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Meta Plays Age of Empires 4 Season 1 Finale Tournament. Brackets:

The last of the open tournaments in Season 1 of Meta Plays' Age of Empires IV League! Brackets:

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The first Hands-Off 2v2 Tournament for Season 3 in Age of Mythology! $150 and 2250 Meta Plays Ladder Points are up for grabs. Huge thank you to @Kilty and @joeybadz for donating $100 and $50 to the prize pool respectively! Sign ups will close Friday, August 26th, at 2 PM GMT. From this point, teams must complete each round within 1 week. Seeding is based on TG Supremacy Elo (team average). 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: $60 | 625 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Gold Medal Icon 2nd place: $40 | 494 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Silver Medal Icon 3rd place: $30 | 382 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Bronze Medal Icon 4th place: $20 | 292 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Copper Medal Icon 5-8th place: 109 Meta Plays Ladder Points Confused about the tournament system? Check our Tournament and Ladder info posts, and the Age of Mythology Season 3 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. Your team mate may NOT re-pick a god their team mate has won with. Higher seeded team may ban 1 map. First map per round is picked by the lower seeded team. Losing team each game picks next map. Each map may only be played once. Valid maps: Alfheim, Anatolia, Blue Lagoon, Ghost Lake, Marsh, Mediterranean, Midgard, Oasis, Savannah, Tundra, Watering Hole 1 veto per team 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 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, with replays. 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 team 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. 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 may upload videos at your leisure. 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. We recommend you use the Meta Plays Casting Tool for the best viewer experience. Content Partners: 60s delay is required. You will be considered as main streams for this event. Please contact @fophuxake for approval. Non-Partners: 90s delay is required. You may stream matches that aren't marked to be covered by Content Partners. Please contact @fophuxake for approval.

Hey subscribers! We've got a new status update for you about what we've been working on. This time around we're improving our supporter recognition, both on the website and during streams. Already Live: "Our Supporters" Page & Leaderboards This new page serves as a one-stop area to put all our community members that support us in the spotlight! Displayed leaderboards are crediting: Website Subscribers Donators Showmatch Hosts These leaderboards show some stats that otherwise weren't available via the stock systems of the website, such as how many months you were subscribed for, or how many showmatches you have commissioned, or your total contribution via donations. All the leaderboards are also available in their logically native areas, such as at the bottom of the Donations, Showmatch Store and Subscription pages. We have automated role updates for our Donators! These were previously handled manually, but now you will get credited automatically. Updates occur every 5 minutes, and will apply to your account if someone browses your profile, or if you load any page on the site yourself after one cycle of automated updates. Let's also go over what we're working on now!

The first Skirmish tournament for Season 2 in SpellForce 3! $10 and 100 Meta Plays Ladder Points are up for grabs. Starting on Saturday, August 20th at 4 PM GMT. Bracket will be locked at 3:45 PM GMT, making signing up impossible. 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 the in-game Leaderboard standings! Sign ups are capped to 1200 Elo. Meta Plays Staff reserves the right to remove suspicious or known high ranked players. The total amount of tournament points is subject to change based on sign ups. @Olvadi 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: $10 | 29 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Gold Medal Icon 2nd place: 22 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Silver Medal Icon 3rd place: 17 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Bronze Medal Icon 4th place: 13 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Copper Medal Icon 5-8th place: 5 Meta Plays Ladder Points Confused about the tournament system? Check our Tournament and Ladder info posts, and the SpellForce 3 Season 2 announcement! GAME SETTINGS Platform: Steam, Epic or GoG. Other platforms are currently incompatible. Mode: Skirmish Objective: Capital Destruction Max heroes: 1 Resource Abundance: x1 Economy Multiplier: 100% Players must blind pick their race using this tool each game. Once joining the lobby, you must use the race you announced. You may switch races between games. Random race is allowed. Contact @Olvadi for race pick disputes. Higher seed player bans a map first, followed by the lower seed player. Alternate until the number of maps matches the size of the series. Lower seed player picks the starting map and hosts it. Host takes slot 1, other player takes slot 2. Valid maps: Ancient City, Bitter Canyon, Empyrian Coast, Evergreen Forest, Greykeep Gardens, Hard Rock, Jungle Crossroads, Fortress Stoneguard, Wasteland of Xu, Windwall Forest No cheating or exploits of any form. 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 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. Do not sign up with smurfs. Match all account usernames. We will remove suspicious sign-ups. Ensure in-game names are not modified for color. You may symbols so long as your name remains readable. In the event of player lag disputes, players must submit speedtest results. The event manager will make a judgement call. Avoid using the "End Session" button, as this breaks spectating. Avoid using pauses, as this breaks spectating. Disconnected or crashed games may be re-hosted from saves, when possible. In the event a game appears decided, casters may call the winner, however. 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 may upload videos at your leisure. 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. We recommend you use the Meta Plays Casting Tool for the best viewer experience. Content Partners: 60s delay is required. You may cover any match. Please contact @Olvadi for approval. Non-Partners: 90s delay is required. You cover any match. Please contact @Olvadi for approval.

The first Skirmish tournament for Season 3 in Halo Wars 2! $10 and 100 Meta Plays Ladder Points are up for grabs. The tournament will take place on Sunday, August 14th, starting at 4 PM GMT. Brackets get locked at 3:45 PM GMT. Please note this is a scheduled event. Make sure you have enough time before you sign up! Seeding is based on the 1v1 Solo War ladder. You must have been Onyx or below to participate. Meta Plays Staff reserves the right to remove suspicious or known high ranked players. Ex-champions may be considered for their spot if they haven't been in champion league for 6+ months. The total amount of tournament points is subject to change based on sign ups. @Nakamura 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: $10 | 29 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Gold Medal Icon 2nd place: 22 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Silver Medal Icon 3rd place: 17 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Bronze Medal Icon 4th place: 13 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Copper Medal Icon 5-8th place: 5 Meta Plays Ladder Points GAME SETTINGS Higher seeded player may veto 1 map per series. First map is picked by the lower seeded player. Losing player each game picks next map. Each map may only be played once. Valid maps: Ashes, Badlands, Bedrock, Fissures, Frontier, Mirage, Rift, Vault. Repeat leaders are allowed. 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. Casters must either call the winner, or give both sides 1 point. Replay match if the series ends on tie. No cheating or intentional exploiting of any form allowed. Hosting Games will be hosted by the higher seeded player when casters are 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. 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 may upload videos at your leisure. 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. We recommend you use the Meta Plays Casting Tool for the best viewer experience. Content Partners: 60s delay is required. You will be considered as main streams for this event. Please contact @Nakamura for approval. Non-Partners: 90s delay is required. You may stream matches that aren't marked to be covered by Content Partners. Please contact @Nakamura for approval.

The first Skirmish Tournament for Season 3 in Age of Mythology! $10 and 100 Meta Plays Ladder Points are up for grabs. The tournament will take place on Saturday, August 6th, starting at 3 PM GMT. Brackets get locked at 2:45 PM GMT. Please note this is a one day event. Make sure you have enough time before you sign up! Maximum Elo to enter this tournament is 2000. Players with 2001 and above Elo will not be permitted to play. Meta Plays Staff reserves the right to remove suspicious or known high ranked players. Seeding is based on 1v1 Supremacy Elo. The total amount of tournament points is subject to change based on sign ups. @_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: $10 | 29 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Gold Medal Icon 2nd place: 22 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Silver Medal Icon 3rd place: 17 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Bronze Medal Icon 4th place: 13 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Copper Medal Icon 5-8th place: 5 Meta Plays Ladder Points Confused about the tournament system? Check our Tournament and Ladder info posts, and the Age of Mythology Season 3 announcement! GAME SETTINGS Use Age of Mythology: Extended Edition on Steam Use the Meta Plays Balance Mod. God repeats are allowed. 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, Blue Lagoon, Ghost Lake, Marsh, Mediterranean, Midgard, Oasis, Savannah, 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. 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. 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 may upload videos at your leisure. 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. We recommend you use the Meta Plays Casting Tool for the best viewer experience. Content Partners: 60s delay is required. You will be considered as main streams for this event. Please contact @_TheLegend_ for approval. Non-Partners: 90s delay is required. You may stream matches that aren't marked to be covered by Content Partners. Please contact @_TheLegend_ for approval.

Hi everyone, We are super excited to announce the release of our Showmatch System! You may have seen us running showmatch events before, but we didn't really have a place to store them, so we used news posts as a temporary measure. This changes now as we enter our third season (for our oldest games)! See some examples below for each of our currently supported games. Much like the tournaments, each showmatch will have a permanently saved listing, and a visual structure that is easy to follow. Each match will display factions and maps used, and we'll be able to edit it on the fly as players make their picks or results come in. The same thing, but for Age of Mythology! Age of Empires IV example! SpellForce 3 example! For our listings, we are transitioning to a 16:9 preview image, as opposed to the old 4:1 tournament listings. We have also updated this for tournaments. We can present more information like this, and things will look nicer when you share to social media. One more benefit is that art assets are more reusable - for example, content creators can use listing images as thumbnails. Just like with tournaments, the players will earn medals in their profiles. Showmatch profiles will be totally separate from tournament ones, though, and also track the players' total showmatch winnings and win rate statistics against other players. Of course there is no better way to put this system on display than actually running showmatches! We will hold 2 Promotional Showmatches for each of our supported games! The details and players are still TBD - feel free to make recommendations in the comments! We are looking to make these BO 7 showmatches, same as what you can commission with us! Check out our updated Showmatch Store and commission one you would like to see! All commission funds go to the players, and we will cover the event. We have made 2 changes to our store to increase the value of what you get: Lowered prices (based on what our players recommended was a fair amount) Increased the sizes of the series to reach from Bo 5 to Bo 11 (Note: Age of Empires IV and SpellForce 3 options are also available, but we strongly recommend you target players from our upcoming tournaments to increase the chances of your player picks agreeing to play.) New to Meta Plays: Ideas System Unlike the showmatch system, we can't take credit for this one, as it is a free plugin. Nonetheless, we will be looking forward to collecting your feedback and evaluating your ideas! Simply post your idea and share to get votes. We periodically review and action these. Several have already been actioned as and implemented as you can see below, such as our low level Skirmish Tournaments! Brand New Content Partner Program Content creators that would like to have a closer relationship with us now have a means of doing so! You can apply here. These creators gain several perks, such as full access to our Tournament and Showmatch hosting system and priority slots for casting limited-spectator games in our events, content promotion options, credits listings, and much more. In exchange, these creators offer us shout-outs when covering our content, such as tournaments, and participate in collaborative sponsor deals when they arise. Thus far we have welcomed Boit and AoL_Iron_Maiden as content partners, and we are looking forward to more joining us! You can check out the new Content Partners listing page where we highlight said individuals! Updates to Website Subscriptions and Donations Meta Plays is 100% privately run, and all running and dev costs are accounted for out of pocket. Our project is community-driven, though the right types of sponsorships would be considered by our team. In terms of our brand presence, these are still very much the early days, and so we rely significantly on community contributions. We kept an eye during our first year to see how people like to support our project, and came to these conclusions: Donations to a specific tournament's prize pools are a popular option Twitch subscriptions are moderately popular, despite our limited stream frequency per game Tips for staff are moderately popular as well - thank you for the pizzas! Donations to a broad goal, such as an entire season's prize pools are not popular Website subscriptions affecting all games' prize pools are not popular With these in mind, we have updated our Donation Page to offer options for each tournament, and one for staff tips. Donators also get highlighted in unique groups with badges, scaling based on their contributions. Website Subscriptions are our "Patreon at home". This will now focus on supporting the project. The following changes were made: Removed 3 tiers (9->6). Moved down the majority of former perks by 1 tier. Removed superfluous website perks to make the page easier to read. Introduced some new perks (pick rules for skirmish tournament, 1h coaching) Added subscriber-only news, where we can show off items in development early Instead of boosting tournaments, revenue will be used to cover running costs of the project (see chart below) Donations will be the main way to boost tournaments from now New Staff Page Just like with our Content Partner page, we are now also highlighting the individuals in our staff! Feel free to take a look and follow everyone! Other small changes we made: Removed the per-game home pages due to low usage Removed the per-game themes due to high maintenance cost Revamped the main navigation bar to focus more on Tournaments and Showmatches Future Website Development At the moment we are approaching the point where we feel the website is feature complete. That said, some outliers exist, so we are still going to actively develop for a few months at least. Planned features: Website Donator and Subscriber Leaderboards Discord Sign In Method & Automatic Role Updates Live Stream Notifications for Website Subs and Donations 1 Clan Ownership Limit Per Game Currently the clan feature is hidden until we complete this work. Clan listed in Profile, Tournament sign ups and Ladders Merging Tournament Profiles into the Site Profile Long Term Development Items We May Consider: (Note: these are hugely difficult and expensive systems to develop, and will be entirely dependent on our future success and priorities vs community ideas) Team Showmatch System (our system only supports 1v1) Clan War System (1v1 and Team) Game Support Update New Addition - Age of Empires IV: We have been closely watching the state of Age of Empires IV, and now with a significant amount of quality of life and competitive features added by the developers, we felt it was high time for us to support this community! Linked below: our article announcing our league's Season 1, as well as the first Monthly (open) and Skirmish (Low Elo Legends) Tournaments! Join these ASAP! Returning to Meta Plays - SpellForce 3: We have brought back SpellForce 3 into the fold now that the console versions are released and the game has a significantly increased audience. Our events will be smaller scale than before, but we are committed to building up the competitive community. Linked below: our article announcing our league's Season 2, as well as the first Monthly (open) and Skirmish (Low Elo Legends) Tournaments! Join these ASAP! Renewed for Season 3 - Age of Mythology: We are back with Age of Mythology for another season! Our main events will be on the Extended Edition this season, while Voobly events will be crowdfunded. We are also going to experiment with Team Tournaments! Linked below: our article announcing our league's Season 3, as well as the first Monthly (open) and Skirmish (Low Elo Legends) Tournaments! Join these ASAP! Renewed for Season 3 - Halo Wars 2: We are back with Halo Wars 2 for another season as well! We remain committed to pushing the competitive scene of the game. Linked below: our article announcing our league's Season 3, as well as the first Monthly (open) and Skirmish (Low Elo Legends) Tournaments! Join these ASAP! What about StarCraft II and Warcraft III? We have had to make the difficult decision to shelve both StarCraft II and Warcraft III for now. We feel both games require more budget than we have to generate the viewership and community support we experience in our other games. Perhaps in the future where our project can attract large sponsors, we can revisit these games. For now, we have hidden the site areas related to these games, but we will not be deleting anything. 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 tournament for Season 2 in SpellForce 3! $100 and 750 Meta Plays Ladder Points are up for grabs. Starting on Saturday, August 13 at 4 PM GMT. Bracket will be locked at 3:45 PM GMT, making signing up impossible. 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 the Season 1 Ladder standings first, and the in-game Leaderboard standings second! The total amount of tournament points is subject to change based on sign ups. @Olvadi 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: $40| 218 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Gold Medal Icon 2nd place: $30| 165 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Silver Medal Icon 3rd place: $20| 128 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Bronze Medal Icon 4th place: $10| 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 SpellForce 3 Season 2 announcement! GAME SETTINGS Platform: Steam, Epic or GoG. Other platforms are currently incompatible. Mode: Skirmish Objective: Capital Destruction Max heroes: 1 Resource Abundance: x1 Economy Multiplier: 100% Players must blind pick their race using this tool each game. Once joining the lobby, you must use the race you announced. You may switch races between games. Random race is allowed. Contact @Olvadi for race pick disputes. Higher seed player bans a map first, followed by the lower seed player. Alternate until the number of maps matches the size of the series. Lower seed player picks the starting map and hosts it. Host takes slot 1, other player takes slot 2. Valid maps: Ancient City, Bitter Canyon, Empyrian Coast, Evergreen Forest, Greykeep Gardens, Hard Rock, Jungle Crossroads, Fortress Stoneguard, Wasteland of Xu, Windwall Forest No cheating or exploits of any form. 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 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. Do not sign up with smurfs. Match all account usernames. We will remove suspicious sign-ups. Ensure in-game names are not modified for color. You may symbols so long as your name remains readable. In the event of player lag disputes, players must submit speedtest results. The event manager will make a judgement call. Avoid using the "End Session" button, as this breaks spectating. Avoid using pauses, as this breaks spectating. Disconnected or crashed games may be re-hosted from saves, when possible. In the event a game appears decided, casters may call the winner, however. 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. We recommend you use the Meta Plays Casting Tool for the best viewer experience. Content Partners: 60s delay is required. You may cover any match. Please contact @Olvadi for approval. You may upload videos at your leisure. Non-Partners: 90s delay is required. You cover any match. Please contact @Olvadi for approval. We request you wait with video uploads until the Meta Plays channel has posted its version of the identical match.