Deathmatch Pro League Season 1 - Tournament 1 - Age of Mythology Tournaments

The first event for the Meta Plays 1v1 Deathmatch Pro League! £100 and 1000 Meta Plays Ladder Points are up for grabs.

The tournament will take place on Saturday, February 8th, starting at 4 PM UTC. Brackets get locked at 3:45 PM UTC.

This tournament is a ONE DAY EVENT - please ensure you have enough time to play in 1 go.

Looking to contribute to this event? You may do so via our Donation Page, using the matching AoM option!

@fophuxakeis 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

Prize distribution is as follows:

1st place: £40 | 261 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Gold Medal Icon
2nd place: £30 | 191 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Silver Medal Icon
3rd place: £20 | 141 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Bronze Medal Icon
4th place: £10 | 101 Meta Plays Ladder Points | Copper Medal Icon
5-6th place: 64 Meta Plays Ladder Points
7-8th place: 42 Meta Plays Ladder Points
9-12th place: 25 Meta Plays Ladder Points

Confused about the tournament system? Check our Tournament and Ladder info posts, and the Age of Mythology Season 6 announcement!

GAME SETTINGS

First map is picked by the higher seeded player.
Losing player each game picks next map. Each map may only be played once.
Valid maps: Alfheim, Blue Lagoon, Elysium, Megalopolis, Mirage, Savannah, Tundra
After the first map is picked, the higher seeded player hosts a leader draft:
- Bo 3: https://aoe2cm.net/preset/ebAGy - 1 ban, 4 picks per player
- Bo 5: https://aoe2cm.net/preset/wRvPc - 1 ban, 5 picks per player
- The draft link must be shared in the Meta Plays Discord.
No repeat gods in a series.
- Otherwise, any leader within with the pool of the players' own picks may be used.
- You may not use a god from your opponent's pick pool (ergo there are no mirror matchups).
No cheating or intentional exploiting of any form allowed.
Spectator settings:
- All matches must be hosted publicly.
- Spectators must be allowed.
- A minimum spectator delay of 3 minutes is required.
Lobby Settings:
- All parties are equally responsible for ensuring the lobby settings are correct before launching a game.
- Wrong settings may result in a game being restarted.
- Game type: Deathmatch
- Victory Condition: Standard
- Player Count: 2
- Map Size: Standard
- Map Visibility: Revealed
- Starting Resources: Standard
- Game Speed: Standard
- Allow Titans: No
- Bonus: No
- Lock Teams: Yes
- Military Autoqueue: No
- Free for All: No
- Villager Priority: No
- Allow Cheats: No

Hosting

Games will be hosted by the higher seeded player
The server used should be a middle ground solution that has reasonable ping to both players

SOCIAL RULES

Participants must be in the Meta Plays Discord. Report match results there.
Forfeiting/not showing up to any match with money prizes 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 for the entire current and next 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, discrimination, or false cheating accusations against 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.
- Cheating accusations are meant to handled in private with Meta Plays staff.
  - Stalling games after final staff decisions (e.g. via cheating accusation arguments) will result in lateness penalties.
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.
No account sharing. You will be disqualified, forfeit prizes in this event, and will be permanently banned from all event participation.

STABILITY RULES

In the event of a disconnection or crash:
- The administration will assess the situation and decide whether the game should be restored or restarted.
- In case of a game restore or restart, players must exit the game without revealing the map.
- Any issues that can not be resolved between the players must be immediately brought up to an administrator.

PAYMENT

You will be paid approximately 10 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 or currency conversion fees.
- To minimize the impact, we recommend to request bank transfers.
- You may request to receive your prize in your local currency.
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 residents of 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:

Players:
- You may stream all of your own matches.
- 60s delay is required.
- 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.
Content Partners:
- You are required to feature the provided Meta Plays Logo over gameplay at all times.
- You may stream matches that aren't marked to be covered by Meta Plays. Please contact @fophuxake for approval.
- You may upload videos at your leisure.
- We request you give Meta Plays one shout-out mid-commentary, such as an invitation to make an account on the site.
Non-partner Casters:
- You are required to feature the provided Meta Plays Logo over gameplay at all times.
- You may stream matches that aren't marked to be covered by Meta Plays or Content Partners. Please contact @fophuxake for approval.
- We request you wait with video uploads until the Meta Plays channel has posted its version of the identical match.
- We request you give Meta Plays one shout-out mid-commentary, such as an invitation to make an account on the site.

Start Date: 02/08/2025 04:00 PM Tournament Format: Double Elimination Seasonal League Ladders: 1v1 Deathmatch Pro League League Ranking Class to Join: S Class, A Class, B Class, C Class, D Class Provisional Ranking Tier to Join: S Tier, A Tier, B Tier, C Tier, D Tier, E Tier, F Tier Total League Point Pool: 1000 Player/Team Limit: 32 Team Size: 1 Seeding: By Provisional Ranking Tournament Status: live Invitational Tournament: No Media Labels: Yes

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Winners Round
Winners Round 1	Winners Round 2	Winners Round 3	Winners Semifinals	Winners Finals
1 Ryuk - Seed 32 - 2 Seed 16 - Seed 17 - 3 WesternLong - Seed 25 - 4 El_Matador - Seed 24 - 5 Rev0lt - Seed 29 - 6 SwerteKo_ - Seed 20 - 7 Sicklid_ - Seed 28 - 8 Mayo - Seed 21 - 9 Grassengroom - Seed 31 - 10 Seed 15 - Seed 18 - 11 merguez - Seed 26 - 12 Looki - Seed 23 - 13 PlaYa - Seed 30 - 14 DarthNox - Seed 19 - 15 StrikeMuffin - Seed 27 - 16 FunnyLiquid - Seed 22 -	17 - - 18 - - 19 - - 20 - - 21 - - 22 - - 23 - - 24 - -	25 - - 26 - - 27 - - 28 - -	29 - - 30 - -	31 - -

Winners Round

Winners Round 1

Winners Round 2

Winners Round 3

Winners Semifinals

Winners Finals

Ryuk

Seed 32

Seed 16

Seed 17

WesternLong

Seed 25

El_Matador

Seed 24

Rev0lt

Seed 29

SwerteKo_

Seed 20

Sicklid_

Seed 28

Mayo

Seed 21

Grassengroom

Seed 31

Seed 15

Seed 18

merguez

Seed 26

Looki

Seed 23

PlaYa

Seed 30

DarthNox

Seed 19

StrikeMuffin

Seed 27

FunnyLiquid

Seed 22

Losers Round
Losers Round 1	Losers Round 2	Losers Round 3	Losers Round 4	Losers Round 5	Losers Round 6	Losers Semifinals	Losers Finals
32 Loser of 1 - Loser of 2 - 33 Loser of 3 - Loser of 4 - 34 Loser of 5 - Loser of 6 - 35 Loser of 7 - Loser of 8 - 36 Loser of 9 - Loser of 10 - 37 Loser of 11 - Loser of 12 - 38 Loser of 13 - Loser of 14 - 39 Loser of 15 - Loser of 16 -	40 Loser of 24 - - 41 Loser of 23 - - 42 Loser of 22 - - 43 Loser of 21 - - 44 Loser of 20 - - 45 Loser of 19 - - 46 Loser of 18 - - 47 Loser of 17 - -	48 - - 49 - - 50 - - 51 - -	52 Loser of 26 - - 53 Loser of 25 - - 54 Loser of 28 - - 55 Loser of 27 - -	56 - - 57 - -	58 Loser of 30 - - 59 Loser of 29 - -	60 - -	61 Loser of 31 - -

Grand Finals
62 - -

Seed	Name	Main God	Provisional Ranking	Seasonal League Ranking	Current Ladder Points
1	Ryuk		2	New To Ladder	New To Ladder
2	Grassengroom		3	New To Ladder	New To Ladder
3	PlaYa		4	New To Ladder	New To Ladder
4	Rev0lt		5	New To Ladder	New To Ladder
5	Sicklid_	None	6	New To Ladder	New To Ladder
6	StrikeMuffin	None	7	New To Ladder	New To Ladder
7	merguez		8	New To Ladder	New To Ladder
8	WesternLong		10	New To Ladder	New To Ladder
9	El_Matador	None	11	New To Ladder	New To Ladder
10	Looki	None	12	New To Ladder	New To Ladder
11	FunnyLiquid	None	14	New To Ladder	New To Ladder
12	Mayo		15	New To Ladder	New To Ladder
13	SwerteKo_	None	16	New To Ladder	New To Ladder
14	DarthNox		18	New To Ladder	New To Ladder