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Hey everyone, on behalf of the dev and staff team, I am super happy to announce Meta Plays' launch! We have been slowly getting bits and pieces done over the last 4 years. As you can imagine a lot of blood, sweat and tears have gone into the project, and there is much more to come. Our launch trailer is below. We will support 4 games - Age of Mythology, Halo Wars 2, Starcraft II and Warcraft III, with tournaments being our primary content: Several tournaments together will form seasons (we are aiming for 2 seasons / year) As each tournament completes the players will: Receive cash prizes As part of our launch celebration, we are doing double prizes for Season 1! Gain points towards each games' ladders Earn medals and stats for their profile Depending on your ladder position, you will be placed in a Class, ranging from D to S. Class Split: Total number of players required for S/A class to be full: X=Y*100/Z S - Top Y=8 players by points. Expands for each draw by 1. Z=5 A - Top Y=9-32 players by points. Expands for each draw by 1. Z=10 B - next Z= 25% of the player base. Expands for each draw by 1. C - next Z= 35% of the player base. Expands for each draw by 1. D - the rest. Final ladder placements of the top 4 will be highlighted permanently on the Hall of Fame page. This will be generated when we end the season. Our ladder will be informing seeding decisions where it makes sense for us to do so, for example later on in the season. Each of the games will have their own schedule, but generally follow this convention: Weekend days are tournament days - each event is 1 day, and we alternate between the games Age of Mythology on Saturdays, every 3 weeks Halo Wars 2 on Saturdays, every 3 weeks (the week after Age of Mythology) StarCraft II on week days, every 3 weeks Warcraft III on week days, every 3 weeks (the week after StarCraft II) $300 open launch tournament to kick off the season in each game $100 open mid-season tournaments x6 $300 invitational season finale (top 16? TBD) Every third weekend will be a break to allow staff and players a rest After each season we will take a 2 week break as well No tournaments from mid-December to early January Feel free to sign up to our launch tournaments! Doing so is free - click the images below and the Sign Up button to register! All our tournaments are entirely self-funded but we do accept contributions towards prize pools via donations, and we have Patreon goals to permanently increase the base values listed above. We are also looking for sponsors - please email us at metaplays.official@gmail.com for any queries. These tournaments will all be live streamed on our Twitch, but you will be able to catch up with VoDs on Youtube, too! Community casters are totally welcome to cover the games that are not, by the way! Please reach out to the Manager of each event. We will continue supporting the games with more seasons after our first, so long as participation and viewership are good. Additionally, we are also considering expanding to other games in the future. More on this soon. There is also more work coming up on the tournament system! Initially we will make quality of life improvements for hosts, and then move on to bigger items, such as Smurf Tournament support. For the site as a whole, achievements and leveling are coming soon via Invision's update (the software we use) - we plan to bring all sorts of cool achievement icons and the like to your profiles! Please let us know what you would like to see! Are you a Tournament Host? We are looking to partner with tournament hosts! Your events would contribute to our seasonal leaderboards, so long as you are willing to host via our site. Feel free to submit an application here. Are you a Warcraft III Caster? We are also looking for a Warcraft III caster to join our staff! Feel free to submit an application here. Lastly, a big thank you to the Age of Mythology community, who have tested out at the forums and downloads systems early on. This helped us better understand how to run the site and allowed us to make a lot of improvements. Before you go, make sure to check out our summaries for each games' first season: Age of Mythology - Halo Wars 2 - StarCraft II - Warcraft III

Hey everyone, We are very pleased to announce Season 1 for our Halo Wars 2 Tournament Ladders! This season will be made up of the following tournaments: Spartan Trials - $300, open, Single Elimination Cup - June 12 Meta Plays Monthly #1 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - July 3 Meta Plays Monthly #2 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - July 25 Meta Plays Monthly #3 - $100, Open, Double Elimination Cup - August 14 Meta Plays Monthly #4 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - September 4 Meta Plays Monthly #5 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - September 25 Meta Plays Monthly #6 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - October 17 Season Finale - $500, Invitational, Group Stage -> Single Elimination Cup - October 30 Season 2 will begin in January 2022 after a winter break. What about Team Games? We currently have no plans to fund a season for Teams. We do however have the technical capability for keeping this separate and to facilitate it in the first place, and will be keeping our eyes on your feedback. The plan is to leave team tournaments to the community. You Can Help! For any of you looking to support our events, you can increase prize pools by donating (look for the HW2 option on this page) - we think with your help, boosting one of the mid-season monthlies to $300 is a very achieve-able first goal! You can also help by becoming a subscriber on the website. Where To Watch We will live stream all of the events on our Twitch, and VoDs will be available on our Youtube. Community casters will have access to cover games as well, as long as we are not covering the match in question. Please contact each event's manager for clearance. How the Season Works Each Tournament we host will not only come with cash prizes, but also Meta Plays Ladder Points. These points go towards the corresponding ladder. Based on your position in the ladder, we assign you to a "Class" - one of D(lowest), C, B, A and S(highest). The classes give you a badge and will be featured on your Tournament Profile. By the time the Season Finale comes around, we will invite the top players based on the Ladder. Check out the Class icons below. The top 4 players will also receive medals corresponding with their final placement in each Tournament. While most are generic, Season Opener and Finale events, as well as any mid-season cup that reaches a prize pool of $300 will receive custom medals. Please note that the Ladders will only be generated after the first tournament has finished. Naturally, Tournament Profiles will also be quite empty at first! You are able to display your Profile and Class in your posts, if you turn these on in your site profile, however. Give Us The Numbers You are curious, as you should be! Based on the number and quality of signed up players, we modify the number of total points that a tournament can provide. Our guidelines for this are below: Base value: 10x Prize pool in USD (or monetary value in prizes). For any class exclusion combination, remove 10% points per class removed. S Class only tournaments are excluded from this ruling on a case-by-case basis. The number of players in the tournaments will scale the points in the following way: 4-8: -50% 9-15: -25% 16-24: no change 24-32: +50% 33-47: +75% 48-64: +100% You can review the point spread between player placements using our Tournament Point Calculator. Can I Host Tournaments Too? Yes! We are in fact looking for additional Tournament Hosts that are willing to contribute to our Seasonal Ladders. You can apply here. The ideal third party Tournament Host will: Have a prize pool for each event Have a solid history of past tournaments Not have been the cause of payout scandals Try not to create conflicts with our event dates That is pretty much it! Let us know what you think in the comments below, join us on Discord for real-time chats, and we will see you on the battlefield!

The opening tournament for Season 1 in Age of Mythology! $300 and 4500 Meta Plays Ladder Points are up for grabs in this open, Single Elimination event. Starting on Saturday, June 5 at 3 PM GMT. Please note this is a ONE DAY EVENT. You must complete the tournament in 1 sitting. Please note the total amount of tournament points is subject to change based on sign ups. @StriKeR is the manager for this tournament. For any questions, concerns or requests, please reach out to him on Discord, or @ him in the comments here (if not urgent). EVENT PRIZES 1st place: $125, 1184 Meta Plays Ladder Points, custom gold medal icon 2nd place: $80, 869 Meta Plays Ladder Points, custom silver medal icon 3rd place: $60, 644 Meta Plays Ladder Points, custom bronze medal icon 4th place: $35, 464 Meta Plays Ladder Points, custom copper medal icon 5-8th place: 178 Meta Plays Ladder Points 9-16th place: 80 Meta Plays Ladder Points GAME SETTINGS Use Age of Mythology: The Titans on Voobly Game mod: Voobly Balance Patch 5.0 Blind Pick First map per round is defined in the bracket. Losing player each game picks next map. Each map may only be played once. Valid maps: Alfheim, Anatolia, Arctic Craters, Blue Lagoon, Borderlands, Frozen Wastes, Ghost Lake, Marsh, Mediterranean, Midgard, Oasis, Savannah, Tropical Mirage, Tundra, Watering Hole Veto for map screws, but before the 1 minute mark. 2 vetos per player per series. No excessive wall connector spamming allowed. Banned cases: Connector spam to protect wonders Illegal placements around gold mines and Settlements Acceptable cases include: 4 pieces around towers (including around your main base gold mine, if it blocks) 4 pieces to save dock builder Segments to seal off a gap that was meant to be walled No hunt delete allowed. No cheating of any form allowed. SOCIAL RULES Participants must be in the Meta Plays Discord. Report match results there, with replays. Forfeiting/not showing up to any match with prizes will result in disqualification and you not receiving any of the prizes. Not showing up = late by over 15 minutes. Sharing accounts and win trading will result in forfeit. Harassment of players, chatters, managers or casters is grounds for banning. Keep your chats clean - no racism, sexism or any other type of discrimination. This extends to player interviews. The penalty for breaking this rule is a permanent ban from all of Meta Plays' future tournaments, including a disqualification in this one, as well as a forfeit of prizes. Obvious smurfs will be kicked from the tournament without notice. Do not sign up with smurfs. Use your main accounts and match the usernames here. If your account can't be found, your sign up will be void and removed. For playing on someone else's account as an act of impersonation or circumventing a ban, both the player and the owner of the misused account receive a disqualification in this event, including a forfeit on any prizes, and a permanent ban from all of Meta Plays' future tournaments. You may stream your own matches, but a minimum of 2 minutes of delay is required. Streaming without delay results in a forfeit. Third party casters may stream matches that aren't marked to be covered by Meta Plays. Please contact our manager for this event for approval. 2 minute delay is required.

Hey everyone, We are very pleased to announce Season 1 for our Warcraft III Tournament Ladders! This season will be made up of the following tournaments: Frozen Wastes - $300, open, Single Elimination Cup - June 13 Meta Plays Monthly #1 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - July 5 Meta Plays Monthly #2 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - Week of July 19 Meta Plays Monthly #3 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - Week of August 23 Meta Plays Monthly #4 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - Week of September 13 Meta Plays Monthly #5 - CANCELLED Meta Plays Monthly #6 - CANCELLED Season Finale - CANCELLED What about Team Games? We currently have no plans to fund a season for Teams. We do however have the technical capability for keeping this separate and to facilitate it in the first place, and will be keeping our eyes on your feedback. The plan is to leave team tournaments to the community. You Can Help! For any of you looking to support our events, you can increase prize pools by donating (look for the WC III option on this page) - we think with your help, boosting one of the mid-season monthlies to $300 is a very achieve-able first goal! You can also help by becoming a subscriber on the website. Where To Watch We will live stream all of the events on our Twitch, and VoDs will be available on our Youtube. Community casters will have access to cover games as well, as long as we are not covering the match in question. Please contact each event's manager for clearance. How the Season Works Each Tournament we host will not only come with cash prizes, but also Meta Plays Ladder Points. These points go towards the corresponding ladder. Based on your position in the ladder, we assign you to a "Class" - one of D(lowest), C, B, A and S(highest). The classes give you a badge and will be featured on your Tournament Profile. By the time the Season Finale comes around, we will invite the top players based on the Ladder. Check out the Class icons below. The top 4 players will also receive medals corresponding with their final placement in each Tournament. While most are generic, Season Opener and Finale events, as well as any mid-season cup that reaches a prize pool of $300 will receive custom medals. Please note that the Ladders will only be generated after the first tournament has finished. Naturally, Tournament Profiles will also be quite empty at first! You are able to display your Profile and Class in your posts, if you turn these on in your site profile, however. Give Us The Numbers You are curious, as you should be! Based on the number and quality of signed up players, we modify the number of total points that a tournament can provide. Our guidelines for this are below: Base value: 10x Prize pool in USD (or monetary value in prizes). For any class exclusion combination, remove 10% points per class removed. S Class only tournaments are excluded from this ruling on a case-by-case basis. The number of players in the tournaments will scale the points in the following way: 4-8: -50% 9-15: -25% 16-24: no change 24-32: +50% 33-47: +75% 48-64: +100% You can review the point spread between player placements using our Tournament Point Calculator. Can I Host Tournaments Too? Yes! We are in fact looking for additional Tournament Hosts that are willing to contribute to our Seasonal Ladders. You can apply here. The ideal third party Tournament Host will: Have a prize pool for each event Have a solid history of past tournaments Not have been the cause of payout scandals Try not to create conflicts with our event dates That is pretty much it! Let us know what you think in the comments below, join us on Discord for real-time chats, and we will see you on the battlefield!

Hey everyone, We are very pleased to announce Season 1 for our Age of Mythology Tournament Ladders! This season will be made up of the following tournaments: Rise of the Phoenix - $300, open, Single Elimination Cup - June 5 Meta Plays Monthly #1 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - June 26 Meta Plays Monthly #2 - $310, Open, Single Elimination Cup - July 17 Meta Plays Monthly #3 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - August 7 Meta Plays Monthly #4 - $150, Group Stage Cup - August 28 start date Meta Plays Monthly #5 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - October 23 Season Finale - $300, Invitational, Group Stage Cup - November 6 start date Season 2 will begin in January 2022 after a winter break. Voobly or EE? All of these are 1v1 Supremacy. We are defaulting the platform to Voobly, but we are happy to consider support for the Extended Edition. Please let us know your thoughts on this in the comments. If there is sufficient interest, we would be happy to alternate between the platforms, however we will not be able to add and fund extra events at this time. If we did support both, the ladders would be separated, of course. What about Team Games or Deathmatch? We currently have no plans to fund a season for TG or DM. We do however have the technical capability for keeping this separate and to facilitate them in the first place, and will be keeping our eyes on your feedback. The plan is to leave team tournaments to the community. You Can Help! For any of you looking to support our events, you can increase prize pools by donating (look for the AoM option on this page) - we think with your help, boosting one of the mid-season monthlies to $300 is a very achieve-able first goal! You can also help by becoming a subscriber on the website. Where To Watch We will live stream all of the events on our Twitch, and VoDs will be available on our Youtube. Community casters will have access to cover games as well, as long as we are not covering the match in question. Please contact each event's manager for clearance. How the Season Works Each Tournament we host will not only come with cash prizes, but also Meta Plays Ladder Points. These points go towards the corresponding ladder. Based on your position in the ladder, we assign you to a "Class" - one of D(lowest), C, B, A and S(highest). The classes give you a badge and will be featured on your Tournament Profile. By the time the Season Finale comes around, we will invite the top players based on the Ladder. Check out the Class icons below. The top 4 players will also receive medals corresponding with their final placement in each Tournament. While most are generic, Season Opener and Finale events, as well as any mid-season cup that reaches a prize pool of $300 will receive custom medals. Please note that the Ladders will only be generated after the first tournament has finished. Naturally, Tournament Profiles will also be quite empty at first! You are able to display your Profile and Class in your posts, if you turn these on in your site profile, however. Give Us The Numbers You are curious, as you should be! Based on the number and quality of signed up players, we modify the number of total points that a tournament can provide. Our guidelines for this are below: Base value: 10x Prize pool in USD (or monetary value in prizes). For any class exclusion combination, remove 10% points per class removed. S Class only tournaments are excluded from this ruling on a case-by-case basis. The number of players in the tournaments will scale the points in the following way: 4-8: -50% 9-15: -25% 16-24: no change 24-32: +50% 33-47: +75% 48-64: +100% You can review the point spread between player placements using our Tournament Point Calculator. Can I Host Tournaments Too? Yes! We are in fact looking for additional Tournament Hosts that are willing to contribute to our Seasonal Ladders. You can apply here. The ideal third party Tournament Host will: Have a prize pool for each event Have a solid history of past tournaments Not have been the cause of payout scandals Try not to create conflicts with our event dates That is pretty much it! Let us know what you think in the comments below, join us on Discord for real-time chats, and we will see you on the battlefield!

Hey everyone, We are very pleased to announce Season 1 for our StarCraft II Tournament Ladders! This season will be made up of the following tournaments: Mengsk's Dominion - $300, open, Single Elimination Cup - June 6 Meta Plays Monthly #1 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - June 27 Meta Plays Monthly #2 - $100, Open, Single Elimination Cup - July 18 The below events are indefinitely postponed: Meta Plays Monthly #3 - Meta Plays Monthly #4 - Meta Plays Monthly #5 - Meta Plays Monthly #6 - Season Finale - What about Team Games? We currently have no plans to fund a season for Teams. We do however have the technical capability for keeping this separate and to facilitate it in the first place, and will be keeping our eyes on your feedback. The plan is to leave team tournaments to the community. You Can Help! For any of you looking to support our events, you can increase prize pools by donating (look for the SC II option on this page) - we think with your help, boosting one of the mid-season monthlies to $300 is a very achieve-able first goal! You can also help by becoming a subscriber on the website. Where To Watch We will live stream all of the events on our Twitch, and VoDs will be available on our Youtube. Community casters will have access to cover games as well, as long as we are not covering the match in question. Please contact each event's manager for clearance. How the Season Works Each Tournament we host will not only come with cash prizes, but also Meta Plays Ladder Points. These points go towards the corresponding ladder. Based on your position in the ladder, we assign you to a "Class" - one of D(lowest), C, B, A and S(highest). The classes give you a badge and will be featured on your Tournament Profile. By the time the Season Finale comes around, we will invite the top players based on the Ladder. Check out the Class icons below. The top 4 players will also receive medals corresponding with their final placement in each Tournament. While most are generic, Season Opener and Finale events, as well as any mid-season cup that reaches a prize pool of $300 will receive custom medals. Please note that the Ladders will only be generated after the first tournament has finished. Naturally, Tournament Profiles will also be quite empty at first! You are able to display your Profile and Class in your posts, if you turn these on in your site profile, however. Give Us The Numbers You are curious, as you should be! Based on the number and quality of signed up players, we modify the number of total points that a tournament can provide. Our guidelines for this are below: Base value: 10x Prize pool in USD (or monetary value in prizes). For any class exclusion combination, remove 10% points per class removed. S Class only tournaments are excluded from this ruling on a case-by-case basis. The number of players in the tournaments will scale the points in the following way: 4-8: -50% 9-15: -25% 16-24: no change 24-32: +50% 33-47: +75% 48-64: +100% You can review the point spread between player placements using our Tournament Point Calculator. Can I Host Tournaments Too? Yes! We are in fact looking for additional Tournament Hosts that are willing to contribute to our Seasonal Ladders. You can apply here. The ideal third party Tournament Host will: Have a prize pool for each event Have a solid history of past tournaments Not have been the cause of payout scandals Try not to create conflicts with our event dates That is pretty much it! Let us know what you think in the comments below, join us on Discord for real-time chats, and we will see you on the battlefield!