23 Jun 2015, 20:25

[a href="http://www.twitch.tv/esoctv"]the brand new ESOC stream[/a]

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[div align="center"][img]https://farm1.staticflickr.com/366/19088757312_f576fd87a9_o.png[/img][/div]We are getting close now, very close, to the second AoE3 Seasonal Championship of 2015. The tournament is upon us, starting the 29th of June and we are nearing the 256 sign ups. I don't know about all of you, but I'm starting to feel the hype!Following the steam sales which got us over 10000 new accounts (ka-ching!), we've got an 8 hour kick-off stream for you this Saturday, including but not limited to a key give away, a best of 5 featuring Blackstar and Samwise, the weekly Saturday smackdown with Zutazuta and a tournament Q&'A. Tell your friends and be sure to flood the ESO lobby with games called "eso-community.net" so that the new players can find their way here![div style="text-align:center'"][font size="2"]All times in GMT, subject to change[/font]15:00 - Introduction15:30 - Samwise12 vs Blackstar_OP, best of 517:00 - SoldieR streams18:30 - ASC Summer Q&'A session19:00 - Podcast with Interjection20:00 - Saturday smackdown with Zutazuta22:00 - Replay review with Zutazuta22:30 to 23:00 - Closure and key give away[div style="text-align:left'"]So save the date (who am I kidding, you already saved the date because Saturday is always full of AoE3 content) and tune in to(under construction) at 15:00 GMT. See you in the twitch chat and don't forget, we are always looking for [a href="http://eso-community.net/page/donate"][/a] towards the winter event and the upcoming 2016 events! Every penny received in donations will go to future events.[div style="text-align:center'"][b style="font-size:x-large'"]Smackdown [/b][font size="3"](20 GMT)[/font][/div]Smackdown this week will be between 2 veterans, one from the FP era and one good old vanilla scrub. I'm talking of course about SoldieR and Aizamk!Soldier is a man with little to prove. He was a strong player in FP times and is looking solid again now, being the only player besides Blackstar himself to take a game off _H2O in the Spring tournament. He and his brother GiveUAnxiety have been quite active in the community and streaming a whole bunch. They have our gratitude!Aiz hasn't been sitting around doing nothing either. His UI mod has become not a luxury but a necessity for any caster and I for one couldn't ask for a better way to improve my obs experience. He's known for unconventional builds and preference for cows over.. well pretty much anything, and he's coming for SoldieR's head. Can he prove virginia company is viable? We shall see!Your host: Zutazuta, as always joined by loyal cocaster Interjection. And perhaps Samwise will make an appearance casting as well...[div style="text-align:center'"][b style="font-size:x-large'"]Betting gets a rework[/b][/div]The betting event has really taken off on ESOC and this being the only way to compare the site's activity to the old RTSS shows how big of a success it is. In smackdown bets, I now have over 100 participants for the first time, which is more than double the amount I had back on RTS-sanctuary in 2010, when we were hosting weekly showmatches as well. The community is looking even better than it was back then, and it's only getting bigger! Stuff like this makes me feel all warm and fuzzy insideAfter spending hours and hours entering players' bets in my heavily outdated excel sheet last tournament and after getting numerous requests to post live odds, I decided it's time for an update. I got to work and I'm excited to announce betting for ASC Summer will be moved to a new platform based on Google sheets!What does this mean?- Live odds and all bets viewable for everyone.- No more posting the bets to the website. Instead each better will be given a sheet for them to enter and edit their bets.- Immediately updated standings after each match.Because it's a big change and the newly built platform is largely untested, I would love for you guys to help me pilot it. This means, to keep it simple, there will be 2 separate betting events for the upcoming smackdown. More info about all of this can be found [a href="http://eso-community.net/thread/1090/smackdown-bets-round-week-26"][/a].[/div][/div]