Nakamura

Brackets:

The second qualifier for the Meta Plays Age of Mythology League Season 4! 1500 Meta Plays Ladder Points are up for grabs. The tournament will take place on Saturday, February 11th, starting at 3 PM GMT. Please ensure you are in our Discord by lock time, as we will kick missing players from the tournament. For those looking to contribute to the main event, you may do so via our Donation Page, using the AoM option! Please note this is a ONE DAY EVENT. You must complete the tournament in 1 sitting. The event might take 6+ hours. Make sure you have enough time before you sign up. Seeding is based on your Season 4 Ladder score first, and your 1v1 Supremacy Elo second. The total amount of tournament points is subject to change based on sign ups. @fophuxake is the manager for this tournament. For any questions, concerns or requests, please reach out to her on Discord, or @ her in the comments here (if not urgent). EVENT PRIZES 1st place: 395 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Gold Medal Icon 2nd place: 290 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Silver Medal Icon 3rd place: 215 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Bronze Medal Icon 4th place: 155 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Copper Medal Icon 5-8th place: 60 Meta Plays Ladder Points 9-16th place: 27 Meta Plays Ladder Points Confused about the tournament system? Check our Tournament and Ladder info posts, and the Age of Mythology Season 4 announcement! GAME SETTINGS Use Age of Mythology: The Titans on Voobly. Game mod: Voobly Balance Patch 5.0 Blind Pick. No repeats of a god you have won with (within a series). You can only win with the same god 1 time and must switch to another. 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, Mega Random, Midgard, Oasis, Savannah, Tropical Mirage, Tundra, Watering Hole. 1 veto per player per series. Must be used before 1 minute. 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 deleting. No unnatural wall usage, such as deleting wall segments and setting up a gate network. No Gaia Forests around Gold Mines or Settlements. No cheating of any form. HOSTING Games will be hosted by the higher seeded player. SOCIAL RULES Participants must be in the Meta Plays Discord. Report match results there, with replays, even if they were casted. Replays should be named with the following format: Round X - Player 1 Name vs Player 2 Name - Game # We will not count matches that you fail to properly report. Please cooperate for the sake of timeliness. Forfeiting/not showing up to any match with prizes and without notice will result in disqualification and you forfeiting the prizes. 1 rescheduling opportunity is granted when external conditions force it. There will not be a second rescheduling. Forfeiting players that break rules on any of our platforms, or do so out of malicious intent will be banned from the next event. Repeat offenders will receive a ban from the entire season. There will not be a fourth chance after the season-long ban expires. Penalties for not showing up: Timer starts when 1 player is ready and neither player is currently playing a match. Late by over 10 minutes: opponent gains 1 match win. This is the wait time BEFORE a series begins. BETWEEN games in a series, the lateness limit is 5 minutes. Late by additional 5 minutes: opponent gains 1 match win for each 5 min. Once a player wins via lateness penalties, the late player is disqualified. No harassment or discrimination of players/viewers/staff on any of our platforms. You will be disqualified, forfeit of prizes in this event, and be permanently banned from all event participation. No excessively derogatory messaging targeting our staff on any platform. This will result in a permanent ban on all Meta Plays platforms. Win trading will result in forfeit. Do your best to win. You may resign if you are clearly losing. Live coaching or any other external communication during matches is unacceptable and will result in a permanent ban from all Meta Plays events. Do not sign up with smurfs. Match all account usernames. We will remove suspicious sign-ups. In the event of player lag disputes, players must submit speedtest results. The event manager will make a judgement call. No account sharing. You will be disqualified, forfeit of prizes in this event, and be permanently banned from all event participation. PAYMENT You will be paid approximately 2-5 work days after the event. Please reach out to @Nakamura with your payment information after the event. If you do not provide payment information despite requests within 60 days after the event, you forfeit the prize money. You confirm that the account you provide is owned by you. We do not take responsibility for funds getting lost to third parties in the event of the account not belonging to you. We will not pay out to a known third party. We can pay out via bank transfers or Paypal. We do not pay out via other methods. We do not pay extra to cover transfer fees. This tournament takes place during a war period. Ukraine has been invaded by Russia and Belarus. In light of NATO sanctions against Russia and Belarus, we are not able to pay out prizes to Russian and Belarusian competitors residing in Russia or Belarus. Russian or Belarusian citizens are not affected by this if they reside in an un-sanctioned country, or have financial accounts in such a country able to receive payments. Affected prizes will be paid to a selected charity unrelated to the war, chosen by our staff. LIVE STREAMING & VIDEOS Everyone: You may stream all of your own matches. You are required to feature the provided Meta Plays Logo over gameplay at all times. We request you give Meta Plays one shout-out mid-commentary, such as an invitation to make an account on the site. For casting, we recommend you use the Meta Plays Casting Tool for the best viewer experience. Content Partners: 60s delay is required. You may stream matches that aren't marked to be covered by Meta Plays. Please contact @fophuxake to be linked from the bracket. You may upload videos at your leisure. Non-Partners: 90s delay is required. You may stream matches that aren't marked to be covered by Meta Plays or Content Partners. Please contact @fophuxake to be linked from the bracket. We request you wait with video uploads until the Meta Plays channel has posted its version of the identical match.

Top 4 matches covered on the final day. Brackets:

Quarterfinals matches covered on day 2. Brackets:

Group stage matches covered on day 1. Brackets:

Brackets:

Brackets:

Bracket:

Brackets:

Showmatch Page:

Hey everyone! In this post we will sum up what has been going on with Meta Plays, and detail our plans for 2023. Changes to our League Structure In 2023, we are changing our overall content strategy in order to grow our reach, and in the process make our project more sustainable. Instead of having low prize pools in Monthly Tournaments and then a slightly larger, but ultimately still small Season Finale, we will be putting all our eggs into the invitational basket. We are also reducing the length of seasons. We believe that these changes will help generate more hype, and also make all audiences (players, viewers, supporters, brands) take the leagues more seriously. We are also rebranding our events to a more standard, easier to understand format: The Monthly Tournaments will be rebranded to Qualifiers. The Season Finales will be referred to as a Main Event. Main Leagues will be called Pro Leagues. Skirmish Leagues will be called Amateur Leagues. Game Support Update Renewed for Season 2 - Age of Empires IV: We are naming this season "Genghis Khan's Legacy"! We are allocating a $500 starting prize pool, and accept community contributions to boost this. Below are our article announcing our league, the first Qualifier Tournament, and our promotional showmatch! Join ASAP! Renewed for Season 4 - Age of Mythology: We are naming this season "The Golden Gift"! We are allocating a $500 starting prize pool, and accept community contributions to boost this. Linked below are our article announcing our league, as well as the first Qualifier Tournament! Join it ASAP! Renewed for Season 4 - Halo Wars 2: We are naming this season "Sentinels"! We are allocating a $500 starting prize pool, and accept community contributions to boost this. Linked below are our article announcing our league, as well as the first Qualifier Tournaments for the 1v1 Pro League, as well as the 2v2 Amateur League! Join these ASAP! Renewed for Season 3 - SpellForce 3: We are naming this season "Circle Mages"! We are allocating a $500 starting prize pool, and accept community contributions to boost this. Linked below are our article announcing our league! We will post the qualifier at a later date, as the previous season has not yet concluded. Our New Media Manager One of the biggest changes for 2023 will be that we now have a dedicated Media Manager. Please welcome @Lucky_Spaidsto our team! He will be looking after all social media, and create some additional content with the aim of growing our reach. Expect highlights, shorts, recaps and more! We will do everything in our power to build a thriving community in as many places as possible. Fresh Looks You have probably already noticed the new website background, and/or social banners! We think the darker style is easier on the eyes, fits better with our shield logo, and is ever so slightly more environmentally friendly. This will be applied to our stream assets as well. The banners on our socials also get a little descriptive text box, helping people figure out what we do immediately. New Page: Sponsors and Affiliates We have also set up several affiliate links on the website - by using any of these services with our links, you support Meta Plays at the same time. These news will be re-iterated in the main news article as we kick off the upcoming leagues. In Development: Clans We have started work on a rudimentary clan system. While the website sort of supports this out of the box, people are able to join multiple clans even within the same game at the moment - which has lead to us hiding the feature. So we are working on cleaning this up, and featuring the clans in several profile areas. There is always the potential of developing clan-based events in the future, but for the moment, significant further development like that is not planned. Our priority will shift to ensuring that the events we run are sustainable both financially and in terms of not burning our team out. The Next Item: Unified Profile The final item on our development roadmap is to work the tournament profiles into the main website profiles. Our implementation of tournament profiles was hacky - it was easier to do it on a separate page, but this makes for a much worse browsing experience, and has very poor SEO, making our players difficult to find. Full integration of this area will be a significant improvement we believe. The Future Other than bug fixes as and when needed, this is it for website development. We would revisit this stance in the event that we can secure sponsorships to cover tournament prize pools. Doing website development on the side would be perfectly feasible in that case, but we cannot keep bleeding budget out of pocket while we are as small as we are now. Looking to Support our project or events? The best way to support Meta Plays directly is becoming a subscriber on the website. This is a monthly recurring payment that you get perks for, and help us cover the running costs of the project. You can also increase prize pools of individual tournaments by donating. Where To Watch We will live stream all our events on our Twitch, and VoDs will be available on our YouTube. Be sure to follow/subscribe, it's free! That's all! Let us know what you think in the comments. Also don't forget to join our Discord for real time chats! Thank you for reading, we will see you on the battlefield!

The first qualifier for for the 2v2 Amateur League Season 1! 1000 Meta Plays Ladder Points are up for grabs. The tournament will take place on Sunday, January 22nd, starting at 4 PM GMT. Brackets get locked at 3:45 PM GMT. This tournament is a ONE DAY EVENT - please ensure you have enough time to play in 1 go. For those looking to contribute to the main event, you may do so via our Donation Page, using the HW 2 option! Seeding is based on 2v2 MMR - check yours here by searching for your Gamertag. To participate, your account: Must have 3.0 MMR or less. Gamerscore in multiple games. Must have at least one of the below: Account age must be over 6 months. 300+ matches played. The Meta Plays team reserves the right to remove your sign up if you are deemed a high level player in other formats. @_TheLegend_ 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: 272 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Gold Medal Icon 2nd place: 202 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Silver Medal Icon 3rd place: 152 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Bronze Medal Icon 4th place: 112 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Copper Medal Icon 5-6th place: 75 Meta Plays Ladder Points 5-6th place: 59 Meta Plays Ladder Points Confused about the tournament system? Check our Tournament and Ladder info posts, and the Halo Wars 2 Season 3 announcement! GAME SETTINGS Higher seeded player may veto 1 map per series. First map is picked by the lower seeded team. Once the map is picked, each team may ban 1 leader per series. The higher seed should veto first. Losing team each game picks next map. Each map may only be played once. Valid maps: Ashes, Badlands, Bedrock, Fissures, Frontier, Mirage, Rift, Vault. No repeat leaders in a series. No Voridus. Accidental pick of vetoed leaders or Voridus results in loss. No node strat - do not take nodes without the intent of killing Sentinels. Exception: you can draw the Sentinels to attack an enemy minibase or units, and still capture the node. Exception: Cannon Fodder can take nodes any way you want. 1 hour time limit. If base and slot building count is even/very close, and neither player has a large army advantage, the game is a draw. If one player has an army advantage, casters will send a final attack prompt. The outcome of this last attack determines whether a winner or a draw is called, based on the base/slot building count afterwards. If one player has a clear base and slot building count advantage and their opponent is not in a position to even out the game with the next attack, the player with more slot buildings wins. Replay match if the series ends on tie. The previous loser picks map in this case. No cheating or intentional exploiting of any form allowed. Hosting Games will be hosted by the higher seeded player when staff is not present. Casters will host if they are present. SOCIAL RULES Participants must be in the Meta Plays Discord. Report match results there. Forfeiting/not showing up to any match with prizes and without notice will result in disqualification and you forfeiting the prizes. 1 rescheduling opportunity is granted when external conditions force it. There will not be a second rescheduling. Forfeiting players that break rules on any of our platforms, or do so out of malicious intent will be banned from the next event. Repeat offenders will receive a ban from the entire season. There will not be a fourth chance after the season-long ban expires. Penalties for not showing up: Timer starts when 1 player is ready and neither team is currently playing a match. Late by over 10 minutes: opponent gains 1 match win. This is the wait time BEFORE a series begins. BETWEEN games in a series, the lateness limit is 5 minutes. Late by additional 5 minutes: opponent gains 1 match win for each 5 min. Once a team wins via lateness penalties, the late player is disqualified. No harassment or discrimination of players/viewers/staff on any of our platforms. You will be disqualified, forfeit of prizes in this event, and be permanently banned from all event participation. No excessively derogatory messaging targeting our staff on any platform. This will result in a permanent ban on all Meta Plays platforms. Win trading will result in forfeit. Do your best to win. You may resign if you are clearly losing. Live coaching or any other external communication during matches is unacceptable and will result in a permanent ban from all Meta Plays events. Do not sign up with smurfs. Match all account usernames. We will remove suspicious sign-ups. In the event of player lag disputes, players must submit speedtest results. The event manager will make a judgement call. In the event of a disconnection or crash: If the game was relatively even: If all parties crash, re-play the game. The game doesn't count for score in the first instance. The team who didn't disconnect may choose a new map, and both teams may choose new leaders. In the second instance, the team who didn't disconnect receives a point on the score board. In the third instance, the team who didn't disconnect wins the series. If both sides crash 3 times, reset PC/Xbox and internet. If a team was significantly ahead: Admin win is awarded for the match for all cases. In the third instance, the player who didn't disconnect wins the series. Johnson/Jerome crash: The team with Johnson/Jerome loses. In the event of both teams causing a crash, we will treat this case as a disconnect and follow rules around them. No account sharing. You will be disqualified, forfeit of prizes in this event, and be permanently banned from all event participation. PAYMENT You will be paid approximately 2-5 work days after the event. Please reach out to @Nakamura with your payment information after the event. If you do not provide payment information despite requests within 60 days after the event, you forfeit the prize money. You confirm that the account you provide is owned by you. We do not take responsibility for funds getting lost to third parties in the event of the account not belonging to you. We will not pay out to a known third party. We can pay out via bank transfers or Paypal. We do not pay out via other methods. We do not pay extra to cover transfer fees. This tournament takes place during a war period. Ukraine has been invaded by Russia and Belarus. In light of NATO sanctions against Russia and Belarus, we are not able to pay out prizes to Russian and Belarusian competitors residing in Russia or Belarus. Russian or Belarusian citizens are not affected by this if they reside in an un-sanctioned country, or have financial accounts in such a country able to receive payments. Affected prizes will be paid to a selected charity unrelated to the war, chosen by our staff. LIVE STREAMING & VIDEOS: Everyone: You may stream all of your own matches. You are required to feature the provided Meta Plays Logo over gameplay at all times. We request you give Meta Plays one shout-out mid-commentary, such as an invitation to make an account on the site. For casting, we recommend you use the Meta Plays Casting Tool for the best viewer experience. Content Partners: 60s delay is required. You may stream matches that aren't marked to be covered by Meta Plays. Please contact @_TheLegend_ for approval. You may upload videos at your leisure. Non-Partners: 90s delay is required. You may stream matches that aren't marked to be covered by Meta Plays or Content Partners. Please contact @_TheLegend_ for approval. We request you wait with video uploads until the Meta Plays channel has posted its version of the identical match.

The first qualifier for for the Meta Plays Halo Wars 2 League Season 4! 750 Meta Plays Ladder Points are up for grabs. The tournament will take place on Saturday, January 21st, starting at 4 PM GMT. Brackets get locked at 3:45 PM GMT. This tournament is a ONE DAY EVENT - please ensure you have enough time to play in 1 go. For those looking to contribute to the main event, you may do so via our Donation Page, using the HW 2 option! Seeding is based on the Season 3 ladder standings first, and your Solo War MMR second. @_TheLegend_ 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: 218 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Gold Medal Icon 2nd place: 165 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Silver Medal Icon 3rd place: 128 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Bronze Medal Icon 4th place: 98 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Copper Medal Icon 5-8th place: 37 Meta Plays Ladder Points Confused about the tournament system? Check our Tournament and Ladder info posts, and the Halo Wars 2 Season 3 announcement! GAME SETTINGS Higher seeded player may veto 1 map per series. First map is picked by the lower seeded player. Once the map is picked, each player may ban 1 leader per series. The higher seed should veto first. Losing player each game picks next map. Each map may only be played once. Valid maps: Ashes, Badlands, Bedrock, Fissures, Frontier, Mirage, Rift, Vault. No repeat leaders in a series. No Voridus. Accidental pick of vetoed leaders or Voridus results in loss. No node strat - do not take nodes without the intent of killing Sentinels. Exception: you can draw the Sentinels to attack an enemy minibase or units, and still capture the node. Exception: Cannon Fodder can take nodes any way you want. 1 hour time limit. If base and slot building count is even/very close, and neither player has a large army advantage, the game is a draw. If one player has an army advantage, casters will send a final attack prompt. The outcome of this last attack determines whether a winner or a draw is called, based on the base/slot building count afterwards. If one player has a clear base and slot building count advantage and their opponent is not in a position to even out the game with the next attack, the player with more slot buildings wins. Replay match if the series ends on tie. The previous loser picks map in this case. No cheating or intentional exploiting of any form allowed. Hosting Games will be hosted by the higher seeded player when staff is not present. Casters will host if they are present. SOCIAL RULES Participants must be in the Meta Plays Discord. Report match results there. Forfeiting/not showing up to any match with prizes and without notice will result in disqualification and you forfeiting the prizes. 1 rescheduling opportunity is granted when external conditions force it. There will not be a second rescheduling. Forfeiting players that break rules on any of our platforms, or do so out of malicious intent will be banned from the next event. Repeat offenders will receive a ban from the entire season. There will not be a fourth chance after the season-long ban expires. Penalties for not showing up: Timer starts when 1 player is ready and neither player is currently playing a match. Late by over 10 minutes: opponent gains 1 match win. This is the wait time BEFORE a series begins. BETWEEN games in a series, the lateness limit is 5 minutes. Late by additional 5 minutes: opponent gains 1 match win for each 5 min. Once a player wins via lateness penalties, the late player is disqualified. No harassment or discrimination of players/viewers/staff on any of our platforms. You will be disqualified, forfeit of prizes in this event, and be permanently banned from all event participation. No excessively derogatory messaging targeting our staff on any platform. This will result in a permanent ban on all Meta Plays platforms. Win trading will result in forfeit. Do your best to win. You may resign if you are clearly losing. Live coaching or any other external communication during matches is unacceptable and will result in a permanent ban from all Meta Plays events. Do not sign up with smurfs. Match all account usernames. We will remove suspicious sign-ups. In the event of player lag disputes, players must submit speedtest results. The event manager will make a judgement call. In the event of a disconnection or crash: If the game was relatively even: If all parties crash, re-play the game. The game doesn't count for score in the first instance. The player who didn't disconnect may choose a new map, and both players may choose a new leader. In the second instance, the player who didn't disconnect receives a point on the score board. In the third instance, the player who didn't disconnect wins the series. If both sides crash 3 times, reset PC/Xbox and internet. If a player was significantly ahead: Admin win is awarded for the match for all cases. In the third instance, the player who didn't disconnect wins the series. Johnson/Jerome crash: The Johnson/Jerome player loses. In the event of both players causing a crash, we will treat this case as a disconnect and follow rules around them. No account sharing. You will be disqualified, forfeit of prizes in this event, and be permanently banned from all event participation. PAYMENT You will be paid approximately 2-5 work days after the event. Please reach out to @Nakamura with your payment information after the event. If you do not provide payment information despite requests within 60 days after the event, you forfeit the prize money. You confirm that the account you provide is owned by you. We do not take responsibility for funds getting lost to third parties in the event of the account not belonging to you. We will not pay out to a known third party. We can pay out via bank transfers or Paypal. We do not pay out via other methods. We do not pay extra to cover transfer fees. This tournament takes place during a war period. Ukraine has been invaded by Russia and Belarus. In light of NATO sanctions against Russia and Belarus, we are not able to pay out prizes to Russian and Belarusian competitors residing in Russia or Belarus. Russian or Belarusian citizens are not affected by this if they reside in an un-sanctioned country, or have financial accounts in such a country able to receive payments. Affected prizes will be paid to a selected charity unrelated to the war, chosen by our staff. LIVE STREAMING & VIDEOS: Everyone: You may stream all of your own matches. You are required to feature the provided Meta Plays Logo over gameplay at all times. We request you give Meta Plays one shout-out mid-commentary, such as an invitation to make an account on the site. For casting, we recommend you use the Meta Plays Casting Tool for the best viewer experience. Content Partners: 60s delay is required. You may stream matches that aren't marked to be covered by Meta Plays. Please contact @_TheLegend_ for approval. You may upload videos at your leisure. Non-Partners: 90s delay is required. You may stream matches that aren't marked to be covered by Meta Plays or Content Partners. Please contact @_TheLegend_ for approval. We request you wait with video uploads until the Meta Plays channel has posted its version of the identical match.

We are very pleased to announce Season 3 for our SpellForce 3 Tournament League! This season features large changes compared to past ones: All of the league's prize pool is concentrated in the main event. Especially with community contributions, we can generate more hype for the main event. The larger prize pool will help eliminate unnecessary forfeits, as there is more on the line. Top players won't necessarily have to commit to playing all qualifiers if their schedule is busy. This system allows us to get all these benefits for a similar investment. The season's length will be 4 months, down from 6. Event changes: Each tournament will be a one day event. For the Main Event, we will invite the top 8 by ladder points from the qualifiers. We will rebrand the event names. The Main League will now be referred to as a Pro League. The Skirmish League will now be referred to as an Amateur League. Instead of Monthlies, we are now calling them Qualifiers. Each named after the main event. We will refer to the season finale as the Main Event. The lore-like theming will remain. Introducing "Paragon's Return" Pro League: Paragon's Return Qualifier 1 - Single Elimination - 1000 Ladder Points - February 25- One day event Paragon's Return Qualifier 2 - Double Elimination - 1000 Ladder Points - March 25 - One day event Paragon's Return Qualifier 3 - Single Elimination - 1000 Ladder Points - April 15 - One day event Paragon's Return Main Event - $500 + Community Donations, Double Elimination - May 14 - One day event How the Season Works Each tournament comes with 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. For the Main Event, we will only take our own ladder into account for your seeding. Check out the Class icons below. The top 4 players will also receive medals corresponding with their final placement in each Tournament. While qualifiers are generic, the Main Event will receive custom medals. For additional info, please check our Tournament and Ladder explainer posts! Give Us The Numbers 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 qualifiers the base value is 1000. For any class exclusion combination, remove 10% points per class removed. S+A 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% 16-23: no change 24-31: +50% 32-47: +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 Content Partners that are willing to contribute to our Seasonal Ladders, or cover events that we may not be able to. You can apply as a content partner here. We are Struggling with SpellForce 3 We won't sugar coat it - our live stream viewership has been extremely low for SpellForce 3. In Age of Mythology and Halo Wars 2 we have been getting around 80+ average live viewers, and some notable community support, while in SpellForce 3, we are looking at barely 20 average viewers, and very little revenue on all fronts. This means we are bleeding project budget more so than with the other games, by far. We will do what we can on our side to grow the competitive community, but ultimately this will be an uphill battle and will need your help to succeed. Can I Help Meta Plays Directly? For any of you looking to support our project, the best way to do so is becoming a subscriber on the website. This is a monthly recurring payment that you get perks and exclusive news for. The more goals we hit, the easier and safer it is for us to keep the project going. We are also currently looking for Moderators to join our team, so that we can keep our chats, discords and website a pleasant and friendly environment for all. You can apply here. Where To Watch We will live stream the main events on our Twitch, and VoDs will be available on our YouTube. Community casters will have access to cover any and all matches even live, since SpellForce 3 does not have a spectator limit. We also provide replay packs that may be used for replay casts or learning purposes. 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!

We are pleased to announce the Meta Plays Halo Wars 2 League Season 4! Meta Plays will cover key matches, with the rest being open to community casters. This season features large changes compared to past ones: All of the league's prize pool is concentrated in the main event. Especially with community contributions, we can generate more hype for the main event. The larger prize pool will help eliminate unnecessary forfeits, as there is more on the line. Top players won't necessarily have to commit to playing all qualifiers if their schedule is busy. This system allows us to get all these benefits for a similar investment. The season's length will be 4 months, down from 6. We will rebrand the event names. The Main League will now be referred to as a Pro League. The Skirmish League will now be referred to as an Amateur League. Instead of Monthlies, we are now calling them Qualifiers. Each named after the main event. We will refer to the season finale as the Main Event. The lore-like theming will remain. Introducing the "Sentinels" Pro League: Sentinels Qualifier 1 - Single Elimination - 1000 Ladder Points - January 21 - One day event Sentinels Qualifier 2 - Double Elimination - 1000 Ladder Points - February 12 - One day event Sentinels Qualifier 3 - Single Elimination - 1000 Ladder Points - March 19 - One day event Sentinels Main Event - $500 + Community Donations, GSL Group Stage - April 8 - One day event Introducing the Amateur 2v2 League Season 1: 2v2 Amateur League Season 1 Qualifier 1 - Double Elimination - 1000 Ladder Points - January 22 - One day event 2v2 Amateur League Season 1 Qualifier 2 - Single Elimination - 1000 Ladder Points - February 18 - One day event 2v2 Amateur League Season 1 Qualifier 3 - Double Elimination - 1000 Ladder Points - March 18 - One day event 2v2 Amateur League Season 1 Main Event - $100 + Community Donations, Double Elimination - April 2 - One day event Note: this article and our calendar will be updated as we progress through the season and new info becomes available. How the Ladder Works Each tournament comes with 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. For the Main Event, we will only take our own ladder into account for your seeding. Check out the Class icons below. The top 4 players will also receive medals corresponding with their final placement in each Tournament. While qualifiers are generic, the Pro League Main Event will receive custom medals. For additional info, please check our Tournament and Ladder explainer posts! Give Us The Numbers 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 qualifiers the base value is 1000. For any class exclusion combination, remove 10% points per class removed. S+A 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% 16-23: no change 24-31: +50% 32-47: +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 Content Partners that are willing to contribute to our Seasonal Ladders, or cover events that we may not be able to. You can apply as a content partner here. Can I Help Meta Plays Directly? For any of you looking to support our project, the best way to do so is becoming a subscriber on the website. This is a monthly recurring payment that you get perks and exclusive news for. The more goals we hit, the easier and safer it is for us to keep the project going. We are also currently looking for Moderators to join our team, so that we can keep our chats, discords and website a pleasant and friendly environment for all. You can apply here. Where To Watch We will live stream the main events on our Twitch, and VoDs will be available on our YouTube. Community casters will have access to cover games as well - all games that we don't cover are open casting for live streamers. Please contact each event's manager for clearance. Bear in mind though, that in Halo Wars 2, due to limited spectating slots, our Content Partners have priority in key matches. 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 first qualifier for the Meta Plays Age of Mythology League Season 4! 1500 Meta Plays Ladder Points are up for grabs. The tournament will take place on Saturday, January 14th, starting at 3 PM GMT. Please ensure you are in our Discord by lock time, as we will kick missing players from the tournament. For those looking to contribute to the main event, you may do so via our Donation Page, using the AoM option! Please note this is a ONE DAY EVENT. You must complete the tournament in 1 sitting. The event might take 6+ hours. Make sure you have enough time before you sign up. Seeding is based on your 1v1 Supremacy Elo. The total amount of tournament points is subject to change based on sign ups. @fophuxake is the manager for this tournament. For any questions, concerns or requests, please reach out to her on Discord, or @ her in the comments here (if not urgent). EVENT PRIZES 1st place: 395 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Gold Medal Icon 2nd place: 290 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Silver Medal Icon 3rd place: 215 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Bronze Medal Icon 4th place: 155 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Copper Medal Icon 5-8th place: 60 Meta Plays Ladder Points 9-16th place: 27 Meta Plays Ladder Points Confused about the tournament system? Check our Tournament and Ladder info posts, and the Age of Mythology Season 4 announcement! GAME SETTINGS Use Age of Mythology: The Titans on Voobly. Game mod: Voobly Balance Patch 5.0 Blind Pick. No repeats of a god you have won with (within a series). You can only win with the same god 1 time and must switch to another. 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, Mega Random, Midgard, Oasis, Savannah, Tropical Mirage, Tundra, Watering Hole. 1 veto per player per series. Must be used before 1 minute. 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 deleting. No unnatural wall usage, such as deleting wall segments and setting up a gate network. No Gaia Forests around Gold Mines or Settlements. No cheating of any form. HOSTING Games will be hosted by the higher seeded player. SOCIAL RULES Participants must be in the Meta Plays Discord. Report match results there, with replays, even if they were casted. Replays should be named with the following format: Round X - Player 1 Name vs Player 2 Name - Game # We will not count matches that you fail to properly report. Please cooperate for the sake of timeliness. Forfeiting/not showing up to any match with prizes and without notice will result in disqualification and you forfeiting the prizes. 1 rescheduling opportunity is granted when external conditions force it. There will not be a second rescheduling. Forfeiting players that break rules on any of our platforms, or do so out of malicious intent will be banned from the next event. Repeat offenders will receive a ban from the entire season. There will not be a fourth chance after the season-long ban expires. Penalties for not showing up: Timer starts when 1 player is ready and neither player is currently playing a match. Late by over 10 minutes: opponent gains 1 match win. This is the wait time BEFORE a series begins. BETWEEN games in a series, the lateness limit is 5 minutes. Late by additional 5 minutes: opponent gains 1 match win for each 5 min. Once a player wins via lateness penalties, the late player is disqualified. No harassment or discrimination of players/viewers/staff on any of our platforms. You will be disqualified, forfeit of prizes in this event, and be permanently banned from all event participation. No excessively derogatory messaging targeting our staff on any platform. This will result in a permanent ban on all Meta Plays platforms. Win trading will result in forfeit. Do your best to win. You may resign if you are clearly losing. Live coaching or any other external communication during matches is unacceptable and will result in a permanent ban from all Meta Plays events. Do not sign up with smurfs. Match all account usernames. We will remove suspicious sign-ups. In the event of player lag disputes, players must submit speedtest results. The event manager will make a judgement call. No account sharing. You will be disqualified, forfeit of prizes in this event, and be permanently banned from all event participation. PAYMENT You will be paid approximately 2-5 work days after the event. Please reach out to @Nakamura with your payment information after the event. If you do not provide payment information despite requests within 60 days after the event, you forfeit the prize money. You confirm that the account you provide is owned by you. We do not take responsibility for funds getting lost to third parties in the event of the account not belonging to you. We will not pay out to a known third party. We can pay out via bank transfers or Paypal. We do not pay out via other methods. We do not pay extra to cover transfer fees. This tournament takes place during a war period. Ukraine has been invaded by Russia and Belarus. In light of NATO sanctions against Russia and Belarus, we are not able to pay out prizes to Russian and Belarusian competitors residing in Russia or Belarus. Russian or Belarusian citizens are not affected by this if they reside in an un-sanctioned country, or have financial accounts in such a country able to receive payments. Affected prizes will be paid to a selected charity unrelated to the war, chosen by our staff. LIVE STREAMING & VIDEOS Everyone: You may stream all of your own matches. You are required to feature the provided Meta Plays Logo over gameplay at all times. We request you give Meta Plays one shout-out mid-commentary, such as an invitation to make an account on the site. For casting, we recommend you use the Meta Plays Casting Tool for the best viewer experience. Content Partners: 60s delay is required. You may stream matches that aren't marked to be covered by Meta Plays. Please contact @fophuxake to be linked from the bracket. You may upload videos at your leisure. Non-Partners: 90s delay is required. You may stream matches that aren't marked to be covered by Meta Plays or Content Partners. Please contact @fophuxake to be linked from the bracket. We request you wait with video uploads until the Meta Plays channel has posted its version of the identical match.

We are pleased to announce the Meta Plays Age of Mythology League Season 4! The pro league events will be held on Age of Mythology: The Titans on Voobly! Meta Plays and our Content Partners will cover key matches, with the rest being open to community casters. This season features large changes compared to past ones: All of the league's prize pool is concentrated in the Main Event. Especially with community contributions, we can generate more hype for the main event. The larger prize pool will help eliminate unnecessary forfeits, as there is more on the line. Top players won't necessarily have to commit to playing all qualifiers if their schedule is busy. This system allows us to get all these benefits for a similar investment. The season's length will be 4 months, down from 6. Main event changes: This will be a one day event. We will invite the top 8 by ladder points from the qualifiers. We will rebrand the event names. The Main League will now be referred to as a Pro League. The Skirmish League will now be referred to as an Amateur League. Instead of Monthlies, we are now calling them Qualifiers. Each named after the main event. We will refer to the season finale as the Main Event. The lore-like theming will remain. Introducing "The Golden Gift" Pro League: The Golden Gift Qualifier 1 - Single Elimination - 1000 Ladder Points - January 14 - One day event The Golden Gift Qualifier 2 - Double Elimination - 1000 Ladder Points - February 11 - One day event The Golden Gift Qualifier 3 - Single Elimination - 1000 Ladder Points - March 12 - One day event The Golden Gift Main Event - $500 + Community Donations, GSL Group Stage - April 1- One day event Note: this article and our calendar will be updated as we progress through the season and new info becomes available. How the Ladder Works Each tournament comes with 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. For the Main Event, we will only take our own ladder into account for your seeding. Check out the Class icons below. The top 4 players will also receive medals corresponding with their final placement in each Tournament. While qualifiers are generic, the Main Event will receive custom medals. For additional info, please check our Tournament and Ladder explainer posts! Give Us The Numbers 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 qualifiers the base value is 1000. For any class exclusion combination, remove 10% points per class removed. S+A 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% 16-23: no change 24-31: +50% 32-47: +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 Content Partners that are willing to contribute to our Seasonal Ladders, or cover events that we may not be able to. You can apply as a content partner here. Where did the 2v2 and low Elo events go? For the moment, until Age of Mythology Retold releases, we will be halting our 2v2 and amateur events and focus on the 1v1 pro league. We are absolutely planning to bring these back in the future, though. Can I Help Meta Plays Directly? For any of you looking to support our project, the best way to do so is becoming a subscriber on the website. This is a monthly recurring payment that you get perks and exclusive news for. The more goals we hit, the easier and safer it is for us to keep the project going. We are also currently looking for Moderators to join our team, so that we can keep our chats, discord and website a pleasant and friendly environment for all. You can apply here. Where To Watch We will live stream the main events on our Twitch, and VoDs will be available on our YouTube. Community casters will have access to cover games as well - all games that we don't cover are open casting for live streamers. Please contact each event's manager for clearance. Bear in mind though, that in Age of Mythology, due to limited spectating slots and lag reasons, our Content Partners have priority in key matches. We also provide replay packs that may be used for replay casts or learning purposes. 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 subscribers! In this post, we will be sharing a new status update on our development, and our planned format changes to our leagues, as well as other ideas we have for the future. Fresh Looks You have probably already noticed the new website background, and/or social banners! We think the darker style is easier on the eyes, fits better with our shield logo, and is ever so slightly more environmentally friendly. This will be applied to our stream assets as well. The banners on our socials also get a little descriptive text box, helping people figure out what we do immediately. New Page: Sponsors and Affiliates We have also set up several affiliate links on the website - by using any of these services with our links, you support Meta Plays at the same time. These news will be re-iterated in the main news article as we kick off the upcoming leagues.