Can't help but point out at 7:26 how funny it was to see how much fun Daut and Viper were having with daut trying to wall in Viper, that zoom in made it so good lol
Awesome tournament! Really good games and great casters. I especially enjoyed Memb and Dave. Some pointers: it took me way longer to watch everything because the vods were so long. I understand its difficult with a LAN event but maybe a couple more days would ve nice to space it out a little bit. Also, I really like Ellie but the interview questions were always the same: how did you feel about this game, what did you think here, etc. Maybe next time she could he given some more interesting/complex questions soecific about the games? Minir pointers in general, NAC was a lot of fun to watch. The double capture age screens were awesome!
Amazing tournament. Had a very special vibe and I love it. Equal to old nac but even better. Love the suits, give a classy game a classy tourney. Also the maps were incredible fun to watch. Looking forward for another version of the cup.
Will the quiz show from NAC be published somewhere? Curious if I should hold off digging through the VODs for it 11 Great video as always thanks for the recap! Best of luck in 2025!
Hey Jacob, we decided against releasing the quiz as a separate video, because there were a *lot* of audio issues, and RUclips is very unforgiving if you release videos that you know will underperform, unfortunately. There's no need to sift through though, if you go to the "Live" tab and click the Grand Finals VOD, the Quiz will be in the timestamps! Hope you enjoy it!
"aoe2 had an amazing year" I think that's true with regards to tournaments and twitch/youtube viewership, but not so much with regards to the state of the game. V&V was a clusterfuck bordering on fraud, at least battle for greece seems to be decent. But none of the major issues have been fixed: the lobbies are still a complete mess, pathing is pretty bad, game stability, ranked ladder, communication. none of these pain points have been touched. so i think a better statement would be "the aoe2 community had an amazing year" EDIT: impressive piano playing by nelson
Not scheduled just yet, everybody's enjoying a well-earned rest after the crazy hours folks had to put it in preparation for NAC...I'm hoping we can record an episode next week though!
One negative thing that I have to mention: The lack of moderation in the RUclips stream. It was fine for the most part, but whenever Vinch was playing all the russia shills and bots came out and the chat turned into a hot mess. Similar with Hera, whom people used as an excuse to talk about the whole Israel-Palestina conflict (Cause Hera was born there?). Additionally there were tons of incels comming out whenever Elli was featured, usually during the post-match interviews. So yeah, having a stream with a couple thousand of viewers and no moderation was pretty rough
Honestly yeah, the YT livestream was like the wild west, anything went. I usually can't help myself looking at chat whenever I was catching up on games. And it was rough to say the least
Bloody hell, Masmorra, that piano playing was out of this world!
We need an album of more aoe2 songs!
Thank you very much! :)
He's a classically trained pianist and a piano teacher if I'm not mistaken.
Can't help but point out at 7:26 how funny it was to see how much fun Daut and Viper were having with daut trying to wall in Viper, that zoom in made it so good lol
It was an amazing competition and a worth successor to the NAC. Congrats to Hera, he’s just on another level ❤️
Awesome tournament! Really good games and great casters. I especially enjoyed Memb and Dave.
Some pointers: it took me way longer to watch everything because the vods were so long. I understand its difficult with a LAN event but maybe a couple more days would ve nice to space it out a little bit. Also, I really like Ellie but the interview questions were always the same: how did you feel about this game, what did you think here, etc. Maybe next time she could he given some more interesting/complex questions soecific about the games?
Minir pointers in general, NAC was a lot of fun to watch. The double capture age screens were awesome!
+1 on the double capture age screens - that was totally sick and innovative!
The Hera DauT clip aboust Buchholz is great 11 7:45
Nice to see your piano plying Nelson. Great work! Thank you to all at GL for a great tournament!
Amazing tournament.
Had a very special vibe and I love it. Equal to old nac but even better.
Love the suits, give a classy game a classy tourney.
Also the maps were incredible fun to watch.
Looking forward for another version of the cup.
Great tournament. Great standard of play by all competitiors and well cast. Thank you and heres hoping for even more tournaments in 2025 and beyond ❤
Overtaking the covid year is a big deal imo. It shows real growth. Well done to team GL. Best team content in aoe2
Thanks for this amazing tournament
I really loved Dash is part of all this
nelson playing piano was the highlight !!! More of that pleasee
Super fun tournament! One of my favorites in the last 3-5 years for sure.
Nelson crushing it at the end there
It was a really fun tournament, great games and vibes! Thank you GL :)
I love NAC, LocoSer the best caster in spanish, nice vid GL!
Fellow pianist here. So cool to see you play the AoE2 theme!!
Nelson let me know can you hear me?
Awesome tournament, and great watch party experience. Thank you for everything! ❤️
Bravo!!
Thanks for the great event, hopefully we can get more !
AOE needs to hit up Nelson for some sick beats... if the year was 2000 I'd make that my ringtone. That was awesome 👌
Will the quiz show from NAC be published somewhere? Curious if I should hold off digging through the VODs for it 11
Great video as always thanks for the recap! Best of luck in 2025!
Hey Jacob, we decided against releasing the quiz as a separate video, because there were a *lot* of audio issues, and RUclips is very unforgiving if you release videos that you know will underperform, unfortunately.
There's no need to sift through though, if you go to the "Live" tab and click the Grand Finals VOD, the Quiz will be in the timestamps!
Hope you enjoy it!
@ yeah I totally get that - and thanks I’ll check it out!!
Amazing
Woooow the piano King
They did well. I hope everyone has a happy new year!
Oh god, the knights getting trapped
"aoe2 had an amazing year"
I think that's true with regards to tournaments and twitch/youtube viewership, but not so much with regards to the state of the game. V&V was a clusterfuck bordering on fraud, at least battle for greece seems to be decent. But none of the major issues have been fixed: the lobbies are still a complete mess, pathing is pretty bad, game stability, ranked ladder, communication. none of these pain points have been touched.
so i think a better statement would be "the aoe2 community had an amazing year"
EDIT: impressive piano playing by nelson
Forever will Buchholz haunt poor Daut
Dash next guest in Town Center? 🤔
When is the town centre episode
Not scheduled just yet, everybody's enjoying a well-earned rest after the crazy hours folks had to put it in preparation for NAC...I'm hoping we can record an episode next week though!
One negative thing that I have to mention: The lack of moderation in the RUclips stream. It was fine for the most part, but whenever Vinch was playing all the russia shills and bots came out and the chat turned into a hot mess. Similar with Hera, whom people used as an excuse to talk about the whole Israel-Palestina conflict (Cause Hera was born there?). Additionally there were tons of incels comming out whenever Elli was featured, usually during the post-match interviews.
So yeah, having a stream with a couple thousand of viewers and no moderation was pretty rough
I think Hera is muslim, although I'm not certain about that.
Lol cry us a river u baby, whats wrong with you..
Honestly yeah, the YT livestream was like the wild west, anything went. I usually can't help myself looking at chat whenever I was catching up on games. And it was rough to say the least
@@hellohellohellohellohello-h5l Hera's family is from Palestine. But I think he was born in Canada. Don't know about his religious beliefs.
You perfectly summarise the chat, i was shocked
lirey did some stupid mistakes in the final. this was his to take.
Nelsooooooon
@8:35, mirá @locoser! sos famoso