The Unexpected Summer Cup

League Information

Series:

Fox Series

Organizer:

AOEByzantines

Sponsor(s):

Core Freelancers Gaming

Game & Version:

Age of Empires II
Return of Rome

Game Mode:

Random Map

Type:

Online

Location:

World

Format:

3v3, Round Robin & Single Elimination

Prize Pool:

$250 USD

Start Date:

2023-09-07

End Date:

2023-09-09

Liquipedia Tier:

C-Tier

Links

Teams

Number of Teams:

8

Maps

Arabia • Arena • Black Forest • Land Madness • Nomad • Nomad Lakes • Team Islands

Chronology

Fox Invitational Copenhagen

Fox Invitational Buenos Aires

The Unexpected Summer Cup is an Age of Empires II 3v3 team game tournament. Fast tournament with quick format and settings! 3 days event, on the 7th & 8th we play Group stage, quick PA3 and on the 9th we play SemiF and GF.

About[edit]

Broadcast Talent[edit]

Open streaming

Commentators:
- Pablito Aoe (Pablo Napolitano)
- Wayne Chang (Wayne Chang)
- aeiouswallow
- Nili (Sven Reichardt)
- Terz

Streaming Players:
- Sitaux (Arthur Alauzen)
- Margougou (Louis Margoulet)
- z40
- gkt_cloud
- Yo (Gan Yangfan)
- Vivi (Wang Long)
- lyx
- Vinchester (Dmitriy Smirnov)
- Sora Kuma (Hsu Chia-hung)

Format[edit]

3 versus 3
Group Sage: 2 groups of 4 team each, 2 top teams go to Play Offs
Round Robin, Pa3
Play Offs BO5 Semi Finals and Grand Final
Tiebreakers
1. Series Won
2. Head to Head
3. Games Won
No restart allowed. A restart can be requested (if both players agree) in the event of a bug on a map, if and only if the request appears before the first 5 minutes of play.
Sling allowed once the player has reached Imperial Age only.

Maps and Civs[edit]

PA3 (Group stage)
- Civ Draft Link using a reverse steal (give 2 civs of yours to the opponent)
Map Draft:
1st map Arabia
Lower Seed ban 1 map
Higher Seed ban 1 map
Lower Seed pick homemap
Higher Seed pick homemap

BO5 (semi finals and Grand finals)
Civ Draft Link using a reverse steal (give 2 civs of yours to the opponent)
Map Draft:
1st map Arabia
Lower Seed ban 1 map
Higher Seed ban 1 map
Lower Seed pick homemap
Higher Seed pick homemap
Higher Seed pick homemap
Lower Seed pick homemap

Laming[edit]

Laming of sheep, wild boars and walling of resources is authorized.
It is not allowed to remove trees around the opponents Town Center by placing a building there. It is not allowed to play a match while being in voice chat with another player.