Eso-Community Winter Chamoionships

The seasonal Eso-community tournament has just come to an end with the final being played last weekend streamed live on the ESOCTV twitch channel. Lorraphael and H20_ made it to the finals and H20 took the best of 9 series 5-0! 

Although this may look like a clean sweep for H20, most of the games were extremely close and there were some interesting match ups so it was definitely great fun to watch. Even so, despite the fact that Lordraphael showed one of the best players of Age of Empires 3 throughout the tournament, H20 still proved that he is still the overall champion and undisputed king of AOE3. 

There were interesting games played throughout the tournament and its worth noting that anyone can enter so head to the eso-community website to sign up for the spring championships! On top of this there's a $1100 dollar prize pool completely funded by the community so its worth testing your skill even if you don't think you'll make it very far. You never know, you might learn something too. 

Aoe3 on Twitch and notable streamers

There are many streamers in the Aoe3 community with everything from tournament games to campaign speed runs. I've made a list of the most notable streamers here, you can head to Eso-community to see who's currently streaming or visit their Twitch/YouTube channels by clicking on the links. Oh yeah, you can also check out my Twitch channel too when I'm streaming and go to my YouTube channel for past games.


ESOC official channel : The official channel of the ESO community, all tournament and SaturdaySmackdown games are streamed here


ZutaZuta : ZutaZuta casts tournament matches and Saturday Smackdown games he often casts alongside Interjection (hence the name Zuterjection) and is known for his love of, and skill with, the Japanese


Interjection : Interjection is the most watched and subscribed too aoe 3 streamer! Like ZutaZuta he casts tournament matches and SaturdaySmackdown games and the two have formed a legendary casting partnership. On top of this he sometimes streams speedruns of the Aoe 3 campaign and he plays Hearthstone and more recently Runescape Chronicle. His favorite civ is the interesting if somewhat under powered Spanish civilization


Aizamk : Hailing from the far east, Aizamk is known for disregarding the meta and coming up with strange and interesting builds, often surprising even top level opponents! He often streams 1v1 games but occasionally plays team games too


Tibia : Tibia is strong team player and mainly streams 2v2 and 3v3 team games. Does some nice dragoon age 3 with France and Portugal and also some good sea booms


VeniVidiVici W : The 3rd placed player in the spring tournament. Although he doesn't stream much anymore you can check out his Youtube channel for some analytical, informative, high level games. He also has a guide for new players which you can download here

EsoCommunity

My first post and probably the most important one is about the Eso-community.net website. Eso-community is an age of empires fan website made by players in the Aoe 3 community. There are so many cool things you can find here including discussions and even seasonal tournaments that anyone can enter. Most of the active players in the Aoe3 community can be found here so I'd say its essential to any Aoe3 player.

You can find:

• General Age of Empires discussion, civilizations discussion, builds and much more! 

• User submitted content such as scenarios, maps (and even new ui's) 

• Streams from players in the age of empires community 

• Weekly Saturday Smackdown best of 5 competition streamed on ESOCTV at 21:00pm GMT 

• And of course the seasonal tournaments for players of any skill level that take place with a $1100 dollar cash prize pool! 

Don't forget to head here and sign up, its a great website whether your new to the game and you don't know where to start, or if you consider yourself a seasoned veteran and you want some tips on how to improve. Its probably the main hub of the aoe 3 community alongside the Microsoft official website.