This was so great! Like diplo regicide is the only mode, that can get the full experience and potential out of aoe2. I stopped watching aoe2 tournaments years ago, but this hits differently. This is fantastic entertainment.
The moment at 1:46:10 when Neo is like "oops Kami green has feitoria" and kami is just like "yep goodluck" lmaaaaaaaooooooooo Then kami just clutches the end like that , what a turn-around.
GG. Conclusions after: 1. Our 25-year-old game is as MAJESTIC and awesome as ever. 2. This format is great. We need more of it. 3. Some maps were no good e.g. in such a setup Journey South clearly promotes players who start in the corners. 4. Also, I like wonders and all, but this seems to have incentivised some really boring passive play and turtling from many players who sticked until the end. Maybe something can be done about that in the future. 5. Darth you are a friggin legend! See ya next time.
Yeah I think that wonder victories are super dull. I’d also tell players that if they sit there and never fight, or give up and send their kings to someone else to donate, they’re banned from future events/commie games. I get the diplo but I want more action.
Honestly thoug, the fact that you can turtle is awesome. Defensive strategy has been a very important factor in the real world. RTS doesn't have to always be fast-paced, it can also be slow and meticulous.
@@GarrettBShaw I partially agree on that sometimes players just have themselves to blame - in one of the games there were repeated warnings in the chat that a guy was turtling, but everybody decided to ignore it, being too preoccupied with their own little schemes. The thing is, the current structure makes it way to easy to just play the legend of iSit and wait until you get to pay-off places vs actually take part in the rumble and be watchable. That's why I think it should be revised in the future.
Loved RR5, waited impatiently for it since RR4 :P I know it might sound silly at first , but what about RR6 having some kinda HC type deal where you dont know the players names? Would allow players like Snippy to do their thing without people ganging up on him or even Hopper and the pros more freedom to diplo?
This was a great tournament and I love that you cast these games. I'm also super hype that Neoptalames got second, congrats if you happen to read this 🔥
This tournament was some of the most entertaining content AoE has seen period. Thank you to T90 and the admins running the event and all the players involved for the amazing gameplay and funny diplo!
*SEMI SPOILERS* I'm only halfway through the vid but Neo is a TRUE Low Elo *Legend* to me. He sees through the smoke at so many vital points here. Being the only one to keep trade during the SeaBomb/Saly saga? The TC to make docks on the island behind the wonder for the snipe? Insane clutch plays. Dean doing a great job here too. People in chat saying Hopper went too soon for wonder, but it was Dean correctly calling him out that forced his hand before Kami was fully pushed. He saw the navy and castles, correctly told Hopper he should delete navy and instantly called the audible to Kami and Neo. Hopper saw the call for navy delete and knew the jig was up and had to go for it. Mad respect to Hopper as well. He's definitely maxed his stats in Diplo and treats it like a game of Mafia or Diplomacy (the old school board game) and that is 100% game-theory correct and very refreshing. We all love Hopper. We all hate Hopper. We all love to hate Hopper, and hate that we love Hopper too. 10/10
@@joelcarrizales2435 if you don't mind the old graphics, there's a game from RR3 with Daut, mbl and Hera all in it. Just search for T90 Sickest Diplo. And it even has a sequel called Sickest Diplo Rewritten (or something along those lines)
Don't forget Kami was basically dead when Hopper started his wonder. That made everyone turn to Hopper, Kami recovered and then won because his navy. Very interesting!
yeah I feel like if he only waited until Kami died, no one else had wonder on their mental radar, hopper easily would have beaten them to building it, and then he could have won. regardless, such a fun game
That snipe on Wean Dinchester might be my favorite regicide moment ever. Without Hopper it looked like the game was headed for kind of a stinker ending with no res+Portuguese, but then absolute legend Neoptalames marches in with 35 petards and wrecks the pro with infinite resources. I actually cheered. Hats off to Kamigawa though. Not the most exciting player, but an absolutely dominant showing in both his games. Amazing series all the way through. Idk if it was the heightened competition due to prize pool or no exploding kings, but every single game of RR5 was an absolute banger. Community games have always been my favorite AoE2 content, and this series brought it back to its peak. Great stuff!
Neo here - thanks man! Was extremely stressful playing these settings but I had great fun. The petards were a hail mary and I was fully expecting to mess up haha.
2:15:05 YESSS!!!! There were two moments where I jumped out of my seat and cheered! This one, and when Neoptalames secured second place - such an incredible performance for a 1300 player!!!
Took me a week but watched it all in order. Every game had moments that made me laugh into tears. Shout out to Darth Vader, what a legend. Classic memes as well.
@6:40 A dark gray translucent box you could toggle on/off when you wanted to emphasize the chat seems like it would be a very useful tool. At the same time, the fact that you completely drop game coverage for a moment to cover the chat is cool too, it lets us know you think it's really important. Plus, you can (and sometimes do) just pause to read without missing anything.
Because he would have had to delete his whole navy in order to join the fight on land, and as he was not willing to do that, Wean guessed that he was preparing the wonder victory attempt. You can only watch the others fight and set up your plan for so long before they figure it out, it will not last until you put it in motion.
Yeah, I agree, that’s the answer. I think Hopper could still have waited to start prepping the wonder tho. If he deleted some navy he could have bought time to prep more vills. Maybe send sone small groups of navy into the islands so you could claim you forgot them if questioned.
I think he might have been trying to wait, but green noticed him prepping and it forced his hand. I don't know if he would have gotten away with it if he moved his vills after Kami died, so it makes sense to me that he was trying to sneak over at that time. Unfortunately for him, Wean's game sense and map awareness was too high 11
@@Spitoven I think he was doing enough on land, and could have just held of building the castles for the wonder, still would have had enough of a jump to make it work with the other two going full land. dont get me wrong though, I'm glad he didn't win lol, the diplo was infuriating
Fantastic series, Regicide Rumble 5 featured some all-time classic games. I do agree with others who suggest that the tower-hiding-behind-castle strat should be banned. Same as bombard tower spam, just because it's in the game doesn't mean we have to respect it and this massively reduces snipe attempts, one of the best parts of the format. 45:00 Walter White explaining to Skyler energies coming off of Hopper. It's amazing, but I also have to admit, it did raise my desire to see somebody get him. He definitely Diplomacy'd harder than the rest of the game combined, and from an observer's POV that insincerity and gaslighting is infuriating, but hey it's the game. Congrats to the top three.
Wean's castle slowly crumbling finally revealing the tower with the king was such an awesome moment. Sick game. Talking about pauses...what's so bad about just pausing the game for 2min to go to the toilet? Also gives live viewers a chance to do the same
OMG I am so early,! I just got home after 10 hours of work , gonna take t90 and RR5in the shower, then continue whatching while I cook dinner, pause , then watch in bed with some icecream!! ! Life is good!
The only thing I dissapointed a little (or much) is that why Neo didn't go for relic win? Did he forget that there is an option? It'd be such a great ending, the tension behind that and that "weak" player won over one of the worst starts of the match. He should try.
I wanted to go for feitoria conversions but was fully out of resources and the wonder from Kami was already up. I could have eventually worn him down, but not with the wonder ticking down.
Man I think Hooper jumps the gun too early. In Hindsight, the best play for Hooper is to ally dean and kami, kill neo, make dean fight kami until they both low on res, and then wonder
I’m just happy they didn’t forget to kill Hopper after destroying his Wonder. Salute to Saly and SeaBomb! “Hardy, edit that out for UA-cam.” No, Hardy. Thanks for leaving it in!
Awesome game! Would still want Neo to go for the relic victory race, but I guess he didn't think of it or didn't think there was enough time left for it. Happy that the snake hopper got put down, he should have waited a bit longer with his Wonder play. Nice work by Wean to spot that. I also do believe that Hopper was being serious with wanting to snipe Neo and Wean. I would however not have been sad to see Hopper pulling it off. He was an absolute diplo beast and a real snake, sowing distrust with EVERYONE, had he managed to pull it off, he would absolutely have deserved a win.
Epic, just epic. This made want to come back to the game. Is any Discord server I can join to play some of this kind of games, or similar? I really never liked the 1v1s, and if things are like they were in HD-times, waiting for 4v4 or 3v3 rooms takes a while.
I absolutely love the diplomacy talk in this, I hope there's more to come, i love amauture games alot, but its nice to see people that are high tier players. its kinda is unfortunate that the commentary on the video, with full map revealed and live commenters have influence on the game, how does one eliminate all those other factors to make the game more fair?
Purple was the GOAT here man. Holding his own against players much higher elo than him. He sniped Hopper's wonder, he fought 1v1 against a pro and killed his king and only lost due to wonder win condition where he basically had zero options to win.
The thing that people like about Hopper is that he can't be trusted. Strangely, I think it makes him a good Ally to have because then other people will most likely turn on him eventually.
The weird thing is that he's actually often a pretty good ally- usually his allies end up better off than they would have been without him. Just not as well off as Hopper.
Saly's attempted snipe annoyed me so bad....what kind of sniper puts his sniping army that does friendly fire and has minimum range limitations right on top of the building they try to destroy
The amount of mindgames on display here is unbelievable. Even purple who had the lowest ELO was no slouch. Very well played Neo.
Amazing tournament series. Really felt like the best of the best in this diplo game.
Can't wait until RR6!
This was so great! Like diplo regicide is the only mode, that can get the full experience and potential out of aoe2.
I stopped watching aoe2 tournaments years ago, but this hits differently. This is fantastic entertainment.
Great comment. This is the game.
The moment at 1:46:10 when Neo is like "oops Kami green has feitoria" and kami is just like "yep goodluck" lmaaaaaaaooooooooo
Then kami just clutches the end like that , what a turn-around.
Hopper is like Schrodinger's Ally. He's both friend and foe until you open the box.
GG. Conclusions after:
1. Our 25-year-old game is as MAJESTIC and awesome as ever.
2. This format is great. We need more of it.
3. Some maps were no good e.g. in such a setup Journey South clearly promotes players who start in the corners.
4. Also, I like wonders and all, but this seems to have incentivised some really boring passive play and turtling from many players who sticked until the end. Maybe something can be done about that in the future.
5. Darth you are a friggin legend!
See ya next time.
Yeah I think that wonder victories are super dull. I’d also tell players that if they sit there and never fight, or give up and send their kings to someone else to donate, they’re banned from future events/commie games. I get the diplo but I want more action.
How else do you end a stalemate game though?
Honestly thoug, the fact that you can turtle is awesome. Defensive strategy has been a very important factor in the real world. RTS doesn't have to always be fast-paced, it can also be slow and meticulous.
@@GarrettBShaw I partially agree on that sometimes players just have themselves to blame - in one of the games there were repeated warnings in the chat that a guy was turtling, but everybody decided to ignore it, being too preoccupied with their own little schemes. The thing is, the current structure makes it way to easy to just play the legend of iSit and wait until you get to pay-off places vs actually take part in the rumble and be watchable. That's why I think it should be revised in the future.
Gosh it would have been absolutely amazing if Neo had foresight to take down monasteries and get relic victory, but 2nd place is also awsum.
I struggle to watch all the games in a regular tournament, but it was so easy to watch all of RR5!
At 360p I cant even pretened to read chat without a black backround. we out here and we appreciate.
Why would anyone watch 1v1 Aoe2 games when YOU HAVE THIS??
Why would anyone play reguakr team games if you could be diploing. Sadly lobbys never fill
Loved RR5, waited impatiently for it since RR4 :P I know it might sound silly at first , but what about RR6 having some kinda HC type deal where you dont know the players names? Would allow players like Snippy to do their thing without people ganging up on him or even Hopper and the pros more freedom to diplo?
Thats actually a really good idea. Reveal the names at the end? Or upon death?
Maybe at the end to keep us guessing XD
The AUDACITY of Hopper, man.
This was a great tournament and I love that you cast these games. I'm also super hype that Neoptalames got second, congrats if you happen to read this 🔥
This tournament was some of the most entertaining content AoE has seen period. Thank you to T90 and the admins running the event and all the players involved for the amazing gameplay and funny diplo!
*SEMI SPOILERS*
I'm only halfway through the vid but Neo is a TRUE Low Elo *Legend* to me. He sees through the smoke at so many vital points here. Being the only one to keep trade during the SeaBomb/Saly saga? The TC to make docks on the island behind the wonder for the snipe? Insane clutch plays.
Dean doing a great job here too. People in chat saying Hopper went too soon for wonder, but it was Dean correctly calling him out that forced his hand before Kami was fully pushed. He saw the navy and castles, correctly told Hopper he should delete navy and instantly called the audible to Kami and Neo. Hopper saw the call for navy delete and knew the jig was up and had to go for it.
Mad respect to Hopper as well. He's definitely maxed his stats in Diplo and treats it like a game of Mafia or Diplomacy (the old school board game) and that is 100% game-theory correct and very refreshing. We all love Hopper. We all hate Hopper. We all love to hate Hopper, and hate that we love Hopper too. 10/10
Neo here - thanks man! Was extremely stressful playing these settings but I had great fun!
Hopper makes for fantastic content, its like watching a villain arc play out, not sure if I’m rooting for him or against him.
I want to see Hera, theViper, Daut, MBL, Yo, Margougou, freakingAndy, and Tatoh play these settings
yo did play these settings ...
Margougou and freaking Andy played aswell in rr5. MBL played in rr4.
Daut played awesome in rr4 unfortunately tat backed out right before the game but there was an awesome sub in…
It’s 0238 est and this tournament is worth the no sleep. Thanks P90 for the entertainment
@@joelcarrizales2435 if you don't mind the old graphics, there's a game from RR3 with Daut, mbl and Hera all in it. Just search for T90 Sickest Diplo. And it even has a sequel called Sickest Diplo Rewritten (or something along those lines)
Don't forget Kami was basically dead when Hopper started his wonder. That made everyone turn to Hopper, Kami recovered and then won because his navy. Very interesting!
yeah I feel like if he only waited until Kami died, no one else had wonder on their mental radar, hopper easily would have beaten them to building it, and then he could have won. regardless, such a fun game
"Kamigawa has declared war on Gaia after 1 years of friendship"
Climate Change: Where It Began
Legend of explosive hopper...
Should be legend of Sir Implosive Hopper
there already is a legend video of him. there is even a playlist:
ua-cam.com/play/PLJ20RFfBUakgMhPuQW9295L41cW7cLTNo.html
@@theronerdithas2944 i know. But title of this video isnt implying it. He played like a legend in that match aswell
Sir Explosive Hopper is my favorite Age of Empires player
Finally! Been waiting for this for like.. literal DAYS :P
NGL... kinda hated the ending..
This was peak entertainment T90, thanks for that
That snipe on Wean Dinchester might be my favorite regicide moment ever. Without Hopper it looked like the game was headed for kind of a stinker ending with no res+Portuguese, but then absolute legend Neoptalames marches in with 35 petards and wrecks the pro with infinite resources. I actually cheered.
Hats off to Kamigawa though. Not the most exciting player, but an absolutely dominant showing in both his games.
Amazing series all the way through. Idk if it was the heightened competition due to prize pool or no exploding kings, but every single game of RR5 was an absolute banger. Community games have always been my favorite AoE2 content, and this series brought it back to its peak. Great stuff!
Neo here - thanks man! Was extremely stressful playing these settings but I had great fun. The petards were a hail mary and I was fully expecting to mess up haha.
2:15:05 YESSS!!!! There were two moments where I jumped out of my seat and cheered! This one, and when Neoptalames secured second place - such an incredible performance for a 1300 player!!!
I have to say, a diplo tournament was a great idea. Very entertaining!
most entertaining AOE2 tourney... Mad props to all the 2k plus players that stepped out of their comfort zones!!
I'm only 40mins in, and already Hopper is the most entertaining player of all time
Took me a week but watched it all in order. Every game had moments that made me laugh into tears. Shout out to Darth Vader, what a legend. Classic memes as well.
@6:40 A dark gray translucent box you could toggle on/off when you wanted to emphasize the chat seems like it would be a very useful tool. At the same time, the fact that you completely drop game coverage for a moment to cover the chat is cool too, it lets us know you think it's really important. Plus, you can (and sometimes do) just pause to read without missing anything.
why hopper didn't wait for kami to die i have no idea
Because he would have had to delete his whole navy in order to join the fight on land, and as he was not willing to do that, Wean guessed that he was preparing the wonder victory attempt. You can only watch the others fight and set up your plan for so long before they figure it out, it will not last until you put it in motion.
Yeah, I agree, that’s the answer.
I think Hopper could still have waited to start prepping the wonder tho. If he deleted some navy he could have bought time to prep more vills. Maybe send sone small groups of navy into the islands so you could claim you forgot them if questioned.
I think he might have been trying to wait, but green noticed him prepping and it forced his hand.
I don't know if he would have gotten away with it if he moved his vills after Kami died, so it makes sense to me that he was trying to sneak over at that time.
Unfortunately for him, Wean's game sense and map awareness was too high 11
@@Spitoven I think he was doing enough on land, and could have just held of building the castles for the wonder, still would have had enough of a jump to make it work with the other two going full land. dont get me wrong though, I'm glad he didn't win lol, the diplo was infuriating
Always glad to see the rare occasions when top players/scores actually get to win. Great job everybody! Great match!!
Fantastic series, Regicide Rumble 5 featured some all-time classic games. I do agree with others who suggest that the tower-hiding-behind-castle strat should be banned. Same as bombard tower spam, just because it's in the game doesn't mean we have to respect it and this massively reduces snipe attempts, one of the best parts of the format.
45:00 Walter White explaining to Skyler energies coming off of Hopper. It's amazing, but I also have to admit, it did raise my desire to see somebody get him. He definitely Diplomacy'd harder than the rest of the game combined, and from an observer's POV that insincerity and gaslighting is infuriating, but hey it's the game.
Congrats to the top three.
Gray deserved the win , great diplomatic plays xD
I want Hopper in every game.
I want Hopper to come close to win.
I also want Hopper to lose bad!
1:25:36 I like that you notice those details!
What a thoroughly enjoyable experience. I'll definitely be back if we get more of this.
T90, the last bastion of team games and such.
Waited so long for this. I catched basically every match of RR5 live but the final 😅
Amazing, and so much fun to watch, we need more RR
Wean's castle slowly crumbling finally revealing the tower with the king was such an awesome moment.
Sick game.
Talking about pauses...what's so bad about just pausing the game for 2min to go to the toilet? Also gives live viewers a chance to do the same
4 TCs at the same spot is actually insane
OMG I am so early,!
I just got home after 10 hours of work , gonna take t90 and RR5in the shower, then continue whatching while I cook dinner, pause , then watch in bed with some icecream!! ! Life is good!
Such a good final!
I'm still haven't seen the end but at least for me Purple MVP.
wow, such an amazing series
underrated!
What an awesome series, didnt make it for the live streams, but the videos were awesome
1:13:04 spot on
very cool matches and the final was excellent. thanks t90 and all the players
WOULD LIKE TO SEE HIGHLIGHTS VIDEO and summary of tournament
Sir Explosive Hopper is such an obnoxious player that you can't help but grow to love lmao
The only thing I dissapointed a little (or much) is that why Neo didn't go for relic win? Did he forget that there is an option? It'd be such a great ending, the tension behind that and that "weak" player won over one of the worst starts of the match. He should try.
I think he was out of resources at that point... his remaining army probably couldn't beat the Mamalukes from Kami
I don't think it mattered
@@exgardevior he didnt even try. He cound convert feitorias as said and there were ONLY 60 mamelukes with no eco and supply. He didnt even try
@@DrunkenerWitcher Hard to remember all these options, , especially 2h into the game
@@racernatorde5318 it'd be ultra epic though. Remembering that him sneakily destroyed the wonder.
I wanted to go for feitoria conversions but was fully out of resources and the wonder from Kami was already up. I could have eventually worn him down, but not with the wonder ticking down.
What a fantastic series!
Man I think Hooper jumps the gun too early. In Hindsight, the best play for Hooper is to ally dean and kami, kill neo, make dean fight kami until they both low on res, and then wonder
Unless he deletes navy they'd get suspicious
Awesome final, and great memes 😂😂
An italian won. *MAGNIFICO!*
Amazing series!
The lack of Wizard is depressing.
You speak the true true
Perhaps the wizard will cast Improvement and be in the finals of RR6!
I cast imprOVement (on him)
Hopper is like Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde. Guy has two mouths and he's always speaking out of them
T90 @ 1:13:00 we might not be done we might not be halfway, checks time... yep true statement haha
43:08 T90 jokes like Hopper's diplo 11
What a legendary game~
Clicked randomly and watched it all. Really glad we have such good. Aoe 2 content creators.
I’m just happy they didn’t forget to kill Hopper after destroying his Wonder. Salute to Saly and SeaBomb!
“Hardy, edit that out for UA-cam.” No, Hardy. Thanks for leaving it in!
Thanks T90, the whole event was awesome!
Thanks for the tournament T90!
great finale. Im so happy purple sniped green in the end
Awesome game! Would still want Neo to go for the relic victory race, but I guess he didn't think of it or didn't think there was enough time left for it.
Happy that the snake hopper got put down, he should have waited a bit longer with his Wonder play. Nice work by Wean to spot that.
I also do believe that Hopper was being serious with wanting to snipe Neo and Wean.
I would however not have been sad to see Hopper pulling it off. He was an absolute diplo beast and a real snake, sowing distrust with EVERYONE, had he managed to pull it off, he would absolutely have deserved a win.
Neo here - didn't think of it indeed.
what a plot twists at the end, great tourney!
Secondary Title:
Legend of Sir Implosive Hopper
Epic, just epic. This made want to come back to the game. Is any Discord server I can join to play some of this kind of games, or similar? I really never liked the 1v1s, and if things are like they were in HD-times, waiting for 4v4 or 3v3 rooms takes a while.
I absolutely love the diplomacy talk in this, I hope there's more to come, i love amauture games alot, but its nice to see people that are high tier players. its kinda is unfortunate that the commentary on the video, with full map revealed and live commenters have influence on the game, how does one eliminate all those other factors to make the game more fair?
This was a fun game! Thank you!
Sorry Wean, the King is in another castle. XD
ngl this was very entertaining to watch lol
1:13:14 t90 says we are only through half this game😂 its crazy he said this within a minute of the halfway point of the video
The tounament was really great. Though I enjoy exploding kings even more. It adds some drama regular RR lacks.
Purple was the GOAT here man. Holding his own against players much higher elo than him. He sniped Hopper's wonder, he fought 1v1 against a pro and killed his king and only lost due to wonder win condition where he basically had zero options to win.
You need to give to the more entertaining person the "Sir Explosive Hopper" award with 25$ next RR
That would be interesting… like maybe a community vote on best diplo player or something
Prize for fourth place IF you've diplo'd, "Sir explosive Hopper award" with essence of Sarge.
God bless 🙂 . .
Let's go!
Kamigawa the snake-slayer!
Long may he reign!
Insane finals loved it
The thing that people like about Hopper is that he can't be trusted. Strangely, I think it makes him a good Ally to have because then other people will most likely turn on him eventually.
The weird thing is that he's actually often a pretty good ally- usually his allies end up better off than they would have been without him. Just not as well off as Hopper.
Great tourney. Watched every game twice. Nothing beats diplo
Hopper is an absolute menace
Saly's attempted snipe annoyed me so bad....what kind of sniper puts his sniping army that does friendly fire and has minimum range limitations right on top of the building they try to destroy
RR is My Favourite espeacially in water and interesting maps
just finished the king snipe final and thought that was all the t90 content for today, noooooooope! LFG
Those meme makers have talent!
Purple really there with the wonder snipe.
Hopper should be an irl diplomat omg the level of his intrigue is insane 11
great games rr5 was really fun thanks p90
It's better than got. Watched all rr.
the word hopper said was definitely not "is bs"
what a tourney, neopta massive under dog but just hang on till the end. kami is amazing player.
One day T90 will cast me as a low elo legend and my infamy will be secure
Easily one of the best Diplo games I have ever watched. Please keep rigging in Sir Incendiary Jumper in all these games, truly a legend.
Epic Game!
That was heckin great
Great game, purple showed when skill is not enough then just use your wits
honestly kami winning is great cos i was really hoping for him to win this match once the wonder scenario happened
The memes are pure gold