big YT channels, like post a 2 minute video and have a link to watch the complete interview in here
@thegreenpianist7683 oh yeah it would have been sick if they had met in finals. Since he was the only one to get two games off hera he should have been able to beat anyone else.
@@thegreenpianist7683he was responsible for two thirds of the losses that hera took *in the entire tournament* . That is a statement if I have ever seen one.
@eile4219 agreed! He was playing out of his mind. Thanks to him we were super close to a lierry vs accm final. Which would have been wild. Fingers crossed this was a permanent upping of level to break into the top 4!
How Hera understand the game and how he has been inspired by former Viper to be the best. It's not a surprise at all he is new absolute TOP player, he just followed the steps of the snake... The student reaching the teacher. By the way, i think the rollercoaster of Viper's performances is just because is impossible anymore to be full focused with a child on the way and other "adult things" in his life, and he knows it. Total respect and all the admiration of the world for being in that vital situation and still being top 3 player no matter what.
Nobody can be the best forever. We are now entering the age of Hera, which he deserves. And years from now, we will enter the era of someone else. And on it will go until the day the game dies. I will always like Viper more, and continue to hope for his victory over Hera. But that comes from two reasons. I'm vibing more with his personality. And I'm a fellow Norwegian, so a sense of pride does influence my opinion there.
I just hope that Hera is able to adopt a bit more of an interesting or varied playstyle like the other guys, but that probably comes from playing the game for over a decade and trying to keep it "fresh" like Viper and Daut do.
I like them both maybe prefer Viper more because maybe same generation…but so happy that Hera can bring more younger viewers to the game and he came a long way, definitely deserves all the wins he’s getting
Man, this is so great. It’s awesome how they can all discuss and laugh about the tournament. It’s a great reminder that all of this is mainly to have FUN! Wished people didn’t take it so seriously. Awesome video!
Man, some people are just born to entertain. DauT is the most naturally funny gamer I've seen, Viper is such a loveable, clever and funny legend and Hera is the Gen X Messi. Just needs Tati (and Jordy) to complete the set.
The guys are very mature in how they are able to accept, consider and break down their own flaws in a public forum. I'm very impressed. Daut always so funny. Gold topics and hosting too. Great pod.
just to be clear, viper has been in every semifinal for the last year and a half, liereyy tatoh and yo have fallen short a couple of times, so viper is not as inconsistent as he and others are saying, he's just not able to constantly bring the level of perfect precision as he used to every time GGs and congrats to hera, always look forwards to this podcast after tourneys, amazing content!
Hera is super respectful, and that was solid advice. Comin from the now best player in the world, I love the humbleness and hope for the “rivalry” as far as competitiveness continues.
T90 mentioned multiple times that the idea behind making it hidden for the players are basically confidence issues. Back in the Viper era, players mentally resigned before even playing him knowing that they will lose and therefore not bring their full potential. I guess it worked for HC 1-3 when the scene was smaller, but nowadays there are so many people looking at so much data that you inevitably know your opponent
Yeah my point is more like, if they already reveal to the players who's on their side of the bracket, might as well give them both the best possible server!
@@TheNighthawk00Its true that it worked more for ACCM but Hera was attributing that more to being able to play two rounds without revealing strategy and random seeding meaning not hiding strats is better.
@@nightonfir3yeah, I guess it's never just one thing. I'm really happy for ACCM, it's like he always had it in him to be a top top player but somehow it never turned out that way. I hope he can now be consistently in the SF or who knows go all the way in S-tier tournaments.
Being an expectant dad is difficult. Like, it changes things, and it should… decision making etc … “it’s impossible to explain” , is at least, in part, influenced by this. It’s often why footballers play with so much freedom after the birth of their kids - there is an indescribable feeling of thankfulness, relief and joy. Viper will be back! - sincerely, a dad of 3
@40:09 - The fact that players know one side of the bracket negates the point of hidden cup in it's existing guise, but i like the idea (think it was Hera's) where the maps are new and all games are played "hidden" which rewards players who can break the meta and rewards preparation. It's not so important that the player identities are hidden any more. I think that could be really cool
41:00 - Hilarious how it's changed in a few years, Hera giving advice to Viper! :D I love it. Great podcast. Definitely could've been another hour long. So much to talk about.
I really like the chemistry between you guys. So much fun when you talk about each others style of play and how you can improve. I will always be a Viper fanboy, but I love that Hera fits in so well with the group. Great content GL! Keep it coming
Daut and Viper are very funny and skilled, we love them and they re why aoe competitive scene is still alive, and now they have a player that will break any records, thank you GL, in my opinion you are helping aoe scene and rts games. Congrats to everyone for HCV
Thank you DauT for making Hera win the tournament......... We're very grateful for your great gestures towards your team mates........ Specially the confidence boost for the kid in quarter finals...... I'm happy to see GL players not only scoring great results in the tournament but also having fun while doing so...... I'm happy for you people having a good laugh in the same time you're going very deep in a strategic analysis #TeamDauT
Daut is hilarious, please never change. I loved the part where they analyzed where they could improve, especially on Viper. I'm sure he appreciates the input on his gameplay. And yes, he loves his mastapieces but he should focus on more important things. I was making predictions and I put Sebastian on his gameplay, because of some of the sloppiness in his gameplay, it was definitely lacking. I hope all of them improve and be rivals to Hera, even though I love Hera too. Great podcast!
I agree with DauT at 34:05 to an extent. If you over prepare an idea you are more likely to get tunnel vision to try and force a certain play or idea in game. This leads to lack of adaptability and can severely harm your chances of winning the game. Still need to test an idea beforehand to see if it has reasonable chances to work, but don't go too hard into ironing out every last detail or you'll end up trying to force it.
I really enjoyed this video, my highlight was the pros discussion eachothers "flaws" and what to improve. It really gave alot of insight into their gameplay and decision making. Would love to see more of that in the future cause it is really interesting!
to expand on what Mashmorra said about Vipers gameplay: its not greed in general. Viper tryes to take an eco lead by beeing greedy but that doesnt work as well with other people getting better mechanically. DE quality of life features did some heavy lifting here. now all the top players can put aggression without idleing their TC at home which cuts into the the advantage of the defender. If you are in the mindset of beeing greedy and you notice that you dont get ahead as much as you should, beeing less greedy is counterintuitive. to be a bit technical: on the scale military investment eco investment there are propably local maxima that are hard to get away from.
Lovely video. Overall amazing tournament. Congrats to the good placings. The final set for me was the most disappointing of the entire tournament unfortunately. Lierey played aggressive with tight uptimes and amazing archer play. How many archets did he produce in 4 games in the finals? Zeeeeeeroo. Like Hera playing without scout. It was a hard watch. Saving best civs for games that would never come. Series was over before it even started... 😢 With that little rant done... Enjoyed the tourney a lot and very happy for a deserving winner!
I think light cavs are fine for most of us. The reason so many of us took to youtube was so we could pause and rewind to make sure we saw things correctly.
This right here^. I started watching on YT. Then I downloaded the twitch app because that’s just where the scene -was-.. it was just broadcasted to YT. But I often have other things going on and I like rewatching fun plays so I pause and rewind a lot so after a few minutes of watching on twitch I came back to YT lol.
Crazy how Hera in GL helped him improve his strategic style! He was a beast before and is not his last form! He's still evolving and will push the boundaries of what you can do in the game!
I loved Hera's story during the stream where he talked about the H shaped gold patch . It must have been so entertaining watching your matches and hearing the commentary. Edit: I do feel bad about Viper and wonder if the outcome would have been different with less lag.
I loved how open and critical you guys can be of each other without taking offense. I'm not skilled at the game, but I love looking at human behaviour. I do agree Daut has so many off the wall strategies that there's no solid foundation/plan. Hera is just solid, consistent and will wear the opponent down, like fighting a robot. Waiting for the mistake to be made, a proper grinder. Viper seems to be trying to find his new place against new talent, but not found that comfort spot between, off the wall strategies (Duat) and "robot consistency" (Hera). Both strategies are quite exclusive. Think it'll end up being a Hera style foundation with Daut flair when you start getting wider gaps in score or you have nothing to lose.
On light cav being potentially a little OP - why not just make the upgrade a little longer and/or more expensive? It makes it more of an investment without affecting the balance of the scout at all or the hussar too much in the rest of the game? I'm no expert though
I always (as in, since like 2012 when i came back to the game and wasn't a kid like in 2000) felt the upgrade was way too cheap for what it offered but the thing is, until two? three? or so years ago, nobody even researched it, thinking light cav is bad. It's relatively recent that people started using light cav at all and now they're finding out how incredibly good it is. AoE 2 may be an old game but the meta keeps developing. But yeah, some change to lcav would be welcome, either change in upgrade cost or nerf to stats. I'd start with cost change.
@@Progeusz Yeah I came back in 2012 too and have similar feelings. Partly it seems so worth it to get light cav now because there is almost always monks around, whereas way back in the huns war days not everyone would bother to pick up the relics or use monks for healing
I agree with what Hera says about him being a meta player. I'm gonna be honest, he used to be boring. I used to think his gameplay was super boring. But over the last year, when I've watched him, that hasn't been the case anymore. He's gotten a lot more creative. I do now see him as the 2024 player, who is more creative and open minded than 2020 Hera.
In my opinion the only thing that cost Viper the match against Liereyy was that he was refusing to wall anything. In most matches he was ahead of Lierrey but couldn't find a way to punish Lierrey cause Liereyy was walled but Lierrey found ways to punish Viper because he wasn't walled.
I wish there was a way to keep somehow keep that secret from each other players without introducing lag, ect. and getting some longer sets later in thr finals. There was 20k in prize pool donations iirc, so that might be enough to sponsors HC is worth a LAN venue?? Anyway, congrats on the win Hera!
random seeding issue can be addressed by double elimination bracket with bo5 in upper bracket and bo3 in losers. Then bo7 finals. This would also make the whole tourney more digestible with sets not lasting 3-4 hours but just around 2 hours. I am sure something like this was considered, would be nice to understand why it was discarted
one possibility, for sure. But it comes at the downside of having the "winners bracket vs. losers bracket dilemma" in the finals, where one player didn't lose a set whereas another one did - and both rewarding and ignoring that feels wrong in different ways.
@@IschmarVI that is solved with 2 sets in finals. If loser bracket finalist loses the first set, tourney is over, if not, he needs to beat winners finalist again. This is standard format
"No money for T90. No money. No cash. No nutin. Good job, Hera."
My sides went into orbit. Daut is a legend.
I freakin died
We are lucky to have Daut, what a guy!
@28:10
I went and watched Wololo 3 final after HC5 final to make me feel better. Long live the Lord!
this content is sooo underrated, I bet tons of AoE2 casual fans would consume it if they knew about it.
Tell your AoE2 casual fans friends!
🙋🏽♂️ casual viewer here. No longer play the game, but love AoE II content.
Keep feeding the algorithm, by commenting, to boost it up!
casual new player here!
@@GLAgeOfEmpires you should ask viper and hera to promote it in their big YT channels, like post a 2 minute video and have a link to watch the complete interview in here
Daut's "that's how it starts" absolutely killed me
38:32
Daut: "i beat Tatoh but at this point im not sure if that holds any value" lmaaaoooo i love how the GL boys always troll each other
Daut is so goddamn charasmatic
The amount of burns flying around ... its insane. You realize that these guys are buddies in real life as well.
ACCM played like a god. He beat two top players and was like "oh i got lucky getting matched against qualified players"
Honestly could have beaten Hera, it was closer than the 4-2 scoreline might suggest. He was the only one who made Hera look human at points.
@thegreenpianist7683 oh yeah it would have been sick if they had met in finals. Since he was the only one to get two games off hera he should have been able to beat anyone else.
@@thegreenpianist7683he was responsible for two thirds of the losses that hera took *in the entire tournament* . That is a statement if I have ever seen one.
ACCM is probably the second best player in the tournament
@eile4219 agreed! He was playing out of his mind. Thanks to him we were super close to a lierry vs accm final. Which would have been wild.
Fingers crossed this was a permanent upping of level to break into the top 4!
Daut has a shiny career as a stand up comedian 😂
I was dying laughing
Daut is the goat “I didn’t notice the ping” 😂
Man, this should be a weekly talkshow. Or a sitcom. Watching your games on HC5 was so much fun! Well done to all three of you.
How Hera understand the game and how he has been inspired by former Viper to be the best. It's not a surprise at all he is new absolute TOP player, he just followed the steps of the snake... The student reaching the teacher.
By the way, i think the rollercoaster of Viper's performances is just because is impossible anymore to be full focused with a child on the way and other "adult things" in his life, and he knows it. Total respect and all the admiration of the world for being in that vital situation and still being top 3 player no matter what.
Nobody can be the best forever. We are now entering the age of Hera, which he deserves. And years from now, we will enter the era of someone else. And on it will go until the day the game dies.
I will always like Viper more, and continue to hope for his victory over Hera. But that comes from two reasons. I'm vibing more with his personality. And I'm a fellow Norwegian, so a sense of pride does influence my opinion there.
I just hope that Hera is able to adopt a bit more of an interesting or varied playstyle like the other guys, but that probably comes from playing the game for over a decade and trying to keep it "fresh" like Viper and Daut do.
@@kopicat2429i think it will be me in the Future! I am already at 1000 Elo 🤙
I like them both maybe prefer Viper more because maybe same generation…but so happy that Hera can bring more younger viewers to the game and he came a long way, definitely deserves all the wins he’s getting
Hera is just better. Say no more
Man, this is so great. It’s awesome how they can all discuss and laugh about the tournament. It’s a great reminder that all of this is mainly to have FUN! Wished people didn’t take it so seriously.
Awesome video!
"That's how it starts! Soon you'll be happy to be invited!" LMAO Daut is a character
14:46 "every time DauT inspires me strategically i loose" 11 11 11 11 11 savage
38:35 I'm dying and I love this! Good team banter.
LOL 😂 he cracked me up multiple times
Man, some people are just born to entertain. DauT is the most naturally funny gamer I've seen, Viper is such a loveable, clever and funny legend and Hera is the Gen X Messi. Just needs Tati (and Jordy) to complete the set.
And Masmorra is the host who smoothly creates an environment where these fantastic debates can thrive!
Hera is Gen X? lol
The guys are very mature in how they are able to accept, consider and break down their own flaws in a public forum. I'm very impressed. Daut always so funny. Gold topics and hosting too. Great pod.
just to be clear, viper has been in every semifinal for the last year and a half, liereyy tatoh and yo have fallen short a couple of times, so viper is not as inconsistent as he and others are saying, he's just not able to constantly bring the level of perfect precision as he used to every time
GGs and congrats to hera, always look forwards to this podcast after tourneys, amazing content!
Great discussion guys. Team played so well!
@33:12 Daut's sense of humour is so good, really.
good channel i did not know it existed until recently, congrats to Hera you deserve it 💯 hoping for many more S tier wins for you
Hera is super respectful, and that was solid advice. Comin from the now best player in the world, I love the humbleness and hope for the “rivalry” as far as competitiveness continues.
“With finals like that he should be happy he got those numbers” 😂😂 Lord is the funniest
43:00 I love this about Orjan, so damn humble and real. Somebody I can point my kids to as they become old enough to join the Age Community.
T90 mentioned multiple times that the idea behind making it hidden for the players are basically confidence issues. Back in the Viper era, players mentally resigned before even playing him knowing that they will lose and therefore not bring their full potential. I guess it worked for HC 1-3 when the scene was smaller, but nowadays there are so many people looking at so much data that you inevitably know your opponent
Except ACCM ... and for him this HC was a great success ^^
Yeah my point is more like, if they already reveal to the players who's on their side of the bracket, might as well give them both the best possible server!
True, very valid points. T90 and other future organizers of novel competitions like hidden cup should force more 'hidden-ness' of various datapoints.
@@TheNighthawk00Its true that it worked more for ACCM but Hera was attributing that more to being able to play two rounds without revealing strategy and random seeding meaning not hiding strats is better.
@@nightonfir3yeah, I guess it's never just one thing. I'm really happy for ACCM, it's like he always had it in him to be a top top player but somehow it never turned out that way. I hope he can now be consistently in the SF or who knows go all the way in S-tier tournaments.
Being an expectant dad is difficult. Like, it changes things, and it should… decision making etc … “it’s impossible to explain” , is at least, in part, influenced by this. It’s often why footballers play with so much freedom after the birth of their kids - there is an indescribable feeling of thankfulness, relief and joy. Viper will be back!
- sincerely, a dad of 3
I have been loving the content that you guys have been putting out on this channel! Congrats to Hera. Props to T90 for putting together HC5.
@40:09 - The fact that players know one side of the bracket negates the point of hidden cup in it's existing guise, but i like the idea (think it was Hera's) where the maps are new and all games are played "hidden" which rewards players who can break the meta and rewards preparation. It's not so important that the player identities are hidden any more. I think that could be really cool
The dynamic between these 4 is amazing. Congrats Hera!
the chemistry with everybody is great really feels like a team of friends
41:00 - Hilarious how it's changed in a few years, Hera giving advice to Viper! :D
I love it. Great podcast. Definitely could've been another hour long. So much to talk about.
I Love Daut!! ❤❤❤
Such a likable character! "Lag is my best settup" ( 07:06 ) hahaha my god this dude is hillarious
Long live the Lord!
AoE holy trinity :D Father Viper, Son Hera and The Holy Spirit Daut 11
holy spirit daut 111111
Daut is so much fun. Love the guy
I really like the chemistry between you guys. So much fun when you talk about each others style of play and how you can improve. I will always be a Viper fanboy, but I love that Hera fits in so well with the group. Great content GL! Keep it coming
This was an amazing start to finish! , T90 and team you have smashed this out of the park So excited for HC 6 - congratz to all who played
Very mature, insightful, and funny discussion! Enjoyed this a lot!
This content need to be in Spotify
Man, DauT is the funniest 😂. All hail the LORD ❤
Daut and Viper are very funny and skilled, we love them and they re why aoe competitive scene is still alive, and now they have a player that will break any records, thank you GL, in my opinion you are helping aoe scene and rts games. Congrats to everyone for HCV
Thank you DauT for making Hera win the tournament......... We're very grateful for your great gestures towards your team mates........ Specially the confidence boost for the kid in quarter finals......
I'm happy to see GL players not only scoring great results in the tournament but also having fun while doing so...... I'm happy for you people having a good laugh in the same time you're going very deep in a strategic analysis
#TeamDauT
I just love Daut comments, he is the best!!
Amazing content. Keep this up!! This is the best AOE2 content out there. Top players talking and being genuine. Love it
Nice talk! As always great chemistry and props to Nelson as well! More of this pls!
59:07 fantastic interview.
What a smart and funny community we have.
Daut is hilarious, please never change. I loved the part where they analyzed where they could improve, especially on Viper. I'm sure he appreciates the input on his gameplay. And yes, he loves his mastapieces but he should focus on more important things. I was making predictions and I put Sebastian on his gameplay, because of some of the sloppiness in his gameplay, it was definitely lacking.
I hope all of them improve and be rivals to Hera, even though I love Hera too. Great podcast!
I agree with DauT at 34:05 to an extent. If you over prepare an idea you are more likely to get tunnel vision to try and force a certain play or idea in game. This leads to lack of adaptability and can severely harm your chances of winning the game.
Still need to test an idea beforehand to see if it has reasonable chances to work, but don't go too hard into ironing out every last detail or you'll end up trying to force it.
I really enjoyed this video, my highlight was the pros discussion eachothers "flaws" and what to improve. It really gave alot of insight into their gameplay and decision making. Would love to see more of that in the future cause it is really interesting!
Great champions, great people. I love those contents.
I'd love these talks to go on all the time! Really insightful and entertaining!!
Make sure to remind Daut to get loom.
I was waiting and really enjoyed this talk. Keep up the good work and keep it coming... Love the banters and Hera coaching Viper, LOL
Great personality dynamics! Looking forward to the GL-coaching-viper series.
daut for president
Love these debriefs. They’re really fun, especially Daut!
I love this content so much. Awesome to get a behind the curtain peek.
This is so nice to see. Hera dominating tourneys and everyone coming together for a nice chill friendly talk right after
Congrats Hera, thanks for the video, it was enjoyable
Congrats Hera! Great video guys, well done!
Another great video. I love that depth of the discussion. Top tier content
to expand on what Mashmorra said about Vipers gameplay: its not greed in general. Viper tryes to take an eco lead by beeing greedy but that doesnt work as well with other people getting better mechanically. DE quality of life features did some heavy lifting here. now all the top players can put aggression without idleing their TC at home which cuts into the the advantage of the defender.
If you are in the mindset of beeing greedy and you notice that you dont get ahead as much as you should, beeing less greedy is counterintuitive. to be a bit technical: on the scale military investment eco investment there are propably local maxima that are hard to get away from.
Being is one e. it's wrong 3 times here so I'm assuming it isn't a typo
SO entertaining!!!!!! Please we want these guys to talk together more
Ty for the content guys! U are one of the reasons why i cant get over of my aoe2 addiction. Pls keep it up.
Lovely video.
Overall amazing tournament. Congrats to the good placings.
The final set for me was the most disappointing of the entire tournament unfortunately.
Lierey played aggressive with tight uptimes and amazing archer play. How many archets did he produce in 4 games in the finals? Zeeeeeeroo.
Like Hera playing without scout. It was a hard watch. Saving best civs for games that would never come. Series was over before it even started... 😢
With that little rant done...
Enjoyed the tourney a lot and very happy for a deserving winner!
Thanks. Perfect antidote to HC withdrawal
Oh hell yes! Totally forgot this would be coming out!
Set to do this after every S-tier!
15:20 I still watch that Red Bull finals with daut every few months since the last two/three games are all time greats
Love you guys. You all stay umble despite being so good.
I think light cavs are fine for most of us. The reason so many of us took to youtube was so we could pause and rewind to make sure we saw things correctly.
This right here^. I started watching on YT. Then I downloaded the twitch app because that’s just where the scene -was-.. it was just broadcasted to YT. But I often have other things going on and I like rewatching fun plays so I pause and rewind a lot so after a few minutes of watching on twitch I came back to YT lol.
Great discussions, keep it up guys!
Crazy how Hera in GL helped him improve his strategic style! He was a beast before and is not his last form! He's still evolving and will push the boundaries of what you can do in the game!
Love these GL meeting. Especially with DAUT, all the meeting become hilarious. Honestly, should try to inv him in all meetings!
I haven't been refreshing every 10 mins waiting for this 11
"Lord Viper" Omg Daut, I am dying laughing.11
Hera is a great addition to this, awesome show
His banter isn't at the same level, but he thinks so deeply about the game. He is very insightful
I loved Hera's story during the stream where he talked about the H shaped gold patch . It must have been so entertaining watching your matches and hearing the commentary.
Edit: I do feel bad about Viper and wonder if the outcome would have been different with less lag.
Hera Congrats to him. Also congrats to GL team have great results. Unfortunately tatho was out at ro16 but he play against top top ACCM
Hera isn’t just a meta player. He is a micro god. Especially with a few scouts early, but also any number of archers or siege
Love the post match talk! I really enjoyed hidden cup, it was great.
Wholesome to see live coaching of each other.
what a treasure to the world the Lord is
"I don't regret NOTHING." Daut
The only thing that went through my head during this video was that Hera and DauT's mics look connected.
I loved how open and critical you guys can be of each other without taking offense.
I'm not skilled at the game, but I love looking at human behaviour.
I do agree Daut has so many off the wall strategies that there's no solid foundation/plan.
Hera is just solid, consistent and will wear the opponent down, like fighting a robot. Waiting for the mistake to be made, a proper grinder.
Viper seems to be trying to find his new place against new talent, but not found that comfort spot between, off the wall strategies (Duat) and "robot consistency" (Hera). Both strategies are quite exclusive.
Think it'll end up being a Hera style foundation with Daut flair when you start getting wider gaps in score or you have nothing to lose.
Maybe some visuel reminder of the bracket would yave been helpfull.
Great cast as always.
On light cav being potentially a little OP - why not just make the upgrade a little longer and/or more expensive? It makes it more of an investment without affecting the balance of the scout at all or the hussar too much in the rest of the game? I'm no expert though
That’s a great idea mate
I always (as in, since like 2012 when i came back to the game and wasn't a kid like in 2000) felt the upgrade was way too cheap for what it offered but the thing is, until two? three? or so years ago, nobody even researched it, thinking light cav is bad. It's relatively recent that people started using light cav at all and now they're finding out how incredibly good it is. AoE 2 may be an old game but the meta keeps developing.
But yeah, some change to lcav would be welcome, either change in upgrade cost or nerf to stats. I'd start with cost change.
@@Progeusz Yeah I came back in 2012 too and have similar feelings. Partly it seems so worth it to get light cav now because there is almost always monks around, whereas way back in the huns war days not everyone would bother to pick up the relics or use monks for healing
thank you; the post match talks are always great! 🙂
So fun to watch, keep doing this !!
I agree with what Hera says about him being a meta player. I'm gonna be honest, he used to be boring. I used to think his gameplay was super boring. But over the last year, when I've watched him, that hasn't been the case anymore. He's gotten a lot more creative. I do now see him as the 2024 player, who is more creative and open minded than 2020 Hera.
In my opinion the only thing that cost Viper the match against Liereyy was that he was refusing to wall anything. In most matches he was ahead of Lierrey but couldn't find a way to punish Lierrey cause Liereyy was walled but Lierrey found ways to punish Viper because he wasn't walled.
Woohoo, so fun to listening to y'all!!!
I wish there was a way to keep somehow keep that secret from each other players without introducing lag, ect. and getting some longer sets later in thr finals.
There was 20k in prize pool donations iirc, so that might be enough to sponsors HC is worth a LAN venue??
Anyway, congrats on the win Hera!
“lagspike” theory was what helped confirm Ganji. Basically only him or Salted Pepper had ever said it in the chat logs apparently.
Here for the algorithm, staying for the content
52:59 quintessential Daut right here
Spicy content, great episode as usual!
Viper: I think Tatoh underperformed because ACCM guessed Mihai when playing against Tatoh
ACCM: Guesses Barles when playing against MBL 😅
T90 trying to demote the Lord to King with his Hidden Cup... Ain't gonna happen. Daut is the ultimate AoE2 legend.
Best players right here 🤩🤩
Amazing!!!! Thanks for doing this!!
random seeding issue can be addressed by double elimination bracket with bo5 in upper bracket and bo3 in losers. Then bo7 finals. This would also make the whole tourney more digestible with sets not lasting 3-4 hours but just around 2 hours. I am sure something like this was considered, would be nice to understand why it was discarted
one possibility, for sure. But it comes at the downside of having the "winners bracket vs. losers bracket dilemma" in the finals, where one player didn't lose a set whereas another one did - and both rewarding and ignoring that feels wrong in different ways.
@@IschmarVI that is solved with 2 sets in finals. If loser bracket finalist loses the first set, tourney is over, if not, he needs to beat winners finalist again. This is standard format
Listening to Hera's comments on his teammates, it is easy to forsee how much will GL players improve during the next months