Once again, thanks for this event Tristan! The format is truly refreshing and the promotion/relegation system makes almost every single match have some value and makes for some great upsets! And congrats to winner of course, well deserved!
I could watch hera and viper play each other all day. Add in fantastic casting, a great map pool, and a fun format? This is top tier. So well done, T90. Thank you and the whole crew for another fantastic tournament.
Hi Dave!! Thank you T90, Dave, Nili, and everyone else behind the scenes helping to organize and make this event happen. You all did great work. Great gameplay and great season all around. Congrats to all the competitors and congrats to Hera to bring home the season 3 trophy!
Several things I have enjoyed about TTL. A different winner every season. Not the exact same players going up and down each season. And each season with some big upsets, with the final in Season 1, the relegations in Season 2, and the playoffs in Season 3. It's been really different each time and that's great.
This was a fantastic final! Congratulations to the winner. The whole season was amazing. No one will probably read this but, here are my personal little awards for platinum: - Best series: TaToH vs Daut - Best game: Yo vs Hera, Migration - Best single game performance: FrakinAndy (vs Hera, Fractal) - Breakthrough player: FreakinAndy - Most consistent player: TheViper - Best player to not make the QF: DauT - Best relegated player: DracKen - Best player to not make the playoffs: Margougou - Most entertaining player: TaToH - Best player: Hera
I have so much reverence for these two players. Really all pro AoE2 players because they're so astronomically ahead of anywhere I can aspire to be, but these two guys are just incredible. Always so fun to watch and learn from even if I don't play this game very often anymore. No spoilers, big congrats to the winner! Both guys GG WP
Great tourney overall wow. I dont ever watch tourneys live but as a yt watcher it was sick. Great maps, great games, great starts, great casts, all the best personalities came out, and in the end, my favourite player for this tourney won. All around super solid and I watched it all. Keep it up T90 I don't even play this game and you made me love it dude!
One of the funniest inadvertent spoilers I've ever seen from T90 is that in his thumbnail for the Grand Final he showed yellow characters, Viper being the only person who gets to pick his own colour in T90s rules. Probably not a surprise, but a funny thing nonetheless.
The all-in Sicilian strategy has some major problems on hybrid maps where your opponent will have undisturbed food eco, or you have to invest in taking water... It will need some major revisions to be a viable strategy on maps with fish.
Thank you T90 and co-casters!!! I got to watch EVERY commentated event and after not playing this game for 15 years I loved getting to learn the modern meta, see the release of the romans, and now even more new civs! I really want to start playing this game again because of the amazing community I saw here for the last 3 months : ) Excited for TTL S4 EDIT: Also, HUSSITE WAGON HYPEEEEE
When they talked about bringing in youpudding for a cocast, i think that would actually be a great idea, not for casting a whole tournament, but if t90 covers anymore you pudding style games, or any evolutions of it, id love to hear youpudding discuss his thoughts and observation of how a game plays out, like if the person is doing it "wrong" or if someone is adding in a useful new tweak to it.
Amazing Final, can't wait for another event of this quality. Such amazing players! The AOE II scene is only getting better, I would never have thought i would still be playing and watching games of Age of Empires 25 years after I first discover it at 11 yo, on my old Windows98 set up, way back in 1999...THX to all the AOE lovers out there! ;)
Great final for a great tourny. I love the league format and how it gives such great opportunities to lower ranked pro players to show how good they really are.
this is a fun fact, the distance to chase something is usually smaller than the distance of the thing being chased. If Runner A is running from Runner B, the distance of Runner B could be equal to Runner A if they follow the exact same path. but if they see any place to get to Runner A faster by taking a more direct path, they will be running a shorter distance. HOWEVER, as you get closer the chance of a more direct path existing shrinks.
I really feel like building a castle under a donjon (or even a tower) should never be a viable strategy. I don't know how it can be balanced to not make tower rush op, but it needs a change imo. Perhaps just a really dumb and simple change like "villagers building castles or TCs take double damage from towers"
Finally finished watching S3 after getting through about 1/2 of all uploaded gold and platinum games. Some highlights for me were: MBL cocast, top tier Daut games, Viper and others adding unique strategies in the finals. I usually watch games while washing dishes at night. Now onto hidden cup.
T90 you are flawless and never make mistakes! was a wild final...great tourny...you are the best. I cannot thank you enough for what you've done. Look forward to watching you where you land next.
The more I watch Hera, the more I believe that choosing a meso civ against him is suicidal. His light cav play really exploit the sluggishness of meso civs, making eagles look like fools. The 5th game is too similar to the semi-final where Hera's light cav play destroyed Mr.Yo's meso pick.
What hera did raiding with monks was geneius. I've never been a pro at this game but Ive always said for years somone needs to start raiding with monks, they provide healing and convertions!
Another great season. If I could make a suggestion for the next, it would be to randomly ban half of the civs at the beginning of every group stage draft. I understand that this would interfere with prepared strategies, but it would be a better test of player skill, knowledge, and creativity, and far more enjoyable to watch when there are two hundred games to cover.
t90 be calling hera out for not preparing in an earlier set... when I joined his lobby for a 3v1, during gold league, ttl spiral was the initial map left up. bet he was working poles at that time. #savethebestforlast
Man, I got swiffy for you when he was talking so much about not preparing for this during the laaaan set. But of course, can't underestimate the contortionist 😅 2023 the year of Hera, congrats Champ! Vengeance for your only 1v1 S-tier tourney loss acheived from season 2 💪💪💪
Regular Wheel Farms around Mills & T.C.s are so much more beautiful... and I generally always make them that way for myself. Also 8% of farm now, it switched from 10% just after I joined earlier this year.
in game 2 viper never got bodkin and bracer. That seems sketchy to me in post imp alone for defensive buildings. Do y'all think I overvalue these techs, or viper forgot?
Andy beat the champion… just saying 👀 great season of ttl, it may have ended with the usual top players but seeing Andy, Daniel and Barles get to top 12 and Andy top 8 was a fresh change and great hope that other players are closing the gap at the very top
@@--SPQR-- Really? Awesome! ... Well, my SPQR Ancient Roman Republic friend, I haven't paid attention to AoE2 since Hera hit 2.8k (Hey, life gets in the way), but I managed to get somewhat caught up on TTL3.
Same story in pervious tournaments, finishes 2nd or close to 2nd (usually to Viper) but then redeems himself and wins the nest season. Happened in KoTD, Hidden Cup, and now TTL. He's arguably the best player on the world today.
Please don't use the ugly tree mod when casting. It makes a pretty game look bad. It's one thing to use it whilst playing for a competitive edge, but we're just watching people play so it seems like an unnecessary compromise visually
Please leave the team colors and the trees alone. I love all that you do but its nice to see something other than Red or Blue. (unless you are The Viper for some reason who gets yellow) Those tiny pines are great if you are playing, but if you are watching it just makes things more generic . Otherwise love the content.
Very well organised and managed event T90, you and the team behind TTL should be proud of yourselves. :)
Ty T90❤
I want to back up this comment, I've thoroughly enjoyed watching this entire event! Thank you for all your hard work T90!! :BIGGRIN:
Once again, thanks for this event Tristan! The format is truly refreshing and the promotion/relegation system makes almost every single match have some value and makes for some great upsets! And congrats to winner of course, well deserved!
Yeah, huge thanks for this❤️
The last Spoiler Block, enjoy
WTF. Now I know that there isn’t another round. You really ruined this for me.
You are the best!
@@johndoe-rq1puit's the final...
The hero we needed
❤
I could watch hera and viper play each other all day. Add in fantastic casting, a great map pool, and a fun format? This is top tier. So well done, T90. Thank you and the whole crew for another fantastic tournament.
The bird and lion investigation during the Socotra game is why Dave and T90 are the best in the business
Hi Dave!! Thank you T90, Dave, Nili, and everyone else behind the scenes helping to organize and make this event happen. You all did great work. Great gameplay and great season all around. Congrats to all the competitors and congrats to Hera to bring home the season 3 trophy!
Several things I have enjoyed about TTL. A different winner every season. Not the exact same players going up and down each season. And each season with some big upsets, with the final in Season 1, the relegations in Season 2, and the playoffs in Season 3. It's been really different each time and that's great.
This was a fantastic final! Congratulations to the winner.
The whole season was amazing.
No one will probably read this but, here are my personal little awards for platinum:
- Best series: TaToH vs Daut
- Best game: Yo vs Hera, Migration
- Best single game performance: FrakinAndy (vs Hera, Fractal)
- Breakthrough player: FreakinAndy
- Most consistent player: TheViper
- Best player to not make the QF: DauT
- Best relegated player: DracKen
- Best player to not make the playoffs: Margougou
- Most entertaining player: TaToH
- Best player: Hera
consistent - Yo *, Rest all I agree
@@harshashow7105fair argument there
Be honest: How much of that Best Game award was because of the Munching a Bunch of Lunch hypecast? 😄
@@danieltoth9742 lol I have the words "Dddddemo the Dddddock" ingraved in my brain.
But nah that game was insane all the way through, hence the hype
I have so much reverence for these two players. Really all pro AoE2 players because they're so astronomically ahead of anywhere I can aspire to be, but these two guys are just incredible. Always so fun to watch and learn from even if I don't play this game very often anymore. No spoilers, big congrats to the winner! Both guys GG WP
Great tourney overall wow. I dont ever watch tourneys live but as a yt watcher it was sick. Great maps, great games, great starts, great casts, all the best personalities came out, and in the end, my favourite player for this tourney won. All around super solid and I watched it all. Keep it up T90 I don't even play this game and you made me love it dude!
1:42:30 This is the most patient and competent army control I've ever seen
One of the funniest inadvertent spoilers I've ever seen from T90 is that in his thumbnail for the Grand Final he showed yellow characters, Viper being the only person who gets to pick his own colour in T90s rules. Probably not a surprise, but a funny thing nonetheless.
Youpudding owes Viper a beer.
Youpudding would have gone to castle
The all-in Sicilian strategy has some major problems on hybrid maps where your opponent will have undisturbed food eco, or you have to invest in taking water... It will need some major revisions to be a viable strategy on maps with fish.
Thank you T90 and co-casters!!! I got to watch EVERY commentated event and after not playing this game for 15 years I loved getting to learn the modern meta, see the release of the romans, and now even more new civs! I really want to start playing this game again because of the amazing community I saw here for the last 3 months : )
Excited for TTL S4
EDIT: Also, HUSSITE WAGON HYPEEEEE
When they talked about bringing in youpudding for a cocast, i think that would actually be a great idea, not for casting a whole tournament, but if t90 covers anymore you pudding style games, or any evolutions of it, id love to hear youpudding discuss his thoughts and observation of how a game plays out, like if the person is doing it "wrong" or if someone is adding in a useful new tweak to it.
Congrats to Dave for winning the grand co-caster final!
Amazing Final, can't wait for another event of this quality. Such amazing players! The AOE II scene is only getting better, I would never have thought i would still be playing and watching games of Age of Empires 25 years after I first discover it at 11 yo, on my old Windows98 set up, way back in 1999...THX to all the AOE lovers out there! ;)
So nice when "Dave" joins the session. His voice isreally good. He makes good vibe.
0:01:59 - 0:02:01: moonwalking boar
Great final for a great tourny. I love the league format and how it gives such great opportunities to lower ranked pro players to show how good they really are.
this is a fun fact, the distance to chase something is usually smaller than the distance of the thing being chased.
If Runner A is running from Runner B, the distance of Runner B could be equal to Runner A if they follow the exact same path.
but if they see any place to get to Runner A faster by taking a more direct path, they will be running a shorter distance.
HOWEVER, as you get closer the chance of a more direct path existing shrinks.
I really feel like building a castle under a donjon (or even a tower) should never be a viable strategy. I don't know how it can be balanced to not make tower rush op, but it needs a change imo. Perhaps just a really dumb and simple change like "villagers building castles or TCs take double damage from towers"
Finally finished watching all the games of this season, what an incredible tournament
2:32:58 - Thanks for the tournament, bro!
Finally finished watching S3 after getting through about 1/2 of all uploaded gold and platinum games. Some highlights for me were: MBL cocast, top tier Daut games, Viper and others adding unique strategies in the finals. I usually watch games while washing dishes at night. Now onto hidden cup.
GG 🎉 congrats to both on a great series and great season
Amazing event t90, it gets me sad when a TTL finish’s. Here’s to season 4!
praying viper pulls off the youpudding in 15 minutes so there can be a game 7 >_
So we are all just going to pretend that demolitionship at 2:12:00 didnt happened, afther all the demo hype?! 11
It's so nice from Viper to let DauT play the finals on his behalf.
T90 you are flawless and never make mistakes!
was a wild final...great tourny...you are the best. I cannot thank you enough for what you've done. Look forward to watching you where you land next.
The more I watch Hera, the more I believe that choosing a meso civ against him is suicidal. His light cav play really exploit the sluggishness of meso civs, making eagles look like fools. The 5th game is too similar to the semi-final where Hera's light cav play destroyed Mr.Yo's meso pick.
Thanks for the great cast and tournament!
Great finals, well played to both players. Hera and Viper both had good games. Brilliant series organised by you T90! gg wp!
Amazing production! So enjoyable and intense to watch
Best event, hope this league keeps going.
Brooo the second game was soo dope. Not just bc hera won, but also the back and forth at the end was amazing!
Spoilers man...
@@cothfi you cant spoil a video youre watching
@@IndexInvestingWithCole It is a 2 hour long video. What would you do if someone spoils a movie while you're watching it?
1:59 the boar does a moonwalk lmao
What hera did raiding with monks was geneius. I've never been a pro at this game but Ive always said for years somone needs to start raiding with monks, they provide healing and convertions!
Another great season. If I could make a suggestion for the next, it would be to randomly ban half of the civs at the beginning of every group stage draft. I understand that this would interfere with prepared strategies, but it would be a better test of player skill, knowledge, and creativity, and far more enjoyable to watch when there are two hundred games to cover.
t90 be calling hera out for not preparing in an earlier set... when I joined his lobby for a 3v1, during gold league, ttl spiral was the initial map left up. bet he was working poles at that time. #savethebestforlast
Thats crazy that u noticed that respect! It was indeed poles we were working on
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2congrats hera on the win 👏
Man, I got swiffy for you when he was talking so much about not preparing for this during the laaaan set. But of course, can't underestimate the contortionist 😅
2023 the year of Hera, congrats Champ! Vengeance for your only 1v1 S-tier tourney loss acheived from season 2 💪💪💪
Regular Wheel Farms around Mills & T.C.s are so much more beautiful... and I generally always make them that way for myself.
Also 8% of farm now, it switched from 10% just after I joined earlier this year.
in game 2 viper never got bodkin and bracer. That seems sketchy to me in post imp alone for defensive buildings.
Do y'all think I overvalue these techs, or viper forgot?
Viper English to English -
FGG: Fantastically great game
AeGG: Aextremely great game
1:27:13 It could also be a Knight stallion, Dave!
This is better than sports
Andy beat the champion… just saying 👀 great season of ttl, it may have ended with the usual top players but seeing Andy, Daniel and Barles get to top 12 and Andy top 8 was a fresh change and great hope that other players are closing the gap at the very top
Season 3 was very fun to watch. Tons of memorable games.
Lets go
As to quote dave: thanks for the tournament, bro.
It'd be so funny if we found out later Viper had extra PCs and people doing spotting for him. I don't know how he keeps track of so much going on.
2:00 look at the boar.
GG Hera Congrats even over my Yo pick and thought The Snake was still in his prime but looks as if Hera is #1 until knocked off
While not a Mario game, duck hunt was sold with the og Mario game in the same cartridge.
Thanks T90 for the amazing league!
That was amazing!!!
This video is somehow so hard to find. When looking for "TTL final t90" first the videos from last year's show up
1:12:20 It means Viper is getting shook O_O
What mod/ overlay are you using? Your HUD is just awesome!
GG! I already miss TTL.
yo
T90 is a boss. Thanks man.
My gf of 8 years left me recently. I wish she would have left me for Dave. It would be understandable if that was the case.
All the players having Mill troubles vs Viper will be the giveaway in HC
My hat's off to Hera! He went from finishing 2nd in TTL2 8 months ago to ranking 1st on ladder and 1st to 2.8K on ladder and 1st in TTL3.
1st to 2k9*
@@--SPQR-- Really? Awesome! ... Well, my SPQR Ancient Roman Republic friend, I haven't paid attention to AoE2 since Hera hit 2.8k (Hey, life gets in the way), but I managed to get somewhat caught up on TTL3.
Same story in pervious tournaments, finishes 2nd or close to 2nd (usually to Viper) but then redeems himself and wins the nest season. Happened in KoTD, Hidden Cup, and now TTL.
He's arguably the best player on the world today.
@@hullbarrett good on ya, my .50 cal friend. Great tournament.
congratulation hear
Moonwalking boar at 2:00
grats to hera! my fav player and best content creator for AOE :)
Feels like Hera won the land madness game by pure mobility advantage.
GG! What did first player win?
When will you tell us where you’ll stream from now on?
Just place the Hussite Wagons and let them cook. Thats why they are food trucks.
Great event, and great thumbnails
1:19:11 you mean a little bit more eFISHient ...11
Guys, great set, great matches. Excellent casting. But COME ON everyone knows trebs have never and still don't do any friendly fire damage.
Only Britons after Warwolf do.
Not entirely true. In this very tournament we saw a recently converted unit get killed by a "friendly" trebuchet.
I hope you and Dave continue making AOE2 vidoes forever
Hera loves scouts way too much. Gets results but geeez!
I really don't like the upuding strat on a map where water is so important
Trying to half ass and all in aggresive strategy... that was so painful to watch the Sicilian game
Another Hiper (Hera + Viper) Grand Finals. HIPE!
Cumans and Bohemia? Cue Kingdom Come Deliverance intro lol
Awesome tournament! Hera is such a good hearted guy it's impossible to not root for him.
Too bad viper didn't get walling series could have been closer. Regardless congrats on the win Hera.
ÆGG!
Spoiler
Isnt this Hera's first S tier tournament win?
Good stuff
Please don't use the ugly tree mod when casting. It makes a pretty game look bad. It's one thing to use it whilst playing for a competitive edge, but we're just watching people play so it seems like an unnecessary compromise visually
YES
I wish someone did me as good as viper abused the market in his aztec game
This is the first tournament i have ever seen Viper lose. Dope.
Where you been then? Lol
Wait till you hear about the last KOTD
wow....Viper had Soooo much idle TC in some of these games....
Please leave the team colors and the trees alone.
I love all that you do but its nice to see something other than Red or Blue. (unless you are The Viper for some reason who gets yellow)
Those tiny pines are great if you are playing, but if you are watching it just makes things more generic . Otherwise love the content.
Love how Hera says Eldorado is not only about building a castle in the middle although that was exactly what happened in this last game xd
FGG stands for fxxking good game
I though fast gg
Itwas GG!
Viper v Hera in the grand finals of a tourney just feels right
fgg is obvious
fkn good game
No Dravidians? i am a little disappointed...
Why did I feel like the loser played better? I had no reason to cheer for someone
Well done Hera! 🍁🫡